ermm my immediate interpretation of the ffoley catgirl song (subject to change) (haha get it)
I think of it like a progression of ERB (like all songs of this album). Where Len has more of a focus on the pain and backlash from stranding out in his community, streetcat feels more like living in the consequences of being excluded and finding satisfaction and hope despite, and sometimes because of, the danger.
It also has an interesting contrast with Human with how it talks on identity feeling like fate (it fits me like the stars above) (to be exactly only me/the things that I was always meant to be) wheras Miki felt that breaking free from fate brought her identity. For both, though, the act of realizing themselves seems inevitable.
speaking more standalone, I think of it like. Wanting to live rather than survive. At least thats how I see it. In the first bits we get lines like this, where Nekomura is characterized as reckless, upset with her housecat life. She didn't value that peaceful life, so she runs from it.
I find it interesting that in the first part of the song 'glow' is used both to describe 'headlights' and her identity (her embrace). Nekomura's identity hits her like a truck. 'satisfaction adorns and thrives throughout her next eight lives' suggests that she needed to go through a 'death' of some sort to live a furfilling life.
It really reminds me of this albums sub-theme of breaking out of monotony. Static, spoken, and human are all trapped in it, erb breaks out, streetcat is freed. It's painful and dangerous, but its a life worth living.
By the time we get to the next part of the song, Nekomura is no longer seeking pain to dodge shame, but to find meaning, to be someone and embrace herself. I find it neat how her voice changes to be lighter and more emotional between these sections
This line is really neat because. Shrodinger's cat reference hehe
It also calls back to the sort of split in identity found in this album after significant change
If I may be so bold as to connect Nekomura's eyepatch falling off as healing considering that it symbolized the pain of change in erb! YAY THEME PROGRESSION WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BONUS CONNECTION!! Rawdog and streetcat both use a desire for pain as a desire for connection, one with yourself and one with a partner. This parallels the way queen of venus and Human mirror eachother (finding humanity within yourself vs finding humanity within another)
THE FACT. THAT FFOLEY NOT ONLY CONNECTS SONGS IN AN ALBUM BUT ALSO REFLECTS BACK ON THEMES FROM PAST ALBUMS. OMG,
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