Hi, I'm here to make a very long post about Juno Song's cover of BIG SHOT and the song in general.
This video blows me away every time I watch it. I do covers myself, so I know the amount of effort that goes into these songs in general, but this one in particular is very... tricky. Mine clearly took inspiration from Juno's: a similar pre-chorus layout [Now's your chance to be a BIG SHOT!], similar background vocals in the chorus [then again, what else will you do there?], a nearly identical ending, among other things. Of course, there are differences [I use a deep booming voice, he uses a scratchy voice similar to my Mole Miner Max voice, I looped it, he did it once with Deal Gone Wrong, etc.] and it may be a bit presumptuous or prideful to compare myself to him, but I digress. The point is, it was a very hard song to do. Not only was writing the lyrics challenging [mostly because I hadn't played the chapter yet], but the recording and editing themselves were more difficult than a stereotypical video.
See, we both had fast verses that didn't follow the beat of the song. [Compare one of the two to Khamydrian's cover. There's a clear difference.] If it weren't for the bracketed words ("All aboard the train! We're taking a [Trip]") This would be impossible to do in one take. Sometimes I'll listen to an instrumental cover and sing my lyrics, but I frequently run out of breath because there's no place to pause. I imagine Juno took a similar route to what I did and recorded the main audio separately from the brackets. However, the majority of my brackets were done in one take. Very few came from other sources [Hooded Pitohui, K_Waluigi, and Arteeist] but Juno pulled from so many different places, even from his own songs! Plus, he put lots of digital editing into his voices. Some are garbled, some sound like they're coming out of a cheap speaker, and all of this help bring out Spamton's character. The amount of editing that went into the audio alone is impressive but when you get to the video. Oh MAN.
Editing a YouTube video is the most mind-numbing thing to do on the planet, particularly with GSwL videos. Mine took a while, but Juno's? The sheer amount of time that obviously went into the video is absolutely insane! First off, he didtwo three? several bits of art for it. That's rare for his videos. Usually there's only one and if there's two, it's a simple edit. (The Shifty Sticker, for example. He probably had the art without Tape and then did two versions of Tape separately for that.) But this! Everything's unique. First, during Deal Gone Wrong, Spamton is looking down on Kris. Just the two alone would take awhile, but you add the random pipis, the flying pop-ups, the fountain, and general effects?! Plus, right at the pre-chorus of BIG SHOT, Spamton drops in front of the footage, and the fountain appears in the background. And it's not just a static picture! Spamton is flying around, being pulled back and forth by the strings, each one moving independently. (There's eight: two for hands, two for feet, two for wings, one for the back, and one for the head. Plus, his mouth kind of opens and closes.) Then it gets to the chorus. Ohhhhh, the CHORUS! I love it. Best part of the song, no doubt. The screen goes absolutely baNAnas. Mail trucks go buy with Spamton at the wheel of each. "TIME TO BE A [BIG SHOT]" begins flying across the screen on the back as the background vocals kick in. Paper begins spiraling all over the bottom half of the screen. And custom pop-up messages whiz from left to right. Afterwards, the trucks continue off-screen on their route as the pop-ups continue and the background vocals vanish. Footage from the fight (and other things) show up before it all lifts of screen, focusing back on the fight. The time it took him to make this part must have taken the length of a usual editing process! Maybe I'm overexaggerating. Maybe I'm too easily impressed. But something about this makes me just go WOW every time.
There's probably more to say here, but yeah, that's all for now. If you made it this far, thanks for reading the whole thing.
See, we both had fast verses that didn't follow the beat of the song. [Compare one of the two to Khamydrian's cover. There's a clear difference.] If it weren't for the bracketed words ("All aboard the train! We're taking a [Trip]") This would be impossible to do in one take. Sometimes I'll listen to an instrumental cover and sing my lyrics, but I frequently run out of breath because there's no place to pause. I imagine Juno took a similar route to what I did and recorded the main audio separately from the brackets. However, the majority of my brackets were done in one take. Very few came from other sources [Hooded Pitohui, K_Waluigi, and Arteeist] but Juno pulled from so many different places, even from his own songs! Plus, he put lots of digital editing into his voices. Some are garbled, some sound like they're coming out of a cheap speaker, and all of this help bring out Spamton's character. The amount of editing that went into the audio alone is impressive but when you get to the video. Oh MAN.
Editing a YouTube video is the most mind-numbing thing to do on the planet, particularly with GSwL videos. Mine took a while, but Juno's? The sheer amount of time that obviously went into the video is absolutely insane! First off, he did
There's probably more to say here, but yeah, that's all for now. If you made it this far, thanks for reading the whole thing.
