>>70683682Disclaimer: I don't watch Gura, but I have listened to Reflect a bunch of times.
I thought the lore stuff in Reflect was more of a veneer over the actual purpose of the lyrics, which is to talk about how she feels about her PL, especially her struggle with alcoholism, impostor syndrome, and her general fears and doubts.
On that note, I really like songs/MVs like that.
Towa-sama has Palette, which was her first original song. She wrote the lyrics herself, and they reflect her situation back then - struggling with the relative unpopularity of her PL's music, and then struggling with the relative unpopularity of her Hololive self (not least due to the yabe incident), it's her commitment to making music her career. There's a reason she cried while singing it in her 1st anniversary concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhOZn1vNW4&t=3105sNot an original song, but Suisei's cover of Boku wa Hatsune Miko to Kiss wo Shita makes the MV a retelling of her indie days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9r6lFYK9SEShe did write the lyrics for GHOST, which relate to her ultimate goal to get vtubers to be seen as real artists, not just niche entertainment "for otaku".
Then there's Kanata's/4th gen's Kiseki Musubi. Kanata wrote the melody and lyrics for it so that it includes every 4th gen member's names, and she worked really hard coordinating everything to get the music video out before Coco's graduation, as a commemoration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7cpjmkc1RwAZKi has quite a few songs like that too, and though she rarely writes the actual lyrics herself, she does have a lot of influence on what their themes are. For example, Saikyo x Saijaku Girl is (was) about her roommate's OL job. For her older songs, she has liner notes with her thoughts on them.
https://note.com/azkinote/The most touching one is the one she wrote while intending it to be her last song as AZKi, "afterglow".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiddR-oZta4This was going to be her swan song, her epilogue. We're so lucky to have her still in Hololive, she deserves her success so, so much.
