Utattemita

is a Japanese term which literally means "tried to sing". The utattemita category is where utaite upload covers of various songs. It is a subcategory of Yattemita section in Nico Nico Douga. Most of the uploads under this category will have "song nameを歌ってみた" title (or variations of such).

, means "tried to do", is a section in Nico Nico Douga where people upload videos of them "trying to do things". There are currently five subcategories in this section: utattemita (tried to sing), odottemita (tried to dance), egaitemita (tried to draw), ensoushitemita (tried to do a musical performance), and nico nico gijutsu-bu (arts and technology department).

Utattemita is different from. The latter means a mashup of two or more renditions of a song. Therefore it is not an original upload of the singer. Rather, someone took a few singers' covers and mashed them up to make a chorus-like version.