Dec 16, 2019
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Old roles, new roles
Archived blog: Redrum
A few things about the "new" song give me the spooks and a couple other things are downright horrifying.
The whole vibe I get from watching it is this mix of disturbing and innocent. It's like those creepy children's drawings of imaginary friends that show monsters, know what I'm talking about?
It's the black static Masa uses for his horror PVs. It's the distorted metal playing in the background. It's that moment things go greyscale followed by earrape.
And it's shit like this.
This is the description of the original deleted niconico video, run through google translate:
A happy dream that never wakes up.
An unfortunate reality that never ends.
This is a story that chose "dreams". Let me tell you the truth.
It sounds to me to be implying escapism through (possibly lucid) dreams.
(and she's crying)
Well, Masa was planning to create a song about a "dreamwalker" before, and you know what a dreamwalker is? Several things! Mainly it's the type in the scrapped song "Sally's Dreamwalker" where it clearly has to do with a person visiting Sally in her own damned dreams without permission. But it can also mean a lucid dreamer. (according to urban goddamn dictionary you think you learn this stuff at university no sirree you learn this on the streets bro)
So if masa knows about dreamwalkers, the term "dream player" is probably a creative way of saying lucid dreamer (AKA dreamwalker). And if Masa really looked into the horror aspect of lucid dreaming he might've heard of shadow beings that act as dreamwalkers (the visiting kind), or otherwise some other evil being. I don't remember everything I read in the past 5 years so maybe those were just isolated, obscure accounts. I'm not suggesting they were telling the truth but even if they're just an urban legend Masa could've used them as inspiration for a horror song.
At first they seem to be just silhouette background characters but at the end it's just out of place and creepy because it's now in the forefront and standing next to her.
About the vid's deletion. I've been digging around the wayback machine for some time now (if you read theories chat you may know why. damn shikyou...) and I personally don't think Masa deletes PVs he doesn't like. If I'm right, I can only imagine what super edgy lyrics could've convinced niconico to delete a PV that (almost) looks like a complete 180 from The Spider and the Kitsune-Like Lion (which released less than a month earlier). Actually, I will imagine what the lyrics were like. I'm gonna guess they were about child abuse. Like, in vivid detail apparently.
We'll see what they really mean soon enough I'm sure.
[VÍDEO] 25.03.16 Prévia do programa "Dream Player" com Mamamoo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_vRn5X5uo
[VIDEO] 160324 Mamamoo Preview @ tvN 'Dream Player' Ep.1