【UTAU/DiffSinger Cover】 Girls UTAU’d, KYE - Something New (orig. Girls Aloud)

VOCALISTS:
Arachne as Nadine
(CV: @GeneralNuisance00 / art: @ricecristpy / VB: TARANTULA EN VCCV)
Esther of @VoCreatures as Cheryl
(CV: rilabble / art: Octavia Blue / VB: EN ARPA)
KITANE as Nicola
(CV + art: @KITANE_CH / VB: DiffSinger 2.0)
Kumi Hitsune as Kimberley
(CV: @cubialpha / art: @itporlart / VB: EN VCCV)
Violet Aura as Sarah
(CV + art: @VioletAuraUTAU / VB: Split VCCV)
KYE on backing vocals
(CV: @Winter_drivE / art: @rev_bmp / VB: EN VCCV)

Representing Girls Aloud’s tenth anniversary compilation album Ten for the Girls UTAU’d project is Something New, released as its lead single in November 2012. The song reminds fans that ten years into their career, they’re still a force to be reckoned with.

[LDC’s notes]

After finishing my cover of Sexy! No No No… for the Girls UTAU’d project, I had decided that regardless of what solo songs I would do for each UTAU, the cherry on top that finishes the whole project would be Something New, featuring all five UTAUs I would have wound up using. I even employed KYE for the few male backing vocals in the choruses to really get as close to the original song as possible. It was a small challenge to figure out who to give whose lines, but I think I did a pretty good job at assigning members. Also, being the first multi-person chorus I’d ever mixed, I had to figure out how to make them sound like one big voice—and I think I did that pretty well too.

Overall, the Girls UTAU’d project was a very fruitful learning experience for me. It was through this project that I discovered new voices and revisited old ones, learned new things about the state of vocal synthesizers, and brought myself back to the world of UTAU. Being one of (what seems to be) very few UTAU tuners that covers non-vocal synth songs (let alone Western songs), I know that only a relatively smaller subset of vocal synth listeners would seek out a project like this and appreciate the work I’ve put into it. But at the end of the day, this is a labor of love that I am immensely proud of, and I hope that whoever finds these six covers loves them as much as I do.