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So I was looking into this "Darling Dance" song that Pomu sang.
>This is a song about a self-destructive girl who wants desperately to feel wanted/loved. I am rather sure that the girl in the song is "gachikoi"/"riako," or someone who is romantically into either an idol(singer) or host(just Google this); her entire look is the splitting image of a particular subset of idol otaku/host club-goers who all dress exactly the same, so much so that they're called "mass produced girls" (originally as an insult but they've claimed the label; some people think that the mass-produced-girl fad is keeping girls from expressing their true selves, or pushing an unhealthy standard). Many of these mass-produced girls are also self-proclaimed "menhera." If you're not familiar, menhera people are said to be "mentally ill," but often the main "illness" other than being depressed is having very non-normal attachment to a certain person and/or being loved. (Some people make a distinction between menhera & yandere by saying that yanderes chase after their crushes because they're inhumanly obsessed with everything about that person, while menheras are not obsessed with that person, they're obsessed with the idea of being loved by that person, & thus being validated as worthy of being loved. So in reality, anybody would do, but they would never admit that.) Menhera is about mental health but these days is treated like an aesthetic, kind of like the older emo culture. I think that this song is undoubtedly supposed to be reminiscent of that crowd of people who have an unhealthy obsession with someone pretty much out of their reach (ie. idols/hosts), and judging by the reaction they ate it right up; menhera people thrive off of romanticizing all the messed up things in their life, even if it's harmful to them. Some people have a bias to assume that a girl with mass-produced and/or menhera aesthetics is also gachikoi/riako. All the things about losing her innocence are clearly about losing her virginity. She could be prostituting herself (the lines about rolling over like a dog/cat dehumanize and sexualize her), using the money to try to make her love with her darling work out; or perhaps it's even about being a victim of rape at the hands of her darling (it's not unheard of for hosts to sleep with their patrons). Either way, she convinces herself it's for love but in the end all it does it suck the soul out of her.
...Pomu thought this was a good choice for the first ever song she would perform in 3D? What do you make of that?