 Oh hi! I didn't see you there. I was just working. Yeah, this is how working as a youtuber looks like. So I was checking a few comments and I noticed that in my whimsical video I have a lot of comments. Three comments. Yes, a lot. Saying that I could be on a Spotify. And then I asked myself, do you want to be on a Spotify? Yeah of course I want to be on a Spotify. Why should I? Why would you even ask something like that? Wait, I'm sorry. Let me question things. Let me ask you things. Well, you shouldn't ask those things. You should know what you want. No I shouldn't know what I want. Life is all about possibilities. Okay, you know why you should be on Spotify and stop asking stupid questions? And then I just stopped talking to myself because it was not a very constructive thing to do. So how am I supposed to be on Spotify if I procrastinate 90% of my life? So instead of doing something about it, I have decided only go to a Genie to ask for a wish, to ask the Genie to be on Spotify. That would make it much easier. Let's hope. Okay, come with me. Let's see what happens. Hi, am I interrupting? Hi. Thank you for using a lot of battle services. For making your dreams come true. I'm Patricia, right? I'm Antonietta. How can I help you? Okay, Antonietta. That was rude. Let people finish talking. I'm sorry. Okay. Do I know you? Yeah, I was here a few months ago. Alright, the girl who couldn't ask for a new wish. Do you know how to speak now, honey? Yes, I want Whimsical to be on a Spotify. Alright, she wants Whimsical on a Spotify, everyone. What is Whimsical? Give me a context? It is a song I wrote. Oh, so you think you're a songwriter? Who's being rude now? Alright. Look, because I'm clearly a genius, I'm gonna link your wish to the wish a guy made a few years ago. He asked for more wishes. He's also like you. Kinda weird, special. I mean, what do you guys call yourselves? I TPP. I don't pee. I drink tea. I NTP. Yeah, that. I'm gonna give him a call. He's technically forced to do this because of the wish he asked for. I love my job. It's gonna take a while. Okay. Couldn't you just text him? What do you need? Why is everyone so rude today? I'm not rude. It's like you're always calling if you need something, like a wish. Don't blame me for that. You were the one who asked for more wishes a year ago. I'm just following the guidelines of the company. You're laughing now, but I'm sort of a genie myself and already found some loopholes in your company guidelines. So one of these days, one of your requests will backfire. Stop crying gravity. I will give you a solution while we eat. What is that? What are you doing? I'm obviously talking on the phone with you right now. No, not you. The girl who's asking for a wish. She's I TPP like you. What's your name honey? Lily. Lily. Like the YouTuber. Are you the YouTuber? Yes. Yeah. I'm not an owl. So what is her wish then? She wants her song on Spotify. Hold on. Why are you asking for something you could do yourself? I have a hard time getting things done. You got that? All right. I'll do it. Great. Thank you. Can this conversation be over now? Yeah. Cool. Bye. Look at me getting things done at work like a business woman. I definitely need a promotion. Bye. Why does she always look like that? So this is where it all starts. I have no idea where. Introducing the plan. What's the plan now? This video is probably going to be a mess. I have my wish now. What do I do now? I guess I could record my singing, right? I will record my singing because I recorded it once for my previous YouTube video, but I deleted it because I do those kind of things. Those self sabotage things. I will record my singing, but in order to do that I have to take care of some things. I have to somehow treat the sound so it sounds more professional, right? Okay. I can think about something. Hello. I need to send full tracks of my voice and I have towels in there, towels in there and my cat and I'm going to use them as acoustic treatment. I'm going to make a box with towel walls and I'm going to put my microphone inside the box so I can record myself with no background noise because I have a lot of background noise, especially coming from my computer and the street and everything. So I will try to show you as much as possible. Bye. So I am trying to make like square things of towel and I'm sticking them with this to put them inside there, in there. I mean using a box to, I don't know, I'm not sure what I'm doing. Maybe my cat knows more. He's also helping to see what's the best option, right? Of course you are. Okay, so now I am making layers of towels and I have so far three walls ready for the inside of the box. This is the fourth one and then I'm gonna have to make the fifth one and there I'm gonna be ready to rock and roll. And I have such a mess in the background. I told my mom that I needed to make acoustic treatment to record the song properly, like without background noise. So she told me like why don't you ask our neighbor to help you record this? He has waterproof soundproof walls. He will ask for money because that's what he does. He provides the space for you to record and I was like mom do you really think I'm gonna ask for help? No, I don't need help especially if I it's not even help, it's like a service. Honestly I prefer to have this myself and to have the freedom of recording in my own room the way I want it, the time I want it and not feeling pressure, not feeling the pressure of someone that is not just gonna ask for money afterwards but they're gonna be there watching you do something and I don't need that. I don't trust him. Okay, he finished. So that one and that one go here and here while the blue ones are in the bottom and there and in there. No worries. You don't need nobody in your life. You don't need your neighbors to help you even if it's not help but a service. You don't need service from nobody because you're an independent woman. That's everything I need except for this part that it's like no I have to fix that. So this is my box and if we put in here I sound different. That's how you look from the inside if you're inside the box. Yeah, I'm pretty how it would hold this turn out. I actually show this I'm not sponsored by this brand. I don't know if you didn't think I was sponsored. So now that we have the box ready we record the voice. But don't live a mess with the costume. I quickly noticed when something's out of place. You want to solve an issue stop crying, gravity issue. I will give you a solution while we ate tiramisu. I like to do things in a systematic order. So before we start telling me you have sleeping disorders. I'm not that serious don't get me wrong. I have a sense of humor when I get along. I remember you. Okay, so it is recorded. Besides recording the main voice I decided to add a voice that says pretty you know 10 out of 10 visuals pretty. That's it. I'm gonna show you how I send them. I guess it's that exciting. What I have to send are the main voice, the same main voice after second voice, third voice and background noise. So I have two main voices because it depends on what sounds better for the song. So yeah they have something to choose from. But I think main voice after is way cooler. So now all I have to do is send that. Welcome behind the scenes of the production. This song deserved a custom made instrumental track. So the first thing I did was to transcribe the verse chorus order of Lily's vocal arrangement. I asked my friend Paul to record new drums for us. Drums that would better emphasize the structure of the song. Although he nailed that on the first try I still asked him to make a second version with more of his own personality and a few crazy breaks. And that's the version we ended up using. The original instrumental was written in Dorian. That's a version of the minor scale with more optimism. It's playful and confident without sounding naive. This fit the lyrics really well. So I definitely wanted to keep that. I experimented on my Fender Roads electric piano until I found a good set of chords that worked. I also found a really unusual progression that I liked and that I wanted to use as a break and to lead from one part into the next. I have a rack mount version of the original Minimoog and I used that for the bass. To make it fat and even I ran it through a tube preamp and an optical compressor with extreme settings. I added two pads. A very textured one with a 70 string machine emulator called Streichfett and a more clean and melancholic one with a massive software synth. Most tracks got subtle distortion for texture and overtones and rework for depth. Using EQs and compressors I placed everything into its respective pockets in the mix alongside the vocals from Lily and the percussion loops I got from Tobias. The last step was sending the mix to a mastering studio to give it the final coating and make sure it sounds right on all listening devices and not just mine. And when I got it back, Wimsicle was ready to be shared with the world. You guys have the same expression that I have after watching that video. That was incredible. Okay, so now I'm no longer storyteller Lily, I'm just Lily. So I'm like in this serious mood but chill. After all this, my song Wimsicle will be released on Spotify on August 25th. I'm very excited. I just don't know how to show it. I don't know how to express excitement. But thank you so much for following this process. And it was not just about recording but we also worked on pictures. On the Spotify canvas, on the song picture, on the album picture. So those pictures will also be released on the 25th. Six days from now on. Unless you don't watch this video today. Or unless I don't upload it today. You just do the math. Thank you so much to Winnie and Paul and Tobias for participating in this video. You guys are amazing actors and musicians and cameramen and apparently documentary producers. Thank you for watching and I hope you are there for this Spotify release. And now I will finish this video as a professional YouTuber. And I have to turn it off with the same hands. I ruined the magic. I'm sorry. There is a man outside of my house working. So this is embarrassing. But not that embarrassing because I have to work doing this. Okay? This is my job. Patience, Phillips. When are you here? When did you get here? Don't blame me for that. You were the one who asked for more wishes a year ago. You know what? My heart started beating so fast because I really thought I called someone by accident. Oh my god. That is a nightmare. Okay, I'm gonna keep working. Don't blame me for that. You were the one who asked for more wishes a year ago.