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Today my Facebook mini-feed announced that user_undefined was showing this to virtualstar: Six Japanese Anime Voice Actresses to Do Punk Covers CD in Bid to Make Worst Thing Ever
At first I thought, yanno, that doesn't seem so bad. virtualstar occasionally sends me tongue-in-cheek concept cover albums from a group of Japanese bands that do punk-ska covers of everything else imaginable--Broadway hits, Nirvana albums, the Jackson Five, Disney songs, you name it--and while they aren't always good, they're always an interesting take on the source material. (Besides, how can you not love a group of bands with names like "YOUR SONG IS GOOD" and "Asparagus"?) What's to keep this one from being any different? I like anime seiyuu--I listend to a lot of non-anime Takehito Koyasu and Hayashibara Megumi albums in high school--and I like screaming '90s music. It's an odd fit, but lots of good things that don't seem to go together actually do. Like chocolate and Gouda, or french fries dipped in Coca-Cola.
Then I found a page with samples. And AGH NO BRAINFUCK STOP MIND NOW KILL EARS NOOOOOOOOO
It is obvious that no one involved with this project understands more than three words of English. They made "Smells Like Teen Spirit" into a sweet, gentle anime ED love ballad. Yes, you heard that right. A love ballad. Sung in that annoying, eardrum-bursting high-pitched pop idol voice that the Japanese find endearing and adorable. And apparently it wasn't grating enough, or the seiyuu couldn't really sing, so they pitch-corrected it up another two octaves.
It is like pouring burning sugar into your ear canal.
(Props for their cover of "Sex and Violence," though, if only because it is obvious they have no idea what the words "sex" and "violence" mean.)
At first I thought, yanno, that doesn't seem so bad. virtualstar occasionally sends me tongue-in-cheek concept cover albums from a group of Japanese bands that do punk-ska covers of everything else imaginable--Broadway hits, Nirvana albums, the Jackson Five, Disney songs, you name it--and while they aren't always good, they're always an interesting take on the source material. (Besides, how can you not love a group of bands with names like "YOUR SONG IS GOOD" and "Asparagus"?) What's to keep this one from being any different? I like anime seiyuu--I listend to a lot of non-anime Takehito Koyasu and Hayashibara Megumi albums in high school--and I like screaming '90s music. It's an odd fit, but lots of good things that don't seem to go together actually do. Like chocolate and Gouda, or french fries dipped in Coca-Cola.
Then I found a page with samples. And AGH NO BRAINFUCK STOP MIND NOW KILL EARS NOOOOOOOOO
It is obvious that no one involved with this project understands more than three words of English. They made "Smells Like Teen Spirit" into a sweet, gentle anime ED love ballad. Yes, you heard that right. A love ballad. Sung in that annoying, eardrum-bursting high-pitched pop idol voice that the Japanese find endearing and adorable. And apparently it wasn't grating enough, or the seiyuu couldn't really sing, so they pitch-corrected it up another two octaves.
It is like pouring burning sugar into your ear canal.
(Props for their cover of "Sex and Violence," though, if only because it is obvious they have no idea what the words "sex" and "violence" mean.)