Honestly though saying (or implying) that vocaloid or vocal synths in general "devalues the human voice" is SUCH an incredibly shit take for SO many reasons.
Like yeah Saki Fujita getting so many other roles in voice acting because of her contribution to Hatsune Miku (the anime cameos and stuff are usually done with her original voice, them modified to be robotic) is a bit of an outlier when most other vocaloid and sythns don't have that influence.
You can even sort of wave off the dozens upon dozens of people who go for realistic tuning- like whenever a synth has any sort of clarity, there are like five people commenting about how real they sound. Clearly people do still care about human sounding vocals, because they go nuts over realistic vtuning.
There are many different aspects of vocaloid that use human voices, too- from Set It Off's duet "Why Do I?", human rap artists using Miku's vocals as background, and the entire CONCEPT of Project Sekai which releases AND COMMISSIONS songs for vocal synths and real people.
But the sheer number of vocaloid producers who use their own vocals as back up (MikitoP, PinoochioP, and I believe Kira off the top of my head), the number of producers who can sing and/or do self covers (again Kira, GIGA, Ayase, Teniwoha, syudou and so many more), and the amount of vocal producers who have gone forward with legit musical careers after working with vocaloid (Kenshi Yonezu, most notably, who did work for years under the alias Hachi)
I mean, hell. There are vocaloid producers who go on to become vocaloid vocals themselves- like nostraightanswer, the vocal provider for DEX, who has made both vocaloid and original songs. Some even duets.
That's not even including creators like JubyPhonic, Rachie, Will Stenson, Lollia, Octavia, Razzy and Co., and SO many other HUMAN cover artists who gained following or honed their skills on none other than vocaloid covers. (And that's just a handful of English Cover artists, not like Sati Akura a Russian cover artist or Ado who has commissioned songs from vocaloid artists)
It's also not including UTAUites who input their own voices to use for covers.
"Devalues the human voice" is such blatant bs. They ARE human voices. They are OUR voices. "You'd think by now that we would have learned, behind every piece if art is a human to be heard." (- CircusP, 'Better Off Worse')
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top 10 songs of october
- late as usual, no one is even suprised anymore.
1. Monsters (feat. blackbear) by All Time Low, blackbear
I've been to a party at our friends with my bf. the boy picked us up with his car and this banger was playing one time. I've been listening to this for such a long time but I've somehow forgotten. my memories were brought back immediately and I felt so nostalgic. love this tune!
2. Without Me by Fame on Fire
love the original but is quite a bit too sad for me nowadays. I'm struggling listening to my old favs which are sadder, slower songs. they make me so depressed, that I've been stuck listening to only covers and 5sos for the last few days.
3. Popular Monster by Falling In Reverse
this is always coming back. fir is just an all tome fav for this friend circle and I'm enjoying it all the time.
4. body bag by Machine Gun Kelly, YUNGBLUD, The Used, Bert McCracken
this is a totally new song for me, I love it to bits. super catchy, and MGK is such a great singer no matter what kind of a person he really is.
5. Drugs by Falling In Reverse
fir again, yeah. actually, Ronnie is an ongoing joke in our friend group. there is a wife who - in her entire life - only had one steamy dream. and you guessed right, it wasn't with his husband, it was with Ronnie Radke. and we've never really gotten over this story lol
6. you broke me first by Our Last Night
this is one of those "too sad in it's oringial form but a huge fav of mine" songs. I have witnessed every step of this band as their ads have reached me ever since they were starting out as a random band. I've always been mad because they somehow annoyed me, but I really like this cover.
7. The Diary of Jane by Halocene
there's this other friend of mine, who LOVES halocene. not a day goes by without him mentioning them and listening to their music so I decided to pop one of their songs to my playlist and didn't regret it.
8. Toxicity by System Of A Down
this one I dug up from our childhood. I'm actually not seeing a therapist anyomre as I moved away but I'm still working on myself. with this move loads of my childhood memories surfaced and I'm trying everything to deal with them.
9. The Drug In Me Is Reimagined by Falling In Reverse
I'm quite suprised. so much falling in reverse, I cannot find the right words lol. love this reimagined version tho! and it didn't make the list but I've been listening to their Last Resort as well, it's bomb.
10. Obey by Bring Me The Horizon, YUNGBLUD
yungblud & BMTH together? it's pure heaven, let me tell you. I love every line of it!
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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers 🎶✨ 😘
--@oh-no-another-idea
hi frend! thanks for the ask :)
currently on my song queue I've got
Machine Gun Kiss (Eng. ver.) from Yakuza: Like a Dragon
For Forever from Dear Evan Hansen
Comedy by Gen Hoshino
Perspective by Polite Fiction
Enemy by Imagine Dragons
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