It’s Friday shut up

1: Kikuo - The Cat’s Dining Table

This one’s pretty far up my list for my favourite Kikuo songs. Similar in vibe to Hole Dwelling, which is probably my favourite of his, this song, like most of Kikuo’s songs, is about the trauma-induced feelings of self-doubt often seen in children who’ve suffered under much too strict, often abusive parents, which is a pretty wide-spread issue all around the world, but especially so in countries with work cultures as toxic and competitive as Japan’s. While I personally did not suffer through such things, I still get imposter syndrome pretty often and do wish that I could just disappear from the world and cuddle with a fluffy cat for all eternity

2: sasakure.UK - Our 16bit War

Also very much like this one. It’s not a genre I listen to a lot, so I can’t really pinpoint what makes this one better than others in this genre, but the lyrics are pretty good and still (and will probably always be) relevant, so up it goes.

Anyways, not Vocaloid, but I’ve been a bit fixated on the song “Nevermore” from his collab with lasah for the past few days. I also really like his other non-vocaloid stuff but it often flies under the radar since most people only know him for Vocaloid so please go check it out if you like his songs! He really has incredible variety

3: PinocchoP - At the Mercy of Emptyness

Pretty solid, like his other songs. He’s an artist I like to have in playlists but not one I’d count among my favourites, as I really like his tuning for Miku and I do really like his songs when I first hear them, but they get a bit boring to me if I listen to them too much. As for this one, I’ve really got not much to say about it other than the first two words of this paragraph, so I’ll leave it at that.

4: cosMo@暴走P - The End of Hatsune Miku

Same situation as PinocchioP, but a bit better. This song (and Album) is a classic and I still always find it incredible whenever I listen to this or “Disappearance of Hatsune Miku” how he managed to make her sound so clear at these speeds. Other than that, I find the melody and lyrics cute, and someone just drove past my home blasting Mongolian (I think) metal at full volume at 11:30pm so I’ll just move on to the next one.

5: Picon - ガランド / airhead (I picked this one manually)

Another song I’ve been fixated on last week so I quickly smuggled this one in so it doesn’t take too long for it to get picked by the shuffle algorithm for me to remain interested in it.
I love this one. I think the lyrics capture what happens when I try to think about my thoughts more accurately than any other song I’ve heard and the monotonous Miku with the freaky autotuned background vocals are me. The guitar part after the refrain sounds like crying that can’t be done with either voice and, interpreted in combination with the MV, never does come out no matter how much you want it.
The MV in general fits the vibe of the song perfectly and just yeah. Words left my brain goodbye now