/jp/ - Otaku Culture

With all this finding new songs/getting bored of vocaloid/old=soul, good=soulless talk I got curious about what methods you guys use for finding new songs. I call my method the "turbo autist brute force method" where I sample almost all the songs that were uploaded to niconico in a week's time. I do this so there is a very low chance I miss out on a song I'd like and since I have no other hobby I do on a computer I have the time to do this. Before this I used the niconico vocaloid ranking page. I also remember someone posted a site about a year ago that featured weekly top lists of less popular songs, I think it was in english and had a dark purple design, someone might be able to post it again. If I wouldn't be able to expand my playlist with new songs I might have also gotten bored of vocaloid becasue of the repetition, I think the most important part is to reduce repetition and be on the lookout for new songs with an open mind, for example don't dismiss a song because of the genre (for me it was rap, but I managed to find some, that I liked). In my experience one of the major advantages of the vocaloid scene is the abundance of new songs that are released, you are almost guaranteed to find something that you'll like. On the topic of soulfulness I can only say that, there always were and will be songs that are less sincere or have less effort put into them but opposite is also true. This topic is very subjective when you talk about the entirety of the recent or not so recent vocaloid scene, you could see the plethora of mass produced songs with flower as the vocalist, trying to get in the tailwind created by popular producers' success with her and say "woah look at all these soulless copycats", but you could also look at all the literally who producers that try to give their best regardless of how popular they might or might not become and stumble upon works that are very sincere and/or have a lot of effort put into them and think how soulful vocaloid is. I think it's not new vocaloid songs that are soulless, but trends, which were probably soulless even in the past so most of the songs created under them didn't stand the test of time unlike the other older songs which were probably regarded as soulful even back then, and as a result, are remembered more fondly today as well. In other words there will always be soulless, but also plenty of soulful, so it's dismissive to say that insert era of vocaloid is soulless. It's very late at the time of me writing this so might not make a lot of sense.