Fireflies -- Vocaloid2 Prima with original music

(Sorry about the ads, but YouTube now has an agreement with the music publishers that lets them put ads on cover songs.) My forth Vocaloid music piece is a cover of Fireflies by Owl City. I liked the tune and the lyrics and thought it would be a challenge for Prima to sing, and a fun video to make. I wanted it to sound like how a more traditional band might play it, so I changed the instruments from synthesizers to piano, drums, and bass, but kept the string section to fill it out. There are a lot of words and it was a struggle to find the best phonemes and accents for Vocaloid pronunciation. There are still a few odd spots in her voice. For the video, I thought the lyrics inspired a connection between fireflies and stars, so the video showcases stars, constellations, the zodiac, and a trip around the Earth and through the solar system thanks to NASA images and video clips. A production note: The background star field is one continuous camera move over a 4000x4000 pixel real star field image. The Earth orbit time-lapse videos were created from the original HD still image sequences available on nasaimages.org. Thanks for watching. And thanks to all the other Vocaloid posters for creating such creative and inspiring work. Check out my other Vocaloid pieces on my channel.