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This one was a really personal song for Calli and she talked about it a lot in the post-release stream she did. Before joining Hololive, she was mostly an underground indie rapper in the Japanese rap scene in Japan (she's a US citizen living in Japan, hence the passport) and had made quite a few friends in that scene. When she landed a role of a lifetime with Hololive, she was skyrocketed into the spotlight and saw immediate success as a result. Unfortunately, some of her friends from the Jrap scene saw this as selling out rather than being happy for her, and basically refused to talk to her again as they saw that as "cheating" to become famous, despite just how hard Calli works at her song writing and pouring every ounce of her being into every song she writes. So, this song was basically her look back at the "good old days" from before Hololive and maybe wondering a bit about what things might have been like had she not joined Hololive. Edit: As others in the comments have pointed out, I had forgotten about a key point of the story which was that many of her friends had been forced out of music during the pandemic when music venues had pretty much closed down for a while. Calli had found a way around this in such a way that they were unable to easily follow, which made some of them upset.
She has also stated that she once had the same view as those who criticized her for "selling out" when she found an opportunity that could springboard her music career. Having had that view and knowing how her past self would react to where she is now has, by her own admission, fed into her imposter syndrome (though maybe not in those exact words). The difference in her current attitude is that she can recognize that not taking such an opportunity when presented is foolish. Every independent artist, underground or otherwise, wants to hit it big and become successful. However, many are to prideful to take the shots that are offered because of either some nebulous sense of not compromising their "artistic integrity" or a belief that they can only claim to have made it because they did so on their own.
It wasn't so much selling out as it was that she was able to grab an opportunity for success as all of the opportunities, not just for greater success but to keep doing what they were already doing (live performances in their local scene), died with the pandemic. Though still petty, the bitterness is a little more understandable when you consider that her rise came with a great many of her peers falling from where they already were.
I think it's crazy to imagine we almost lived in a world where she did not release this song due to just how insanely personal it was. I'm so glad she ultimately decided to put it out there and it got the positive recognition it deserves
@@CyrusMajin its especially more difficult for gaijin or non-japanese/asian people in JP to even reach success or go up the ladder.... The proper 'asian' way is to reach out to every opportunity you can by making over 100 job applications or college applications, and grabbing whatever gives you a 'yes'. Never be an option to a school/job. THEY need to be your options. Being able to do that can be difficult but that's how people can stay successful, imo.
If I remember correctly, Calli made this song in response to a friend she used to look up to, who thought she abandoned the underground rap scene in Japan for a more mainstream career with hololive.
To play somewhat of a devil's advocate when you know Cali's background you can see why considering she took like a what year+ hiatus though I'm sure if Cali could've done both like she is now she absolutely would have but Holo Live contact's are ass.
And just throwing in a quick clarification because I've seen people who are familiar with her past work make this assumption: It's not FAKE TYPE. Those guys have been nothing but supportive of her. We still don't know who she had a falling out with and unless she feels like sharing (which is unlikely) we'll probably never know.
@@TheTakerFoxx We also know that BOOGEY VOXX are some of her old friends, but also that they aren't the ones she had issues with since they've made music together since as well.
Fun fact She almost scrapped this song, but gladly she didn't! It is one of the most praised songs from her and the company and we're lucky she didn't! She works hard af, streams a lot (slowing down gladly) makes a lot of music and the corp work (If you know her... Other side... You know she works a lot more too doing her stuff, that is also popping off! She is considered hardworking in between the very hard workers in hololive!)
That slow swaying you were doing? Yeah it's hard to not get lost in the song and relax and vibe. Calli knocked it out the park with this one. For another Hololive song I highly recommend Ayunda Risu's ALiCE&u. She has incredible vocal range and this song showcases it very well. You'll be blown away.
I am starting to think that i've posted on every single react to this song, but that's because I love seeing people hear it for the first time. Mori, before she was mori, was an American girl living in japan working as a tutor/English teacher who spent her nights and weekends in a relatively microscopic indie rap scene where she was living her dream and making music. The music was why she came to japan in the first place, first to visit, then to live. She got to work with people who that were behind the songs that she heard that made her want to rap. She auditioned for hololive, on a whim. She, nor literally anyone else, had any idea what was coming. She charted with her first EP, she became one of the top ten en vtubers virtually overnight. She suddenly had more ears hearing her than she could have ever dreamed of. as a character. that she didn't own. It was a weird mix of success and existential crisis that was hard for all of the EN gen 1 girls, but we got to hear more about it from calli thanks to her songs. All of this happened, and at the same exact time, the pandemic hit. Hundreds of bars and venues closed virtually overnight. The scene she was a part of didn't suffer, it was killed. It will likely never really recover. A lot of the same people who a few months before were performing with her had to leave music entirely. Go get a job that could actually pay them--If they were LUCKY. Working dayjobs is hell, until you're laid off. Many of the people who GOT calli into music had to give it up, and she was having success none of them could have dreamed of. of course they were bitter, of course she was the bad guy, she would have seen herself as the bad guy if she was them. how can she be mad at them? but she was/is. I love this song, and all it's layers.
First up, Congrats Luke on hitting 200k!!! Second, I'm so glad today you picked both this song and the Akame Ga Kill OPs and EDs to react to. Both fantastic choices IMHO.
Her singing is amazing not just when it comes to rap. A true star meant for shining. It's only a cover but her "The World's Continuation" is also increadibly beautiful.
Check out the music of RWBY volume 1 by Jeff Williams, The singer is Casey Lee Williams his daughter, (15 at the time I believe). Recommend "Red like Roses pt1 and Pt2"
Since you haven't heard any male vtubers yet there are some very talented ones out there that i'd reccomend Chronoir: This is actually two vtubers with their own music producers and band. Their songs: Geminids, Icebreaker, Let it Burn Kagami Hayato: Metalhead of Nijisanji JP and an absolutely fantastic singer! His songs: "Within", and "Pierce" Ike Eveland: Also a great metal singer. "Aspirin", "Chronos", and "Mayday" (Mayday featuring Kagami Hayato) Uki Violeta: He has a really soft and calm voice. His original song "Deja Vu" is simply beautiful Fuwa Minato: Also a very soft voice but also really great. Songs: "Spice" and "Last song" Luca Kaneshiro: Memelord of Deez nuts jokes. "Mafia" and "Phony" All these are absolutely amazing
Calli almost did not release this song. She thought it would be too personal and people wouldn't like it. It's basically her reflecting on her life decision to go into Hololive versus staying where she was in the underground rap scene in Japan. She was very anti idol culture early on and was vocal about it in her music and with her friends. She grew up though and knew this was a big opportunity for her. Her scene was dying (covid hit hard for live music) and many of her friends doing music either could not make it or weren't willing to give up everything to pursue it. When she joined Hololive she lost some friends who thought she sold out and went against what she was representing. She found herself becoming more successful than her heroes who inspired her to make it this far and some of them hated her for making the decision to go corporate. This is her song to them and to herself dealing with who she was and giving up on the fantasy of being that person who never made it. She misses those friends but at the same time she got everything she wanted. It's a complicated feeling. I really like this song. Many of her songs are stories like this.
Yeah, you can feel it if you really listen, and if you've been through pain and loss. Calli pours a lot of herself into this song and it shows. In the lyrics, her voice, the presentation, and the weight of it all together. It shows.
After such a long time we finally get a Calli song and it is "End of a Life"!!! Such a long awaited song. Probably my most favorite song of hers. It reminds you that even the grim reaper has feelings. I will update my comment at the end. Edit: This song is basically Mori speaking about her past and her struggles through her success. She speaks of how she moved to Japan, being in a city she doesn't recognize and being alone. How surpassed everyone she once looked up to hence why she said, "You watched your heroes fade into the rear view mirror of the villian you portrayed." Losing friends and other hardships. She even speaks of how she feels bad, but knows she shouldn't because she has worked for it. This song is extremely personal to her, she is an amazing grim reaper. If you want another great song, I would recommend either her first song "Excuse My Rudeness But Could You Please RIP?" Or "Cursed Night." Thank you for your time
Definitely Cursed Night. Similar vein to End of a Life, a rather melancholic (is that the right word?) song that gives you a real look into her head earlier on in her career.
Hololive saved her life. When she was on her last legs, stuck in Japan with no family and a tiny apartment. Because of COVID-19, she couldn't make money through the means that she was before, stages and bars closed. Calli and Kiara are 2 people who were basically saved by Hololive.
Thank you for reacting to this song. It is one of my all-time favourite. This song is actually one of the songs that Callii said is close to her heart. This song can be interpreted as talking about persuing one's dream, the one that others might call it a "day dream", and leaving one's old life behind. Calli have a stream in which she broke down the lyrics ( ruclips.net/video/f5kW0Ub1xuI/видео.html ), I would recommend you check it out if you want to know what the song means for her.
I second giving the lyric dive a watch; Calli is a once in a lifetime genius lyricist. Every line is meticulously crafted, and once you know the feelings behind the words, you'll definitely have a harder time holding back tears listening to the song. I've listened to it probably close to 100 times now, and I'll still still find myself wiping tears away depending on when it catches me.
Cali became so much fan of the Japanese underground rap scene that she moved to Japan. There she became big part of the community. She took the advice to audition to Hololive and got really successful there. At the same time the Pandemic happen and a lot of bard had to close. So friends had to give up music for paid jobs and felt like Cali betrayed them by selling out to a company. Instead of getting congratulations she didn’t even get replies. The song was really emotional that she didn’t want to release it first - She did a lyric break down stream to the song where she got into tears explaining the second verse
This is by far one of Calli's best songs, and it still baffles me that she said during her initial talk about the song after it's release that she didn't even know if she wanted to release it, I'm glad she did.
Could you listen to "practically all the calli songs o_O" for the next videos? They're all beautiful. You could also listen to Watame's "My song" or "Everlasting Soul". Thank you.
First, congrats on 200K. Second, others have already explained about the video, so I will just say that there are a number of Hololive songs where the members bring some of their own personal stories into it: End of Life, Palette by Towa, My Song by Tsunomaki Watame, Ever Blue by Omaru Polka, Infinity by Akai Haato AKA Haachama.
"Concrete jungle" and "labyrinth of lights" are metaphors for Tokyo. She also uses "outerspace" for being a foreigner (an alien). Calli went to Japan after being inspired by musicians she found from there. When the pandemic hit, many of the small music venues had to close ("ladder fell and shattered all the bars that we had played" (also double-meaning for how the pandemic impacted the underground rap scene specifically)). At the same time, she managed to find success doing this vtubing thing. She ended up passing, in terms of popularity, those very same people that inspired her in the first place ("the rear view mirror of the villian you portrayed"). Some of those people decided that it was time to retire ("your friends grew tired of fantasy, you with that they had stayed"). The song is very deep and personal for Calli. A melancholy look back at those times where she and some others in the space would be struggling to get by, just to get to the next live show. And even though she has reached some of those dreams that they all used to joke about, there is some aspects of that life that she still misses. Then there was a whole verse of her berating herself, asking herself "how can you feel sad, isn't this what you wanted?"
While many comments have talked about the main thrust of this song, they seem to be missing some other important pieces. Part of what this song talks about is how COVID absolutely decimated the live music scene in Japan. Bars and clubs they used to play at suddenly closed, and many people gave up on their dreams of music to pursue a career elsewhere. While so many people she knew and looked up to left (or were forced to leave) the scene, she was absolutely exploding in popularity due to her newfound success as a vtuber in the largest vtuber company. She went from a relatively small independent creator to an overnight success way beyond what anyone could have expected, and some of her friends felt betrayed, or that she "sold out" as a result. So in a sense, she's morning for everything that was lost, the clubs that went out of business, and fellow artists who have up on their dreams. One piece of speculation on my part: prior to this song releasing, her prior persona, Demondice, had been dormant since she started her career as a vtuber. I get the feeling she might have been struggling with whether to abandon Demondice altogether while writing this. Soon after this song dropped, she began releasing new music as Demondice alongside her stuff as Calli.
🥺 my favorite , and this is last year's , her singing voice keeps getting better & better Lyric dive for this song: ruclips.net/video/f5kW0Ub1xuI/видео.html Timestamps on the comments if you want to check it out and know the story or meaning behind the lyrics ^^
I want to see a jazz style song with both Calli and Gura. Calli's voice is perfect for it, of course, but so is Gura's, in a different way. Her unarchived karaoke streams are so much fun.
So the song does have to do with her moving to Japan but it's more than that. So Calli originally moved to Japan to join the underground rap scene where she made a friends and she had some success. Then the pandemic hit and all the bars and places where they would perform were had to close down and basically destroyed the entire scene. This forced a lotta people to go back to their day jobs to support themselves. It was during this Hololive EN was being formed so Calli decided to take a massive risk and applied and got accepted. As is pretty easy to see she got massive success but a lotta the people turned their back on her because of said success. That's what the song is about. During the afterparty when talking about it and she got super emotional cause she just wanted the people she looked up to to be proud of her.
One thing that some people forget about Hololive is that it is a talent agency. The talents have to go through auditions and interviews to join. People seem to forget that and just think that their success comes from the brand name and not from the work and skills that got them hired in the first place. Cali's old stuff is a testament to how hard she worked before Hololive, and the success it has given her has allowed her to chase her dreams even more than before. When she says she's "a workaholic business lady, getting shit done." she isn't joking. She's a crazy workaholic.
I'll let someone else comment about Calli's "real life" events and how they relate to this song, but if you look at the passport itself, it has "Underworld" on it, in keeping with her "Reaper" persona, which, I guess you could say is the only "gag" in this MV.
Wouldn’t say it is a gag… as the underworld (or underground rap scene) is where she came from as an artist and the passport is just a reminder where she came from.
Calli one the best talent for the music. Every single one of them music, this is one my favorit song on her. But i recommended to you more one best Range vocal is Risu original song Alice&u.
This song is about a lot of things and, as you said, its very emotionaly heavy. Calli has talked about how she wasnt sure if she even should release this song at first, because its very, very personal. Its about moving to Japan, about her being lost in this strange new world and finding friends in Japans underground rap scene and then loosing those friends after joining hololive, because they saw that as Calli abbadoning them. Espewcially because the Japanese Underground Rap Scene was hit VERY hard by Covid, while Vtubing on the other hand drived and was a massive reason for their current success. All Calli wanted was for her friends to be proud of her and instead they saw her as a traitor. Thats the kinda feelings she worked through here. In a way, I would say one of Callis more recent songs, This Scuffed Up Age, is kinda the counter part of this song, where she is clearly at a much better place emotionally than when she wrote End of a Life.
Glad you reacted to this one. Was hoping you would after you did your first Mori reaction. I am very biased because I do love very melodic music but this has to be my favorite song of hers. Mori's singing voice is as you said so damn good and goes so well with her rap sections. Plus the emotions conveyed through her vocals, the whole production and the lyrics are just so damn on point. Edit: I forgot to mention. You've quickly become one of my favorite reactors on youtube. I randomly clicked on one of your videos on my recommended list and don't regret it at all. I do love the honest way you talk to your audience and the way you go in blindly into things. It makes seeing your journey into new things exciting to watch as you process the things you are watching and trying to dissect them based on only the information you have in front of you. So to cut it short: I do love your content
Since you've been checking out Calli check out Takabashi Kiaras songs too. Its a bit on the pop side but you should check out "Do u?" Or "Fever night" from her.
I'd say "End of a Life" is not my favorite song from Calli, but it is incredibly special and a big milestone for her music and streaming career as this song was a way for her to express herself very beautifully. It is one of those songs where you can derive so much meaning not only from what experiences Calli is telling us about in the lyrics but also "vague" in the sense that I feel a lot of people, including myself, can relate to this song quite a lot. Oh an I'd like to recommend Alice&U by Ayunda Risu, it is a really nice "love letter" to her fans and friends, with really impressive singing.
You should check out the music video "[Ochame Kinou] hololive Fukkireta Chorus [24 VTubers]" on the main Hololive channel. It is a big collab that lets you get a little taste of a big chunk of the talents. The generations that came after that first video have made their own versions as well if you want to see those as well.
Okay my friend, it's time you react to my oshi, Watame. She's the fluffiest, loveliest, bubbliest sheep you will ever know but she has known some hardship in her life, like so many of us and it really comes through in her songs. Every single time I hear her sing it fills my heart until bursting and I just want to keep doing better thanks to her. I'm not kidding when I say I think she deserves the world. The first song you react to HAS to be either "My Song" or "Everlasting Soul". These are by far her most powerful songs and really showcases both her powerful singing and the emotions she conveys. Personally I prefer "My Song" but it's REALLY close. Secondly she has done a few projects with Calli and they've actually done more than a few collab videos and apparently really like to sing together as well as just hanging out. Their first one was "Cloudy Sheep" but recently they made another called "Reaper vs Sheep" that I think is even better and an absolute headbopper; fun in so many ways and you can just tell the ladies had fun making it. Calli has been teaching Watame to rap at Watames request and she's really taken to it so incredibly well!
Considering Calli just celebrated her three-year anniversary of streaming with Hololive, it is pretty interesting to look back at the impact of this song. As she’s stated on her livestreams, she was so afraid of releasing this song because it’s so different from everything she’d done up to that point and the song was much more about her personally than her usual songs. However, I think that’s part of the reason why so many people LOVE the song and many consider it to be her best song (I’m one of them). The other thing that makes this song great though is just due to how relatable it is. Through life, we all make choices and sometimes those choices cause people to fall out of your life. I think in a sense, a lot of people cherish how Calli was able to share something so personal with her fans. I know the feeling all too well. I am one of the very few people in my family who decided to move far away to pursue a career and it caused a bit of a rift with some of my friends and family because they didn’t understand why I couldn’t find a career that’s closer to the family…but the fact is, I don’t regret the choice at all. The choice I made with my career has made me happy and I’ve experienced a lot of success with it. Has it damaged some of my relationships with friends and family? Yes. Do I have any regrets? No, because the people who truly care about you also care about your happiness and your successes. The people that fell out of my life ultimately go down as people that never truly cared.
End of a Life feels like her best song or at least her most poignant. People have a lot of different phases in their lives - some good, some bad - but a constant is that we all too often leave these behind. For people that chase their creativity and where it takes them, these days can be all too transient and, just too, the companionship within them. In the end there is no assurance you can reach your goals or even make it back to what you sacrificed for it. With something as new, uncertain and niche as vtubing it can be exciting and exceptionally scary. I hope people will keep in mind that there a lot of challenges in life and apathy leads to a lot of ends, and most of them are not positive ones. Nobody else can "do" for you after all, and even for things beyond just yourself. Enjoy your oshi's music? Streams? Videos? Spread them as wide as you can. Also at least be kind to the people in their circle, they rely on each other being healthy and happy even if they don't often directly interact. Vtubing is already incredibly difficult to be successful in and a bad atmosphere hurts everyone. If you enjoyed End of a Life and it's message, I once again recommend watching Watame's My Song. It's incredibly heavy and reflects what it means to struggle with a dream you don't want to give up. Being a story of Watame's actual history with music and her hopes, she went all-in on the production and made a really beautiful piece with an anime level MV. It's a real reflection of many years filled with tears. We're really proud she's been able to reach at some of her dreams... her song even got picked up as an OP for a TV show for a while! Since she wants to keep going and aim higher for things like the Budokan, I'll keep recommending her here and hope that at least a few more people pick up her music!
Recommendation: - *Katanagatari* ending 1(underrated anime has 12 endings one for every episode, ed 11 is also good and has more views than ending 1, I think you need to add it to your list to react when you are over with all the popular anime shows) - *No game no life opening* 1 (Was at some point the most popular anime opening on youtube, like 150-200 mil views or more but it got deleted the video, super popular song and it's good as well, great for views) - *Scissor Seven* opening 1 & 3 (Both openings are great in terms of soundtrack, both rock, op 3 I'd say it's more your style) [ It's an anime acquired by netflix, dubbed in multiple languages, best is english and chinese (if there's a japanese one don't watch it), the anime is about "jackie-chan" if it was an anime, an assassin who lost his memory, it's comedy + fights and season 3 gets super dark (no comedy in season 3) ]. you can add first and third recommendation to a list for 'later' when your finished with "cool/popular" ones and second one I bet is already on your radar
Hi, I am barely commenting here but there are 3 songs I think you will like Magni Dezmond - Escape From the City Tokoyami Towa - My Roar Pavolia Reine - Love Me Love Me Nice reaction
If you react to this luke, you might aswell react to another song by Calli and Suisei, here are the recomendation 1. Wicked by Suisei ft Calli 2. Let end The World by Calli 3. Red by Calli, and 4. Stellar Stelar by Suisei Thx in advance mate 👍🏻
Dunno how DMCA plays with it since I never see anyone react to it, but if you want another Jazzy Cali song I'd recommend Yona Yona Journey. Taku Inoue is fantastic. He also has several songs with Suisei, including a project called Midnight Grand Orchestra.
The build in this song to the second verse is just amazing. It draws you in and then hits you in the gut with this deep guilt over succeeding and how others see it, and that moment manages to be so damn powerful despite Calli being relatively subtle with it.
Why not you watch there live streams if you got free time someday. Maybe then you get to more about them. Another thing plz check out some of holostars too they are also so good at singing yet all of them so underrated 😕 compare to hololive girls.
People in comments already told the story of this song. I just want to add she cried when told about this song and her feelings in her stream after releasing it. This hs heavy. Especially when you hear it from "strong human". "Red" also about her thoughts and feelings. Towa's *Pallete* and *Fact* are great. First is emotional and second more banger. Marine's "マリン出航". Not lewd! SFW, no cringe. More like anime opening. Old fashion one, I'd say. She on her 3rd anniversary did concert few days ago in showa style (tv shows 60s-80s). Crt filter, 4x3 resolution, announcers, old music. Very beautiful. Many songs with guests including Gawr Gura who sang her favorite song " Ride on time" with her. *ゲスト多数！新髪型お披露目！】昭和老人会♪宝鐘マリン3周年記念歌謡祭*. 1 hour long, so it's not for YT. But i recommend to see it even if not to watch :)
YESSSS! 🔥 You react to everything I love Massive thanks to you You are awesome!! 🔥🔥 And yes you guessed the passport thing right Its about the japanese underground rap scene breaking down during covid But she getting a lot of fame due to being acceped into Hololive And now a lot of former rap friends got jealous of her and she herself sometimes thinks she doesnt deserve this fame And therefore sees herself as some kind of villain , yet just wants to be loved by them In this song she sings about sometimes wishing to be back to this easy going carefree times But on the other hands What she has right now is everything she always wanted It would be dumb to discard all of that right? Thats everything I remember from the breakdown Hope it helps 🔥
Finally! You've heard my absolute #1 favourite song by Calli! Can you believe that she almost didn't release this song? She felt it wasn't good enough and was too personal to her, so she didn't think anyone would like it! Calli actually cried on stream when she was talking about the song after release, because of how much she wanted her friends to be proud of her, but most of them saw her as a sellout for choosing Hololive. Yes, the song is about her putting herself out there, flying to Japan with no idea if she can make it or not, but knowing she wanted to be part of the underground rap scene in Japan, along side many of her heroes. How she forced herself, as a foreigner, into this extremely niche market and managed to make friends and get recognizes while working 3 jobs just to make ends meet. And then the pandemic happened, and many of the underground clubs got shut down, and most people who were her friends and people she looked up to ended up giving up on their dreams and going to find office jobs, while she got really lucky, she applied to Hololive and made it and became really successful! (She is like #4 most subscribed VTuber in the world). And how she misses that part of her life, and at the same time feels like she has no right to be sad about losing all those friends since SHE was the one who chose Hololive and turned her back on everything. It's just an amazing and personal song, and most of the lyrics very much mean exactly what they say in this one.
Glad you loved the song so much! That leaves one must-hear song left: Alice & U by Ayunda Risu (RUclips Music Weekend Ver). I recommend that version specifically as people seem to agree that it's her more passionate rendition, despite it being a more off the cuff recording. About this song specifically, most everyone in the comments has described the deeper meanings behind the song. One bit of trivia I'm not sure has come up is that she actually didn't think this song was worth releasing. I don't know why, whether it was because it was so personal or because she somehow thought it wouldn't become her #1 song for a toooon of her fans. The other bit of trivia is that the person responsible for the mix actually worked on a remix of her song RIP, which Calli had a contest for after her debut. She collaborated with a number of people from that contest, actually, including Boogie Voxx, The Herb Shop, Pretty Patterns (who I believe is who worked on End of a Life) and more I believe. If you want another deeper song from her, both Cursed Night and Red work. Cursed Night is more about struggling mentally when your life is going so crazy, and you don't really have an outlet. Red is more about success, especially that being online success or in entertainment or music being ephemeral, and both the struggle and acceptance of that. Red is by far the more popular of the two, given that Cursed Night is a little bit of a downer, being honest, though it's still good. I'll come up with another list after you listen to Risu if you're still interested going down the rabbit hole!
It was extremely emotional when she even cried when said that she just want the people she admired to tell her that she did a great job, like a pat in the back, but instead they turned back on her and she felt so lonely. She was moving forward but at the same time she felt like she was the one that left behind.
I'd love for you to listen to "Astrogirl" by Tsukumo Sana, if for no other reason than it being the only song I've listened to for the past like 5 months. Not quite yet, but maybe once you're a bit further down the rabbit hole and have listened to some of her genmates. On that note, maybe "Rise" by Hololive Council (the second generation of the English branch of Hololive) might be an interesting introduction to Sana and her genmates. Or maybe that one would be better once you've listened to their individual songs first, for a bigger impact/not being introduced to five new artists at once. I don't know what you would enjoy more/what would make for better content.
Their individual songs (if you're interested) are: "A New Start" by Nanashi Mumei (called Mumei) "Daydream" by Ouro Kronii (called Kronii) "Play Dice" by Hakos Baelz (called Bae) "Let Me Stay Here" by Ceres Fauna (called Fauna) "Astrogirl" by Tsukumo Sana (called Sana) And then there's "Rise" by all five of them
It's hard to think Calli was actually planning on not releasing this as she didn't think it met the quality of her other stuff, and it's hands down one of the best pieces.
It really is a fantastic and emotional song. Calli's song Bully would be another fun reaction. My Roar by Tokoyami Towa will blow you away. Unison by Houshou Marine has probably one of the most unique beats in all of Hololive. Ever Blue by Omaru Polka hits just as hard emotionally, if not harder, as End of a Life. Po (ぽ) also by Polka will make you question whether this vtuber deep dive is really for you.
Congratulations on 200k! It's a heavy song filled with a lot of feelings. Probably an important one if you want to "get" part of where she's coming from. If I could recommend another heavy song it'd be Watame's My Song.
I remember watching her do a breakdown of this songs lyrics. She got so emotional explaining it. It’s a very good song. By the way, Departures by Egoist. Check the song out
Really happy you reacted to this song. As others have already broken everything down to you on this one, I want to make a recommendation for the next songs. After the release of End of a Life, and after her stream where she broke down the lyrics herself in a very emotional way (“I guess I just wanted some of them to be proud of me”), she got in contact with some old friends from that scene and did a colab with them. They produced two songs together, Graveyard Shift and CROWN. Graveyard Shift being a more lighthearted "in lore" song about their vtuber themes (like Q) CROWN being more about the lyrics and kind of a continuation of the same story and one of my favorite songs. If I had to recommend only one it would definitely be CROWN, but they are both great.
or to quote one of the top comments, since I am bad with words myself: "You know what i find wholesome about this? The fact that Calli a month ago expressed her sorrow over losing her old heroes in "End of a Life" but now "Crown" just gives off this vibes that she's been reunited with some long time friends that she didn't end up losing as she shot her way to fame."
I actually just discovered you when you did the ‘High Tide’ react. I honestly watched all of your sabaton as well but love how earnest you are with trying to learn and exploring new musics from your community about their interests. Keep being you!
I reccommend checking out Calli's collab song with Rikka from Holostars JP! They have an original song together called Spiral Tones. It slaps and the lyrics are pretty deep when you learn of the context behind it. I reccommend checking out the live version from her 3D Birthday Live though, cos the MV version had Rikka's voice on strong vocal effects, but it's a known fact that he sounds way better live.
I HIGHLY recommend reacting to Crown by Boogey Vox Ft. Mori Calliope!!!! It's a follow up basically to this song with some of her old Indie Japanese Rap friends!!! They're awesome!!! EDIT: This song ruclips.net/video/OSw_0FmjmEE/видео.html
Hope you get to react to Calli's other genmates and their songs like Gawr Gura (Reflect), Takanashi Kiara (Hinotori/Sparkz/DO U), Amelia Watson (King), and Ninomae Ina'nis (Violet).
End of a Life is definitely her best song imo, it has so much emotional weigh and it could totally be like an actual song on the radio and no one would bat an eye about it.
Can you react to 'Bad apple' (PV), it is a anime esque song/animation that is a classic within the anime community and is very popular, and if you like it, I highly recommend listening to 'Nightcore - Bad Apple' on Zero.Miz-Kun's channel which is a nightcore version of an English cover by rockleetist x Ashe witch sounds amazing.
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You definitely need to check out AmaLee and her covers or the song she did with Mori, definitely will not disappoint ❤
If you thing this song is emotional. Then hear Country Roads by all the Hololive Myth (Gura, Calli, Kiara, Ame and Ina)
This one was a really personal song for Calli and she talked about it a lot in the post-release stream she did. Before joining Hololive, she was mostly an underground indie rapper in the Japanese rap scene in Japan (she's a US citizen living in Japan, hence the passport) and had made quite a few friends in that scene. When she landed a role of a lifetime with Hololive, she was skyrocketed into the spotlight and saw immediate success as a result. Unfortunately, some of her friends from the Jrap scene saw this as selling out rather than being happy for her, and basically refused to talk to her again as they saw that as "cheating" to become famous, despite just how hard Calli works at her song writing and pouring every ounce of her being into every song she writes. So, this song was basically her look back at the "good old days" from before Hololive and maybe wondering a bit about what things might have been like had she not joined Hololive.
Edit: As others in the comments have pointed out, I had forgotten about a key point of the story which was that many of her friends had been forced out of music during the pandemic when music venues had pretty much closed down for a while. Calli had found a way around this in such a way that they were unable to easily follow, which made some of them upset.
She has also stated that she once had the same view as those who criticized her for "selling out" when she found an opportunity that could springboard her music career. Having had that view and knowing how her past self would react to where she is now has, by her own admission, fed into her imposter syndrome (though maybe not in those exact words).
The difference in her current attitude is that she can recognize that not taking such an opportunity when presented is foolish. Every independent artist, underground or otherwise, wants to hit it big and become successful. However, many are to prideful to take the shots that are offered because of either some nebulous sense of not compromising their "artistic integrity" or a belief that they can only claim to have made it because they did so on their own.
It wasn't so much selling out as it was that she was able to grab an opportunity for success as all of the opportunities, not just for greater success but to keep doing what they were already doing (live performances in their local scene), died with the pandemic. Though still petty, the bitterness is a little more understandable when you consider that her rise came with a great many of her peers falling from where they already were.
I think it's crazy to imagine we almost lived in a world where she did not release this song due to just how insanely personal it was. I'm so glad she ultimately decided to put it out there and it got the positive recognition it deserves
@@CyrusMajin its especially more difficult for gaijin or non-japanese/asian people in JP to even reach success or go up the ladder....
The proper 'asian' way is to reach out to every opportunity you can by making over 100 job applications or college applications, and grabbing whatever gives you a 'yes'.
Never be an option to a school/job. THEY need to be your options. Being able to do that can be difficult but that's how people can stay successful, imo.
So every opportunity is "cheating" to them, ok. That's the mindset that will keep them indie.
If I remember correctly, Calli made this song in response to a friend she used to look up to, who thought she abandoned the underground rap scene in Japan for a more mainstream career with hololive.
To play somewhat of a devil's advocate when you know Cali's background you can see why considering she took like a what year+ hiatus though I'm sure if Cali could've done both like she is now she absolutely would have but Holo Live contact's are ass.
And just throwing in a quick clarification because I've seen people who are familiar with her past work make this assumption:
It's not FAKE TYPE. Those guys have been nothing but supportive of her. We still don't know who she had a falling out with and unless she feels like sharing (which is unlikely) we'll probably never know.
@@TheTakerFoxx Who is thinking this is Fake Type lol. Fake Type has literally been working with her especially recently lol.
@@ItsKagiVids My point exactly, but I keep seeing people assume that it's them.
@@TheTakerFoxx We also know that BOOGEY VOXX are some of her old friends, but also that they aren't the ones she had issues with since they've made music together since as well.
Fun fact
She almost scrapped this song, but gladly she didn't! It is one of the most praised songs from her and the company and we're lucky she didn't!
She works hard af, streams a lot (slowing down gladly) makes a lot of music and the corp work
(If you know her... Other side... You know she works a lot more too doing her stuff, that is also popping off! She is considered hardworking in between the very hard workers in hololive!)
That slow swaying you were doing? Yeah it's hard to not get lost in the song and relax and vibe. Calli knocked it out the park with this one.
For another Hololive song I highly recommend Ayunda Risu's ALiCE&u. She has incredible vocal range and this song showcases it very well. You'll be blown away.
I approve of this! Good reccomendation.
maybe he's still busy, but i hope he reacts to Risu too.
Fun Fact before this song came out Cali contemplated scrapping it.
I am starting to think that i've posted on every single react to this song, but that's because I love seeing people hear it for the first time.
Mori, before she was mori, was an American girl living in japan working as a tutor/English teacher who spent her nights and weekends in a relatively microscopic indie rap scene where she was living her dream and making music. The music was why she came to japan in the first place, first to visit, then to live. She got to work with people who that were behind the songs that she heard that made her want to rap.
She auditioned for hololive, on a whim. She, nor literally anyone else, had any idea what was coming. She charted with her first EP, she became one of the top ten en vtubers virtually overnight. She suddenly had more ears hearing her than she could have ever dreamed of. as a character. that she didn't own. It was a weird mix of success and existential crisis that was hard for all of the EN gen 1 girls, but we got to hear more about it from calli thanks to her songs.
All of this happened, and at the same exact time, the pandemic hit. Hundreds of bars and venues closed virtually overnight. The scene she was a part of didn't suffer, it was killed. It will likely never really recover. A lot of the same people who a few months before were performing with her had to leave music entirely. Go get a job that could actually pay them--If they were LUCKY. Working dayjobs is hell, until you're laid off. Many of the people who GOT calli into music had to give it up, and she was having success none of them could have dreamed of. of course they were bitter, of course she was the bad guy, she would have seen herself as the bad guy if she was them. how can she be mad at them? but she was/is. I love this song, and all it's layers.
I think you should check out "gravity" from IRyS, she just added a MV to the song.
My fav Calli song nice ^_^
First up, Congrats Luke on hitting 200k!!! Second, I'm so glad today you picked both this song and the Akame Ga Kill OPs and EDs to react to. Both fantastic choices IMHO.
Her singing is amazing not just when it comes to rap. A true star meant for shining. It's only a cover but her "The World's Continuation" is also increadibly beautiful.
I Love that you Just Smile and grin the whole time at your reaction.
Your reactions are so great !
You need to listen to Irys' latest song, Gravity. It is beautiful and profound.
Cursed Night by Calliope Mori is sad but beautiful.
This song is for her old friend that think she has changed after her successful life. Even though she didn't.
Check out the music of RWBY volume 1 by Jeff Williams, The singer is Casey Lee Williams his daughter, (15 at the time I believe). Recommend "Red like Roses pt1 and Pt2"
This song makes me cry every time
Also I'd like to throw out irys from hololive song gravity
Since you haven't heard any male vtubers yet there are some very talented ones out there that i'd reccomend
Chronoir: This is actually two vtubers with their own music producers and band. Their songs: Geminids, Icebreaker, Let it Burn
Kagami Hayato: Metalhead of Nijisanji JP and an absolutely fantastic singer! His songs: "Within", and "Pierce"
Ike Eveland: Also a great metal singer. "Aspirin", "Chronos", and "Mayday" (Mayday featuring Kagami Hayato)
Uki Violeta: He has a really soft and calm voice. His original song "Deja Vu" is simply beautiful
Fuwa Minato: Also a very soft voice but also really great. Songs: "Spice" and "Last song"
Luca Kaneshiro: Memelord of Deez nuts jokes. "Mafia" and "Phony"
All these are absolutely amazing
You MUST listen to Might-U, by Makayla Philllips
Please do Reaper vs the Sheep.
We need more FabvL reactions by the Way, he's Epic!
Day 1 of requesting a “Hated by life itself” mafumafu cover reaction
Calli almost did not release this song. She thought it would be too personal and people wouldn't like it. It's basically her reflecting on her life decision to go into Hololive versus staying where she was in the underground rap scene in Japan. She was very anti idol culture early on and was vocal about it in her music and with her friends. She grew up though and knew this was a big opportunity for her. Her scene was dying (covid hit hard for live music) and many of her friends doing music either could not make it or weren't willing to give up everything to pursue it. When she joined Hololive she lost some friends who thought she sold out and went against what she was representing. She found herself becoming more successful than her heroes who inspired her to make it this far and some of them hated her for making the decision to go corporate. This is her song to them and to herself dealing with who she was and giving up on the fantasy of being that person who never made it. She misses those friends but at the same time she got everything she wanted. It's a complicated feeling. I really like this song. Many of her songs are stories like this.
Honestly this is propably one of my favourite calli songs.
Yeah, you can feel it if you really listen, and if you've been through pain and loss. Calli pours a lot of herself into this song and it shows. In the lyrics, her voice, the presentation, and the weight of it all together. It shows.
@@0wlysame, luckily she decided to release this song
After such a long time we finally get a Calli song and it is "End of a Life"!!! Such a long awaited song. Probably my most favorite song of hers. It reminds you that even the grim reaper has feelings. I will update my comment at the end.
Edit: This song is basically Mori speaking about her past and her struggles through her success. She speaks of how she moved to Japan, being in a city she doesn't recognize and being alone. How surpassed everyone she once looked up to hence why she said, "You watched your heroes fade into the rear view mirror of the villian you portrayed." Losing friends and other hardships. She even speaks of how she feels bad, but knows she shouldn't because she has worked for it. This song is extremely personal to her, she is an amazing grim reaper. If you want another great song, I would recommend either her first song "Excuse My Rudeness But Could You Please RIP?" Or "Cursed Night." Thank you for your time
Definitely Cursed Night. Similar vein to End of a Life, a rather melancholic (is that the right word?) song that gives you a real look into her head earlier on in her career.
You barely ever see someone mention cursed night. It's definitely one of her songs that flies under most people's radar, but it's great nonetheless.
@@FlashStatic There's so many other songs that I like such as, "Live Again," "Resting Power," and "Scuffed Up Age."
@@Mr.DudeFluffy Scuffed Up Age is my 2nd favorite after End of a Life.
@@FlashStatic Right? Glad she made an MV for it.
can you react to Ayunda risu- ALICE&u this is my favorite song from Hololive ID
Hololive saved her life. When she was on her last legs, stuck in Japan with no family and a tiny apartment. Because of COVID-19, she couldn't make money through the means that she was before, stages and bars closed. Calli and Kiara are 2 people who were basically saved by Hololive.
Thank you for reacting to this song. It is one of my all-time favourite. This song is actually one of the songs that Callii said is close to her heart. This song can be interpreted as talking about persuing one's dream, the one that others might call it a "day dream", and leaving one's old life behind. Calli have a stream in which she broke down the lyrics ( ruclips.net/video/f5kW0Ub1xuI/видео.html ), I would recommend you check it out if you want to know what the song means for her.
I second giving the lyric dive a watch; Calli is a once in a lifetime genius lyricist. Every line is meticulously crafted, and once you know the feelings behind the words, you'll definitely have a harder time holding back tears listening to the song. I've listened to it probably close to 100 times now, and I'll still still find myself wiping tears away depending on when it catches me.
Since you want to get your Suisei fix again too I'd highly recommend one of arguebly best works with her genmates, that being Saga Jihen!
Cali became so much fan of the Japanese underground rap scene that she moved to Japan. There she became big part of the community. She took the advice to audition to Hololive and got really successful there. At the same time the Pandemic happen and a lot of bard had to close. So friends had to give up music for paid jobs and felt like Cali betrayed them by selling out to a company. Instead of getting congratulations she didn’t even get replies.
The song was really emotional that she didn’t want to release it first - She did a lyric break down stream to the song where she got into tears explaining the second verse
This is by far one of Calli's best songs, and it still baffles me that she said during her initial talk about the song after it's release that she didn't even know if she wanted to release it, I'm glad she did.
Could you listen to "practically all the calli songs o_O" for the next videos? They're all beautiful.
You could also listen to Watame's "My song" or "Everlasting Soul". Thank you.
First, congrats on 200K. Second, others have already explained about the video, so I will just say that there are a number of Hololive songs where the members bring some of their own personal stories into it: End of Life, Palette by Towa, My Song by Tsunomaki Watame, Ever Blue by Omaru Polka, Infinity by Akai Haato AKA Haachama.
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"Concrete jungle" and "labyrinth of lights" are metaphors for Tokyo. She also uses "outerspace" for being a foreigner (an alien). Calli went to Japan after being inspired by musicians she found from there. When the pandemic hit, many of the small music venues had to close ("ladder fell and shattered all the bars that we had played" (also double-meaning for how the pandemic impacted the underground rap scene specifically)). At the same time, she managed to find success doing this vtubing thing. She ended up passing, in terms of popularity, those very same people that inspired her in the first place ("the rear view mirror of the villian you portrayed"). Some of those people decided that it was time to retire ("your friends grew tired of fantasy, you with that they had stayed").
The song is very deep and personal for Calli. A melancholy look back at those times where she and some others in the space would be struggling to get by, just to get to the next live show. And even though she has reached some of those dreams that they all used to joke about, there is some aspects of that life that she still misses. Then there was a whole verse of her berating herself, asking herself "how can you feel sad, isn't this what you wanted?"
Kind of hoping for template from suisei next lol
Hell yeah, my favourite song from calli
Me too
While many comments have talked about the main thrust of this song, they seem to be missing some other important pieces.
Part of what this song talks about is how COVID absolutely decimated the live music scene in Japan. Bars and clubs they used to play at suddenly closed, and many people gave up on their dreams of music to pursue a career elsewhere.
While so many people she knew and looked up to left (or were forced to leave) the scene, she was absolutely exploding in popularity due to her newfound success as a vtuber in the largest vtuber company. She went from a relatively small independent creator to an overnight success way beyond what anyone could have expected, and some of her friends felt betrayed, or that she "sold out" as a result.
So in a sense, she's morning for everything that was lost, the clubs that went out of business, and fellow artists who have up on their dreams.
One piece of speculation on my part: prior to this song releasing, her prior persona, Demondice, had been dormant since she started her career as a vtuber. I get the feeling she might have been struggling with whether to abandon Demondice altogether while writing this. Soon after this song dropped, she began releasing new music as Demondice alongside her stuff as Calli.
🥺 my favorite , and this is last year's , her singing voice keeps getting better & better
Lyric dive for this song: ruclips.net/video/f5kW0Ub1xuI/видео.html
Timestamps on the comments if you want to check it out and know the story or meaning behind the lyrics ^^
Instant click, this is my favourite song in all of Hololive.
Love me some Calli reactions. If you want another mind-blowing genre switch up, you should check out Towa's 'My Roar'. Metal Towa + Utsu-P is epic.
I want to see a jazz style song with both Calli and Gura. Calli's voice is perfect for it, of course, but so is Gura's, in a different way. Her unarchived karaoke streams are so much fun.
So the song does have to do with her moving to Japan but it's more than that. So Calli originally moved to Japan to join the underground rap scene where she made a friends and she had some success. Then the pandemic hit and all the bars and places where they would perform were had to close down and basically destroyed the entire scene. This forced a lotta people to go back to their day jobs to support themselves. It was during this Hololive EN was being formed so Calli decided to take a massive risk and applied and got accepted. As is pretty easy to see she got massive success but a lotta the people turned their back on her because of said success. That's what the song is about.
During the afterparty when talking about it and she got super emotional cause she just wanted the people she looked up to to be proud of her.
One thing that some people forget about Hololive is that it is a talent agency. The talents have to go through auditions and interviews to join. People seem to forget that and just think that their success comes from the brand name and not from the work and skills that got them hired in the first place. Cali's old stuff is a testament to how hard she worked before Hololive, and the success it has given her has allowed her to chase her dreams even more than before. When she says she's "a workaholic business lady, getting shit done." she isn't joking. She's a crazy workaholic.
I'll let someone else comment about Calli's "real life" events and how they relate to this song, but if you look at the passport itself, it has "Underworld" on it, in keeping with her "Reaper" persona, which, I guess you could say is the only "gag" in this MV.
Wouldn’t say it is a gag… as the underworld (or underground rap scene) is where she came from as an artist and the passport is just a reminder where she came from.
Calli one the best talent for the music. Every single one of them music, this is one my favorit song on her.
But i recommended to you more one best Range vocal is Risu original song Alice&u.
Now you can react to Alice&U from Ayunda Risu, a hololive member too
This song is about a lot of things and, as you said, its very emotionaly heavy. Calli has talked about how she wasnt sure if she even should release this song at first, because its very, very personal. Its about moving to Japan, about her being lost in this strange new world and finding friends in Japans underground rap scene and then loosing those friends after joining hololive, because they saw that as Calli abbadoning them. Espewcially because the Japanese Underground Rap Scene was hit VERY hard by Covid, while Vtubing on the other hand drived and was a massive reason for their current success.
All Calli wanted was for her friends to be proud of her and instead they saw her as a traitor. Thats the kinda feelings she worked through here.
In a way, I would say one of Callis more recent songs, This Scuffed Up Age, is kinda the counter part of this song, where she is clearly at a much better place emotionally than when she wrote End of a Life.
Can you maybe react to Irys' new song "Gravity"? I feel like she isnt getting enough regocnition
Glad you reacted to this one. Was hoping you would after you did your first Mori reaction.
I am very biased because I do love very melodic music but this has to be my favorite song of hers. Mori's singing voice is as you said so damn good and goes so well with her rap sections.
Plus the emotions conveyed through her vocals, the whole production and the lyrics are just so damn on point.
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I forgot to mention. You've quickly become one of my favorite reactors on youtube. I randomly clicked on one of your videos on my recommended list and don't regret it at all. I do love the honest way you talk to your audience and the way you go in blindly into things. It makes seeing your journey into new things exciting to watch as you process the things you are watching and trying to dissect them based on only the information you have in front of you.
So to cut it short: I do love your content
I'll put again bae's a million miles away cover, with captions on is amazing
【ANIMATION MV】A Million Miles Away - BELLE || HAKOS BAELZ COVER
Love this song from her. Another hololive song I’d recommend would be Red Heart from Haachama aka Akai Haato, it’ll get stuck in your head.
Since you've been checking out Calli check out Takabashi Kiaras songs too. Its a bit on the pop side but you should check out "Do u?" Or "Fever night" from her.
この人アニメとかホロとかのリアクションしてるけど全然響かないんですよね～
I'd say "End of a Life" is not my favorite song from Calli, but it is incredibly special and a big milestone for her music and streaming career as this song was a way for her to express herself very beautifully. It is one of those songs where you can derive so much meaning not only from what experiences Calli is telling us about in the lyrics but also "vague" in the sense that I feel a lot of people, including myself, can relate to this song quite a lot.
Oh an I'd like to recommend Alice&U by Ayunda Risu, it is a really nice "love letter" to her fans and friends, with really impressive singing.
Some hololive songs recommendation:
"4blood" - Takanashi Kiara
"The forgotten song" - Nanashi Mumei
"Mafia" - Ouro Kronii
"Chiisana no uta" - Hoshinova Moona
"FACT"(with lyrics) and "Palette" - Tokoyami Towa
"Template" - Hoshimachi Suisei
love this song❤️
MORE HOLOLIVE!!!!
LETS GOOOOO
I'm still waiting patiently for your reaction to Risu's original song Alice&U
You should check out the music video "[Ochame Kinou] hololive Fukkireta Chorus [24 VTubers]" on the main Hololive channel. It is a big collab that lets you get a little taste of a big chunk of the talents. The generations that came after that first video have made their own versions as well if you want to see those as well.
There are also a few fan edited combos of all the different versions mashed together that are pretty good too!
End of life is hyppppeeee, have you done a reaction to kiana's "sparks" yet. if not then please do a reaction to it
Try to listen ayunda risu - alice & u
You will like it 😁😁😁
Calli wrote and performed another singing-song, along with her four gen-mates of Holo-En-Myth, called "Non-Fiction". It's fantastic too.
I think it's better to him to react to all of the myth girls first, in my opinion
Lets take him to the other myth girls fist then we can do "Non-Fiction" or "journey of a thousand years"
I think you should check out "gravity" from IRyS, she just added a MV to the song.
It gives the same kinda of vibe of this song
Okay my friend, it's time you react to my oshi, Watame. She's the fluffiest, loveliest, bubbliest sheep you will ever know but she has known some hardship in her life, like so many of us and it really comes through in her songs. Every single time I hear her sing it fills my heart until bursting and I just want to keep doing better thanks to her. I'm not kidding when I say I think she deserves the world.
The first song you react to HAS to be either "My Song" or "Everlasting Soul". These are by far her most powerful songs and really showcases both her powerful singing and the emotions she conveys. Personally I prefer "My Song" but it's REALLY close.
Secondly she has done a few projects with Calli and they've actually done more than a few collab videos and apparently really like to sing together as well as just hanging out. Their first one was "Cloudy Sheep" but recently they made another called "Reaper vs Sheep" that I think is even better and an absolute headbopper; fun in so many ways and you can just tell the ladies had fun making it. Calli has been teaching Watame to rap at Watames request and she's really taken to it so incredibly well!
Seconded for My Song. That one hits hard.
Considering Calli just celebrated her three-year anniversary of streaming with Hololive, it is pretty interesting to look back at the impact of this song. As she’s stated on her livestreams, she was so afraid of releasing this song because it’s so different from everything she’d done up to that point and the song was much more about her personally than her usual songs.
However, I think that’s part of the reason why so many people LOVE the song and many consider it to be her best song (I’m one of them). The other thing that makes this song great though is just due to how relatable it is. Through life, we all make choices and sometimes those choices cause people to fall out of your life. I think in a sense, a lot of people cherish how Calli was able to share something so personal with her fans.
I know the feeling all too well. I am one of the very few people in my family who decided to move far away to pursue a career and it caused a bit of a rift with some of my friends and family because they didn’t understand why I couldn’t find a career that’s closer to the family…but the fact is, I don’t regret the choice at all. The choice I made with my career has made me happy and I’ve experienced a lot of success with it. Has it damaged some of my relationships with friends and family? Yes. Do I have any regrets? No, because the people who truly care about you also care about your happiness and your successes. The people that fell out of my life ultimately go down as people that never truly cared.
End of a Life feels like her best song or at least her most poignant. People have a lot of different phases in their lives - some good, some bad - but a constant is that we all too often leave these behind. For people that chase their creativity and where it takes them, these days can be all too transient and, just too, the companionship within them. In the end there is no assurance you can reach your goals or even make it back to what you sacrificed for it. With something as new, uncertain and niche as vtubing it can be exciting and exceptionally scary.
I hope people will keep in mind that there a lot of challenges in life and apathy leads to a lot of ends, and most of them are not positive ones. Nobody else can "do" for you after all, and even for things beyond just yourself. Enjoy your oshi's music? Streams? Videos? Spread them as wide as you can. Also at least be kind to the people in their circle, they rely on each other being healthy and happy even if they don't often directly interact. Vtubing is already incredibly difficult to be successful in and a bad atmosphere hurts everyone.
If you enjoyed End of a Life and it's message, I once again recommend watching Watame's My Song. It's incredibly heavy and reflects what it means to struggle with a dream you don't want to give up. Being a story of Watame's actual history with music and her hopes, she went all-in on the production and made a really beautiful piece with an anime level MV. It's a real reflection of many years filled with tears. We're really proud she's been able to reach at some of her dreams... her song even got picked up as an OP for a TV show for a while! Since she wants to keep going and aim higher for things like the Budokan, I'll keep recommending her here and hope that at least a few more people pick up her music!
Recommendation:
- *Katanagatari* ending 1(underrated anime has 12 endings one for every episode, ed 11 is also good and has more views than ending 1, I think you need to add it to your list to react when you are over with all the popular anime shows)
- *No game no life opening* 1 (Was at some point the most popular anime opening on youtube, like 150-200 mil views or more but it got deleted the video, super popular song and it's good as well, great for views)
- *Scissor Seven* opening 1 & 3 (Both openings are great in terms of soundtrack, both rock, op 3 I'd say it's more your style) [ It's an anime acquired by netflix, dubbed in multiple languages, best is english and chinese (if there's a japanese one don't watch it), the anime is about "jackie-chan" if it was an anime, an assassin who lost his memory, it's comedy + fights and season 3 gets super dark (no comedy in season 3) ].
you can add first and third recommendation to a list for 'later' when your finished with "cool/popular" ones and second one I bet is already on your radar
Hi, I am barely commenting here but there are 3 songs I think you will like
Magni Dezmond - Escape From the City
Tokoyami Towa - My Roar
Pavolia Reine - Love Me Love Me
Nice reaction
If you react to this luke, you might aswell react to another song by Calli and Suisei, here are the recomendation
1. Wicked by Suisei ft Calli
2. Let end The World by Calli
3. Red by Calli, and
4. Stellar Stelar by Suisei
Thx in advance mate 👍🏻
Dunno how DMCA plays with it since I never see anyone react to it, but if you want another Jazzy Cali song I'd recommend Yona Yona Journey. Taku Inoue is fantastic. He also has several songs with Suisei, including a project called Midnight Grand Orchestra.
The build in this song to the second verse is just amazing. It draws you in and then hits you in the gut with this deep guilt over succeeding and how others see it, and that moment manages to be so damn powerful despite Calli being relatively subtle with it.
Congrats!! 200k subs
Why not you watch there live streams if you got free time someday. Maybe then you get to more about them. Another thing plz check out some of holostars too they are also so good at singing yet all of them so underrated 😕 compare to hololive girls.
People in comments already told the story of this song. I just want to add she cried when told about this song and her feelings in her stream after releasing it.
This hs heavy. Especially when you hear it from "strong human".
"Red" also about her thoughts and feelings.
Towa's *Pallete* and *Fact* are great. First is emotional and second more banger.
Marine's "マリン出航". Not lewd! SFW, no cringe. More like anime opening. Old fashion one, I'd say.
She on her 3rd anniversary did concert few days ago in showa style (tv shows 60s-80s). Crt filter, 4x3 resolution, announcers, old music. Very beautiful. Many songs with guests including Gawr Gura who sang her favorite song " Ride on time" with her.
*ゲスト多数！新髪型お披露目！】昭和老人会♪宝鐘マリン3周年記念歌謡祭*. 1 hour long, so it's not for YT. But i recommend to see it even if not to watch :)
YESSSS! 🔥
You react to everything I love
Massive thanks to you
You are awesome!! 🔥🔥
And yes you guessed the passport thing right
Its about the japanese underground rap scene breaking down during covid
But she getting a lot of fame due to being acceped into Hololive
And now a lot of former rap friends got jealous of her and she herself sometimes thinks she doesnt deserve this fame
And therefore sees herself as some kind of villain , yet just wants to be loved by them
In this song she sings about sometimes wishing to be back to this easy going carefree times
But on the other hands
What she has right now is everything she always wanted
It would be dumb to discard all of that right?
Thats everything I remember from the breakdown
Hope it helps 🔥
Finally! You've heard my absolute #1 favourite song by Calli!
Can you believe that she almost didn't release this song? She felt it wasn't good enough and was too personal to her, so she didn't think anyone would like it!
Calli actually cried on stream when she was talking about the song after release, because of how much she wanted her friends to be proud of her, but most of them saw her as a sellout for choosing Hololive.
Yes, the song is about her putting herself out there, flying to Japan with no idea if she can make it or not, but knowing she wanted to be part of the underground rap scene in Japan, along side many of her heroes.
How she forced herself, as a foreigner, into this extremely niche market and managed to make friends and get recognizes while working 3 jobs just to make ends meet.
And then the pandemic happened, and many of the underground clubs got shut down, and most people who were her friends and people she looked up to ended up giving up on their dreams and going to find office jobs, while she got really lucky, she applied to Hololive and made it and became really successful! (She is like #4 most subscribed VTuber in the world).
And how she misses that part of her life, and at the same time feels like she has no right to be sad about losing all those friends since SHE was the one who chose Hololive and turned her back on everything.
It's just an amazing and personal song, and most of the lyrics very much mean exactly what they say in this one.
Glad you loved the song so much!
That leaves one must-hear song left:
Alice & U by Ayunda Risu (RUclips Music Weekend Ver).
I recommend that version specifically as people seem to agree that it's her more passionate rendition, despite it being a more off the cuff recording.
About this song specifically, most everyone in the comments has described the deeper meanings behind the song. One bit of trivia I'm not sure has come up is that she actually didn't think this song was worth releasing. I don't know why, whether it was because it was so personal or because she somehow thought it wouldn't become her #1 song for a toooon of her fans.
The other bit of trivia is that the person responsible for the mix actually worked on a remix of her song RIP, which Calli had a contest for after her debut. She collaborated with a number of people from that contest, actually, including Boogie Voxx, The Herb Shop, Pretty Patterns (who I believe is who worked on End of a Life) and more I believe.
If you want another deeper song from her, both Cursed Night and Red work. Cursed Night is more about struggling mentally when your life is going so crazy, and you don't really have an outlet. Red is more about success, especially that being online success or in entertainment or music being ephemeral, and both the struggle and acceptance of that. Red is by far the more popular of the two, given that Cursed Night is a little bit of a downer, being honest, though it's still good.
I'll come up with another list after you listen to Risu if you're still interested going down the rabbit hole!
It was extremely emotional when she even cried when said that she just want the people she admired to tell her that she did a great job, like a pat in the back, but instead they turned back on her and she felt so lonely. She was moving forward but at the same time she felt like she was the one that left behind.
I'd love for you to listen to "Astrogirl" by Tsukumo Sana, if for no other reason than it being the only song I've listened to for the past like 5 months. Not quite yet, but maybe once you're a bit further down the rabbit hole and have listened to some of her genmates.
On that note, maybe "Rise" by Hololive Council (the second generation of the English branch of Hololive) might be an interesting introduction to Sana and her genmates.
Or maybe that one would be better once you've listened to their individual songs first, for a bigger impact/not being introduced to five new artists at once. I don't know what you would enjoy more/what would make for better content.
Their individual songs (if you're interested) are:
"A New Start" by Nanashi Mumei (called Mumei)
"Daydream" by Ouro Kronii (called Kronii)
"Play Dice" by Hakos Baelz (called Bae)
"Let Me Stay Here" by Ceres Fauna (called Fauna)
"Astrogirl" by Tsukumo Sana (called Sana)
And then there's "Rise" by all five of them
It's hard to think Calli was actually planning on not releasing this as she didn't think it met the quality of her other stuff, and it's hands down one of the best pieces.
It really is a fantastic and emotional song.
Calli's song Bully would be another fun reaction.
My Roar by Tokoyami Towa will blow you away.
Unison by Houshou Marine has probably one of the most unique beats in all of Hololive.
Ever Blue by Omaru Polka hits just as hard emotionally, if not harder, as End of a Life.
Po (ぽ) also by Polka will make you question whether this vtuber deep dive is really for you.
now you gotta check out the 3d myth version by a Ame, Gura and Ina, its bittersweet with Ame moving on but it is beautiful
Congratulations on 200k!
It's a heavy song filled with a lot of feelings. Probably an important one if you want to "get" part of where she's coming from. If I could recommend another heavy song it'd be Watame's My Song.
This song is my go-to "driving alone at 3am" song
Try Irys "Gravity" its really good
I remember watching her do a breakdown of this songs lyrics. She got so emotional explaining it. It’s a very good song.
By the way, Departures by Egoist. Check the song out
Really happy you reacted to this song. As others have already broken everything down to you on this one, I want to make a recommendation for the next songs.
After the release of End of a Life, and after her stream where she broke down the lyrics herself in a very emotional way (“I guess I just wanted some of them to be proud of me”), she got in contact with some old friends from that scene and did a colab with them.
They produced two songs together, Graveyard Shift and CROWN.
Graveyard Shift being a more lighthearted "in lore" song about their vtuber themes (like Q)
CROWN being more about the lyrics and kind of a continuation of the same story and one of my favorite songs.
If I had to recommend only one it would definitely be CROWN, but they are both great.
or to quote one of the top comments, since I am bad with words myself:
"You know what i find wholesome about this? The fact that Calli a month ago expressed her sorrow over losing her old heroes in "End of a Life" but now "Crown" just gives off this vibes that she's been reunited with some long time friends that she didn't end up losing as she shot her way to fame."
You should check out Demon Dice next -wink-.
I did not appreciate her enough..
React Ayunda risu - Alice&u
I actually just discovered you when you did the ‘High Tide’ react. I honestly watched all of your sabaton as well but love how earnest you are with trying to learn and exploring new musics from your community about their interests. Keep being you!
I reccommend checking out Calli's collab song with Rikka from Holostars JP! They have an original song together called Spiral Tones. It slaps and the lyrics are pretty deep when you learn of the context behind it.
I reccommend checking out the live version from her 3D Birthday Live though, cos the MV version had Rikka's voice on strong vocal effects, but it's a known fact that he sounds way better live.
I HIGHLY recommend reacting to Crown by Boogey Vox Ft. Mori Calliope!!!!
It's a follow up basically to this song with some of her old Indie Japanese Rap friends!!! They're awesome!!!
EDIT: This song ruclips.net/video/OSw_0FmjmEE/видео.html
Hope you get to react to Calli's other genmates and their songs like Gawr Gura (Reflect), Takanashi Kiara (Hinotori/Sparkz/DO U), Amelia Watson (King), and Ninomae Ina'nis (Violet).
I recommended this one from Calli that has similar tone with "End of a Life"
"いじめっ子 Bully" by Calliope Mori
ruclips.net/video/PluDFsVo3z0/видео.html
CALLIOPE MORI is my favorite like VTUBER
End of a Life is definitely her best song imo, it has so much emotional weigh and it could totally be like an actual song on the radio and no one would bat an eye about it.
Can you react to 'Bad apple' (PV), it is a anime esque song/animation that is a classic within the anime community and is very popular, and if you like it, I highly recommend listening to 'Nightcore - Bad Apple' on Zero.Miz-Kun's channel which is a nightcore version of an English cover by rockleetist x Ashe witch sounds amazing.
Congrats for 200k! Waiting for your reaction to both Excuse my rudeness and Live Again by Calli! Maybe both in one video?
If you enjoyed this one and want another emotional song from before, I highly recommend checking out 'Hazy Skyscraper' by Demondice.