If she can't sing songs, she'll be nothing. She says her entire existence and personality is, has, and will be songs. I, however, lose tears to shed and understand, I have depended even my personality on songs This line says that she just sings the songs that were made for her.
I decided to take no other way I bite a leek, look up to the sky and shed tears If I'm just a toy which copies the songs already composed. It tells that even though she's not a human, she keeps on singing. This first line conveys that Miku knows that she's a Vocaloid, and not a real human. I was born to realize, I was mere mocking a human being realizing the fact, still, I keep on singing eternal life "VOCALOID" The lyrics and translations are the ones found in Project DIVA Also very fitting that she ends on the Angel outfit. The story does lose a little when you watch this version, but the dancing and "happy" look on her face really adds to the false happiness of the song, and it looks extremely bittersweet, like she's trying to have a good time and put on a good show, but she's unable to.Īlso, her changing clothes shows that she's going through her outfits one last time before she's deleted. Normally, for the story, I'd choose the original PV, but this one is the exception. The video I picked is the Project DIVA version. The false happiness really adds to the atmosphere, like she's trying to make her song sound happy, but is still sad. Her tone of voice also sounds like false happiness., and in some parts, her voice breaks up and sounds robotic. It seems like she's desperate for someone to hear her. So the lyrics are sad, and subtle nuances between the first and second parts make it all the more sad. In the second verse, Miku sounds desperate for someone to hear her. "Every time I recall the dear friends faces, my memory comes off. "Every time I recall the dear friends faces, I get comforted a little" There are subtle nuances in the lyrics like changing from It's when you get into the second half when the song sounds wrong. So the first half doesn't convey the sadness much at all. It's not completely necessary to know the lyrics or the definitions to "feel" the sadness coming off of the song. So from this evidence, I can conclude that while the lyrics are sad, it's the bittersweet tone that Miku sings in that really conveys the sadness. Now this could just be from Rachie's singing sounding sadder, but it could also be from actually knowing the language she's singing in. I typically got middle range to sad.įinally, I asked people to listen to Rachie's English Dub. Then, I asked (different) people to listen to the song WITHOUT watching the video or reading the lyrics. When I asked people who've heard the song before, the answer is almost always "bittersweet". The most common consensus is that it feels sad to middle range. So first, I asked people to listen to the song while reading the lyrics. I interviewed people everywhere on other Aminos for opinions on the tone. Since Hatsune Miku is getting deleted, she's singing as fast as possible to convey her last message: her last song.Īlright, this is the real cincher. It's more than just "This is how fast Vocaloids can sing". The sheer tempo of the song really adds to the atmosphere of the song. This song peaks at around 220 BPM, and is known for being one of the fastest vocaloid songs. The most memorable thing about this song the thing that everyone remembers is the tempo. It's been theorized that this song was created when Google and Yahoo had blocked Hatsune Miku for suspected bot or spam abuse. Unlike many other sad Vocaloid songs, this seems like the only probable theory, and will be the one I'll be using to analyze the song. It's been theorized that it''s a virus eating at her, and she's losing control, or asking to get deleted because of it.
She knows she's just a program, and she's giving one last show. The main theory is that Hatsune Miku is getting deleted, so she's singing one last song. There are several "characters" to Vocaloid, like Hatsune Miku. If you didn't know, Vocaloid is a voice-synthesizer program that allows users to compose songs with voice banks. This is a lyric analysis and a story analysis. My favorite song is definitely "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" because it's so dang intriguing. Hello, peoples! I've noticed a very distinct lack of quality blogs around here, so I'm hoping to change that.