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octosquigglezi'll probably be making more of these in the future for my songs ! these kinds of posts where i talk about the stuff i make formatted better than a twitter thread could ever
if you're reading this and have no clue what a "diane morgan machine love mv" is: GO WATCH IT. THEN COME BACK. BECAUSE THIS WHOLE ENTRY IS ABOUT THAT . THANK YOU . GO WATCH IT . WATCH IITTTTTTTT
i love how you can clearly tell i forgot to transpose the instrumental into a key that was more comfortable for me to sing in . obviously i tried to fix my vocals in this cover , but i think its fine . fuck you and fuck melodyne and fuck mautotune . (not really i love yall and i love stylistic autotune)
you wont believe this but i spent less than a month working on this ! i watched the machine love mv the 2nd week of september and was like "ive gotta do this" and so i did it . on a huge time crunch too ! do you have any idea how many summative projects i had due the week i wanted all of the choruses of the mv done so i could record them ?! so happy to be done with this ... (even though im writing this before i finish the mv . but im sure it'll feel amazing when i finally finish it . did you know that ap lang is a bitch and its only been 1 month into classes) (update , i finished it , and im so freaking ecstatic you don't understand)
also you might notice a vocal in this cover that kinda sounds like me but mainly not ! well, that's my utau and beloved daughter aoyama iki! i recently recorded and oto-ed a c+v voicebank for her , so she can finally sing in english without having to use entoja+ . i also used her cv act2 (or octopi act 2 if you're feeling fancy) which i believe i recorded in 2022, the same year i discovered diane morgan . which is a perfect segue-way for me to start talking about that (which you're probably here for lmfao) , so lets talk about that
if there's anything you need to know about me , even if you don't know anything about me at all: it's that Diane Morgan is my 神推し. My kamioshi.
that itself is the most important thing that you need to know about me . you can forget about everything else but you need to remember that !!!! there's a reason that i refuse to brand my twitter account whenever i release new music, and the reason is that . im never letting go of my diane morgan pfp .
diane morgan has had such an impact on my life these past 3 years . emotionally and literally all over my room . god , what do i even say ? despite being on nearly the other side of the globe and this fan-mv being so last minute and my god awful vocals passed through multiple melodyne sessions (and even AUTOTUNE) (at some point i had to accept how pitchy my voice was) , its all my love and passion for her poured right out of my heart and spreadsheets , into an aviutl project file , studio one project file , and a windows 95 virtual machine that i accidentally deleted the boot disk for (oops)
all of my weird ass antics: cunk daily doodles , ita bags , picture wall , cardboard cutouts , shrine , philomenuigurumi(s) , even my taskhusbands umamusume au fanfiction with diane morgan as a character in it , and hell , even the time i got really fucking frustrated at the concept of wyndows 9 to fucking 5 of mandy s4 fame: it all comes from a very real place of love and adoration for her . nothing i could do could ever represent the amount of love i have for her . of course , not in a weird way like a 40-year-old stalker that doesn't know boundaries (that's what a 40-year-old stalker would say but i digress) , but she is such an intense source of artistic inspiration for me . if i didn't discover diane morgan , i wouldn't have a consistent source of sort of "practice" of my art through the daily cunk doodles , i probably wouldn't be as good at editing as i am at right now , i wouldn't have realized the importance of internet archival , and i wouldn't have met the online friends and editors whom i absolutely adore to my absolute core of my heart . and i probably wouldnt have 1750 followers on tiktok either wwwwwwwww
her sheer existence means so much to me . i have no clue where i would be if i had never had covid in the middle of october 2022 . my god my universe . (okay now i'm REALLY sounding weird . i'll stop myself before i embarrass myself longer)
i also replaced the :women_wrestling: reference with a mandy (by barry manilow) reference to make the cover sound a little more diane morgan-ified . i was legitimately so stoked when i came up with that no offense to :women_wrestling: of course i LOVE that song (my first jamie paige song)
oh !!! and !!! here's the art of her i made for the mv . it was originally gonna be wayyy more ambitious with multiple characters drawn in windows and shit but i was extremely burnt out when i drew this so this is what we have . its the thought that counts
and here's the wyndows 9to5 logo i whipped up in us history class . it feels really ironic that my us history teacher is british
i rotated it in aviutl , and the fonts are the frankin gothic family . i tried to make it as accurate to mandy as possible but again , wyndows 9to5 gets on my fucking nerves
also btw if there's any artists out there reading this PLEASEEEE MAKE ART OF OTHER DIANE MORGAN CHARACTERS OTHER THAN PHILOMENA CUNK . DRAW ONYA DOORSTEP OR SOMETHING PLEASEEEEE i did not realize how much diane morgan fanart is philomena cunk compared to everyone else before making this . please . i wanna see ann-droid fanart when it comes out .maybe even related to the song queen of venus by vocaloid music circle flavor foley . thank you
anyways can i talk about jamie paige for a sec ? ever since i got into jamie paige's music last year , specifically with the album constant companions , shes had such an emotional impact on me and my musical works . shes basically the reason why i started making music again .
i officially became a vocaloid producer in the new year of 2024 , following a music tutorial i found earlier in 2023 . i wanted to make more music , but i lacked the inspiration and motivation to make songs . sure , i took piano lessons for nearly 9 fucking years , but everything sounds weird and off key and UGHHHHHH I WISHED I WAS GOOD AT MUSIC !!!
in my sophomore year of high school (last year) , i took ap music theory . not the greatest experience , i had a d in that class at one point , and i even got a 2 on the ap exam itself . but after taking that class , i wanted to start making vocaloid music again . i knew that no one's made a taskmaster vocaloid song before , but what good does that do for me ? i can't be dropped into a studio one project file on a whim ...
on a particularly boring day in probably may 2025 , i somehow came across jamie's stems on her website . this is the exact quote on her website: "i first learned how to make music by poking around officially-provided multitracks from artists like nine inch nails, phoenix, peter gabriel, etc - i figure the best way for me to carry that tradition on is to make my multitracks available to the public as well!"
learning how to make music by poking through stems...? alright, bet . so i bit the bullet and downloaded the stems for i wish i could fall , and put it into studio one . and holy shit , you wouldnt believe it , something actually clicked !
some time later , i released performance insanity , the only taskmaster vocaloid song (for now... :~] ) and now i have 23 monthly listeners on spotify . take that rishi sunak
also like . i think jamie paige has expanded my vocabulary a whole fuck ton . ive never heard of a convoluted amalgamate before but here we are . and i think it's absolutely crazy that i'm only like 1 connection away from her because of being a voca-p like that's absolutely insane
(actually , i only kind of discovered her last year... i was there when she made :women_wrestling: back in 2022 ... which was the same year i discovered diane morgan so maybe it was meant to be after all wwwwwwwwwww)
ahem . anyways
i owe so much to diane for the way she's impacted my life . this cover and mv is my love letter to her and the fandom .
and if diane morgan is reading this (unlikely but i like to keep an open mind): Happy 50th birthday, Diane. I hope you live for another 50 years. xx
- squigglez "octosquigglez" squigglyocto
if you're reading this and have no clue what a "diane morgan machine love mv" is: GO WATCH IT. THEN COME BACK. BECAUSE THIS WHOLE ENTRY IS ABOUT THAT . THANK YOU . GO WATCH IT . WATCH IITTTTTTTT
i love how you can clearly tell i forgot to transpose the instrumental into a key that was more comfortable for me to sing in . obviously i tried to fix my vocals in this cover , but i think its fine . fuck you and fuck melodyne and fuck mautotune . (not really i love yall and i love stylistic autotune)
you wont believe this but i spent less than a month working on this ! i watched the machine love mv the 2nd week of september and was like "ive gotta do this" and so i did it . on a huge time crunch too ! do you have any idea how many summative projects i had due the week i wanted all of the choruses of the mv done so i could record them ?! so happy to be done with this ... (even though im writing this before i finish the mv . but im sure it'll feel amazing when i finally finish it . did you know that ap lang is a bitch and its only been 1 month into classes) (update , i finished it , and im so freaking ecstatic you don't understand)
also you might notice a vocal in this cover that kinda sounds like me but mainly not ! well, that's my utau and beloved daughter aoyama iki! i recently recorded and oto-ed a c+v voicebank for her , so she can finally sing in english without having to use entoja+ . i also used her cv act2 (or octopi act 2 if you're feeling fancy) which i believe i recorded in 2022, the same year i discovered diane morgan . which is a perfect segue-way for me to start talking about that (which you're probably here for lmfao) , so lets talk about that
if there's anything you need to know about me , even if you don't know anything about me at all: it's that Diane Morgan is my 神推し. My kamioshi.
that itself is the most important thing that you need to know about me . you can forget about everything else but you need to remember that !!!! there's a reason that i refuse to brand my twitter account whenever i release new music, and the reason is that . im never letting go of my diane morgan pfp .
diane morgan has had such an impact on my life these past 3 years . emotionally and literally all over my room . god , what do i even say ? despite being on nearly the other side of the globe and this fan-mv being so last minute and my god awful vocals passed through multiple melodyne sessions (and even AUTOTUNE) (at some point i had to accept how pitchy my voice was) , its all my love and passion for her poured right out of my heart and spreadsheets , into an aviutl project file , studio one project file , and a windows 95 virtual machine that i accidentally deleted the boot disk for (oops)
all of my weird ass antics: cunk daily doodles , ita bags , picture wall , cardboard cutouts , shrine , philomenuigurumi(s) , even my taskhusbands umamusume au fanfiction with diane morgan as a character in it , and hell , even the time i got really fucking frustrated at the concept of wyndows 9 to fucking 5 of mandy s4 fame: it all comes from a very real place of love and adoration for her . nothing i could do could ever represent the amount of love i have for her . of course , not in a weird way like a 40-year-old stalker that doesn't know boundaries (that's what a 40-year-old stalker would say but i digress) , but she is such an intense source of artistic inspiration for me . if i didn't discover diane morgan , i wouldn't have a consistent source of sort of "practice" of my art through the daily cunk doodles , i probably wouldn't be as good at editing as i am at right now , i wouldn't have realized the importance of internet archival , and i wouldn't have met the online friends and editors whom i absolutely adore to my absolute core of my heart . and i probably wouldnt have 1750 followers on tiktok either wwwwwwwww
her sheer existence means so much to me . i have no clue where i would be if i had never had covid in the middle of october 2022 . my god my universe . (okay now i'm REALLY sounding weird . i'll stop myself before i embarrass myself longer)
i also replaced the :women_wrestling: reference with a mandy (by barry manilow) reference to make the cover sound a little more diane morgan-ified . i was legitimately so stoked when i came up with that no offense to :women_wrestling: of course i LOVE that song (my first jamie paige song)
oh !!! and !!! here's the art of her i made for the mv . it was originally gonna be wayyy more ambitious with multiple characters drawn in windows and shit but i was extremely burnt out when i drew this so this is what we have . its the thought that counts
and here's the wyndows 9to5 logo i whipped up in us history class . it feels really ironic that my us history teacher is british
i rotated it in aviutl , and the fonts are the frankin gothic family . i tried to make it as accurate to mandy as possible but again , wyndows 9to5 gets on my fucking nerves
also btw if there's any artists out there reading this PLEASEEEE MAKE ART OF OTHER DIANE MORGAN CHARACTERS OTHER THAN PHILOMENA CUNK . DRAW ONYA DOORSTEP OR SOMETHING PLEASEEEEE i did not realize how much diane morgan fanart is philomena cunk compared to everyone else before making this . please . i wanna see ann-droid fanart when it comes out .
anyways can i talk about jamie paige for a sec ? ever since i got into jamie paige's music last year , specifically with the album constant companions , shes had such an emotional impact on me and my musical works . shes basically the reason why i started making music again .
i officially became a vocaloid producer in the new year of 2024 , following a music tutorial i found earlier in 2023 . i wanted to make more music , but i lacked the inspiration and motivation to make songs . sure , i took piano lessons for nearly 9 fucking years , but everything sounds weird and off key and UGHHHHHH I WISHED I WAS GOOD AT MUSIC !!!
in my sophomore year of high school (last year) , i took ap music theory . not the greatest experience , i had a d in that class at one point , and i even got a 2 on the ap exam itself . but after taking that class , i wanted to start making vocaloid music again . i knew that no one's made a taskmaster vocaloid song before , but what good does that do for me ? i can't be dropped into a studio one project file on a whim ...
on a particularly boring day in probably may 2025 , i somehow came across jamie's stems on her website . this is the exact quote on her website: "i first learned how to make music by poking around officially-provided multitracks from artists like nine inch nails, phoenix, peter gabriel, etc - i figure the best way for me to carry that tradition on is to make my multitracks available to the public as well!"
learning how to make music by poking through stems...? alright, bet . so i bit the bullet and downloaded the stems for i wish i could fall , and put it into studio one . and holy shit , you wouldnt believe it , something actually clicked !
some time later , i released performance insanity , the only taskmaster vocaloid song (for now... :~] ) and now i have 23 monthly listeners on spotify . take that rishi sunak
also like . i think jamie paige has expanded my vocabulary a whole fuck ton . ive never heard of a convoluted amalgamate before but here we are . and i think it's absolutely crazy that i'm only like 1 connection away from her because of being a voca-p like that's absolutely insane
(actually , i only kind of discovered her last year... i was there when she made :women_wrestling: back in 2022 ... which was the same year i discovered diane morgan so maybe it was meant to be after all wwwwwwwwwww)
ahem . anyways
i owe so much to diane for the way she's impacted my life . this cover and mv is my love letter to her and the fandom .
and if diane morgan is reading this (unlikely but i like to keep an open mind): Happy 50th birthday, Diane. I hope you live for another 50 years. xx
- squigglez "octosquigglez" squigglyocto
