So when I first heard about the Digital Essay in class and how we were to make a “AMV” for part of our final project, a song immediately popped into my head.
Its this..
song is called Rainbow Girl
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(Lyrics is in vid)
Now this version is sung by a voice synthesizer known as Hatsune Miku. The original version was sung by a group of “supposed” lonely nerds on 2ch (message board). The song is essentially about their 2D love. (note: a bit of background, this 2D love phenomenon is a type of subculture in that some in Japan and small groups of Japanophiles outside the country follow. The gist is that they “reject” love with real women and either by a combination of self-esteem problems, extreme shallowness, constant rejection, social awkwardness, and with just a splash of misogyny, prefer their pure 2D characters be they from anime, manga or dating sims).
Now the reason that this appealed to me at first is that if I do use this song, it will be a bit self-depreciating (as I am unfortunately, seem to be one of “them”), which appeals to me quite a bit. However, I also realize that the “topic” that would be related to the song, which would most likely be something about high-expectations or false love/happiness will be a bit hard to find among the poems listed in the readings which would mean I would have to work hard to search it. And the fact of the matter is, its going to be hard to find a working thesis for such a topic.
So yeah….thats my update.
Any help or tips would be much appreciated.
