@napperdog8526
nobody: kikuo: wanna hear a cute cloud singing really unsettlingly?
@polarisluci
I generally love experimental music, but this is absolutely terrifying. Not like those cheap jump-scares in horror movies but like.....this creepy sinister feeling grows on you throughout the whole song, '"something is definitely wrong" kind of feeling.
@brattyz
kikuo’s old method was taking rlly fucked up concepts and making them sound adorable, but his new method is taking pretty innocent concepts and making them sound fucking terrifying
@ShimiiyDev
The gradually dropping tempo really gives us the feeling of falling down into the abyss.
@Mysticalgacha908
I survived a house fire that destroyed almost everything in my life and nothing has been the same. This song is the only thing to really encapsulate my feelings and thoughts and emotions. Listening to this song let me sleep at night when I otherwise couldn't. This song helped me cope and comforted me where other people couldn't. I am forever greatful for Kikuo's works.
@はっぴー-n4e
通知では『Cotton Candy』開いたら『わたあめ』 ふわふわ！可愛い！と思ってたら、やはり不安になる音だった……好き
@watermellon452
Everyone's gangsta till the cloud starts singing
@おじま-u8q
1小節ごとに転調してるの狂ってて気持ち良い……合法ドラッグや……
@hannahn8702
all of my stuffed plushies that I didn't invite to sleep on my bed when I was 7 coming back to haunt me during my sleep paralysis
@Sn00zeYYYY
Mom: go play outside they're only clouds The clouds outside:
@sgys3266
聴覚情報で人を不安恐怖の渦に陥れる方法を知ってるだろってくらい精神にくる
@NasuNassauSu
Me: -oh so cute fluffy cloud Also me 55 seconds later - oh my god lord cotton candy please take my soul and forgive my sins
@charliecharlie9789
This reminds me of dementia. My mother who used to work with dementia patients described it as “Losing yourself until you’re back into the mental state of a child.” Which for me explains the reversing track, wish to relive ‘the good old days’ and abrupt joyful descriptions of cotton candy. Something that is obviously synonymous with childhood and innocence. At the end of the track it all reverses until the music dies completely which for me represents the way dementia usually ends. Complete loss of self and eventual death.
@witchhazel7265
きくおさんの作る曲凄すぎて音楽を用いた現代美術って言われた方が納得出来る
@もえか-h4p3p
まって、、この子めっちゃ可愛くて怖さがこない(語彙力)
@emmychu2431
I know kikuo's songs are all unsettling in their own cutesy way, but never once have I ever would say this one takes that whole 'cute but unsettling' to the next level. Like yes cute cloud fluffy cotton candy uwu but when the beat drops, all hell breaks lose and i am ｓｃａｒｅｄ
@cosmiccreaturefan
I got the impression that this song is about the fogginess and dissociation associated with trauma. Being unable to think cleary, feeling like your mind is, well, foggy. As well as wanting to escape and go back to a time before it felt so bad. I feel that a lot of Kikuo's songs explore childhood trauma while sympathising with the innocent fear, lack of understanding and naivety that children have about their situations. This would make this song fit into that trend, too.
@postmoon
kikuo’s been making his songs more horror SOUNDING and honestly? im on board
@sorenasora1810
this song honestly sounds like the music you'd hear in the credits of a movie/game where everybody dies. soft, but still horrifying. it's lovely.
@flyingbeagle8299