>>20760432Hey, thanks! Mostly for not calling me Mori but I'm glad you appreciate the analysis.
>you bet your ass I'm going to point and laugh at youHey man, go right ahead. Getting shit wrong is half the fun of this, and I only have about a 50% success rate judging from past lyric dives. Sometimes I hit the mark so hard she tells me that point-blank in chat, and sometimes, uh...
I actually really disliked End of a Life at first because I got retarded and thought the whole thing was seething about SR-chan, until Mori and /here/beats spelled out for my stupid ass how much of it was just about COVID and growing up. Just trying to return the favor.
>>20759623>4. Graveyard Shift (feat. BOOGEY VOXX)Yet another electro-swing J-rap bop about how much she loves murder, designed to lull the listener into thinking she's going to continue the same narrative from the previous song by fitting it almost perfectly. Like Q, it's a mostly story about kicking her guests' asses
before joining forces with them at the very end. Like Dead On Arrival, it's about how the inevitability of death and how nobody can stop the villain she's portraying from murdering her own fans...but her new pals have other plans.
>「お迎え」は [Take me in?] No thank you>生き返って [Come back to life, &] Let's go crazyAfter Fra's rap (which is more aggressive than anything Mori's voice can put out) bragging about how they're too fly to die, Ci politely refuses to be her adversary or victim. But instead of fighting back, she just invites Your Boy to give up on her job of destroying this brand new species, and join them instead of beating them. To which Mori kind of agrees:
>Say 橿屍, Zombie, 死神, the party killers have arrived>Can find us hanging by the mausoleum doors living our best livesBut gets all Tohsaka Rin about it and insists that she's EVENTUALLY going to get around to murdering them someday so they shouldn't get too close.
>Alright, it's fine, 'cause all in due time, this scythe's designed to reach your head>For now, party down like 気楽に行こう 'til I bury you deadLike any good tsundere, though, she's actually really torn up about the fact that she's betraying all her former ideals to become the very moeshit she swore to destroy:
>Cranking tunes in the night? Giving humans a fright?>Am I losing it? Are un-alivers actually alright?>No more "bones to pick" or skeletons in the closet>Hunter hanging with the prey, you know she's finally lost itAnd so the three of them vibe for the rest of the song while Mori gives the same excuse she's given to Kiara, Ollie, and Rushia in-character so many times:
>Well, I guess exceptions can be madeThe joke here being that Mori isn't actually talking about undead, because she never actually hated spooky shit. What she did hate, was idolshit, moe streamers, GFE, extra-textual parasociality, weird vtubers - and that's the stuff that BOOGEY and Kusotori and Milky ACTUALLY changed her mind about. That's what Mori herself has suddenly become, it's what's cut her off from what she thought was her story, and it's what ultimately makes this Reaper's hiatus a permanent one.
>(Maybe)But you can't have a tsun song without a dere song, so here:
>5. Lose-Lose DaysPretty sure this is the easiest one for anons to follow, due to the slower pace, thinner backing, and musical/thematic similarities to regular idol songs, and I suspect that's why /morig/ likes it best. It also helps that it's trying to say the same thing in sugary song that she already said in yesterday's member stream, and in Journey Like a Thousand Years, and in her Christmas comic...
>man my genmates are so cute, they even helped out an edgelord like me, and not because I could do anything back for them! sure sucks how all this dumb shit like EN curse and COVID rules and my old habits keep knocking me down with all these little yabs. But since they'll always be here for me, I'll always be here for them, and that's amazing! Sugoi!I'm not even gonna dive any further into this one because you dipshits got the point already. It's cute as hell. I love it. But if you look exclusively at it, you might miss the nuances of what she's struggling with, and then expect the entire album to be a continuation of the same shit you see here.