A North Korean documentary about western propaganda. Some weird imagery and source material, but surprisingly accurate in terms of how people in the west are largely controlled and manipulated.
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Not interested enough to watch an hour and a half of that, but if I had to guess, I'd assume that while some of the things it says may be based on actual facts, there's probably a lot of accentuating the negative, ignoring the positive, exaggeration and deliberate misinterpretation. In other words, and quite ironically, propaganda.
Not interested enough to watch an hour and a half of that, but if I had to guess, I'd assume that while some of the things it says may be based on actual facts, there's probably a lot of accentuating the negative, ignoring the positive, exaggeration and deliberate misinterpretation. In other words, and quite ironically, propaganda.
Thats why I found the whole thing rather amusing. If you watch documentaries about North Korea, China and Burma. We tend to cover it in a way thats not too dissimalar. I guess you could call it censorship in a way i.e. we don't call it a propaganda film; we call it a documentary.
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Can you sing distinguishable cymbals? Can you sing delay effect? I'm out of words, this is beyond them.
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Is it by any chance a request to discuss vocal powers? LOL
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
I have probably already posted this song, but it's such great art, in my opinion.
Dark and gothic lyrics, powerful presentation. Crazy good vocals, so much expression.
The name of the song is "Doukeshi A", "Clown A".
The pretext established by the rest of the album seems to be that Clown is possessed by a dark spirit, or his shadow. So the lyrical I seems to be a mixture of both personalities. Clown's genuine emotions and his shadow converting them into murderous intent and a great lust for blood.
I'm not sure who the child is. I guess it's maybe a girl (Diana?), referred to as child because of her age, given the rest of the album. Maybe it's also an inner child. "Even if I die, I can't really die" seems to be the spirit talking (the video translates it differently, but the phrase in quotes is closer to the literal meaning, I hope. 0:55 あの子が泣くと 俺は死んでも死に切れない for reference).
For some reason, I really dig the theme of this album a lot.
I don't think it has ever been done this well.
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My dear child,
I wonder if I can see you again today
As from the shadows of the curtain call,
I’ll play the fool
When the curtain rises,
I want you to be laughing
If that child cries,
then even if I die, I can't really die
I'm a clown with no name,
my tragedy is comedy
Trembling behind the stage,
a bearded singer in women’s clothes
I will present you a bouquet,
red like blood
With a note attached,
done in blood letters
Nobody really gives a damn about you
Noone but me
I love you so much that I want to kill you
Please, manager,
the child is crying
Do me a favour and
Make the child dance and shine for me
Who are you?
Mirror, oh mirror?
I love you so much
I love you so much that I want to kill you
This might be the whole album, subbed, on Youtube: [URL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47215851/13kai_wa_gekkou.html]Link[/URL]
This guy does acapella versions of video game music, I think he's really awesome. Here's Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2:
The more songs I listen from him, the more convinced I become that he's using a program like Melodyne for pitch correction.
(Not that it would make it less cool, but...)
