Rice: Welcome to the ROUNDTABLE REPRISE roundup! The name is a bit of a mouthful but I think it’s cute. Is it cute? Can everyone say it’s cute? I thought really hard about it so it’d mean a lot to me if everyone said it was cute. Thank you
Basically, as FLAVOR FOLEY is a group of 3 musicians, we wanted to make FLAVOR FOLEY versions of our solo works! (Some of us have larger song pools to choose from than others)
I wanted to avoid insinuating that these are “remakes” or “remasters” because I don’t like insinuating that the originals are “outdated” or otherwise lacking in anything. The intention isn’t really to “improve” on any of the songs, we just wanted to do like, another version of them as a group. Friendship Versions of these songs. Wait let’s change the name to Friendship Versions
Vane: Paparazzi Murder Party Moment!!!!!
I wrote this song back in 2021 for GUMI English. I was experimenting more with electronic production and trying to get out of my comfort zone from the primarily orchestral/rock stuff I was used to. So I made that shit WEIRD, chromaticism and noise galore. It holds such a special place in my heart, so I’m glad I was able to revisit it with the foleys. I think we made it even weirder. We won.
Jamie: I'm a big fan of the production on the original song!! I think it's really delightfully weird and uncomfortable - I wanted to channel that same manic energy through a more Soundcloud-y, PC Music type of lens. I… shamelessly used some samples from the SOPHIE Splice pack… I don't even use Splice ever but I have that pack
Rice: I love this song. (Guy who keeps saying this)
We had all the original song artists reprise (haha) their role for the ROUNDTABLE REPRISE versions, so the art is done by monolarkey once more!
(Also, if you didn’t know, the one who made the MV for the original was meeee. It was my first MV to hit 1M views, so it’s got a dorky little special place in my heart even though I don’t think my contribution was at all relevant to it getting 1M views.)
As for my contributions to the ROUNDTABLE REPRISE, I wrote Teto’s fucking. snuff film line.
Vane: Don’t listen to Rice I think his MV is part of why it got to 1 Million Views because he is so epic. Super fun fact about this song, I got the title idea from this song from playing Jackbox’s “Trivia Murder Party.” I really liked that game. Lets go freeware/freeware abysmal yuri !
Rice: Oh!! Yes!! The reason we chose Mai for this song is because if you don’t know, Mai is the voicebank that comes free with SynthV Pro. The original song is about attacking Miku, the diva of Vocaloid…. Since Teto, who used to be freeware, is more or less now the diva of SynthV, I thought it’d be funny to do freeware on freeware violence for the SynthV version. They’re also both red-ish, so that’s a perk too.
For visuals I asked for a kind of “trashy sexy animal masquerade ball” vibe. The illustration uses VIMALION PRO’s design for Mai, who is a bunnygirl, so she’s a bunny, and Teto is a bat.