東京真中 - ブレインロット feat. 重音テト

It feels like a no-frills Korean home-style meal restaurant near the office with a super clean interior that's about 1,000 won more expensive than neighboring places. There's no warmth to it, but when you have nowhere else to go, you end up going often...

It's easy to listen to. If you ask whether listening to it was a great experience, honestly I don't know. It feels almost too comfortable, to the point where it hardly feels like music. However, precisely for that reason, if I were to recommend one song to someone encountering voice synthesizers for the first time, I would recommend this track. 3 + 0.5 (extra points because I want to recommend it)

The auditory sensation feels minimal. I felt that the message conveyed by the music lacked persuasiveness.

Thanks to the appropriate placement of drum cymbals and continuous audio elements like claps/snaps/kicks, it is easy on the ears. Crucially, it maintains a light sound by keeping the aforementioned percussions and bass from overlapping as much as possible. Of course, they all come out together in the chorus, but even then, you can tell there is little clash between sounds. Some people often say that being 'easy to listen to' means it's just easy listening or whatever, but I think this reflects the producer's capability and consideration for listeners, giving it a huge advantage in securing mainstream popularity. While maintaining TokyoManaka's signature dreamy synth feel, inserting it broken into steady beats unlike before creates an atmosphere that truly draws you into the song. The expression that 'it melts your brain' seems really fitting. Also, even though there was an opportunity for a powerful explosion in the section where a bridge would typically be, restraining it with just a light curveball via percussion strikes me as a unique and impressive point. Overall, the spacious sound and Teto's vocal focused on the mid-to-low range (falsetto even for high notes) come across as charming. However, even if the nuance of short-form addiction is implied, the lyrics were definitely disappointing, and the song structure relies on similar loops. But ironically, this seems to have worked in favor of making it easily memorable to people. Personally, I also think it's the most suitable track to recommend for Vocaloid beginners. For those who know, Brainrot is a track made with extreme determination to be submitted to The Vocaloid Collection. It clearly shows the effort to gain popularity by toning down the color of typical J-pop/synthesizer singer songs while filling it with the sound they are most confident in. (Though TokyoManaka might be disappointed..) In the end, it successfully took 2nd place, and I want to say that it remains an undeniably high-quality song most suited to the current generation.