【Kikuo】 Kimi wa Dekinai ko // 君はできない子 (English Re-Cover) 【Umber】

PLEASE READ FOR TRANSLATION NOTES BEFORE YOU GET MAD

Hello! You may be aware that a little over two years ago, I covered this song! Since that time, that video has become my most popular, which is pretty frustrating for me considering I did it in a day and completely rushed it to get it done for a school project.

I had written the translyrics, recorded, tuned, and mixed it all in a day, so needless to say, it wasn't very good, but people kept using it for their Rick and Morty animatics so I knew I had to redo it and get the old one off my channel lol

If you'd like to see the old one, It's just unlisted, so you can view it here -    • 【Kikuo】 You Are A Useless Child (English C...  

You may notice that the wording has changed rather dramatically from the original translation. "You are a useless child" is the generally accepted translation, however it has also been interpreted in many other ways. "Useless," "ineffective," "worthless," as well as "good-for-nothing." Though "useless" is the more widely known translation of this song, "good-for-nothing" fit the meter and syllable count much better.
I changed it from "kid" or "child" to "boy", for a few reasons. "Boy" sound closer to "ko" was the biggest one. In the last chorus, I kept it to "boy," despite the singer in the original song being female. The main reason for this was because the singer's gender doesn't have a significant effect on the theme of the song- emotional abuse of a child from a parent. The fact that the singer is a parent is more important than their gender, as it isn't really relevant. I'm only bringing this up because in my original cover someone told me the singer was supposed to be a girl and it A. Isn't a significant factor and B. Is not something I can change about myself.
I kept it as "boy" in the final chorus for cohesion's sake.

Anyway, I hope this cover will make up for my inactivity lately, and I hope you can all see how much I have improved since the original cover!


Credits:
Song: Kikuo
Vocals/Tuning/Art: Me
Mix: Moe    / Канал  
Video: Jelly    / rainingjellyfish