

It’s very sporadic and impressive as she usually is and I’m still thinking about this one. And that this work has completed her and when it’s done she will become incomplete. The third verse is all about how she is working hard to stay relevant and not fade away. But she also is still fighting for relevancy as she sees the possibility of fading away. No doubt all the EN girls are gonna get renewed. The next part as Di’s reaction brings up, “being 5 minutes” from the end is because, Hololive contracts are only for a year, and we are around 7 months in. That was honestly my favorite verse in the entire song, this whole introspective section in the second verse. In fact she says that “this fiction’s (the mask or new persona as Calli) is no disaster in spite of it (her seperating herself from her original persona).” Right after this, she is still curious about what comes after because she knows that this won’t last forever, but she tosses those suspicions to the side for now because “there are blades to be swung yet”, meaning that she is still in the middle of it, she’s not done.

This new mask is “an alright fit” and she’s enjoying what she’s doing. According to Calli, by throwing out her past self and putting on this new mask, she struck it rich. Every talent in Hololive has a former persona, some even keep it active, but they must separate it from their Hololive self, the new “mask” that they put on. But when they sign they have to “throw out the past” or get rid of your own persona. When you are signed with Cover Corp as a part of Hololive, they ask for talent that have backgrounds in “content creation”, meaning those that are already somewhat popular. Nobody asked, but the mask is an alright fit.” What I think this refers to is the things that she and other talents in Cover Corp have done. “Ya toss out the past, and you can strike it rich. One of my favorite bars is a little after this. That doesn’t mean that she won’t fight for it tho. However, we also see how she is contemplating her future, “As this red runs black, I’ll ask you, was I everything you imagined? When my times finally up, the sun’s falling down.” Calli knows that this won’t last forever, as the second verse starts she continues this train of thought saying that she’ll relish the time she has as this persona. Her ambition has her a prisoner because there is not enough time in the day to do all that she wants. In the chorus she sings “I’ll always be a prisoner to my ambition.” Calli is telling us that she still is a workaholic business lady getting it done.

She then still works nonstop to make art, music, and entertain for fans of both of her personas. She streams at ungodly hours her time (2-3 am) to accommodate to us in the west. As she mentions a little before this and we have all seen, Calliope doesn’t sleep. It is making her work nonstop since she needs to manage both. She is Calliope Mori and she is her original persona that she is still active with. ” I think this refers to how she is split between two public personas. Towards the end of the first verse she is talking about how she’s feeling the pressure to impress and she also feels the “creeping feeling of identity battles closing in on every side of. Here are some bars that really strike me, that I think I caught. The two reaction/analyses that u recommend is Scru Face Jean’s and an indie Vtuber’s reaction by the name of Dicequeen Di. Throughout the different verses she contemplates what she’s been feeling as she’s more than halfway through her first contract with Cover, and she discusses multiple times throughout the song about what will become of her once the persona of “Calliope Mori” is gone. “Red tomorrow, Red today.” separates the song well. This is just me spitballing here as I listen to Red nonstop, along with trying to find different reactions and analyses to it.įrom what I gather, Red is about Calliope’s worries about the future and what she still wants to do today.
