Deep Cut: Daybreaker Anthem - FAN LYRICS (Splatoon 3)
64Big thanks to @marniepool for the art of Deep Cut in this one!
I'm alive! I'd been sitting on this one for some time while waiting for a few things to happen and/or line up, but it's finally done! I just recently completed my Bachelor's degree and am taking something of a break before I advance toward additional school/work/broader life stuff. Expect to see more vids in the near future!
Considering I'd done every other Deep Cut song before Daybreaker released (I think it became public through a datamine before Big Betrayal dropped but idk?), it felt appropriate to use this one to sort of cap off the thematic saga I'd built up with the group's songs. I interpreted Daybreaker Anthem as Deep Cut's expression, both individually and collectively, of their appreciation for what their friendship has done for them.
Frye had long been consumed by the idea of romance, and tried and failed for years to make what felt like countless relationships work out. Just after she turned 19, she met who she thought would be "the one," and became invested with the assumption that she would marry this person. As this relationship began to decay as many had before it, she tried her best to fix it despite every indication that it couldn't be made right. The night she met Shiver (read the description of my Fins in the Air video because I wrote it before I was even aware of the Deep Cut interview that contradicts this lol), she was distraught and alone in the wake of discovering her partner being intimate with another girl behind her back. She'd given up on love, but having Shiver, and later Big Man, around convinced her that she was worth it; that she was never truly alone.
Shiver herself had also experienced difficulties with relation to her self-worth. Convinced for years that her presence was a blessing and her visage the pinnacle of beauty, she believed that she could do no wrong, and that any of her failings were the fault of those "lessers" that surrounded her. By the end of her time in high school, she'd begun to experience difficulty in keeping friends, and this continued for a number of years after she entered adulthood. Shiver's world became increasingly empty; increasingly lonely. As much as she thought herself above it, having nobody to turn to made things miserable. Something had to change. When she found Frye crying alone in a club bathroom, she of course thought her usual thoughts: "how can this benefit me? How can I prove to her that I'm the best there is?" Then, she felt empathy.
This poor girl was alone, steeped in an isolating suffering just as Shiver was. She'd had enough of trying to be the best. She just wanted to do good. As they got to know each other, their problems persisted, but they also checked one another. Shiver and Frye balanced one another out in a sense, helping them both to build a healthy sense of self-worth that they work each and every day toward making better.
As a kid, Big Man had been outgoing: always eager to make friends and have as much of a good time with as many people as he could. Years went by, and his interests began to diverge from those of the people he'd considered his friends. He stopped getting invited places, stopped being included in activities, and soon enough began to be the target of jokes and derision from classmates and former friends. Big Man internalized this mockery, doubting if he was good enough for anyone. His one remaining close friend moved across the bay to Inkopolis after high school, and although they remained on good terms, he withdrew from communication, looking to music for the hope of reassurance. At one of many small local music festivals in Splatsville, he played a DJ set right after a pair of girls: and inkling and an octoling. They sang a few covers out of key, but Big Man admired their energy and the effort they made. If he was just a bit more interesting, he thought, maybe he could be friends with them.
When the girls—Shiver and Frye he would come to know them as—introduced themselves to him, he was nearly frozen in surprise. They told him that they really liked his set and asked if it was all original stuff. Shiver told him that they were looking for a DJ to put music to some lyrics they'd written, and Frye suggested that they all meet at a tea place she knew nearby to talk more. He nearly declined, but something was different that day. This could be the start of something new. He could have friends who really liked what he did. He agreed, and the three of them would meet twice a week at that same spot to talk music, or whatever else came to mind.
How lucky they all were to have one another.
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