Okay something has been bugging me pretty severely now.
PONPONPON is a song released by きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu). It's known for it's adorable and annoyingly catchy tune and overly cute vocals. Okay, okay any person who doesn't understand Japanese would label this song being about little kids. I've let everyone at work listen to this song and they see this song as a "Kick, clap / head, shoulder, knee and toes" child-song. On YouTube (where the PV and song became viral) more than half of the people posting comments, comment about the song being childish (hence for children).
When men reads the translated lyrics it becomes pretty clear that the song isn't about little children, but more about progressing and eventually giving up.
"But all I can do is keep going forward—I hate it I hate it"
"every day PON every time is PON, but maybe it’s pointless…"
Then again, the chorus consist out of "PON" and "way" which don't really have a meaning.
(microphone out of ear)
Now it becomes VERY WEIRD. The video starts of with the ¿microphone? going through the (2nd) character (the redhead)'s ear.... Okay. We see that the room is divided, on the left and right side there are lots of toys and on the right side we have a window, in the middle the (other /main) character stands. Then a brain pops up, and later on many weird ornaments are seen flying; skulls, fishes, military tanks, turtles, birds, hearts, bones, a bird with a crown, bee's, a saw, boxing gloves, glasses, eyes, another skull with only one eyeball........ The list CONTINUES.
(crows before)
(What grabs my attention is that the second character barfs out crows (black birds) and then they appear in the main room (where the girl dances) = this clarifies that the second character can execute her "might" on the girl, who I believe is unharmed and innocent (now).
(crows after)
The scariest and weirdest thing however must be the dancer in pink with her face masked, who pops up after the brain let her.... She copies EVERY single move Kyary makes. And what is weird is that she mostly appears at the window, maybe meaning that she cannot be in the same room as Kyary herself? (There were a few screens featuring them both, but the 3rd character (the dancer) was edited in).
And also the 2nd character (redhead) doesn't appear with kyary as well.. However, 2nd char and 3rd char do appear together.
(light emanating from the skull)
(ring above the tv)
And then something happens which grabbed my attention immediately, at midway (of the PV) kyary holds a yellow TV with the second character on screen.
A ring (which dead angels wear, to sign that they've died, like in Dragonball Z when Vegeta or Goku die, they get those yellow golden rings, only now it's a pink one). ~~~ A ring appears above the television, suggesting that she has died, or will die soon ???
The PV on YouTube is different than the one that has aired on TV. On the picture below you can see that:
(see how both PV's are the exact same except for the contents of the mirror)
Circled in RED: Proportions are the exact same.
Circled in YELLOW: Proportions of the window is the same but it shows a whole new different sight of kyary. In the YouTube PV we only see her face, in the TV PV we see her full head with light emanating from it.
The skull (resembling death) emanates yellow light as well which highly imply that the 2nd character has died?
So far, it's pretty confusing, weird and kinda horrifying what ideas you can come up with by watching this PV. The scariest thing has to happen though.
Because,
there is supposed to be a hidden message in all of this.
When you play this song backwards you hear this:
"
Shi-ne" (You are dead / You'll die)
"Majinaí wo suru wa" (Perform a trick)
"Mou inai ne" (Nobody over / Nobody left)
"Iki tomeru ze" (Terminate breath)
"Mou nan nimo naino" (Nothing left)
"Mou inai ne" (Nobody over / Nobody left)
"
Un mei ni shiyou yo" (Let's make this your fate)
"SEKAI mo owaru shi" (The WORLD will end)
"Nani mo nai shi" (Nothing left)
How do you feel about this and what is your interpretation about the PV and song? I hate struggling with so many interpretations of my own, and it has been bugging me a lot, since I want to know just WHAT exactly is the hidden meaning of this song. Nevertheless I enjoy the brilliant instrumentation, and kyary's vocals stay so darn hypnotizing.
(I should sleep now, it's 4PM and I have to wake up early, DAMN YOU KYARY)
(PICTURES WON'T SHOW UP, that's why I put them as link!)