User blog:Peachygotit-Kica/Song for the DATE interpretation

As I was riding the bus home today, I had Song for the DATE stuck in my head. And you know how it has an interesting drama-style music video? Well, I was humming the song and I was thinking about Mano's final solo concert tour. And I was thinking about how it was titled, "DATE" then it hit me. I know you probably already thought of this, but I just realized now what "DATE" Song for the DATE was talking about! The date of her final concert tour! Song for the DATE also happens to be one of the encore songs. This fits so well. I mean the whole question for the meaning behind the music video and the lyrics fit into this!

The song lyrics talk about Mano and "you" and recalling all of the dreams and happy and bad times "we" had, and there's a little bit about school there. Well, the "you" is most definitely the fans and Hello! Project. All of the times she had with the members of Hello! Project as well as her fans from Hello! Project. Near the end, it talks about how the hearts of her and the Hello! Project members and her fans all connect. Later on, it talks about how even though "our" journey together was only up until that DATE (her graduation), she'll always be singing just like before.

It's a really good message and I can't help but think that maybe this was meant to be a graduation message. Maybe not her last single with Hello! Project, but a message for her announcement of graduation.

The music video fits in well too. Like the one wearing black represents the self that Mano will become when she grows out of Hello! Project. The white one represents her current self withing Hello! Project and the white dress kind of represents Hello! Project itself. How they go on the chase and act throughout the video is kind of like the conflicting feelings about graduation. And in the middle, when the white Mano and black one sing together, and the white dress is in the same web the black Mano was in at the start, and how the posters get burned represent her choice of graduation.

This is just an interpretation I thought I'd share. I have to get back to math homework now.