MORI CALLIOPE 5 SONG STUDY: End of a Life/LET'S JUST CRASH/Off with Their Heads/Q/Orpheus

I'm sure you've seen hints of how crazy the fanbase for Hololive can be. But to give an idea; Kay Yu, the animator they commissioned for the Q music video, decided to take the plot of the MV and make a video game out of it. Holocure: Save the Fans is a clone of Vampire Survivors. With how well made and content-rich Holocure is, it's often lauded as the best version of that game, even by non-VTuber fans who don't know what a Gawr Gura is lol. He also refuses to monetize the game, which Hololive would love to let him do.

Looking at credits for "Off With Their Heads" she did not produce it. She did "Rap/Lyrics/Movie," and the song track and mix was done by AO. She has recently talked about wanting to produce her own music so she can better control the final sound. I'm sure we can all relate to explaining something abstract to someone else. 40:54 Personally I would say she enunciates her words. What you call her low voice is her normal speaking voice. 42:40 Knox Hill got into it because this showed her skill as a lyricist and rapper. Knox spent more time talking about double, triple, and quadruple meanings and her flows than listening. She also warps words to work for her, which many rap lyricists respect. 58:00 Even as a Deadbeat, I would love to see a deep dive on Sora (if you search "[given name] ch" in youtube the talent will be the top). The only issue is according to Cover's guidelines, all of her songs are off limits.

"Swinging the scythe" or just "swinging" for short is Calli's allegory for work and effort a euphemism that comes from her persona as the Grim Reaper's apprentice, her job was to swing her scythe and take lives. "I hope you're ready to be swinging till the night falls" is her challenge to people to work, work, work if they want to achieve their dreams. For a while, Calli was working 2 full time jobs, a 3rd part time job, and only got like 4 hours of sleep most nights. But that's her lesson, that's what she says in the song it takes to be successful. "You will never succeed unless you put everything into something you're passionate about."

Dad is one of the few Hololive members who signed with a big time record label, she has a little more freedom to do out of pocket collabs and interviews, thanks to her extensive music career. If you ever feel the urge to reach out to her for a music interview or vtuber deep dive, there's a non-zero chance that she may be able to do it with you.

I think the most attractive thing about her is that she's so self-aware and able to accept her own limitations, which seems ridiculous considering how talented she is. She also has a self-depricating sense of humor and gets along very well with everyone at Hololive. She truly appreciates everyone contributing to it. What an amazing attitude!

There's a fairly important song Calli wrote for her Holomyth gen-members, called "Non-Fiction." All five members get solo parts, and there's a lot of intensity. It's a very sweet piece devoted to their fans.

I'm not a Deadbeat and I don't always like her songs, but I have a lot of respect for Mori. She is a very hard working individual, always constantly working on projects and not afraid to try something new or different. Anytime I see her as a gust on a live or concert, I look forward to it.

Also, would LOVE a video covering a full album listen! I feel that albums are almost a lost art in this day and age. Artists put so much effort into the construction of the songs and how one flows from one to the next, to put together a full experience from beginning to end. Calli likewise pours great effort into this, making a listen through her albums more than the sum of its parts.

Man, I absolutely loved this reaction! I can't wait to see you react to more of Calli's music. Regarding End of a Life: as others have noted, it was her response to what was lost in the Japanese underground music scene with Covid and the world she left behind in finding her success in Hololive. This included losing a number of friends from that world. However, I want to call out two friends, the Japanese duo Boogie Vox, that stuck with her and supported her, with whom she did a collab song titled "Crown", released about a month after End of a Life. It's a triumphant anthem that, to me, pairs with EoaL, with one speaking of loss and the other focusing on moving ahead to find that success you've been striving towards for so long. I really hope that a future Calli video could also include Crown! https://youtu.be/OSw_0FmjmEE?si=9NzHnkpG-2fLsRZE

Im SOOOO exited for tomorows stream cause when i listen to music its like 90% vocaloid and thats not a phase i do this for 6 jears and not stoping soon. giga tedyloid and deco are all vocaloid producers btw

If you want to check out her albums, id say the newer the better. Disasterpiece is probably her most diverse

If you want more of her singing, definitely check out Through the Blue, Last Days, and Memento! There's another Gachiakuta song from Calli called Rivals and Equals, the music video for it has a bunch of fans in it

She has started doing a good bit of metal training. She did another metal song recently that is really good.

I first discovered Calli when I came across End of a Life and I immediately got drawn in. It’s now considered my favorite song and also my inspiration for wanting to be a singer and musician myself. I still listen to the song everyday 4 years after its release as a reminder of my dreams and how hard I need to work for myself to achieve them. That song has so much that you can unpack in the lyrics, singing techniques, and even just the imagery in the music video. There was also a small ending part of the song you missed out on that has some more deep lyricism. A lot of what I love about Calli is that she’s has such a diverse arsenal of music and styles that she is willing to use and it has really shown in her most recent album Disasterpiece. The funniest part about being a huge fan of Calli is that I’m not even a big fan of rap music in general, but there has always been something different with her and so she’s the exception to me. Also some older songs of hers that you might want to check out at some point are Red, Last Days, Donmai. Thanks for the reactions Tim! I’m glad that you really enjoyed her music and I hope you continue to enjoy the diverse world of music that Calli and many other VTubers have to offer! Also we always welcome new Deadbeats! <3

Wanted to note that Off With Their Heads wasn't self-produced, it was produced by Ao/THHK. He's a part of a duo group called FAKE TYPE. that specializes in electro-swing.

Amazing!!! Calli is truly one of the pillars of the english vtubing scene, so it's cool that you're exploring her music more. Selfishly I hope you get the chance to do a deeper dive into "end of a life", it's my favourite song of hers, no contest. I'd love to see you get into the lyrics, lyric-writing is one of Calli's big strengths and "end of a life" is one of her most vulnerable, sentimental songs. Take note of the producer, "Pretty Patterns": with any luck you'll be seeing that name again soon, it seems like he's got a talent for producing emotional songs for vtubers XD So before she was "Mori Calliope", Calli was immersed in the underground rap/electroswing/hip hop scene in Tokyo. She and her friends just wanted to break through, but I get the sense that there was a free kind of camaraderie in the indie way they were all doing things. So when Calli "went corporate" with Hololive you can imagine that there was resentment from her old friends who saw her new career as "selling out". From what I gather a lot of her old friends turned their backs on her when she made it big. And "end of a life" is all about that emotional chasm between who she used to be when she was just an indie musician and who she is now, with all this potential in front of her, leaving the past behind. Something about that premise, combined with her immaculate lyric-writing, and the sentimental production just brings me to tears every time I hear this song. I hope you'll get the chance to dig a bit deeper into it, because it really comes from her heart. At the time, she even didn't want to release the song because she thought it was too vulnerable and too much of a pivot from her edgy tough style. I'm so grateful that she did release it because it became iconic to me and to a lot of her fans.

Even if she won’t hype herself up much and doesn’t think she always deserves it, but it’s easy to see why Universal Records signed her.

Calli is really great and she writes the lyrics for almost all of her songs. She's an amazing lyricist where every little thing can have 2-3 meanings depending on how you approach them. It's really incredible. Tin hat time: I had made a comment on the Orpheus video about noticing the paper boat and life preserver in the video 3 months later. For some reason.... Calli liked the comment. Was the only one she liked that far out from release. Which really got me wondering and looking into it, the part of the song those things appear in is a part where she talking about no matter what critics or anyone says, I'll always be your fan..... which really makes me wonder if it was a purposeful message. I like to think so.

Don’t know if you want to watch this short clip or not, but it’s Mori talking about End of a Life and gets pretty emotional talking about it. Her old friends there in Japan literally talked her into applying to Hololive when everything shut down for covid. Then got jealous and mad with all the success Myth had to start and abandoned her. https://youtu.be/2zmQbHNItjc?si=sbwQDhXc5ItPPkns

For her i really like her disasterpiece album It is probably my favourite vtuber album. It is very diverse. Orphans and let's just crash are part of that album

The music video of let's just crash does not use any characters from the show. It is an animated mv with her character in it. Most anime openings have separate music videos, it's the same here