DYE

Original music and lyrics by AVTechNO and illustration by kior. Sung by Megurine Luka.
 * Nicovideo Broadcast (removed by the author)
 * Youtube Broadcast

Background
The song deals with wanting to retain individuality ("existence might be thin"), not overly stand out ("look large"), and be accepted by society ("the color that other people like") all at the same time, using being "dyed" as a metaphor.

The backtrack is dark and warped, but the most striking part of the song is that even though the song is in English, the large amounts of synthesizer and the mixing of Luka's voice with the lyrics make it very difficult for even English-speaking listeners to understand the song without the lyrics provided on AVTechNO's website. The song is even harder for Japanese listeners to understand, as the translation is not directly placed on the song. Instead, there are strings of katakana encoded in hexadecimal 16 on the video. The letters and numbers must be decoded to the katakana (which yields the pronunciation of the translation), and the katakana must be transliterated to the proper kanji in order to create a textual variant (which must be deduced by context). Even then, some words are omitted in the strings, and a proper English/Japanese translator is required for a Japanese listener to properly understand the song.