【Lyrics】 I Love Loop

This song’s title is absolutely not a misnomer. Also makes great background music.

This post consists of three parts:
1. Original lyrics
2. Transliteration
3. Translation

I love Loop

Lyrics: AVTechNO
Compose: AVTechNO
Arrange: AVTechNO
Vocals: Megurine Luka (I Love Loop) / Hatsune Miku (i love loop 単調)

I Love Loop feat. Megurine Luka
Nico | Youtube
MP3 | Instrumental

i love loop 単調 (Tanchou/Monotone) feat. Hatsune Miku
Nico | Youtube
iTunes

Artwork drawn specially for i love loop 単調. (Illust: 和音)

Description: Original version (I Love Loop) is sung by Megurine Luka, and a slightly remixed cover sung by Hatsune Miku (i love loop 単調/Tanchou/Monotone) was released to be distributed through iTunes under KarenT in Piapro. Both versions have the exact same lyrics.

【Lyrics】 VOSTOK

Not a new song, just a very good song in terms of high loopability and coolness of theme.

This post consists of three parts:
1. Original lyrics
2. Transliteration
3. Translation
4. Singable Translation (For vostok2+, by つてと (ikuy398) from this video)

VOSTOK

Lyrics: あつぞうくん (Atsuzou-kun)
Compose: あつぞうくん (Atsuzou-kun)
Arrange: あつぞうくん (Atsuzou-kun)
Vocals: Hatsune Miku

VOSTOK → Nico | Nicosound
vostok2+ → Nico | Youtube

あつぞうくんさんのコメント： 3曲目出来ました！無職力を発揮してます。今回はボッサ・ラウンジ・カフェとかそんな感じでしょうか？。そんなオサレ場所に縁ないですが。登場人物は主人公ボストーク１号、宇宙犬ベルカとストレルカ、人間ユーリィ・ガガーリン。６０年代の宇宙は希望とサイエンスに溢れております。宇宙と未来とSFは男子の永遠の夢です。さてさて次の曲の準備します。

Atsuzou-kun’s Comment: Finished my 3rd song! Take a look at the power of the unemployed. The song this time should give off a feel of bossa, lounge, cafe, or something like that? Even though I’m not really one for stylish places like those…The characters this time include the Vostok 1, some space dogs named Belka and Strelka, and a human named Yuri Gagarin. It was from the 60’s when the dreams and sciences for getting to space really took off. Space, the future, and science fiction have always been the dreams of a young man after all. Anyways, I’ll get to preparing my next song now.

Image used in VOSTOK. Vostok 1, Belka, Strelka, and Yuri Gagarin are in it. Click to enlarge.

Description: A relaxing song of the Bossa nova genre about the USSR’s space frenzy during the 60’s. Atsuzou-kun made a remix called vostok2+ that sounds more pop-ish and wintry about a month and a bit after posting VOSTOK. Both songs have the same lyrics.

【NicoNico Terms】 P名 (Producer Name)

Starting a new segment of sorts I guess.

P name as used in an IM@S game. (Source: みっちP@NicoNico)

As you may or may not have noticed, a lot of Vocaloid composers have a name that ends in a P. The P actually stands for “Producer”, and in niconico, is used to denote who the creators (who are usually the same as the uploader) of the videos are.

The P name comes from the IDOLM@STER games, where when you start a game as the protagonist (who is a music/idol producer) and pick a name, a “P” is attached at the end of your chosen name. The P name was first used on niconico for people who uploaded IDOLM@STER-related videos, but eventually extended to Vocaloid composers, and recently has come to represent PV makers and other video makers as well. Since the letter P stands for “Producer”, one can use it in the same way as the full word.

Although a P name is usually chosen by the person using it, in the Vocaloid world, a lot of well-known P’s have their P name chosen by fans if the composer didn’t give themselves a P name already, and these fan-chosen names usually have some sort of background to it. If a P’s name gets chosen by the fans, it’s considered as an honour. As well, a lot of the composers who started really early don’t seem to have P names (ie. ika, kz from livetune, ryo from supercell, doriko), and some P names are the same as the P’s handle (SASAKURE.UK = SasakureP).

Some examples:
- mothy = 悪ノP (AkunoP) → As mothy is the composer of both 悪ノ召使 (Aku no Shitsuji) and 悪ノ娘 (Aku no Musume), both of which start with “Aku no” and are his representative works.
- Hiroyuki ODA = 鼻そうめんP (HanaSoumenP/NoseNoodlesP) → Because he said on his “Incarnation” video description that he was so moved by the good reception of his song that his nose was dripping soumen (white noodles) from being all emotional. This was chosen by fans.
- baker = ウイイレP (WinningElevenP) and FIFAP → Because baker likes the Winning Eleven and FIFA games.

【Lyrics】 1925

Everybody else’s song of the week, and also my (other) song of the week. \o/

This post consists of three parts:
1. Original lyrics
2. Transliteration (by viridian_lights@Livejournal)
3. Translation

1925

Lyrics: T-POCKET
Compose: T-POCKET
Arrange: T-POCKET
Illustration: buchiko
Vocals: Hatsune Miku

Nico | Youtube
MP3 | Instrumental
English Subbed Video (Alternate and better translation by KataGatar)

T-POCKETさんのコメント：
（ニコニコから）
【素晴らしい絵とタイトルはpiaproよりbuchiko様からお借りしました。本当にありがとうございます。】今日はみんなに素敵なお友達を紹介するよ☆まいけるだ！顔はカッコいいし、喋りは上手い。気だても良くて、眉目秀麗、錦上添花、おまけにこの筋肉だ！ぼくの自慢の友達さっ！えぇ？！君も彼のようになりたいだって？どうだい、まいける？「そんなの簡単さぁっ☆なんたってこの教本セットがあるからね！これは簡単なトレーニングを１日たったの3分/150セットやるだけでぼくのようになれるんだ☆そして、なんとこの教本には1028通りのメニューが載っているから飽きっぽい人も安心だね！さらに今回は、先日発売して大好評だったあの『全自動湯沸かし器』もお付けして、たったの3980円！！！（月々3980円の100回払い）
（ブログから）
レトロでスタイリッシュな絵のおかげで、泥臭い曲と歌詞が一気にお洒落になりました。

T-POCKET’s comment:
(From niconico)
【The awesome artwork and title were borrowed from buchiko at piapro. Thank you so much.】Today I will introduce everyone to a marvelous friend☆This is Michael! He has an attractive face AND he’s good at chatting. He’s also good-natured, handsome, and to top it all off, a bonus are these muscles of his! So, my boastful friends..! Huuuh?! Did you just say you want to be like him? What do you say to that, Michael? “That’s easy you see☆It’s because I had this set of textbooks, you know! Just do this easy training everyday for three minutes per 150 sets and you’ll become just like me☆Also, what’s in these textbooks is a menu of 1028 ways you can do it, so even people who get tired of the same old routines can rest easy! And this time, we’ll even throw in an “Automatic Water-boiler” which was a big hit when we sold it the other day, and all this is only 3980 Yen!!!(In 100 payments of 3980 Yen every month)
(From his blog)
Thanks to the retro and stylish artwork, the crudeness of the song and the lyrics suddenly seemed cool.

Artwork used in the video for the song. Title of song is also from artwork title. (Illust: buchiko@Piapro)

Description: This song dominated the music and overall daily rankings this week, getting 11,000+ Mylists in less than a week, which will definitely secure its place in the Weekly Vocaloid Rankings, and has already been attached with the “VOCALOID殿堂入り” (Vocaloid Hall of Fame) tag. Also, T-POCKET’s video comment is intentionally meaningless and out of place, and I’m sure we all had fun reading it regardless. This song is T-POCKET’s first widely well-received song, with his next most Mylisted song only having 94 Mylists.

【Lyrics】Ding-Dong

My song of the week. It’s been on endless loop, and I can’t get enough of that synthed sax.

This post consists of three parts:
1. Original lyrics
2. Transliteration
3. Translation

Ding-Dong

Lyrics: Miksolodyne-ts
Compose: Miksolodyne-ts
Arrange: Miksolodyne-ts
PV: オサレP (OSARE P)
Vocals: Megurine Luka

Nico | Youtube
MP3 | Instrumental

Miksolodyne-tsさんのコメント：
tsです。オサレPさんとのコラボ３つ目です!今回は山本ニューさんの大好きな名曲のフレーズがずっと耳から離れなくって曲を作ってしまいました!（もちろんあんないい曲にはできませんでしたが・・・そこはオサレPさんの素敵な夜のイメージでカバーなのです）曲も歌も絵も言葉も、素敵なセンスに出会うと感動したりうらやましく思ったり→mylist/15135721（ほかにもたくさんすごいひとが・・・）宣伝宣伝！→nm8265110

Miksolodyne-ts’s Comment:
ts here. This is my 3rd collaboration with OSAREP! Made this song since I was inspired by Yamamoto New’s incredible song, which has that one phrase that always gets stuck in my head. (Of course this song probably couldn’t do the same…but OSAREP’s spectacular night images will cover that.) Here are some works that I think have really good taste in everything, from the melody to the song to the artwork to the lyrics, and have made me both deeply moved and jealous→mylist/15135721(Except there are still a lot of other really awesome people I didn’t cover…)Plugging!→nm8265110

Shot from the PV by オサレP. Click to enlarge.

【Vocaloid Composer】DATEKEN

Artwork drawn specially for Tsumugi Uta. Click to enlarge.(Illust: ホルダー@Piapro)

DATEKEN is a relatively well-known Vocaloid composer who submitted his first song onto niconico in October 2008, and prior to that he had experience in composing instrumental songs since 2005, which he uploaded onto his muzie account. DATEKEN’s most well-known song is 紡唄 -つむぎうた- (Tsumugi Uta/Spinning Song), which currently has over 11,000+ mylists and 190,000+ views. DATEKEN is actually a graduate student from Hokkaido and his hobbies include playing the piano, doing karate, and reciting poems.

DATEKEN uses only Kagamine Rin and Len to sing his songs, and at this point has not used any of the other Vocaloids yet. Each of his Vocaloid songs have a different genre assigned to them, ranging from ethnic (Jutenija), technopop (Ur-Style), R&B (イマジネイション/Imagination), and even waltz (schwarz waltz), which really show his high level of versatility as a composer. However, most of his songs generally belong to the electronic music genre, such as techno, trance, 2-step, and house. All his songs are extremely high quality, and give a really good representation of their respective genres. Song themes are really varied, which makes all of them impressionable and easy to remember, and the large majority of songs are quite catchy. His vocal tuning for the Kagamine twins are also impeccable, and in my opinion ranks among the best as they are consistently natural and easy to listen to. (Definitely not a small feat considering that Kagamine Rin and Len are among the harder Vocaloids to tune.) He also changes their voices according to the song, and as a result they always sound fitting and different. As a one-man composer, DATEKEN does everything himself: writes and arranges the song, writes the lyrics, and makes his own videos, which are usually well-subtitled and with a nice static layout and picture, the latter of which he borrows from royalty-free artists on Piapro.

In addition to composing Vocaloid songs, he has also composed intrumental tracks also to the theme of widely varying genres, and has also released a Touhou arrange doujin album called 当方暇軍団 under the circle name of 暇軍団. He creates songs with a keyboard controller for the most part.

All in all, super-good and incredibly composer. Please listen to all his songs! I especially recommend his works if you want to explore different musical genres.

Essential Works:
1. 紡唄 -つむぎうた- + ENG Subs (Tsumugi Uta/Spinning Song) (niconico link)
2. Never! + ENG Subs (niconico link) **Especially Recommended**
3. なまえのないうた (Namae no Nai Uta/A Song without a Name) (niconico link)

Website: http://www14.plala.or.jp/dateken/
Mylist: http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/10109173
Piapro: http://piapro.jp/dateken
Twitter: http://twitter.com/dateken
muzie: http://www.muzie.co.jp/artist/a014791/
Blog: http://blog.livedoor.jp/vit_dat/
Youtube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=896975BF8D8151E4&search_query=dateken
DATE tunes (digital album) page: http://piapro.jp/karent/?view=album&id=43

【Illustrator】nayu

This picture speaks for itself. Click to enlarge.

nayu is an amateur illustrator who is quite famous on Pixiv for her hilarious and high quality illustrations. Her artwork is mostly of Vocaloid, and the character she draws (and likes) the most is KAITO. nayu’s chair is white, her computer is black, and she has a dog.

nayu’s illustration style is for the most part in the anime-style, with lots of exaggerated expressions and poses, as well as a colouring style kind of reminiscent of modern visual novels, but she draws almost all of her characters with small, slightly almond-shaped eyes and realistic body proportions ←(Warning: Half-naked men). Her works also have an insanely high level of completion, with superclean lines, accurate shading, organized compositions, and a really good eye for matching up a lot of different colours. nayu usually uses pastel colours with nearly no black lines, and same-colour-but-darker colours for shading. The overwhelming majority of her work are Vocaloid-themed, and it is apparent that her favourite out of all of them is KAITO, as she seems to like making (good) fun of him the most. What sets nayu’s Vocaloid art apart from the rest is that her pictures are either extremely silly and hilarious, with unfathomable poses and themes, or really pretty and cool. It also helps that nayu is really good at drawing different facial expressions, and all of them are expressed very well and really brings the characters to life. Besides drawing Vocaloid characters, she also has an original, unnamed character who she likes to draw. Also worth mentioning is that nayu does not seem to know what the definition of a “doodle” is at all.

Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=268443
Blog: http://pixiv.cc/nayu3/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/nayu03
Piapro: http://piapro.jp/nayu3

【Lyrics】Ur-Style

Unable to stop looping.

This post consists of four parts:
1. Recommended covers
2. Original lyrics
3. Transliteration
4. Translation

Ur-Style
Lyrics: DATEKEN
Compose: DATEKEN
Arrange: DATEKEN
Vocals: Kagamine Rin

Nico | Youtube
MP3 | Instrumental

DATEKENのコメント:
おはようございます．DATEKENです．ハンガリーから帰ってきて時差ぼけの治らぬまま投稿十一曲目．テクノ・ポップです．わたぽんさん（http://piapro.jp/wata_pon）のイラストを見ていたら真っ白なイメージの曲が浮んできたので，わさっと作りました．勝手ながら動画にも使わせて戴きました．素敵イラストを有難う御座います！auto-tune的な奴を一度作ってみたかった訳なのですが，結局ソフトの導入が面倒になって，vocaloid editorでピッチベンド弄ってでっちあげました．不精者ですね．そうですね．

DATEKEN’s Comment:
Good morning. DATEKEN here. Submitted this 11th song of mine while still trying to get better from the jet lag I got from coming back from Hungary. This song is of the technopop genre. Quickly made this song while I was looking at わたぽん’s（http://piapro.jp/wata_pon） illustration and thought of a song with a pure white image. As it turns out I also used the same picture in the video. Thanks so much for the incredible artwork! I’ve tried using something like auto-tune before, but in the end I thought that the input system was a pain, so I ended up using vocaloid editor to bend the pitch instead. I’m so lazy, aren’t I? Yes, that’s right.

Music used in the video. Click to enlarge. (Illust: わたぽん@Piapro)