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unjest · 3 months ago

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so. heres another one

this one took me like. probably >40 tries over the course of 4 days to get all the way through without tripping over anything too badly hence my little celebration at the end there lol

bit of backstory/context here: blackboxwarrior is my Ultimate Vocal Stim. its long and its complicated and i have a fucking AWFUL stutter so it takes some serious work to get all of it out which makes it perfect for me. you might notice that i start out relatively slow but by the end im going EXTREMELY fast. thats because this is what i also call a "momentum" song for me because there are a LOT of points where i cant help it but to speed up so if i dont start out slow it turns into vocal soup. which is typically ok for singing it under my breath but does NOT work for a recording. i also had all the vereses completely memorized but i had to reference the lyrics for the monologue- i think i have it memorized now tho because of how many attempts this took haha

#howling #howling for real #i dont even give a shit about how my voice actually sounds here im just glad i managed to actually make it through all the way #with only a few minor hiccups #here's a few of the lines that managed to trip me up the most often:#'fight-or-flight revelation shame the black box warrior' was usually the first tripping point when i had started too fast #'finest fibers flesh and fiberglass and flowers' sucked because i kept saying 'fesh'#'and they waited for his vital signs to lie and let a flatline cry' was a big issue for a while.#sooo many takes ended there because i couldnt get the word 'vital' out properly #a few takes ended at 'palpatations set the beat' because i said 'veat'#or i would immediately afterwords trip over 'vagus nerve'#after a while i just sort of gave up on the 'christ-concoiusness' so i just committed to dropping the r in christ. i just cant do it #the monologue in general was a HUGE take-killer #but the biggest culprits were 'outer center' / 'clapping caskets' / 'gideon bugler pineal glands' / 'projector eyes'#'nerves to steal nerves of steel from under bacchus' bloody nose' / 'namibian himbas'#'my subjective report of your objective conjecture wether this proprietary blend of expertise and seasoning' was fucking AWFULLLLLL #but honestly??? the biggest killer?????? the word 'because'.#i cannot COUNT the amount of times a perfectly good take was slaughtered because i couldnt say the word 'because' lol #i think 'animus' tripped me up once #and i fucked up 'never did think you better than this' cuz i originally thought the line was 'while you may think youre better than this'#so yeah no. this one took a while to get right lol

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