Hakugin

As always Eve songs are a banger, that’s why on these reviews I don’t focus on the song, instead on the video and message.

"Hakugin" or "Snow" is the 9th track in the album "Smile". This song has a very common and simple message but one that people should be more aware of.

The video starts with everything in monochrome tones and the main character which we can easily notice, depressed and unsatisfied with his life. Since the start we see an elf and him but as a kid, both are painted with a brilliant and vivid pink, but they are still monochromatic. In Japan, they use ... the word rose or the terms "rose-colored life" "rose-colored youth" to describe happiness, peace and childhood. When the main character starts reminding his youth and childhood represented by the elf and his kid version, he rediscovers the joys of life. Changing his “rosed-colored glasses”, watching his childhood with joy and happiness as a metaphor of how he changes his vision of the world that surrounds him. Instead of watching an insipid monochrome world he decides to watch it now in a more colorful way. Also, Eve is using the transition between winter and spring as a thematic element to tell the story, since spring is often seen as the renaissance and renewal of life which clearly relates to the main character situation.

We enclose ourselves in obligations, we conscientiously demand ourselves because that is how society has taught us. You must study / work, you must be to contribute something to society because otherwise you will become an outcast.
What happens is that many people focus only on contributing to society and forgets about themselves. Therefore, we have simply forgotten how to be as happy as when we were children. So, it is in our hand to get out the inner child that keeps our deepest illusions and moves us. Because we never forget our inner child, we put it aside and we lose that purity magic, capacity for wonder and never better said, “rose-colored life”.

When we were children, we slept with toys so any of them could get mad.
With the pen that had many colors, we tried to press all the buttons at the same time
We pretended to be sleeping so that our parents would take us to bed.
We sat at the computer just to draw in paint.
By eating the seeds, we were scared to death by the fact that a tree would grow in us.
Our childhood was happier than our youth and we didn’t even know that we were happier than now.
Without us realizing…
Remember when we were kids, and we couldn’t wait to grow up?