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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me and @local-soda-can are gonna start outlining Nerdy Prudes Must Die Kai soon and here are a few ideas I had for that
can you guys tell i love inserting Kai’s name into the titles???
Kai comes in before/after/during literal monster holding a map of the school (the police or something forcibly enrolled her and now she has to go to school) and she’s just completely confused and lost
Max does the whole “this is my hallway!!” thing and Kai’s like “fun fact I literally do not care” and he pisses her off so much she kicks him in the balls- she meets the rest of the prudes while on the run from various teachers who’re trying to expel her or something
Kai was in the Waylon Place night of the prank to try and relax and get away from the chaos of Hatchetfield. There isn’t a sign of anyone breaking in bc Kai knows how to pick locks. Kai hangs out there a lot.
She walks in on them looking at Max’s (almost) dead body and is like “woah you guys killed that guy!!! ö haha I’m gonna go call the cops on yall I’m OUT!!!”
…Grace then blackmails her into helping bury/hide the body because she threatens to pin everything on Kai (bc Kai breaks in and shit)
Theres this scene with max and kai im making into a comic that has something to do with snickers and it needs to be real because it’s silly and also it makes way for this idea:
Kai hangs out with Max’s ghost a lot and she vents to him about how much she hates the prudes, how she wants to get back to Unington, and other shit
They like sending videos to the prudes group chat (that Kai was forcibly added into) that make it seem like Max is about to kill Kai and she always texts the dumbest shit after like “phew!!! made it out okay!!! gee, let’s hope that doesn’t happen again!”
They laugh their asses off about it
Kai has no friends during the run of NPMD
she hates the prudes for getting her involved in a manslaughter/murder,
she has no clue if max is her friend or if he’s only keeping her around for the snickers bars,
And everyone else is too in love with afraid of her to even get near her
It kinda hurts but she’s learning to deal with it
KAI RIZZ KAI RIZZ KAI RIZZ
that shit is STRONG guys
she got that Wattpad MC rizz
she does not want it-
she is either oblivious to it or painfully aware
no in between
She’s been bunking with Paul
They met on the street and they talked for a bit and Kai was like “yeah my hotels about to kick me out lol” and he was like “oh you can stay with me”
He doesn’t know why he said that, maybe it was just meant to be.
Anyways Kai agreed and Paul is the biggest dad ever
He asks her how school was and he cooks dinner for them and they snuggle on the couch and have movie nights
They have to share a bedroom but he got her dividers and turned the bottom of the closet into a hangout nook for Kai so it’s like she has her own little room
everyone keeps dragging Kai everywhere by the wrist- she does NOT wanna be there-
Kai keeps talking to the audience in front of everyone and she interacts with the audience a lot
For example, she crumples up and tosses her map to someone in the audience and finger guns and winks at them afterwards
She gets like a gazillion love notes a day-
she gets so angry she just eats them-
nobody knows why and they’re just like:
“Aw she’s silly :]”
“I LITERALLY HATE ALL OF YOU”
“I’m soooo in love with her :3”
“IM GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU”
in the words of my pal:
“she’s so perfect :3333
(she is going to go feral-)”
All of Kai’s classes have at least one prude in them
Kai kinda wishes she had friends and tries to talk to people, but she’s so autistic, socially awkward, and anxious she either ends up shutting down, staying quiet, or insulting them
Kai goes to the sports games purely for the food and hides in the bathroom the entire time (the crowds and lights overstimulate her)
Kai hangs out at beanie’s a lot
She’s still Emma’s favorite customer.
She accidentally calls her Mom a lot.
Emma loves it every time.
It often goes uncorrected.
If Kai is alive for homecoming, she’s going there WAY overdressed-
she’s been homeschooled the majority of her life and has never been to a school dance-
she’s only been to like high class galas/parties so she thinks it’s like that
spoiler alert it is NOT
Kai is aware she’s in a musical
she really doesn’t wanna be in one but she knows
sometimes you can see her groovin uncomfortably to the music in the background
That’s all! Idk if I’m gonna script this one out as, like I’ve said before: TKWDLM has a special place in my heart and I’m not ready to move on
plus I’m still super hyperfixated on TKWDLM-
oki that’s all for now bye bye :3
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