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Bad Apple, English remix. It's good, very good.

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Zetta
334 posts
Joined December 2009
Topic Starter
Zetta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owFulRTR1Sc

Fukkin. Sick.

Her voice familiar? Well of course it is, that's because she's a professional Voice Actress who has an actual interest in shit like this.

I'm actually surprised this hasn't been mapped yet but guddaaaaaaamn. Good song.
YuiiMugii
70 posts
Joined July 2010
YuiiMugii
Oh, Christina Vee's dub?

It's been out for a while now.
Everyone already knows about.
Pokebis
2,047 posts
Joined April 2008
Pokebis
But it's Bad Apple.
It can't be good or very good.
adam2046
1,653 posts
Joined April 2008
adam2046
Old news in the wrong place.
Can anybody say wasteland?
Sleep Powder
1,540 posts
Joined October 2008
Sleep Powder
I've mapped her version of Super Driver~

I just haven't submitted it on osu! yet. If you want I can map Christina Vee songs.
IppE
IppE

Pokebis wrote:

But it's Bad Apple.
It can't be good or very good.
imo as a song its pretty good, its just getting bit old cause of constant repeating...
Lilac
Elite Mapper
1,515 posts
Joined December 2008
Lilac
This is old...

I know 3 people who have already mapped it but yet to submit it.

Yeah...
Jarby
2,963 posts
Joined August 2008
Jarby

MarioBros777 wrote:

I know 3 people who have already mapped it
RandomJibberish
osu! Alumni
1,833 posts
Joined August 2009
RandomJibberish
Why am I the only one who thinks the vocals here are horribly over the top and painful
Mogsy
osu! Alumni
3,450 posts
Here since the beginning
Mogsy
Oh god, not this shit again. Third time in three days I've been shown this.

This version of Bad Apple is horrendous. Sure, I don't even like Bad Apple to begin with, but that's not influencing my opinion in any way. The lyrics seem more like faux-emo-poetry from a high school emo's journal than any semblance of actual sorrow (I'm sorry, but the actual translation of Bad Apple is much deeper than this English version could ever hope to be). The vocals are horrible; they are overproduced and even distract from the backing music, but that could be blamed on the mixing of this recording, seeing how you can barely fucking hear the background when in the original they merged so well together. As far as the vocals go, it felt much too legato. If you want to bring your own interpretation to something, sure, that's fine, but don't make an interpretation that sounds like shit. Not every note needs to flow together as if this were a ballad, honey, Bad Apple had separated-sounding vocals to begin with.[/rage]
Lilac
Elite Mapper
1,515 posts
Joined December 2008
Lilac
Ephemeral actually said the opposite...

He found the English one better than the Japanese one because the English lyrics fit with the song more than the 'Japanese Touhou crap' (paraphrased)

Something like that anyway.
Mogsy
osu! Alumni
3,450 posts
Here since the beginning
Mogsy
I honestly hate both versions, but lyrically, the English version sounds much too flowery. Word choice is key when writing any form of poetry (coughcoughsongwritingcough), and is usually very deliberate. This is one of the reasons why translations/lyrical re-writes to fit rhythms after translation seem to fail; translation usually does not pick up on the possible hidden meanings behind the word choice. This is no exception, and most of the lyrics come across as contrived and forced into these rhythms.

Please keep in mind, again, that I do not find Bad Apple good, nor do I find the straight translation of its lyrics to be phenomenal. I just find it more tolerable than the forced lyricism of this interpretation.

o no mogsy bein srs bout muzak wut haz dis wrld cum 2
NotShinta
1,021 posts
Joined September 2009
NotShinta
Those vocals are shit, Japanese ones fit better and actually sound better.
Jinxy
2,777 posts
Joined February 2009
Jinxy

MarioBros777 wrote:

Ephemeral actually said the opposite...

He found the English one better than the Japanese one because the English lyrics fit with the song more than the 'Japanese Touhou crap' (paraphrased)
I can't see how that works when the only thing touhou is the stuff that remains, the music.

Well, and the removed video is touhou too, I guess.
Xgor
Elite Mapper
2,534 posts
Joined April 2009
Xgor
Why does she sounds so much like a vocaloid :o
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani
"Bad Apple"

"Good"

what.
dNextGen
dNextGen

NotShinta wrote:

Those vocals are shit, Japanese ones fit better and actually sound better.
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Mogsy
osu! Alumni
3,450 posts
Here since the beginning
Mogsy

Xgor wrote:

Why does she sounds so much like a vocaloid :o
Because it was terribly mixed. She applied the same effects that were on the vocals in the original, but thanks to terrible mixing, it's much more obviously disgusting-sounding.
YuiiMugii
70 posts
Joined July 2010
YuiiMugii

Xgor wrote:

Why does she sounds so much like a vocaloid :o
Because Cristina Vee literally sounds like a vocaloid whenever she speaks.
GladiOol
4,475 posts
Joined August 2008
GladiOol
Wow, this sounds even more horrible than the original, and that shit is HORRIBLE.
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