🏳️‍🌈FLAVOR FOLEY — UNCUT VOCALOID 4 Song Study (77 min): 'Ego Renegade Boy,' 'Static,' 'Spoken For,' & 'Human'

I realised too late Spoken For Me does the Japanese classic of the song being really upbeat but thy lyrics super depressing, but in English.

Also for “Human”, whilst SF-A2 Miki was originally for vocaloid (2 then 4), “Human” actually uses her synthesiser V voicebank! This allows for a smoother English song as she didn’t previously have an English vocaloid voicebank. There are however a lot of edits made in production and also tuning to give her an older, more robotic sound. That’s honestly one of the great things about vocal synths to me, they can sound so realistic or you can make choices to make them sound more robotic and man made

One neat little detail about Static is that in the chorus you can see Miku repeatedly making the same strange movements with her arms. These movements are actually flag signals that spell out “DONT GO”. She’s begging anybody that will hear OR see her to stay and not leave her alone

Ego Renegade Boy is barely a metaphor to be honest. Me and every other trans masc I know have some story of their parents explicitly expressing some version of “you’ve killed my daughter/ I have to mourn my daughter” even if they are supportive. I know trans women experience this too but there’s a specific flavor of it for us, because I feel a lot of parents make having specifically a daughter a part of THEIR identity in a different way than they do sons. They tend to act like you have actively taken something from them (their little girl they wanted to protect, or *cough* GRANDCHILDREN *cough*). Very strange but common trans experience to watch your parents mourn you while are literally standing right there and I think the song nails it perfectly.

One of those little details that really gets me in "Spoken For" is the background visuals during the chorus. It resembles a cute cheesy rhythm game, not one of the big competitive ones, but a "just for fun" kind. Which already stands in such harsh contrast to the lyrics. Putting on a performance while the inner thoughts are so different. And on top of that, running a perfect score the whole time. Every move just right, following someone else's pattern. Oof.

I would love to see more of Jamie Paige's stuff!!!!!!!

I JOINED YESTERDAY FOR JAMIE PAIGE AND NOW THERES MORE??? THANK YOU MR WELCH

Listening to Neuro and Evil sing Static and Spoken For Me by FLAVOR FOLEY is also a treat because of their situation

I love Ego Renegade Boy thank you for reacting. :)