Talk:YOHIOloid/@comment-5169986-20140721115331/@comment-178.73.201.80-20150715163848

Late to the party yay. Hope some of this is useful.



Sorry about the crappy English, Aftonbladet is a tabloid and their language use sucks about as much as their pronunciation of YOHIOloid. OTL



YOHIOloid - you make the music, but use Yohio’s voice



Basically anybody can now use Yohio’s voice to make their own music. Yohio is releasing his own Vocaloid, which he’s named YOHIOloid. Vocaloid as a phenomenon is artists like Yohio, or anonymous people, recording their own voice so others can use the voice to make music with the computer.



In a few words, you type in your lyrics with a program, and in the case of Yohio, the YOHIOloid sings the song.



Yohio: “When we decided that I’d do this… it’s a really absurd thing to do… and it’s very weird to see yourself, when you do a Youtube search for YOHIOloid there’s people who’ve made their own songs, music videos with me as a cartoon character, which YOHIOloid sings. But it’s me. But it’s not me. Well it’s… a really weird thing. But it’s very flattering and it’s fun that people like it.”



Vocaloid is a Japanese phenomenon which keeps growing. Because many groups use the Vocaloid, more and more Vocaloid songs can be seen on the Japanese record charts.



Interviewer: “So what happens if someone takes your voice for a lyric you can’t stand for, I wonder?”



<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">Yohio: “Well, the best thing anyway is that it doesn’t say Yohio. It says YOHIOloid, at least. So people get that it’s not me but YOHIOloid. Which I christened it. So it’s… [I’ve seen] a few covers and so of pop songs and things I maybe wouldn’t really stand for myself… but you can’t do anything about it, I just think it’s fun that people are using it.”

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">Interviewer: “But aren’t there any rules about this?”

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">Yohio: “No, you see, if you bought, you could say I’ve licensed my voice, to this company, and those who are buying YOHIOloid can use it and release it in any way.”

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">It took Yohio ten hours a day for four days to record his voice for the YOHIOloid.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">Yohio: “Basically, I got a booklet of, yeah, I don’t know how many pages, a whole lot of pages anyway, chock full of a lot of weird words that don’t exist. That was just the English part, then we did it in Japanese too. The same thing again, but with other words, in Japanese and with Japanese pronunciation. So… yeah, I was really fed up and tired [laughs] at the end of that recording.”

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