SHINee's Atlantis, the song, the stage performance, the concept of SHINee being called by "a mysterious force" to explore uncharted territory) have consistently garnered positive response from every international music fan who had the chance to hear the song or watch the performance.

I share the feelings of many Shawols, that the nicely executed original MV itself should and could travel way further than 24M views (as of the date of this English version upload).

This video is
- a proof-of-concept English adaptation demo
- a more intensive translation that will hopefully reveal to SHINee's growing international audience the 'deep deep deep' depth of SHINee Onew Key Minho Taemin's creative ocean
- something fun and high energy until SHINee's big May comeback!

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This is a demo of my (time and energy intensive) Hypermatch style adaptation technique, which attempts to seamlessly match original song meaning, narrative flow, and vocalist energy, which requires "high emotional fidelity" lyrics writing prompt. I've translated the original lyrics directly from Korean into Chinese and English, to capture every possible nuance that could've been lost in official English translations.

ATLANTIS
Composer/작곡: Matt Thomson, Max Graham, James F. Reynolds, Gabriel Brandes, Britt Pols, Engelina Larsen, 창모, 유영진 (Yoo YoungJin, Changmo)
Arranger/편곡: ARCADES, IMLAY, 유영진
Lyrics/작사: 황유빈, 창모

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I've adapted a dozen plus SHINee group and solo songs using this hyper-conforming technique (which I call Hypermatch), will share with y'all in the near future.

Writing this form of hyper-conforming adaptation lyrics is super time-consuming, but I'm motivated by the joy of singing along in full emotional sync with the original vocalist. I wish to share my joys with other international music listeners who yearn for deeper emotional connection with K-pop music and their favorite artists. So do share this video with everyone!

Hope you will enjoy singing along and vibing along with these wonderful artists as much as I do!
















Technical blah-blahs
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Notes on the bilingual vocal mix

2 main reasons why the vocal guide is mixed next to the original vocal:

- Even with good AI-extracted stem tracks, original audio dynamics will still be lost in a non-official instrumental track. Original studio mix is preferred for the energy level, and also out of respect for the artistry in the original mix.
- original vocal needs to be present as show-of-concept demo of Hypermatch song adaptation technique


*HYPERMATCH is a term I coined for the ease of discussion, to describe a hyper-conforming-to-original-song kind of adaptation technique, that aims to preserve multiple original song elements, for the purpose of singing along to a vocal-driven song in a different language, with seamlessly matched and synced narrative flow, meaning, emotional energy, and vocal style.

Hypermatch adaptation involves

- standard song adaptation requirements (contextual translation, lyrics writing from scratch with close match of rhyming scheme)

and on top of that:

- multiple conform-to-original constraints: line-by-line narrative flow match, syllabic match, vowel match, consonant match, and vocal arrangements match, with the purpose of capturing the original emotional energy AND vocal arrangement, so that it feels natural and "flowy" to sing along in a new language to the original language.

This technique has been entertained in both amateur and professional songwriting circles, but it hasn't been attempted often enough.

For over a year, I have refined the hypermatch technique, and adapted close to a hundred K-pop, J-pop, C-pop songs using this technique. I'll be making more videos for selected adaptations as proof of concept.

Creating this type of intensive adaptation (and making demo FMV using unofficial AV files) is exhausting, but my desire to communicate the vast potential of this creative possibility is strong. Hope my sincerity and passion can be felt - and shared by other music lovers!

Thanks for listening to my mini Ted Talk!

For more info see my About Me page :)

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