Author: Joe Mello

Weekend Spotlight – Pull up the covers

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere that’s somewhere above the Tropic of Cancer, then chances are you’ve experienced some cold weather recently.  After all, it is winter.  It gets so cold that you may just want to snuggle under your bed covers and stay warm. I know I don’t go anywhere in my apartment
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Triple Birthday! Prima, Lola, and Leon

♪♪ BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY nani ga koko made anata wo ugo. . . oh hi. I have it on good authority (read: the calendar) that three English Vocaloids celebrate birthdays this week. Usually, we celebrate with pictures and songs and at least one of the editors gets stupid drunk. Well, tonight’s a school night, so
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V-ism Poll: The new scoring system

What do you think about the new MyList modifier?(polls) As we mentioned in our latest WVR entry, the VocaRan scoring is new for 2010.  It complicates things to the point where tallying a score is now just as complex as judging Olympic gymnastics, but it’s for the better, right? Well, we don’t know yet. We
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Weekend Spotlight – magnet ton

It goes without saying, but the fandom likes “magnet.”  Not enough to make it Song of the Year, but it at least was an uncontested 2nd.  With popular songs like this, covers, parodies, and all sorts of things come out of the woodwork as a show of support.  Here’s a short list of the high
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Weekend Spotlight – The Hangover

Quick show of hands: how many of you spent most of January 1 sleeping?  Yeah, thought so.  You aren’t alone.  While a lot of you probably can remember what you did the last day of last “decade”, some of you may not.  While you try to remember what you did overnight, I’ll be spending this
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Vocaloidism Awards – Finale

So after an eventful rush to the end of 2009, we’ve come to, well, the end of 2009.  And that also means the end of the Vocaloidism Awards.  We have the winners for the big big awards, plus some well-wishes from some of our staff.  If any of that interests you, come inside.

About the article that’s no longer here

(Portions have been edited for cleanliness.  Also, I didn’t know this was vetted so quickly.) …the article I wrote, that got deleted, got me and everyone else a bunch of flak, and the article for which I have written this very apology. Here’s the short version: I wrote something that was haphazard, over the top,
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Weekend Spotlight: Sing Off

Welcome to what I hope will be another regular feature here on Vocaloidism, especially since this category seems so very unused. D:  Every Saturday (blog local time), we’ll highlight some fun Vocaloid goodness and whatever I or whoever ends up writing this feels is noteworthy. What are you waiting for?  Come on in and have
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