Not digging the vibe of this one so much, but it’s there. It’s there.
Only one more track off this album to go. It’s not a whole lot better. Then I’ll work on the next real album. I’m having second thoughts about naming it “Battle of the Bands.” I wanted to tie it into the end of M.4R and M.3R, and I’m planning a running theme through the album of “Wicked Hokkaido” launching attacks on other cartoon bands. I like the music of Gorillaz, BTW. It’s the low-line count art style I can’t stand, which has afflicted western animation for decades. Everything has to be done for cheap, but I love the line art medium, and I find “low line count” to be a hateful thing. It’s like, “Oh, you wanted a car with four wheels? Well, you get half a wheel. Work with it.” Just miserable. “Tank Girl” has a funky style, but it wasn’t as low-line count as Gorillaz. It’s more detailed than “Way of the Waifu,” which is the quickest, simplest art style I could bring myself to draw. If I had all the time it would take to draw “Way of the Waifu” the way I wanted it to look, it wouldn’t look like it does. Maybe Gorillaz wouldn’t either.
By “finished” I mean “finished until I decide to change it again.” I’m questioning whether that first sound before the bass hit should be longer. The vocal quality is likely as high as I’m going to get it. The track went down far easier than I expected though – I wasn’t sure I could get it to go down at all this time, either. But now it’s done, and I can think about the next one that I haven’t been able to pull off. But that one has to be a Dreilide track, so the trick I used to make this track work isn’t going to work.
But first, there has to be a video for this song. It’s only 69 seconds long, so perhaps it won’t be too hard. I’ve got a clear vision of what I want, and it must be. WotW is about all the enjoyment I’m taking out of life these days. Everything else is work and school. Miserable and no fun at all.
Since A.I. music has a reputation for being easy, and I need easy content because work, and college, and car maintenance, and home maintenance, eat up all of my time – I’ll take you on the actual miserable journey of making music with A.I.
It can be an easy and fun process, when you don’t approach it knowing exactly what you want, with conditions that have to be met. Like matching an existing voice. My original vision for this song was for Dreilide to rap it, over a sound something like Primus’s My Name is Mud. That’s not exactly what I was after, just the best way I can describe it. I tried every trick I could think of, many of which worked in the past, and couldn’t get close. The music was very far off, Dreilide’s vocal either copied the singing style of the track I sampled it from, and/or the quality was very low.
I’ve given up on this track a few times, and I’m probably a couple hundred generations or more into it at this point.
The only reason I’m coming back to it is because of how well the Slop-Minus songs turned out. I discovered that a vocal sound can be triggered in Treblo by writing the lyrics in a romanized style of another language. I was able to get a Hindi style vocal, without the music that usually goes with it. I’m not sure how I could use that to prompt a vocal that could pass for Dreilide’s voice, but it works for Yaoi Hokkaido. So this is now a Yaoi Hokkaido track.
It was also originally intended to dis multiple cartoon bands, but I decided to split it up and dedicate a track to each band.
Thus begins the “Wicked Hokkaido” chronicles. She was bound to turn evil eventually. She may have even joined the Negalaxy. I didn’t expect it this soon.
Here’s the current state of the lyrics –
Gorillaz in the Mist (Wicked Hokkaido Chronicles Pt. 1)
Ohayo Gozaimasu, Hokkaido Yaoi desu! Very honorable, but I come with maximum disrespect!
Who’s the biggest chump to ever bump it through a cartoon? Characters so ugly fat otaku can not goon to. We’re the realest thrillas! Crazy hot, sexy, beautiful! You named your band after the gorilla because you all play with a tiny Noodle. Yeah! Our guy can’t make music but at least he can draw us. We put horny nerds to bed spent and glad that they saw us.
So kawaii! When I rock the stage! Wicked Hokkaido Throwing all the shade I’m the darkness at the end of Damon’s Days Noodle’s English act is over I sent her/him back to Band Maid.
You can try to battle but girl power has her game on You’re still the biggest loser Taylor Swift ever came on Just for once, I’m not talking about sex You made Epic History, Taylor won- who’s next?
Stuka – Well, someone’s feeling herself tonight.
Dreilide – Yep.
Dreilide – It’s the same one who feels herself every night.
Stuka – Yep.
There are a few things I’m not 100% on, but I’m going to wait for inspiration to strike. Beating my head against the wall on lyrics never produces the good stuff.
Here’s a verse that got cut –
You named your act after the gorilla because you all play with a tiny Noodle. Yeah, I said your axe queen has a micro penis and the best guitarist from Japan is Mylene Jenius Iijanai? Daijoubudesuka? No? You’re less of a threat than Haruhara Haruko.
It doesn’t quite work, as Noodle plays guitar and Mylene Jenius plays bass. According to A.I., Noodle has been shown playing several different instruments, but not bass. The track is likely better for not going so deep into obscure anime references. Well, you read it here, you know it existed.
These are the first two Yaoi Hokkaido versions that are getting somewhere (not the first generations with Yaoi Hokkaido, there were many before these, but they sucked) –
004 has something going for it, but you can hear how much Treblo is struggling with the lyrics. It completely flubbed “very honorable.”
This version follows Dreilide Guitar Intro #10 well.
This version follows Dreilide Guitar Intro #5 better. It flubbed “maximum disrespect,” but Treblo was able to regenerate that lyric. Not on the first attempt, but it got there.
I tried using 006 as an intro to the “Gobbledygook Queen,” sound, but so far I haven’t pulled that off. It may be a moot point, since 004 and Dreilide 10 work together well.
I’m going to try a few other things and see what happens.
The first track off the second album will probably be Dreilide Guitar Intro #10. I’m having a tough time deciding. #5 is simpler and feels more high fidelity. #5 is a breadcrumb from the better days of Udio (the guitar part is the bread crumb), the vocal was added with Treblo. #10 is all from the Sonauto era of Treblo, seeded with the breadcrumb from Udio.
#10 (below) is more complicated, but the start isn’t as catchy as #5’s. The ending is more dramatic. The fidelity scratches the bottom of what could possibly be acceptable.
Which one ultimately gets used may depend on how it blends with the next track.
Can’t do much but work and sleep on this schedule, but no homework absolutely has to get done on my next couple days off. I got everything done on the last two days off – barely. I got a major assignment uploaded with three minutes to spare. That could have went bad. Ideally, it wouldn’t be this way – or would it? If it isn’t like this, are you trying to do enough?
