A modern continuation of moe centric music in the vocaloid scene
Kinoshita's music sits firmly within the genre of pop, often featuring
very simple and cute themes. With their music the main goal seems
to be to create a fun more atmosphere, mostly featuring Rin and Una
as voice sets.
When viewing kinoshitas music I can't help but be reminded of the early
days of vocaloid in which this type of "moe music" was a cornerstone.
It does not ask much from the viewer besides to enjoy, there is no
thought provoking "deep messages", what you see on the tin is what you
get. To some degree I would compare to Kinoshita to a "modern"
lamazeP, but where I think lamazeP relied on more of the moe
nature of the "computerized" aspects of the voice sets themselves,
Kinoshita leverages TalkEx to give just that extra bit of charm.
I sometimes find it hard to take more "deep" songs
seriously mostly because most of the ideas seem very
often half baked. Now this could be the ample supply
of poor translations, or it could be the more
poppy music itself does not strike me as the right medium
for conveying this commentary on society. Perhaps the exception
to this would be Kikuo's work, who often will deviate largely from
the traditional pop sound if it works well with the theme(but even
Kikuos more 'electronic' songs fall a tad flat for me). Its times
like this that I almost enjoy being able to ignore the lryics as
"just another instrument", and being oblivious to otherwise
"edgy" lryics.
This phenominon has become much more of the norm over the last couple
of years, which makes producers like Kinoshita stand out. I feel like at
the core of the their music, is a self awareness of what the genre is.
Which is nothing more then cute 2d personifications of voice banks.