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dazzelmethat · 6 months ago

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Transfemme-ish song I found a bit ago. So beautiful. An english translation was added recently. Thought I'd share for pride month since I couldn't find a post already on tumblr.

It's such a personal sounding song.

In an important note: in the comment of the video Harumaki mentions that while they usually they usually tune Miku Hatsune to sing it was important that they sing it themselves for this 10th anniversary of posting music online.

#i asked a translator friend to snoop on the artist to try and find pronouns. in an interview they said 'a guy that doesn't present as a guy'#so for this post i'm using he/they #transgender #vocaloid #hatsune miku #pride month #in my interpretation of the song I think they are somewhat singing to Miku #in a lot of vocaloid songs miku is treated as an intermediary tool to communicate a feeling through song #but in this case it is the additional using Miku (the instrument) as an inbetween mask for gender as well #that by acting through miku the protag could become a girl... makes me bawl every time #i'm just imagining singing this song to the instrument/program that you've used for 10 years. what 'miku' would start to mean to you..#where also.. miku becomes a muse and the artist themseves #i also think 'loosely positively' was my attempt to tell people the depressing language doesn't stay throughout the song #but i do think the ending of it... is hopeful but also wistful.. more positive than before. but getting there #wasn't sure if to tw for anything.. it was hard for me to put a finger on what exactly the depressing tone at the beginning could be called #Youtube

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