I confess I always thought of Pizzicato Five as J-pop for the uninitiated, a band for tokenistic mixes. But musical snobbery aside, this song is killer — “The Night is Still Young”:
I came across it via the version below sung by Miku Hatsune — who is a computer, a version of Yamaha’s singing synthesizer Vocaloid:
We’ve all heard speech synthesizers before, but it seems that singing synthesis is a bit newer.
In other weird simulatory news, here’s ELIZA reacting to the recent death of her creator. (Who, I just learned, intended her to be a parody of a Rogerian therapist)
English lyrics under the cut: Continue reading →
