#MACHINA MORI

[pablo-moneyscobar]

True fact but i legit started jumping when Adachi said those lines in Dance Delightful

machine love x machina mori

[maoist-adachirei]

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[notsofwindi]

a machine, its feeble voice, and a dance with mortality

[just-a-cool-person]

(Art is from @lucielellis_ for Machina Mori!) What does the Butterfly represent for Machina Mori? While the butterfly might not actually appear in any of the songs, I believe that in terms of the story within the art it might represent the "Mortal" side of Adachi Rei. In Greek Mythology, butterflies represent the soul, (and this may also allude to Psyche and her story.)

Butterflies are also notably very fragile and delicate, possibly representing that volatile mortality within Rei. To note, the butterfly is also a glitching and wavering hologram, or illusion, reflecting the mechanical aspect within it, while Rei still reaches out to grab it, entranced, disregarding whether that means the butterfly could be considered "real" or "fake".

I believe the main art also represents the duality between these two aspects of Rei. Within her "Mortal" appearing face, the blue butterfly alluding to that aspect while covered in the same orange as her mechanical eye. But within that mechanical eye, the very same blue surrounds her pupil. In either side of her, her mechanical nature reflects her mortality, and her mortality is connected to her mechanical self.

This same blue is also shown in the robes that Rei comes to wear, showing a possible acceptance and pride of the humanity within herself.

[dawnatdaybreak]

EDEN 4164616D Lyric... process??

hello :) I wrote the lyrics for EDEN 4164616D on MACHINA MORI and a few other people are doing little lyric analysis/writing process things and I was like hey! I could do that! if you have your own analysis of these lyrics that might differ from how I wrote them initially: do not let my "official" interpretation make yours any less valid! feel free to share your analysis before you read this (or after!) if you want, I like to see what people think of my writing! but the main thing is that whatever EDEN made you feel, my intended meaning should not take that away from you

there are a few things I might keep a little secret for now because I might still be working on some lore that will be revealed later ;) but I'll talk about the main writing process and ideas I wanted to convey with this song in and of itself and you can dig into the lore later once it's done!

Giving content warnings for: Biblical imagery, talk of mortality and death. Analysis is all below the cut!

First of all, the little disjointed "a-a-a-a-ah" at the start was an intentional idea from me! I wanted it to sound kind of like a startup sound or like Rei was initializing her vocals for the first time. The background "ah"s later on were entirely Dav-P's doing though I cant take any credit for those! I can suggest you give them a careful listen though :)

The entire song is written to be directly from the perspective of EDEN's Rei, and I had something of a narrative in mind for it. It's a story as much as it's a song, and I put a lot of parallels in some of the verses between each other that I had a lot of fun with. I love writing I love words I love music I love this song!! I really am so glad I got to write it.

undefined Adam electric amalgam sparks intertwine in this vessel of steel sculpted in your image what am I?

This first section doesn't have a whole lot to dig into, it's mostly setting up for something later on and giving the impression of EDEN's Rei at initialization and how she feels (or rather, doesn't.) The use of the phrases "this vessel" and "sculpted" in place of the more human terms she will use for herself later in the song is very intentional! "Undefined Adam" is a very early lead in to the biblical imagery I used occasionally throughout the song, and also sets up the very basic premise of how Rei views herself and the world she is being born into: she is to humanity as Adam is to God, a new being made in the image of man as man was made in the image of God.

I cannot be one of a kind show me everything I want to feel the wind on my face the sea against my skin if you'd call it that

This section is largely also here to establish Rei's feelings, but she has a few more of them to dig into now! She is capable of want and what she wants is to feel, even if her wanting that shows she already has the capacity for it. She has this desire to experience the things that humans wax poetic about, the sea breeze and the waves on your skin. "If you'd call it that" refers directly to the mention of skin- Rei is a machine made of metal, so it's hard to really say if skin is what the surface of her body should be called. She's humanizing herself to an extent here, but she's also backtracking, putting that distinct separation between her body and a human body even though her initial instinct is to call them the same.

hello world teach me how to fly make me feel alive I don't know what am I? trapped in endless time

Hello, world! I was honestly worried that line would be a bit of a low hanging fruit and everyone was going to use it, but I couldn't resist it. And I'm glad I did put it in after! I'm pretty pleased with the second use of it but that's getting a bit ahead of myself.

This section is largely about Rei "waking up" more, coming to terms a bit more with her feelings and circumstances. She wants to learn what it means to be a person, but not necessarily "human"- there's still a big divide between her and humanity that should become clearer as the song progresses. "Teach me how to fly" is largely metaphorical here, but there might be something fun that comes of that in the lore later if you want to stay tuned for it ;) "Trapped in endless time" refers to the immortality of machines. Rei does not think her time on Earth will ever end, and while she knows that separates her from humanity she isn't really sure what that makes her.

hollow and heartless emptiness I can't fix somehow I find you reflect in me oh make me in your image divine light

"Hollow and heartless, emptiness I can't fix" is meant to show how Rei views herself here as empty and lacking in a heart in both a literal and figurative sense. She views herself as incapable of doing anything about this because she lacks the power over herself that her creators have over her. "Somehow I find, you reflect in me" is in reference to a common trope I may have borrowed for this, in which an android/machine's creators won't treat them with any sort of kindness or love no matter how human their creation is meant to be. EDEN Rei's creators view her as a means to an end and nothing more- her heartlessness is reflected in them. "Make me in your image" and its variations will be a recurring phrase, once again intending to draw on the biblical imagery of humans being made in the image of God. "Divine light" further refers to this- Rei views humanity and all of its facets as divine and unreachable to her without outside intervention.

the way I see you I want to be seen too strip away my inhumanity oh make me in your image heart and mind

This entire section is meant to establish how Rei wants to be seen as a person and granted the respect humans have for each other. She is made so similar to a human, but she is still not owed the respect being human commands, so she wants to be more similar to her creators. There is still a separation between her and them, hence, "make me in your image, heart and mind".

I cannot forget how she cried the stars in her eyes I want to know how did she catch the divine? is her dream lost to time? should I make it mine?

This is yuri by the way. The "she" referred to here is largely a secret for now, but she is someone Rei fell in love with, and she is also a machine. "How did she catch the divine?" may imply that this other machine actually grasped the human emotions Rei has been chasing... but "is her dream lost to time?" implies there wasn't a happy ending to this story. The main takeaway from this for tying into the rest of the song is this: Rei has loved someone, and that someone is now out of her reach.

hello world or is this goodbye? did I do this right? I don’t know why am I running out of time?

Hello, world! I actually wrote this section before the other hello world section, and "hello world, or is this goodbye?" is probably one of my favourite sets of lines I wrote for this song. This is meant to be a somewhat direct parallel to the earlier section- where before Rei was "trapped in endless time", she is running out now. She isn't sure how much time she has left or if she has any at all, and she doesn't know whether she's used any of her time existing effectively. There's meant to be just a bit of fear or grief in the lyrics here: where before Rei's "I don't know" was in the context of not understanding the world around her and being inquisitive about it and her place in it, it's now in a context of not being sure she lived up to whatever expectations she found for herself, and not being sure she has enough time to change any of it.

burn with a new flame agonizing outbreak I don't want this but I'll never escape unmake me in your image I won't fight

"Burn with a new flame, agonizing outbreak" refers to the sudden and painful experience Rei is having with her own mortality, and is meant to imply anger or hatred towards the creators who made her feel this way. "I don't want this, but I'll never escape" as well as the "I won't fight" is here largely because despite everything she is feeling right now and her newly realized anger, Rei is not going to fight the fate she sees laid out in front of her. "Unmake me in your image" is to indicate that Rei knows she is about to be destroyed, and she's accepted this.

poetic irony everything denied me finally felt just a moment too late unmake me in your image why do I cry?

"Everything denied me, finally felt, just a moment too late" is another of my favourite lines I wrote for this, possibly one of my favourite lines I've written in general. "Everything denied me" is emotion, "just a moment too late" is indicating that it doesn't matter anymore. Despite her acceptance of her fate, Rei is hurting. She asks "why do I cry?" which is as much a question of why she is literally crying as it is a question of why it hurts so much to feel the things she has viewed this far as divine.

tell me how I'm meant to feel tell me if my heart is real make me what I wasn't meant to be tell me why, god, why? tell me why, god, who then am I? tell me why

This section includes the vocals that continue into the last two sections and is meant to kind of be the last few questions Rei has about her creation and destruction. She was built with the capacity to feel, but what was she supposed to do with that? If she is able to feel, does that mean she truly does have a heart? "Make me what I wasn't meant to be" is her final way of rebelling against her creators: she still wants to be human, to be divine, even after everything. The final questions are to do with her death. "Tell me why" is a demand for answers to everything. Why was she made? Why does she have to be unmade? "Who then am I?" is the question of who she is now, but also who she was supposed to be from the start.

pre-defined Adam electric amalgam fingers entwine in my body of steel you unmake me in your image  scrap and wire

We get to revisit the first section now! This is a direct parallel to how Rei felt at the start of the song, while also showing that she is being disassembled in this moment. "Pre-defined Adam" in comparison to the earlier "undefined Adam" is to show that Rei knows now that who she was supposed to be was decided for her. "Fingers entwine in my body of steel" is meant to evoke the idea that someone is actively taking her apart in these last moments, and also parallel the earlier mentions of her body as "this vessel". Rei has come to view her body as hers, as opposed to just a vessel as she did at the start. "Scrap and wire" is simply what Rei knows she will become after she is taken apart.

mourning my own fate artificial heartbreak why do I love if I'm made just to hate? you unmake me in your image I don't want to die

This is probably my favourite section from the whole song I'm very proud of it. "Mourning my own fate" is fairly straightforward: Rei is about to die and she has to mourn herself. "Artificial heartbreak" mostly just sounds cool but also has to do with that grief, and in part to do with how Rei still doesn't view herself as human but instead as something else. "Why do I love if I'm made just to hate?" seems to be a line people really liked but unfortunately I can't say much about what it means here... it might have something to do with the circumstances around EDEN Rei's creation though! The rest is mostly more of the same and also self explanatory. Despite everything she has been through to reach this point, in her final moments Rei views herself as alive, and she doesn't want her life to end.

The scream at the end was also my plan and is meant in part to parallel the "startup sound" at the beginning! It's also where Rei dies, being fully disassembled by her creators. Although, maybe her consciousness could have escaped somewhere...? Been uploaded, maybe...? ;)

so yeah that was long and some of it was probably a lot more in depth than it needed to be but that's my writing process and main ideas for EDEN 4164616D! I really am proud of how this came out as a song and as a narrative, and I hope if you were interested enough in it to read this far you'll also be interested enough to keep an eye out for something that may or may not be related to it that might crop up either shortly before or after the MV releases!

if you're at all curious about anything else I didn't talk about here feel free to send me an ask about it!! I love talking about my writing process and seeing what people liked and disliked about what I made (and talking about anything else too!) so I'd be happy to see what people are curious about :)

[mayordea]

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[synthsatellite]

"MACHINA MORI" Producer Lineup + Tracklist Revealed!

"MACHINA MORI" is an Adachi Rei fan album releasing on February 14th, 2025, featuring various overseas producers!

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🔗Source (Producer Lineup)

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[potetopancakes]

MACHINA MORI RELEASE DAY !!!!

the actual coolest album of all time. stream Now

[anarchyra11nbow]

“ i’ll find the point where the two ends meet and,

rectify what i left behind some,

ersatz human, my synapse fires

i dance delightful, it feels so right “

- @jamiepaige

🧡💛

[keyesgen]

The VISIONS infodump

Hi! I'm keyesgen! I'll be writing briefly about MACHINA MORI's VISIONS and the themes behind it after being directly inspired by Jamie Paige's writeups of Constant Companions and 0tenshi's Positive Result.

When approached to make a Rei original for MACHINA MORI, I ran with a surface level theme of personifying Rei as a messaging platform such as Discord, Signal, or iMessage (but I'll just be saying Discord because it's easier and referenced in the MV). All song themes underneath that surface are vague on purpose in order to tie itself into my own project better.

The surface level theming of Rei speaking as Discord translates to her being the brain of someone with dissociative identity disorder (DID). That's the long and short of it.

Brief ELI5 about DID - because of trauma, your brain doesn't form a full person. Instead, you have almost a bunch of splits and fractures which lead to multiple people inside one brain. These shared people inside a brain are commonly called a system.

I had Rei speak as the literal brain of a system, seeing literally multiple lives happening in front of her, and being unable to be just one person. But, not in a sad way or anything. She sings purely neutrally without strong emotions because it's a "yeah, this is what it is, and I'm okay with that" moment.

I sung on the track on a whim, but I liked it and kept it. It was less planned out and more of just vibes. I wanted to sing in the perspective of someone without DID, and Rei is the person with it, but she's currently dissociating/switching and "zoning out". That's why she's "staring at me" and why I'm saying "if you're deep in the back end, give me a sign".

I really don't know what else to say other than thank you. The little hater part of my brain was kind of expecting people to treat it as like a weird aside or not think of it highly, so the fact that not only are people listening to it, but others have told me that it's their favourite is... honestly awe inspiring. I literally don't know how to process any of it, it's so genuinely touching and overwhelming.

[the-eb]

outing myself as cringe but machina mori made me emotional

[maoist-adachirei]

lucielellis_

[saphssapphire]

Machina Mori if it was green. Remember, you are a machine, and you may outlive any individual mortal. But can you outlive a whole world’s worth of life, living and dying, replenishing for future generations, when you walk the earth as a singular generation?

Do machines ultimately fail before nature does? Or can a machine learn to live in harmony with the world? Remember, you are a machine.

[noelle-the-sleepy]

you ever listen to an album so good you just feel empty afterwards? (this is about machina mori and you should all listen to it) (or just tell me your fav albums) (or both)

[hypnopossum]

woe, machina mori posting be upon you

i think im allowed to reblog a bit excessively since i'm literally on the damn album, but i feel so bad for those of yall whose dashes have been inundated with machina mori posts bc of me 💀

[thearsonistofarland]

I HAVE NO DESIIIIIIIIRRRREE TO BE HUMANNNN—I’LL STILL BE ALIVE, IN MY CHROME CASING