Video Game music is a hard category because not many games have songs specifically made for them. This is one of the first examples I know of and this song holds a special place in my heart because I really enjoyed playing FF8 as a kid, which might be a bit of a surprise to some because most people, from what I've heard, don't really like the game. I used to think it was a bit slow and not that lyrically interesting, but I've grown to appreciate it more. It is all those things, but it is still a nice little ballad.
Song: Eyes on Me
Original Artist - Faye Wong
Backing Track by JustSingItph - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWk0Rgr478
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Ok Day 2 of Singing March means power register. I always love singing this song and I felt it matched the prompt but boy was my voice not ready for this one. You can actually pin point the moment my voice gives out haha.
I also want to address why this is showing up on day 15 of the month rather than Day 2. Unfortunately a number of factors stood in the way of me doing this challenge in real time - 1) life and work got super busy 2) my PC storage got really full and then most recently 3) Tumblr would not or could not process my video after 3 attempts and 12 hours of processing attempted - so I've managed to reduce some of the stressors and pressures in my life, cleared out about 170 GB of storage and have a new external NVME on the way so I can store footage off my computer entirely and now host my vids on youtube as unlisted videos so anyone can watch them.
Song: Creep
Original Artist: Radiohead
Backing Track by KaraoKeysPH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9tH0cwgYNA
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I don't know what I'm doing, but at least I'm doing something.
Last year I learned about #SingingMarch, and I kind of gave up on it until I realized that I could use my live performances I've been doing at local karaoke and open mics (because those are still covers).
That was after I tried to record Alcohol Free by Twice and ran into more issues than my burnt out former-engineer brain wanted to troubleshoot.
I generally find recording very stressful because of extremism and perfectionism, but also because I'm a live-performer type. I feel like every performer is either more comfortable performing in a studio or just doing one and done live performances. I'm the latter even though I freeze up and kick myself for "messing up" after, I still really just enjoy singing and bringing joy to people.. and being a bit of a ham and really getting into the music.
That's why I started my band Zenbu-itadaku Re:Cover, because it was so fun and electric to sing Japanese live with my friends' cover band the Spoon Cherries before they disbanded. And that was such instant gratification versus all the steps of recording vocals and "creating a product" or the years I put into trying to train an improve a machine learning model for pill counting.
That being said, our band is gonna work on recording some singles this year. And yes, I'm anxious about it. 😂
Anyway, back to #SingingMarch..
SingingMarch this year hasn't been off to a great start as I was dealing with a nasty headache and stomach issues at the beginning of March. And Sony Vegas Pro 14.0 is slow as molasses and froze up so many times that I decided to try Canva since I've been using it to design all our band's flyers, etc.
Aaand Canva is quirky. I threw multiple videos for Momotaro on the same track just so I could move them around freely instead of having to fill up the space like freaking Finale Print Music (so glad I have Cakewalk for a DAW now). But there is no jump to the beginning, and I have to "restart" multiple times for the preview to actually play with all the videos synced.
I probably will avoid doing stuff that ambitious with Canva in the future, but I hope I can use it to throw together the rest of my videos for SingingMarch.
I was excited about the prompts, and it's been a kind of puzzle to figure out which of my live performances (the majority of which are nowhere on the internet) I can share with people that follow the prompt.
I think I'm a decent singer, but I'm not as good as I want to be. And I love all these songs and want to do them justice, but at the same time this perfectionism drives me insane so I need to share something or it'll just be another missed year.
I'll post on YouTube, Twitter (X), and Bluesky
So if you want to follow you can find my SingingMarch stuff there.
If you took the time to read this all.
Thanks, it means a lot.
- Chris (Hoto)
Here's my band's LinkTree if you want to check us out
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Day 1 of #singingmarch for 2026 and the prompt for today is "Obsessed with Recently" (you can see all of the prompts here)
Sienna Spirro's Die on this Hill has been living in my head rent free ever since I stumbled across it randomly while I was driving to work. The reason it resonates for me is largely makes me think of the resilience of my healthcare worker colleagues. We're short staffed, over worked and underpaid but we still show up day after day, working rotating shifts, at great personal cost, all because we care about our patients. I know that this isn't really what the song is about but that's my reading of it.
So I dedicate this to all of my healthcare worker colleagues. I see you. Hopefully we don't have to "die on this hill"
Song: Die on this Hill
Words and Music by Omer Fedi, Sienna Spirro and Michael Ross Pollack
Backing Track by Sing2Piano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQuqFMHpLUE
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