The Sky Falls

Hawwo, it's been a while. TAT I honestly don't even remember how I spent April but I was certainly busy with something or the other... Now the month of May has blown by me with little semblance of healthy personal time. orz I was sick for two entire weeks and then had the most intense, draining, high pressure business trip for a week in Phoenix.. Now I'm mostly recovered but still got busy and some stressful times ahead. Yells a little.

Right before I got sick (and probably the reason), Fome and I made a 1 day trip down to LA because my favorite!!!! group!!!! Lovelyz came to the Korea Times Music Festival for their first American performance. QuQ I was so happy I got to use my lightstick and banner.... My princesses were beautiful and glowing 💗 The downsides to KTMF were that it was outside, a very long show, and it got cold once the sun went down—but o m g it was so much better a concert than I ever imagined it to be.... We both enjoyed it a lot!!! Every single act brought a quality performance and we were constantly awed by how impressive everyone's skills were... Kim Bumsoo is now my favorite ahjusshi; he's literally a godman and can do no wrong ever. Super Junior is always a joy to watch; plus their live vocals were very clear and they nailed them. Eunji from Apink is just such a wonderful and incredible singer and person!! Sungwoon's super stable vocals and dancing! And of course Fome's favorite Taemin dances for this non-broadcasted outdoor concert with as much charisma and feeling as he would for a music video shoot. And everyone else was impressive; I'm just too lazy to write about every act.

AH-CHOOO @waterpixieva pic.twitter.com/E4NSH5CxKa

— fome / Sean of PHOENIX ASH (@at_fome) April 28, 2019

Here's me being the one embarrassingly loud Lovelinus in my section.

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The Ascension Chorus Battle round 2 deadline was a few days ago and yaaaay our group actually made it...... Not gonna lie, we were getting worried but hoooooo everyone really worked their asses off and pulled through in the end. T___T So thankful for everyone's hard work; this round was not easy at all.... On the vocal and mixing side, we struggled a lot. We sang XAI's "THE SKY FALLS" (which btw is from a Godzilla anime movie OST, which for some reason we were pretty hyped about) and it's a very cool song but is overwhelmingly repetitive, so we came up with a lot of melody changes and stretched ourselves to add new adlibs and harmonies as last ditch efforts to add a little spark... And then this sort of song is pretty unforgiving to mix since the vocals are very exposed, so every adjustment makes a drastic change in the sound and you end up going back and forth trying desperately to find a sweet spot that may not exist. (Not to take credit for the mixing—I only did timing and then neneki mixed while Mimi and I gave feedback so we were all frustrated together lolol)

Visuals are freaking amazing. This concept? The selective colors? The character styling? The story? The Marvel reference? Amazing amazing amazing.

【A-S2】 THE SKY FALLS 【DREAM✦SCAPE】

【ANIMATION】
✦pkotetsu - https://www.youtube.com/pKotetsu
✦shippa

【ILLUST】
✦minty⁺ - https://www.youtube.com/furisou

【MIX】
✦neneki (main, timing) - https://twitter.com/theonlyneneki ** audio editing commissions open!!! **
✦eva (timing)
✦mimi (timing)

【VOCALS】
✦mimi - https://www.youtube.com/mimimoiselle
✦eva - https://www.youtube.com/waterpixieva
✦chiisana - https://www.youtube.com/c/chiisanauta
✦aerin - https://www.youtube.com/RamenBlossom

You know, I'm actually very proud of my singing in this!!! That opening solo is kind of like a new side to me ^o^