Plus we get Pamplamoose Music ...
With publications (whatever the media), the publication is the performance.
One of the factors that pushes Japanese anime to focus on pandering to "otaku" culture, even where it may result in less mainstream appeal, is that in otaku culture, "buying all the stuff" from a favorite show is a way of showing off, so its possible to sell a series by the two-episode (25min episodes) DVD volume, then the boxed set with trinket to all pre-orders, then the collectors box set, all to the same customer. Plus a wide range of merchandise on top of that.
However, that is just one income stream for the anime producers. With other income streams under pressure, there's the risk of having all your eggs in one basket - and there also the question of just how much anime can be produced on the back of harvesting a large share of the income of obsessive otaku. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
... in which I think Beyonce looks like some kind of hypersexualised cyborg freak, compared to that cover.
But the cover is a cheat too. The video performance has nothing to do with the recording, which is heavily autotuned and looped. It looks folksy and cute, but it really isn't.
Pomplamoose won't get any income for their time. It's an enjoyable cover that probably took a day or two to put together.
But it's free entertainment.
This cover is a VideoSong, a new medium with 2 rules: What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice). If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).
So not every loop is on screen at the same time, but supposedly every loop shows up on screen sometime. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
And loop technology is way past simple repetition. You can't be me, I'm taken
If they did the scratch effect with some other device or on the computer, and just pretended to do it with the patch box, that would be cheating. If they made a click sound electronically and showed it as closing a classic If they muffled the bass drum (their September cover) electronically but showed it being done with a muppet hand puppet, that would be cheating. And confer where they have the keyboard that is clearly computer filtered, they have both the keyboard and the laptop in one of the shots.
Its all samples mixed together, but they claim, at least, to show where all the of the samples come from in the video.
... though maybe La Vie en Rose is more apropos ... I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
I'd bet on the opening harmony being autotuned, because it's just a little too perfect and shiny. But after that it gets less clear. There's quite a bit of timing slop on the vocals, which suggests live recording for at least some of the harmony lines.
Not that I'd want to be too picky - it's a very good cover, and I like it a lot more than the original.
And of course, there's no promise to show every sample they recorded, just the ones they used. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
