A Crow's Trial / Dex & Gumi Eng

(ah the era of when i temporarily went by i0lite...good times)
*checks off obligatory crow song from list*
(edit: I’m also checking off fire gumi song bc of the final chorus lyrics)

NO but fr this song was so fun to write? I started with the pre-chorus both compositionally and lyrically, and kind of just went ham? The lyrics were inspired by older nonsensical vocaloid songs, particularly stuff like deep sea city underground! i wanted to just have fun writing something that made no sense and i really did have fun!! it's def more experimental than my usual, so i really hope people like it !!

the crow boy is named kieran, and the girl is named nina. while the lyrics are nonsensical, that isn't to say it's impossible to interpret a story from it. i definitely have my version of what happens in the song, but i'd like to hear what you all think ;)

I would like to give an OH so sexy shoutout to the people who helped me out this time!! Jelly blew me away with their incredible art! They were able to get the vibes of the song perfect and I'm so so glad I commission them!! GHOST also did an amazing job with the pv editing, and I'm so glad I asked them to do it!! I can't forget Pumpkin Head tho!! He did, once again, an amazing job tuning!! You should really check out his works if you haven't already, because if you like the vibes of this song you will like his music!! He tunes for most of my music and I'm ever so grateful :'D

I think that's all I gotta say!! I hope you enjoy!!

also im trying new title format Just Bc
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Credits
Song: Me! Vane!

Art: Jelly

PV: GHOST

Tuning: Pumpkin Head

[squidthecolor]

ok but can we talk about how the taxi ride is 186 dollars usd?
like damn

[deadlydingus]

Broke: birds are drones used by the government.
Woke: birds are the government.

[CorelexVoidOwl]

Two things I learned from this song:
1. Don’t smoke, kids.
2. Nina pulled an UNO reverse card to Kieran

[ratsmacker]

but can we talk about the poor zombie for a minute smh

[abbybeckstrand]

Remember kids, smoking is bad for you. If someone offers you a cigarette, just say no and eat the devil's heart instead

[solstlce]

dont smoke kids


this post was made by the bird gang

[vflower]

This song went in so many directions, it felt like a movie with a single picture

[ponkansoup]

now all you have to do is gumi fire song and then you are officially a vocaloid producer

[surv_val]

this song is rly good but the line "take a shot" at the end sounds so much like "take a shit" and i cant get over it

[akuma]

"little miss, this isn't the deal we had!!" gives me chills every time. i don't know why, but it just feels so powerful - the betrayal and fear in that line is amazing

[garemy]

So... did the mannequin get their taxi?

[justvibin]

You know those songs that are just like "this is going to consume my soul for a few days as I listen to it fifty times in a row"
This is one of those

[UmbraticForest]

Me when I end up in purgatory and usurp the devil

[tacticalpudding]

I might be reading into it a little much, but I have some ideas about those crows sitting on the stoplight. According to some sources, three crows will often preside of a large number of crows and decide the fate of another crow. Given that, and the repeated mentions of trials, I believe those crows represent judges of some kind in the afterlife, and that the crow boy (Kieran) is secretly not a crow or somehow different from the others. He calls himself a raven in the first chorus (around 1:12), while Nina refers to him as a crow.
She also mentions his voice being familiar but not recognizing his appearance, so perhaps he was once a human and usurped a crow's position? The frontal lobe he talks abt eating controls several things, including memory, though I'm not super sure how it ties into my theory but hey, it's there and it maybe relates to, like, losing his memory or forcibly removing who he was to become a crow or something. The mentions of paramnesia (a delusion where one cannot distinguish real and fantasy memories) also makes me think memories have something to do with it. Maybe Nina rats him out to the real crows at the end in exchange for becoming a crow herself (bc she eats the devil's heart? maybe eating organs is like intitation to becoming a crow) Anyway rant over, if you bothered to read all of this, thanks??? i mean idk why you would but i appreciate it!

[Your_Future_Overlord]

I really love this song and the artwork with it but I *swear* I see Mike Wazoski's silhouette hidden behind that little cluster of people.

[Enoch-XYZ]

monochromatic reality got an amazing glow up huh

[omaskit]

Small theory! So you know that the girl betrays the crow right? What if that's because she knew him when he was alive? At the beginning of the song she said the crows voice sounded familiar to her but she didn't recognize his looks. Perhaps she's giving him a trial because he's not a full fledged Crow, maybe he was human but somehow tricked everyone to being a crow. She only recognizes him the more he guides her. She doesn't appreciate this trickery and plays a trick of her own, making it so that he'll finally get a trial.

[evorathesylvurr]

i'm probably wrong, but I've also been listening to it nonstop all day, so heres my interpretation.

nina (the girl) ends up in this place (the afterlife) and kieran (the crow man) is the devil. crow man offers her a contract (the smoke) but she refuses, and he says that she's in a web of lines. she makes a non-contract deal, and he agrees to it? regardless, he offers her a second smoke, and he swears its fine, but she says that thats a lie.

the ravens are demons, and some don't like their work? that might be a bit of a stretch, but the raven who ponders if he enjoys the gore but eats more regardless doesn't like his job as a demon. alternatively, this could be kieran pondering if he actually enjoys making these contracts, but hes stated to be a crow.


eventually nina learns more about whatever the place is, and overthrows the court, taking kieran's place as the devil and "eats his heart" taking his place. i'm not sure what the trials are supposed to represent/be but they're important because the devil tells their victim to "wait for trial".


thats really all i can think of but the song is really really good!

Update: I knew the underworld thing from a tweet before the summary, BUT after the summary was posted I feel like I was not close, but closer than I thought I'd be.

[aspen]

After only hearing this song from A Distortions Trial, the crow is a lot more attractive than I thought

[thedirtgods]

I love how this is the only to hell and back song that doesn't use the word 'love'