VEGANGELICA

"Smile" was actually quite a pleasant song, Aidy! I forgot completely to think of the person zipping along at world record speed, since the song is so relaxing and kind of mesmerizing in its repetitiveness.

You wrote about the song at your website: "I'm also attempting bland pop songs with no naughty words. Here's one I knocked up this week." Ha ha! I did think this one was a little bland, one reason perhaps being that it had no bridge (it just had the chorus and verses), so it didn't have a change within it to break up the song. (Still, it was a very nice song...I enjoyed it.)

Hmmm...*have* you up to now been doing non-bland pop songs with naughty words? Which ones are those? I'll have to make sure to listen to those...

I did very much like the instrumental section near the end before the repeated chorus. You create a nice, resonant feeling with your songs...but they aren't cluttered with too many different melodic lines, if that makes sense. They stay interesting because there are enough changes and overlapping in the instrumentals, but the songs still have a light feel to them.

I also noticed your "accent" more clearly for the first time, which of course wouldn't be an accent to you but is to me. Sometime I should create a song in a fake British accent just for fun, because it does sound neat, *I* think. Usually I can't hear the accent when people from England sing songs...but I could hear it in yours. I think you did some gutteral stops, such as in "dilapida'ed" and "li'ul" (for "little"). And I think you said "wi" instead of "with." Interesting. Is that a typical accent for your location? I'd like to hear you sing a song with a fake American accent.

I'll listen to your next one now!

"Hodge Plays Mario Kart" -- now, the previous song was unintentionally about a world-record walker and this is about your world-record Mario Kart player friend! I like the liveliness of the song and the yihees and yipees! Nice driving beat.

It sounds as if you are often using some audio effect that kind of mechanizes your voice a little in your songs. Which audio effect are you using? Is it chorus with reverb plus something else? What is the something else? Are you just cutting out some frequencies?

Again, I like the variety of sounds you use in your songs, which help the songs sound different from each other.

Say, if haven't watched Schmidti's "Hippy Bike" song, you might enjoy that! It's also a song about a funny, odd topic.

Aidy, have you done a serious song with clean vocals...that is, very few effects, just a little reverb? You seem to like a more alternative sound rather than, say, singing like Celine Dion (*not* my favorite singer). But have you tried doing say, an R&B song or a soul song, just for fun? What about a classical sounding song?

Maybe that would feel too constraining, since I imagine you just want to do songs that sound like *your* songs and not intentionally like anybody else's.

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