>>43723889It's only "below average at worst" in comparison to most other Vtuber music which is also usually quite bad, but saying that this specific piece of garbage is only slightly worse than average doesn't excuse it. Garbage among garbage is just extra garbage. And "Vtuber music" as a whole is a massive umbrella. If you're talking about most indie or mainstream corpo music then yes, the standard is quite low. But there are still corpos putting out good songs, and if we expand the list to Vsingers the competition gets incredibly fierce.
For the sake of comparison to show how good Vtuber metal can be I'll use Within from Hayato Kagami from nijisanji. This guy is an actual real metal head and singer so the comparison isn't entirely fair, but this is just about Vtuber music in general for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGvYwVW38mc This is the gold standard by which all Vtuber metal gets compared to in most circles that actually care. There's a ton of emotion and range in singing, the production is solid if a bit highpassed and overengineered, but the actual song is fun to listen to. Sinders CPR cover manages to be bad to a point where it is actually difficult to listen to, not just because of how bad the production is but the vocals are actually so incredibly poorly sung that it would be difficult to not point it out. It's such an obvious and blatant flaw in the song that it's harder to critique the poor instrumentals purely because in contrast to the vocals they are almost passable. And those two things are so easy to separate in our minds because the vocals and instrumentals have zero harmony. And yes the relatively small harmonic range of ASMR style voices might not help this, but if we're talking about whispery singing then she didn't lean into that either, it's just monotone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46VY2E75xFk This is a track from Yuka Nagase, who technically isn't an indie since she's part of riot music but riot might as well be a group of indies. She sings this song with a pretty noticeable whisper tone, but there's actual range to her voice and it harmonizes with the fairly complex instrumental fairly well. Sinder's CPR cover has absolutely zero of these qualities. The poorly done barebones instrumentals don't harmonize with her monotone singing which doesn't even have the range to actually harmonize with anything but a sine wave. It's a Nostalgia Critic's The Wall situation, there's too much effort put in to justify not caring, but this type of shit doesn't happen unless you don't care. Putting this out for people to listen to can only be taken two ways, a display of gross incompetence, or a display of gross egotism. Neither of these options are good.
