Drummer Reacts to "Mili - Fly, My Wings"

[@TigerBrows]

The lines "A genius, perfect job / Isn't that enough? Isn't that enough?" and "Please die, little dreams" never fail to get me. The raw emotion in Cassie's vocals just...

[@ascendedsleeper7820]

"Is my thirst for normalcy odd" always makes me sob.

[@NMC213]

Fun fact of today's Mili song: "IDEAL" "ODD" and "THAT'S ALL" are highlighted because they are rought homophones in Korean... they all read more or less "Yi Sang", and that is the ALSO name of the character this battle theme is dedicated to (he is not the boss tho', he's just that, the one this song is dedicated to, as this plays during the peak of his character arc) oh! by the by, those 3 words were the root of the entire song, the singer confirmed it, first she thought about how to play with the character's name (again: Yi Sang), and when those 3 words where decided, she wrote the rest of the song In other news, how's the copyright sinkhole treating you? if you got in trouble I would feel at least a bit guilty for pointing you to challenge the claims... (and if you got the approval, be it by Mili or by defaulting, then I want to go all "told ya :3" on you XD)

[@roowdy6721]

Cassie basically said herself that as soon as she learnt about the Yi Sang talking in puns throughout the game, she had the urge to incorporate them in the song

[@dezpac4912]

To add a little more of fun facts. the character Yi sang is based on a actual person, Yi sang. who is often considered to be one of the most 'genius' writer of the modern times(19th century) in history of Korean literature. a novel call 'wing' is one of his best works. which seems to be a motif this song. Yi sang was a person who was deeply fascinated in the concept of 'modernism'. Though, the reality of modern life was far from what he expected. As he felt, it was null. Therefore in the novel 'wing' (which the main character is told to be a reflection of Yi sang, himself.) shows a tragic life of a fallen man. The novel is famous for its first phrase "Have you heard of of a genius, who've became a taxidermy" and the final sequence. At the end of the novel, the main character stands on a rooftop of the department store (which was considered as a symbol of modern culture at the time). He tries to shout "sprout out, my wings. let's fly. fly, once more. let's fly for just one more time." but his voice didn't came out. Then it says he went back on the ground. The phrase "he went back on the ground" has multiple interpretation between the scholars. some say it means, even though he couldn't speak out his eager for ideal he didn't gave up his hope, came down from the rooftop and walked himself back to home. The others say the expression "he went back on the ground" is an illustration of suicide. since he couldn't shout out, he couldn't overcome the depression, therefore he threw himself to the ground from the rooftop.

[@nullvix718]

The whole Canto/Chapter this songs plays in is very sad and it's focus character actually has depression. So this whole song really hits when it starts to play

[@stalin7073]

Im starting to recognize a pattern when we get one terrifying chapter with a lot of suffering pain and worst City's horrors and another Canto with some kind of sad, depressed but relaxed plot (except for Canto 2. It wasnt depressing at all, but still had some kind of happy ending). So based on all of the above, I have to guess that in Canto 5 we will see lots of suffering, which will result in terrifying boss music . Im actually excited to hear that when Canto 5 ends

[@theboi2880]

@@stalin7073spot on for canto 5

[@blue_jesus9252]

​@@stalin7073actual Canto V music: HER COMPASS IS CURIOSITY! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@peavuh]

@@stalin7073 i mean ehhhhhh

[@stalin7073]

@@peavuh yeah, i was hella wrong. Everything is just getting worse

[@kontrol42]

“Let’s not scare people away” *Dramatic flashbacks of Love Town and puppets*

[@wispytea12]

Of course, the main overarching idea of “lament” is present in this video. To me, this song is meant to embody how it feels to be at your absolute lowest moment. However, there’s an element of hope there, too. Once you find your wings, you can be free, move on from the forces that staked you down and imprisoned you in the past.

[@tepig2828]

“When you look at your reflection in the mirror, you see the ideal version of yourself that you want to be, yet feeling unable to reach that possibility, you lament over an unobtainable dream. But that is not the truth, the mirror does not just show possibilities of what could have been, it also shows what can still be created, so if your reflection has wings, than you too can fly”

[@inhalerisinsane]

did someone say lament DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING

[@Der_Freischutz_H_E]

@@inhalerisinsane so solemn, lets lament

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

What absolutely drives me insane is the fact no one recognizes what the camellia line means. They symbolize love and devotion, which of course ties onto freedom

[@simplythecat4068]

Mili also has a lot of non-Project Moon(i.e. Limbus and Ruina) related songs, they often write opening or closing songs for different anime titles(like goblin slayer for example) or just original songs, and there's a lot of great stuff there.

[@hessianqrow7977]

The cow doesn't recognize you now deny the world 😮

[@whately3178]

Now I just remember the cow edit

[@HappyLovesNymph]

*distorts* You know what I don't even care anymore *gains ego*

[@DilaccioLuna]

"okay miss carmen." "wait a minute, i don't respect women." (awakens ego)

[@vastunliking3817]

​@@DilaccioLuna"Carmen, I wish to listen to you" "For distortion?" "Haha, yes." [ Awakens E.G.O like a boss instead. ]

[@sillygooberbutsillier]

@@DilaccioLunamysoginist in the project moon verse op Fr!!!

[@serostrat22]

Ideal

[@SomethingHere56]

truely so

[@lustynairu]

Ideal.

[@null-proxy8827]

Ideal.

[@typicalanimevillian]

Ideal.

[@GoetheFaust002]

ideal!

[@thederpydragonair2107]

Mili is no stranger to what many would see as dark topics, in much of their music, there is that dark undertone in the lyrics, and the lyrics themselves are very unorthodox compared to normal writing. There are reasons as to why i've been such a huge mili fan for many years. the music is so unique and is just phenomenal

[@ziitania9939]

I'm always happy to see more people reacting to Mili. I think I mentioned this previously, but I found Mili through their collaboration with Project Moon on Library of Ruina, and grew to become a huge fan of theirs, even in songs unrelated to Limbus or Ruina. I also just like the subtle horror and dark subject matter that a lot of Mili's songs cover, ranging from the existential dread of AI and loneliness in songs like "world.execute(me)" to songs like this one, "Fly, My Wings" about reaching out for dreams that you think you can never reach, and a genius who just wants to experience 'normalcy'. Alright, returning to lurker mode now, thank you for the amazing content as always!

[@DeliciousFriendHastur]

this is certainly IDEAL

[@Shadow6OO]

I'm really interested in whatever the next boss theme will end up being since it's following the theme of my favorite character, but it's going to be a month or two (or maybe longer with delays) until we get to experience the new chapter.

[@Disorder2312]

The release dates were already shown, and we will (most certainly, following the usual pattern of final bosses) get the next mili song on the 30th of November, with the release of the 3rd part of Canto V. I think there is no way it would get delayed even further, because this is already a highly delayed release compared to the original plan, and we are so close to it at this point.

[@lavashechik]

Were you satisfied?

[@Shadow6OO]

@@lavashechik I meant Don Quixote at the time. But yeah, Heathcliff's was definitely the best so far.

[@travellerwith2l]

@@Shadow6OO are you satisfied?

[@Shadow6OO]

@@travellerwith2l Yes

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

2:11 camellias mean love and devotion

[@muhc2931]

As someone who grew up with a near prodigious level of intelligence. I found people would infinitely heighten the bar for expectations and thay my life became railroaded. Eventually i became severely ill psychologically as a result and spiralled. In chaining myself to melancholy i ended up isolating for years and utterly ruining all prospects for myself. This song, the entirety of canto four destroyed me. It left me a gibbering wreck. Something about yi sang shook me to my core and the music itself broke me. This song from Mili will always be important to me, because it serves as a muse for me that im going to choose my own path in life and i want to be the best at it. That path i thought would be impossible, merely is a long road in which i lacked the faith to overcome. All i ever needed was to take a single footstep

[@DilaccioLuna]

yi sang in real life (but with no rotten potatos and spoiled milk 😢)

[@Thirty_Five]

we are yi sang... this truly has been our ideal...

[@tepig2828]

As much as I love this song, I wish we had a version that mirrored how it worked in game. Here is a breakdown of how it plays through this 3 phase boss fight Phase 1 plays from “Fly Broken Wings” to “Closer to our ideal”. It loops the lyrics twice before transitioning to a full instrumental of the same part until the start of Phase 2. Phase 2 turns on the lyrics from wherever the instrumental is currently at now adding on the second verse from “Teary eyes” to the humming part. After two loops it transitions once more to a full instrumental. Phase 3 adds back in the lyrics only now it adds the third verse with the loop to the start now happening right before “the soil gave me warmth”. Once again, the song switches to an instrumental after 2 loops. When you get the boss down to 1 hp, the song instantly moves to “the soil gave me warmth” part as the final cutscene starts to play, ultimately culminating in the “Fly Perfect Wings” section playing in sync with when you deal the final hit to the boss.

[@JannetFenix]

A song of hope. Of finding resolve to move on. It... it was the nudge i needed.

[@LevtoChannel]

This song is good on itself, but is whole on another level with context. Compared to Between Two Worlds in Limbus previous story chapter, that was good too, but that's it, just fitting the theme of the chapter and battle. But this, damn, simply just, Ideal

[@gibas_3177]

the message on canto 4 and 5 really hit me

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

1:00 the character this song is about has a name that sounds similar to the Korean word for ideal, and constantly makes puns relating to it.

[@shlflfe-cedprqul1891]

Fly, My Wings is the piece that plays during the final boss of Canto IV (Canto, instead of chapter, in reference to Dante's Inferno) of the main story. They implemented this song in the bossfight as an adaptive piece, where parts of the lyrics would slowly be unlocked the further you progress through the fight, and the piano melody would fill in as a loop to extend the length of the song, with occasional repeats of the lyrics to remind you of the themes of the entire chapter. The final drop of the piece would play as its own in-game cutscene, displaying what many could only describe as a masterful ending to a play that transcribed the life and struggles of a once humble research team which developed technologies for the sake of it, rather than for profit. Project Moon, despite their controversies, is known for being masters of storytelling and IMO its been a while since they last peaked at their writing. Usually, every time they would collaborate with Mili to make a song dedicated to a certain character or group of characters, you could feel the writers pouring their hearts out the way their art is presented. Canto III did this to some extent but it lacked a little more something to make me feel like the writing deserved a Mili song. Don't get me wrong, Between Two Worlds is special, but idk if Canto III deserved something that grand. Though now, knowing how well written Canto IV is, whenever the main story of Limbus Company comes to some closure, I can trust PM to make In Hell We Live, Lament feel even harder than it already does with the context whatever the story will be in the future and the context of the 13 (maybe 14) pieces of literature the 15 characters of the main cast are based off. IDK what the patreon list looks like right now, but I hope some songs from Library of Ruina (PM's previous game) pop up, because I'd love to hear your reaction and short analysis of them. Especially Iron Lotus and And Then is Heard No More. God Library of Ruina was so good.

[@Disorder2312]

It's just that Canto III had a very special aspect that many players love (or hate), which is the N Corp Inquisition, and of course for their brutality and design in particular, but i would agree maybe that the summary of it was way too brief, becuase after all, all of it had to be released with the rest of the chapters, so might have been a bit rushed. I'm not that huge fan of Canto IV as seemingly the majority of the player base is, but maybe i would agree that if Canto III was written in a similar way, it would've been much better. But that's just a preference i guess. I was quite disappointed by the Canto IV ending, and even the song Fly, My Wings, as i expected it was just the first part, plus i didn't feel the boss to be that challenging. I still can't properly catch the feeling of the whole story, even as i tried to dive deep into it after all this time. Maybe that's even the whole point. A noticeable good thing for me was that it only clarified a lot of lore questions, and made even more of them...

[@shlflfe-cedprqul1891]

@@Disorder2312 Ill be honest and say that Canto III story was pretty ok for me overall. I don't know if the rest of the fanbase just liked N Corp because it brings some more brutality back into the game's story because the first few chapters kinda made the City look somewhat livable in. Gameplay-wise Canto III sucks because of the level curve which is likely why I have a bias against it. I just found the story an interesting reshaping of Sinclair's book of origin, Demian. Even still, I'm not sure I like exactly how the dungeon told the story. It really wasn't that hard for me either, the dungeon. Canto IV on the other hand, I thought that the writing was bordering on pretty slow, having a few filler pieces of dialogue here and there, thought definitely a lot less than the first half or so of Canto III. Difficulty is kinda whatever at some point of the regular stages. Things just slowly fell into pieces by 4-54. Even though its like technically not even that long, the aspect of Yi Sang's life as a researcher being put into a play was amazing for me. It felt significantly more valuable for me to fully complete the dungeon compared to Canto III's dungeon because of that. This is also the Canto where I actually needed to use my brain again against Dongbaek's multiple EGO forms and Dongrang's two fights in the dungeon. Like, the fact that I actually had to read in this game for once is an achievement. It felt like I was playing Library of Ruina again, and I think that's an amazing achievement for a game that, to me, felt like simplified LoR. Even if those fights weren't hard for some people, LoR was never "hard" to begin with, you just had to read, experiment, and calculate risks. It did require a lot of reading and trying to understand the mechanics to understand all the game's ins and outs but that was a more enjoyable experience even if it was technically 'hard'.

[@chillzbacon7397]

@@shlflfe-cedprqul1891 it already peaked at 4-47 onwards (dongbaek's sunshower ego fight) imo

[@Kagira2006]

Believe it or not, this is a boss theme.

[@MrMuel1205]

This one definitely gives me "Komm, süßer Tod" vibes.

[@enkephalin.]

how thoiugh? Komm Susser Tod is about someone wishing not for suicide but to feel death and would greet it with open hands if it knocked on their door, Fly my wings is about a character finally finding hope and light after despairing over what happened, or is it the music itself? (if so i can understand)

[@Peppers_mintus]

​@@enkephalin. I think he actually meant that give me Wings song in one of the rebuild movies

[@enkephalin.]

? what rebuild movie? Did i miss something on the song or are we talking bout evangelion now?@@Peppers_mintus

[@terraelaweonao]

God I loved this chapter (lore, boss and music wise. Regular battles were somewhat of a hindrance) This song is good and the way it was delivered in game was superb (Through the different Boss phases, the song would "unlock" the next part. That final *oomph* being a beautiful cinematic using the gameplay style) Also, another Limbus recommendation would be Dongbaek's theme, it isn't a Mili song and doesn't have vocals, but I think it's worth listening because of how beautiful it is. (it's also from the same chapter) And after that I don't think there's much more to cover about Limbus, but there's a whole lot to cover about Library of Ruina (the prequel)

[@H.FPV_ASIA]

"That's all" = "이상이오" = "I'm yi sang" As korean its a little joke

[@enkephalin.]

I hate this boss, It was so unfair and hard, because I LITERALLY couldn't see anything with my tears flooding my eyes..(its sarcastic btw :D)

[@ong317]

Song have a power mili also so powerful moon project also

[@okbro1909]

ideal

[@wower342]

Need me some Children of the City or And so is heard no more for the next mili reaction

[@Sk1fsy]

Ideal. 이상적.

[@BurningTNT]

“Heavy themes with light delivery” …no one mention Salt, Pepper, Birds and the Though Police I think it’d kill him

[@БруноБуччелати-н6б]

Nah, we'd mention Distorted Boris' theme.

[@gigablast4129]

i thought this song was more on the hopeful side with its ending

[@arknightsgamer8396]

Me waiting for iron lotus

[@reisenudongein.1]

Would you do Goblin Slayer OP by mili?

[@CatharsisYT]

I would but I've heard it already 👀

[@reisenudongein.1]

@@CatharsisYT Ahsht

[@SunshowerWonderlab]

​@@CatharsisYTthen do "And Then Is Heard No More" also by MILI?

[@Petterwass]

I love this song and how it is about seeing your vision, your invention, your dream being perverted and ruined by capitalism, for profit

[@lop90ful1]

Bro where the fuck did you get rhis idea lmao

[@LTDLetsPlays]

no you took the wrong thıng out of the song

[@wymarsane7305]

Imagine being so brainrotted that you have to make everything about capitalism.

[@Disorder2312]

@@LTDLetsPlays Can you explain how is this exactly wrong? Unless you already did, since there are 2 censored replies. I myself struggle to see the distinct intention of this song, so i'm not offended by any interpretation.

[@haifafarras8540]

What