Mili - I Am a Fluff (Music Video) [ 360 Reality Audio ]

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Lyrics: Cassie Wei
Music: Cassie Wei & Yamato Kasai
Arrangement: Yamato Kasai

Animation & Artwork: Ao Fujimori
Compositing & Editing: AZUMA

Mixing & Recording Engineer: Satoshi Yoneda

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[Welvader]

Mili please I can't take anymore, I've been overdosing on the amount of songs y'all have been releasing lately. How can I make time in my day to be addicted to ANOTHER song when I'm already addicted to 7 others from the previous month

[cookiecreep]

Once again, guessing the genre of the next Mili song is always impossible. This is so... Strangely beautiful.

[random_user]

IT HAS A MUSIC VIDEO?? MY DAY COULDN'T BE ANY BETTER

Edit: I just realized at 1:48 the sparkles around the sphere revolve around the same way the 360 audio does in the headphones THAT'S SO COOL

[FatisDonut]

I think this song has many lines about the Voyager 1 probe and the Galileo spacecraft.

In general, a lot of the lyrics are about a satellite or space probe of some sort (i.e. floating in the Milky Way, see you again my earthling friends), Which is represented by the Fluff while back on Earth the girl can be used to track the progression of time. When the song starts notice how the Fluff is already in space, with its "bubble" unharmed and perfectly functional, similar to a newly launched space probe.

Here are some of the things I noticed in the MV/song.

- At 0:13 notice how the sphere where the Fluffy resides somewhat resembles Earth and at 0:15 you can see something blue flash in their eyes- either its pupils or a reflection of something blue...

- At 0:29 the path traced by the trail of stars resembles a spiral which is similar to the path many probes take when traversing space. The blowing out of candles obviously represents the passage of time, in this case, one year.

- At 0:37 the girl makes her first appearance, appearing to be still studying in school. But this is where I first audibly gasped... notice where she is located!

Right in between the lamp and the moon.

So notice the star shape in the lamp? That is a very common symbol used to symbolize the north star, Polaris. If you open a constellation map and locate Polaris and the moon... you'd realize that the girl is located right where Voyager 1 was in the night sky for most of its journey (1980-now), right in between the Ophiuchus and Hercules constellations!

This means that the song parallels both the human girl on Earth and the Fluffy satellite as one and the same. As usual, it is often hard to tell which of the two are singing which can change the interpretation of the song. My guess is that the girl and the Voyager are the same age, so since the girl looks to be a teenager the most likely year should be around 1990 (Voyager launched in 1977).

The potted sprout and the nest of eggs do not glow in the sky and are unlikely to correspond to any constellations, but both do symbolize "birth" or "youth".

Additionally, notice how the girl is wearing a pendant with a golden disk? That pendant likely symbolizes the golden record which is carried by both Voyager space probes.

On a side note, I can't tell if the girl is just shedding a cold sweat or crying.

- At 0:50 the line "Don't ask me where I'll be in thirty years" and "My O2 level is already low" highlight the fact that the "Fluffy" has been on the mission for a while now. Notice how the eyes had always been open the entire song until they suddenly shut at 1:10 . This corresponds to Voyager 1 which had its cameras deactivated in 1990 after taking... a series of very famous pictures. Following that is a sequence showing how the "pale blue dot" slowly grows farther and farther away...

- We then return to the scene of the room, the girl now grown with the sprout grown as well, the lamp replaced with a strange leaf-vein-shaped lamp. The path drawn by the stars is interesting... now tracing what seems to be an orbit around the "girl" but it flickers out after one orbit.

The girl is now holding on to sheets of paper with many envelopes neatly organized on the table looking somewhat melancholic (in contrast to when she was young and they were scattered).

- Back to the Fluffy, the sphere that held it has started to break down. The same star trail also orbits around it but it flickers... no longer a constant trail. This resembles how the communications with voyager one slowly grew from daily to intermittent due to distance and to conserve energy. This funnily parallels how a long-distance relationship can be like... slowly growing distant to save energy and time, this might be tied to the symbolic meaning of the song.

"...And your dot in pale nostalgic blue" is what ultimately clued me in on the fact that this is related to Voyager 1, as "pale blue dot" taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 is one of the most iconic photos of all time, so much so that I recognized its name.

- At 2:20, the tone shifts, and things grow very interesting. The Fluffy's eyes opened but now located next to Jupiter, this breaks the timeline since Voyager 1 would have long since left the heliosphere with its camera's deactivated by the time it has taken "that" photo.

The line "...let us die, million billion times, Until we are moons of Jupiter" fits more with Galileo (famous for scientists deliberately crashing it into Jupiter) and Juno (same but scheduled for September 2025). The usage of "we are" instead of "I" is interesting, maybe the Fluffy also symbolizes other space probes as well.

The weight of an average spacecraft is around the 10^3 kg range, and a million billion times is 10^15. The death of that many spacecraft can theoretically form a stellar mass with a mass of 10^18 which would indeed become a moon of Jupiter. The threshold for becoming a moon is not exactly related to weight, but for reference, Deimos is only 10^15 kg.

In this part, many stars flash everywhere- resembling the explosions of thousands of spacecraft. Following after, many star trails now fall down, resembling the trail of spacecraft debris that light up entering Jupiter's atmosphere, becoming meteorites that streak across Jupiter's night sky.

- At 3:09, we cut back to the girl, now a grandma receiving a tiny trail of stars from the sky into a piece of paper she is holding... As if it is the final message from a distant probe far, far away. At the same time, her expression is one of happy reminiscence, no longer melancholic or stressed.

She no longer has a desk and writing utensils- representing being unable to form new memories but she still has a box full of the letters she had written within her lifetime in the corner of her room. She no longer holds a stack of papers, instead looking at just a single piece of paper.

- After that, at 3:15 there is a mention of the number "617", which is often associated with creation and death/rebirth in Mili's songs. The "Amen" that follows is also highly intriguing but for it's religious meaning and it's the literal meaning of "truly/verily".

- At 3:26 now the girl and the fluffy are together in the room, the girl is back in her teens, but just like her elder self- she holds onto only one paper with a happy expression.

- In the end there is the final shot of the space where the Fluffy once was, now just space debris floating in front of Jupiter.

[ProjectMoonFan]

This song brought back memories of my first listen to gunners in the rain… it was a peak day with my friend, this song made me remember hanging out with the fella, thanks for the peak Mili.

[quai]

So those are the jingles that Yamato-san once teased on his Twitter, very beautiful!

[chokodechibi]

Mili are working overtime, they just keep releasing songs like there is no tomorrow. I am thriving, so beautiful. This my new favorite song

[Doni_Rin]

Finally an original song from Mili world!
Love it a lot

[どぅーどぅ-pc]

MV見る前→寝る時に聞いたら心地よい曲…
見た後→ぷりケツダンスが頭から離れない…

木星の月とは衛星のことである。

[breadpriest]

THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT THANK YOU MILI!!!

[leaffallclover]

this is the character design i worship all the time since i began to live... cant believe mili used the fluffy scarf androgynous design here

[centella]

in the club straight up fluffin it!!!!

[exceed]

Dude, Mili's songs always relax me, calm me down and make me ready for the day.

[GabolateAnime]

There's a chance that the song is mainly about space stuff, but when i first heard it the feeling was like a more emotional song abt 2 people that once were friends but now they can't see each other and time passes and passes, ig its also that i had friends that were like that so the song fits with those thoughts

[Linfarquad]

I was obsessed when it first came out, I’m still obsessed now 😭

[matrix]

Just cried. Truly star-struck. Thank you for everything.
I could write up a schpeel about why I love this song, sort of like I have on a few others but I don't think I need to.
Simply out of this world. 💫💫

[twistedfatee.]

Mili can NOT just drop something this extraordinary and beautiful out of nowhere THIS IS AMAZING

[コハギ]

What an amazing experience to be able to immerse myself so deeply in the world of Mili!
I am so happy to have been born in this era🥹✨

[PunkiPunki]

"I Am A Fluff"

I am a fluff
We are fluffy puffs

Floating in the Milky Way
Anticipating our next birthday cakes

See you again
My earthling friends

Piercing through your atmosphere
Don't ask me where I'll be in thirty years
If truth be told
My O2 level is already low
Uh oh

I was watching
As my frontal lobe replayed every single piece of my earthly memories
I can't help but notice
You were always the subject

Strip me down to my birthday suit
Thinking of you
And your dot in pale nostalgic blue
Depressurize
Sign off, goodbye
Into your space here I dive

If we must die
Let us die million billion times
Until we are moons of Jupiter
If we must die
Let us die million billion times
Until we are moons of Jupiter
If we must die
Let us die million billion times
Until we are moons of Jupiter
If we must die
Let us die million billion times
Until we are moons of Jupiter

Lalala...
Lalala...
Lalala...

Expanding
Compressing
I'm stretching and shifting
Into the 617th dimension
Amen

I am a fluff
We are fluffy puffs

Floating in the Milky Way
Anticipating our next birthday cakes

[_TheMushroomMan]

Mili once again proving they cannot make a bad song.