Views in not equal to subscribers, which is not equal to skill, which is not equal to views or subscriber, which is not equal to happiness, popularity or fame. I think people get so bogged down in the numbers they don't realize they're just numbers. You'll probably never know for sure how well you accomplish your goals if your goals aren't numbers, but if you accomplish them and the goal is to make people happy it doesn't really matter. Same goals if the goal is to make yourself happy or make friends, honestly just don't worry about people being mean or even nice, just worry about how to make yourself feel good good about being you.
I put a new cover on YouTube and forgot to put it here while my laptop was turned on so here's a link, please listen if you've got five minutes, I'd super appreciate it <3
Are you the same Emii that's in TYER and sang in the Magia acapella chorus?
Yeah! I’m a lyricist in TYER, but I haven’t been very active lately...As for the Magia acapella chorus, this one? That wasnt a TYER thing though, but yeah I was in that~
Hi Road! I hope you're having a great day! I'm writng english lyrics for Eine Kleine, I'm a beginner writing translyrics and I want to see if you could give some advises to me, like how to write lyrics without doing them according with the translation (I hope I am explaining myself clearly) or how to make them easier to sing. Anyways, I hope you have an amazing week and have a lot of fun! bye-bye
hello lovely, my day hasn't been so bad, thanks for caring!!
funnily enough, today i started listening to eine kleine, and i was intending on writing some lyrics myself but i haven't started yet hehe
ok some advice for translyrics it is! hope you don't mind me making this public, so other people can maybe read and take something from it too (:
put under a cut, because this got quite lengthy!
ok, so when writing translyrics, like you said, you don't want it to just be a literal translation, but rather, a more nicely worded version in the language you're translating into -- personally, i think it's important to stick as much as possible to the original meaning because the writer intended for it to be that way, but other translyricists take more artistic license on this (': so, the question you need to keep asking yourself is 'how would i say this in my language? is there an existing idiom/saying that has the same meaning in my language?'
for example, i'll use a chorus from the Bad End Night lyrics i'm using for a group project at the moment. firstly, the rough translation:
You're the focus of this crazy night.
Dressed up stylishly, with wine in one hand,
once you've gotten somewhat drunk,
are you having fun now?
before anything else, i've listened to the song, and read the lyrics enough that i have a general feeling of what it's about, and what i should be trying to express in my translyrics. in this example, the song itself gives loads of context that we can refer to (the rest of the lyrics refer to scripts, plays etc.), which means i can make a kind of running theme in what words i choose, and there are certain lines here that we can replace with idioms that work in English for an English-speaking audience.
so first, you should strip each line down to its purest meaning, and think of different ways of expressing that! taking the first line, we see it literally means that 'you' (in this instance, miku's character, the villager) is the centre of attention on this 'crazy night'. so what other ways are there for us to say this? a thesaurus is your best friend when writing translyrics and you're struggling to think of another word to express something.
for this line, i could say something like 'you're the focus', 'you're the centre of attention', 'you're in the spotlight', which all roughly express the same thing. because of the context of the song, and the running theme of a play, i could fit a really nice reference to that into this line that fit perfectly with the syllable count too!
You’re the leading lady in this Crazy nighT
so that's another thing to think about when you're writing, which is equally as important as meaning -- syllables and stresses. making sure the right part of the word falls on the stress in the rhythm can be really difficult, and it'll often take shuffling around words, or adding or taking away until you get something that works. at first it's a bit of trial and error, but it starts to become a lot easier once you've had some good practise at it.
take it a phrase at a time (some lines run over, so sometimes you have to work with a bigger picture than just line by line!), ask yourself that same question: how can i say this in my own language? once you've found some answers to that, you can begin shaping it more poetically and finding ways of applying it to the syllables of the original, and even trying to include rhyme schemes (this is definitely a more advanced skill in translyrics, so if you don't get it down right away, don't worry, it's really hard!)
some songs are just impossible to translyricise (for example, DECO*27 songs are really difficult because of the amount of wordplay that the japanese has that literally does not translate), but there are others that you'll find just drop perfectly into english, and you can find perfect themes and motifs within the lyrics, like these Bad End Night lyrics. here's the full version of the same chorus that the above translation was for:
You’re the leading lady in this Crazy nighT
Well you're dressed to the nines, so have a glass of wine
Won't you drink up, miss? And enjoy the show
Let it in, let’s begin, let the fun flow!
as you can see, i've kept enough of the original meaning that it's still the same song and tone, while making it accessible to an english listening audience by making it sensical in the english language as well as much more flowing than the basic translation by including english sayings (e.g. leading lady; dressed to the nines) and by phrasing things in a more interesting way.
it can be a long and arduous process to get through an entire song (i honestly thank god for songs with repeated choruses), but it's really rewarding, and it does get easier with practise.
the last thing is making it easy to sing. some songs are just gonna be really goddamn hard to sing (like spinal fluid explosion girl, which i have lyrics for and am still learning, because it's just so damn fast) and take repetition and learning, but you can definitely make it easier on the singer. certain things to keep in mind when it comes to practicalities like this:
consonants -- consonant clusters make things hard to sing in fast songs, but can cause tripping over the tongue in any speed of song, especially when it's the same kind of consonants. by same kind i mean like plosive pairs (p & b, f & v, t & d, k & g etc.) and so on. if it's a line that's particularly syllable/word heavy, try as much as you can to balance the vowel and consonant sounds to be easier to get your mouth around. the best way to do this is to just sing it as you do it, at full speed -- if you can't physically sing it, find a different way of putting it.
stresses -- doing your best to keep the english stress of a word. e.g. matching the rhythm of a line so the word "singing" stays as singing, and not singing
dropping syllables -- it is ok to drop some syllables. sometimes it is literally just impossible to make an english line fit the original japanese syllable for syllable. so, if there's an appropriate place to do so, make a word/vowel sound run over what should have been two syllables etc.
i can't think of anything more to say at this point, but i hope that's helped at least a little bit, and if you or anyone else reading this has any questions, feel free to ask me, i'd be glad to help!
also it's 2am so i'm really sorry if some of this is total rambling,,,
ok so if you follow the youtaite community, you'll have seen these parody CMs based on the mekakushidan ones floating around
so i caved and joined the bandwagon
animation by mastah
art/voice is mine (as is the script which i'm really sorry if it's not good grammar wise, i only studied JP for a short time and i'm rusty nowadays so)
Sorry for phone quality!! In between teaching today I amused myself by having a go at let it go, just quickly. I had to write out all the lyrics to use my phone as a camera lmao orz;; I also bailed on that last belt because I'd been talking at children for four hours straight by this point, so forgive all the mistakes, it was just a quick thing I did in like half an hour!
