PERSONAL COMMENTARY

End of an era, man. 🫡

Or maybe it's better to think about this as the beginning of a new one! Hooray! 🎉

Everything I wanted to say about how the original came to be was already mentioned in my entry about the old version of Yesterday, so I'll talk about how this version happened instead!

I had plans to remake this song, for quite some time now, just to see how much I've improved over the last few years. It was not only for this song too, Probably and Hopeful were the other ones I planned to remake. I've almost finished Hopeful's instrumental for quite some time now (and you can hear this in the WIP section!), while I'm still struggling on how to improve on Probably.

And then, there was Yesterday, which a lot of people liked, so I wanted for it to sound better. But compared to the two other songs, I haven't begun conceptualizing how the song will sound. At least, until recently.

It was back in August of this year, I was experimenting on Cakewalk, since I just recently figured out how samplers worked. Yes, I'm an idiot. No, I don't wanna talk about it 😭 But yeah, I then put some instrument VSTs in and it sounded good, then I was like "Wait, what if..." So I went ahead and put in the melody bits of Yesterday, and was like "Wait, this has potential... Goodbye current WIPs y'all are benched until I finished this one LMAOOO"

And it was done within a few weeks!

Until I hit an issue: the vocals.

I could've probably just opened my original UST file, rendered it out, and slapped it back to the instrumental. But it wouldn't make for a decent remake, would it? So it'd be better if I made it from scratch back again, it wouldn't be so hard, right?

I have not touched UTAU for years. The last time was in 2019, and only then, it was because I had to make a demo for Polaris, an original song intended specifically for me and my friend to sing.

So I was ready to bench this along with the rest of my WIPs, until I found out OpenUtau.

At the off chance stakira and the other contributors of this program are reading this: Thank you so much. Y'all are a godsend. I love you. I am PayPal-ing my soul to you all, and you have no choice but to accept it. Take it. I beg.

Excuse the random simping for developers, but ANYWAY. OpenUtau helped me a lot with the lyrics input, and it even has the option to adjust what syllables she will pronounce, so I did some adjustments and, this is probably my bias speaking, but she sounds a lot smoother than she was before. It was seriously nuts.

So here you have it! The song, finished after around 2 months or so! Only reason it took until this long to upload was because of the PV and art. Hopefully it also reflect my improvement in that area too.

Anyway, if you read until this point, thank you very much! I hope you enjoyed listening, and more songs will be coming soon! I still have the Probably and Hopeful remakes to do, along with another project I have, so please stay tuned!