When I was assigned this project, I was in the middle of experiencing a voice change, which is why (to this day) I still have no clue why I chose to make a parody of the song “No One Mourns The Wicked” in particular, which originally goes as high as the note E6 (more than two octaves above middle C).
With the voice change happening, I decided to make the lyrics about literally singing badly. I also made a made up character for this song called “The Ringer”, which parallels the original soundtrack where there is someone mentioned as “The Wicked”. The Ringer is just someone who is hurting everyone’s ears with their high singing. You can tell if the ringer is singing since their voice echoes and cracks way too much. I didn’t intend for so many voice cracks, but with the nature of the song and my voice range being way lower than what the song needed, it was impossible to keep my voice straight..
The making of this song’s lyrics was pretty easy, I was able to make them in less than thirty minutes since the concept of the song was simple enough. Recording the song though? That was incredibly difficult. As I’ve said before, this song goes way higher than my vocal range (about two octaves higher), requiring me to solely use falsetto. The lyrics also got a bit obscured with the high notes. The layering of the voices also proved to be a difficult task, especially at the end where the voices all were doing different parts. I ended up keeping most of the takes I did, except for one.
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