Halle Uchida is an artist I came into contact with so recently but she has quickly become one of my favorite fucking artists on the Internet and maybe of all time. She literally wrote and made these songs on GarageBand and sang and animated them herself, that takes a shitton of effort honestly and it's so high quality. I'll talk about some of her songs here because they are genuinely really profound and full of intricate details and theorize on their meaning. Some of these theories I got from YouTube comments and some I made myself, so all credit to those people as I am not smart enough to think about all these details.
I recommend watching the videos before reading my theories! They are all embedded below with English subtitles. Make sure to check out the original channel and subscribe to it as well!
This song is so fucking interesting. On the surface level it's a song about a teacher and a student clearly in a relationship that commit suicide together because of their "forbidden love" and want to be reborn together, but the hidden subtext of it is just amazing. It is implied they cannot be reborn together because the teacher is a creep (obviously) and a predator that is only satisfying his twisted desires and thus in every universe gets a karmic punishment for his actions (being eaten, being a unicellular entity, living a meaningless existence). At the scene they walk past eachother the student is wearing a bunny costume (which represents them being vulnerable and preyed on) while the teacher is wearing a samurai costume (a hunter), which is pretty obvious what it means.
The low low probability of them meeting and falling in love on a past life only reinforces that, as it is something not meant to be, although it could also be interpreted as a commentary on love itself, implying that love is not something that can transcend one's single life and that it happens by mere circumstance and not fate.
This has pretty obvious subtext, but is still amazing to me. The three people, due to hardship in their lives, reunite to commit group suicide (as is sadly common in Japan), but are stopped by some force
and eventually come to the realization of how beautiful life is, only to get blown up at the end. It's a video about how you should live your life to the fullest as it can be taken away from you
at any moment.
"I've been eaten away, so spring can make room" probably means that, even in your worse moments, spring can "bloom again" inside you and you can change your outlook on things.
This is the song that made me discover Halle Uchida in the first place, and its pretty obviously about rape/sexual abuse. While the brown-haired guy gains the girl's trust and love, the black-haired man, frustrated with having no chance with her, literally travels back in time to violate her with his name at the moment of her conception, making her "his" in his own fucked-up manner. The first lines are literally "I want to take your first time, honestly by any means", he wants to dirty her so that no man can take her from him, like the part of his name scribbled all over her leaving the brown-haired guy scared.
Next, the girl is at the hospital, you can clearly see she tried to harm herself to take his name out of her which pretty obviously implies some very real shit, yet the brown-haired guy still supports her and tries to make her smile despite the circumstances, even if the memory of the man who violated her stays in her mind. The last scene of the black-haired guy literally grafted to her back can also imply that despite recovering from her trauma, the memory of him and what he did to her will haunt her forever. It's pretty heavy stuff and it's represented in a way that is very imaginative and weird.
I feel like this one is about ignorance and acceptance. In this planet where every day is Friday, when aliens come to tell a group of people in it that Friday is not the only day of the week, they go insane and kill themselves. The group of people that didn't come into contact with the aliens continue to live in ignorance, happy. The girl ignores the death of her boyfriend as she can't accept it and continues to live with him like he's still alive, happily despite living a fake life. "Ignorance is bliss".
Honestly one of the most wholesome yet disturbing videos in the channel. This (i'm assuming) lesbian couple love eachother so much they literally want to inhabit eachother and it seems like a ritual for them to literally exchange bodies once in a while in the weirdest way possible. The lyrics imply they're happy with who they are themselves but the last "I'm glad?" adds a hint of doubt to the whole thing. This song most likely is about body dysphoria but it can also be a metaphor for gender dysphoria in transgender people, wanting to look a certain way but due to how you were born not being able to, wanting to live in another person's body (in this case, literally), trying to be glad with who you are but still feeling unsure, these feelings are all very similar to whats seen in the video, and the artist has done songs with confirmedly transgender allegory before so it can be interpreted that way as well.
This is the second song Halle Uchida has ever made and the first with a hidden meaning to it. It sounds a lot like a song about Stockholm Syndrome, sung by the abuser: "You can kill people here. Of course, you can kill me. You can do whatever you want, just don't leave me." and seen through the perspective of the victim. She is given a chance to be free, but when she leaves the house she was being held captive on she only sees nothingness, an unfamiliar world, then decides to go back to the house and live the live she was living before.
I really like this one. The main character reflects on the purpose of his existence and his fear and of death, talking about it all being meaningless. At the same time, he tries to distract himself from the fear with good things like food and love. I don't know if this song is defending escapism as a way to cope with our sad reality or is against it, it can honestly go either way. It could also be about BPD with the character alternating between depression and mania, although I dunno about that.
First video with "gore" on the channel, and it is used in a very fitting way. This video can be about many things, but I assume it is about facades. The main character, the boy, hangs out with this girl and questions whether she is "real", so he tears her body apart in order to find out what part of her is really herself. At the end, he questions if even if he found the real her, would he still be able to recognize her? Outside of the facade she held for others and maybe even for him, what part would be able to recognize? Another theory would be that the song is about him being distrusting of her, but that feels like an oversimplification, at least for me.
This one is pretty sad. A girl forces a merman to live on her world despite him not being like the others, and he develops a complex from having a different body than her and other humans. At the end, he tries to "fix" himself, ending up dead, and the girl steps on him for some reason, I still have no idea about that. It probably is about body dysphoria, with him not realizing his partner loved him for who he really was and only focusing on how he thought she wanted him to be like.