Lyra

Lyra

@smots.gay

musical hat wearer i run smots gaming and make musical shitposts https://www.youtube.com/@smotsgaming https://www.youtube.com/@lyrawh

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❤️jamie p!💚
@jamies.page

it's a beautiful thing to make more

FLAVOR FOLEY@flavorfoley.bsky.social

「Could it reach you too?」 Clover ft. Chis-A YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0q... Streaming: ffm.to/flavorfoleyc...

Lyra
@smots.gay

I have to confess. smots gaming was never real. The whole channel never existed. I made it all up :/

Lyra
@smots.gay

master the art of singing slightly ahead to the music on your friend's screenshare so that it's in sync on their end

Lyra
@smots.gay

I finished UNBEATABLE yesterday night. Oh my god it's so peak Devastatingly beautiful game! I am still crying about it! I think the buggy and unpolished aspects actually add a lot of charm. I wouldn't have it any other way!!

Lyra
@smots.gay

I'm glad I chose to stream it to my friends instead of playing it alone! thanks to anyone who stopped by the youtube streams, also!! extra thanks to @evilmc10.bsky.social for voice acting the unvoiced lines with me throughout the playthrough. made the experience even more awesome!

Lyra
@smots.gay

hey guys go to my youtube channel i'm streaming UNBEATABLE chapter 6! haahaha!! woohoo!!

Lyra
@smots.gay

I PROCRASTINATED SO HARD ON MY DELTARUNE VIDEOS I STARTED AFTER CHAPTER 3+4 THAT BY THE TIME I RELEASE THEM THEY'LL BE RELEVANT AGAIN BECAUSE OF CHAPTER 5

Lyra
@smots.gay

I GOT MY COMPUTER BACK FROM THE REPAIR SHOP... TURNS OUT THE WATER DIDN'T DAMAGE ANYTHING IMPORTANT. IM SO FUCKING BACK

Lyra
@smots.gay

imagine someone offered you 10 dollars per hour of video game you have ever played. how rich are you

Lyra
@smots.gay

one of my biggest regrets in life is not checking this LIKE WHYYYYY YOUTUBE LET ME UPLOAD A NEW AUDIO TRACK PLEAAAAAAASE

Lyra
@smots.gay

it's so easy to make incredibly funny parody covers but then i can't bring myself to release it without extremely complicated visuals and so i never get the video done

Lyra
@smots.gay

writing original lyrics: physically impossible rewriting existing lyrics to hold unrelated but consistent meaning while maintaining the original flow and rhyme scheme: fun and whimsical

Lyra
@smots.gay

i can just post anything man all the people who will see it are just my friends and they'll all click like without reading it

Lyra
@smots.gay

100K views on Some More of That Song!!! that's super cool!! I'm gonna use this thread to talk a little bit about what led to the song existing!

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Lyra
@smots.gay

i-win basically made the "base" of the mv, like the camera movement and scene transitions, and the chopping/syncing of the gameplay footage. (Though I manually reconstructed the timing of the chops themselves, they turned that into the actual visuals) I did all the lyric placement and movement!

Lyra
@smots.gay

Here's some cursed knowledge: In the mv, there's a JamieP styled Pearto, so it's JamieP's face on a pear. The artist who drew it didn't fully understand JamieP's character design, and those things in her hair were misinterpreted as ears. The result: the Jamie Pear has long elf-like ears. Horrifying.

Lyra
@smots.gay

100K views on Some More of That Song!!! that's super cool!! I'm gonna use this thread to talk a little bit about what led to the song existing!

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@smots.gay

And she agreed to make a song! We worked out the terms of the commission, and the random crazy daydream of a smots gaming vsynth song went from being just a thought to suddenly very real and Coming Soon.

Lyra
@smots.gay

It was actually wild not being able to talk about this for the LONGEST time, just waiting Eventually, the song was done and it was time to work on the mv. An artist that I've known for a long time did the main art, and I got a lot of help on the actual mv from @i-win.bsky.social, shoutouts to them!

Lyra
@smots.gay

100K views on Some More of That Song!!! that's super cool!! I'm gonna use this thread to talk a little bit about what led to the song existing!

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Lyra
@smots.gay

I sent a lengthy email describing what smots gaming was and what a song on it could look like. I described some themes about repetition and the feeling of something that started off as a joke becoming adored by many, and the stress of trying to continue to outdo yourself all the time

Lyra
@smots.gay

It was midnight when i sent the email, so it was technically the 7th of April at the time. Anyway, I certainly wasn't expecting to ever get a response. But then, for some reason, I had the urge to check my email a few hours later... And she had responded to my email 40 minutes after I had sent it

Lyra
@smots.gay

100K views on Some More of That Song!!! that's super cool!! I'm gonna use this thread to talk a little bit about what led to the song existing!

Lyra
@smots.gay

I thought of the idea for a Vocaloid song on smots gaming back on the evening of April 6th, this year. I had just recently gotten into vsynth music and was listening to a lot of JamieP and FLAVOR FOLEY songs. I randomly got the insane idea... "What if: smots gaming vsynth song??"

Lyra
@smots.gay

I thought, well, there's certainly no harm in reaching out to an artist and asking if they'd like to make something! I briefly mentioned it to a couple of the other people behind the channel and then set to work emailing Jamie Paige and explaining the insane context behind my request

Lyra
@smots.gay

i don't think there's anything i'm actually the best in the world at, there's just a bunch of stuff that i somehow was the first person to do, or nobody else thought to do it

Lyra
@smots.gay

I was the one who added Through The Fire and Flames to DELTARUNE ! the video went kind of crazy on YT but I never actually posted it here This project took me over 20 hours of work as well as the help of multiple people, here's a short excerpt from the video #rhythmgame #DELTARUNE