While prepping for this [eventually-not-Daily] Music Video Picks series, I have been doing some mental sorting for music videos from the past year or so that I know I have liked. Trying to turn it into actual sorting into playlists and notes. That kind of thing.
Then, something occurred that took some time to fix… I had a “pretty clear” notion of a video that I watched in 2025, but I realized I had it tagged incorrectly in my brain. Let me explain…
My mental notes went something like this:
- Japanese (absolutely sure), heard on Youtube (absolutely sure), and not a song I had downloaded at the time (pretty sure)
- Female singer (almost entirely sure but I left in the exception that it could have been a male-fronted band with a female-presenting actor on screen since that seems common enough)
- Alt Rock // Shoegaze (really sure)
- Person is in a green field (fairly sure) and there might be some shots of an ocean or body of water (maybe sure). There is 100% a green/gold motif in the color scheme
- There was a scene with a picnic table and this is possibly at the end as a celebration (pretty sure)
- The guys in the video (bandmates?) are doing various tasks while she is a more a wanderer (it was getting flimsy at this point)
- There is a scene where the singer (?) rescues her male bandmates (?) and they drive around in a Japanese-style mini-van (I was sure of the car scene, other aspects maybe less so)
- A scene with a person on a ladder? (I don’t know, man)
- I heard the song around the time I had found out about wowdow and Chili Beans and was listening to those bands (like, maybe…it was getting pretty vague)
- This was tied into the mental stress of the international move and was part of that era where we constantly boxing and packing up stuff and Youtube was a primary media experience. May or June 2025?
- I kind of remembered the video and channel having a lower subscriber and view count, but so it goes because luck and The Algorithm are both terrible role-models (actually pretty sure about this)
Then a day or two ago I went “Wait, what song was that?” For reasons I do not know, at least not clearly, I realized my brain had come to associate the song with either Crazy Blues or tiny yawn. Except I have music from both of them and listen to them on fairly frequent rotation [and Crazy Blues should show up on MVP in a day or two]. Despite being of a similar music fit, there were no close videos in either of their catalogs.
I had a mental cataloging error and I wanted to fix it (while showing a band some love).
As I begin a shallow dive, I got discouraged super fast. Because both Goat Life’s “Narcissus” and Yureruwayurei’s “Echoes of a Fading Girl” showed up fairly fast in my notes/lists and had the kind of visual imagery that was really close but also completely different. You also had Kurayamisaka’s “Sekisei Inko” (I think I only listened to this once, around that time, but it was nice). Again, not really close, but certain elements showed up that made me start to wonder if I had mashed together several visual tropes and came up with a song that did not exist [at least not anywhere close to my scant memories].
I looked through my liked videos (which Youtube caps at 5k1) and a large music video playlist I’ve kept for a few years but have let lapse for several long stretches. Neither had anything else that was a closer match.
I sorted the Entire Youtube Watch History options to just “music” and spent around half an hour doing a deep dive through all of 2025’s for myself. Nothing showed up better than the three, above.
There was a non-zero chance that even I had not Frankenstein’d a video out disparate parts, I might be looking at a piece of removed media. My music video playlist had a half-dozen or so that were gone. In a couple of cases, I could get some information. In others, I had pretty much nothing besides a note that some were unavailable. If I have liked more than 5K videos since watching it and hadn’t saved it to a playlist to begin with, would Youtube even tell me about the gap in my history? No seems to be the answer.
This morning I sat down and gave myself an hour and a half to go page by page through my Youtube history. All of it. 1000s of videos. Random shorts. AI slop pushed into Up Next. Multiple copies of the same song or video rewatched a few times. It took a while. I mean, it took a while just to get back to August 2025.
Assuming I was correct in my timing.
Then I went to more or less every music video in the list and clicked on them (unless I knew them pretty well). Just in case I was recalling a few scenes out of context. Knowing that there was a chance the video was just gone. Or that I had already found out in pieces across other videos.
I figured if nothing else I would go all the way back to January 2025 and hoped my browser wouldn’t melt.
From April 30, 2025, I found this cluster of things:
And viola! Presenting to you as very special bonus episode of Music Video Picks: Shirotsume Biboroku’s “Accelerator Petal”:
My brain had recalled almost the exact placement on the shelf but not name of the band or song. Reference librarian brain is weird.
Now that I had the song, though, let’s take a look at how close my other details were:
- Color motif was pretty spot on (there was more blue than I remembered, but I can see my brain would have shunted that to a more filler color)
- Many of the storyboard details were actually correct as was the general band composition and genre but there were odd gaps and mistakes
- The vehicle is in a significant amount of the video not just a quick shot like I thought
- The picnic table shows up for a nice scene and then kind of makes a much shorter cameo than I recalled. Glad I wasn’t skipping to the end of the videos or it wouldn’t have worked at all…
- There is no ladder at all. One of the band members is doing some work next to a tree and that’s all I got
- Body of water is pretty dang significant
Song is good. I like it a lot. I wish I had gone back and listened to it more when it was fresh but it was a rough time to sort stuff and no doubt a lot of things got lost in the wash.
Unfortunately, looks like I found them at pretty much the exact wrong time. Shirotsume Biboroku had shrunk over 2025 and 2026 to just three members and then just two and then just one (the drummer was the last to go). Or maybe it’s the right time, just in case the channel and video does actually disappear. At least I have a record, now.
There was a good bye concert very recently. Like, 25 July 2026. Just last week. I wish them all super well.
The most recent song, “Atmosphere” is good and not a bad way to go out, all things considered.
If Hana Ohara ever rebuilds the band, I hope Youtube lets me know before a full year has passed. Otherwise, I might have to go digging again.
My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube (usually). No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little). It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.
You can see the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.
CREDITS
Most of the artwork comes from obvious places and linked videos. The last picture is a screenshot from their IG page (it’s linked if you click on the photo).
The four “memory bank photos” are all from Unsplash:
- Picnic by Jennie Clavel on Unsplash
- Minivan by Christopher Neu on Unsplash
- Ladder by Frank Eiffert on Unsplash
- Woman in field by Klara Kulikova on Unsplash
- Eventual spoilers, I think it had capped out right before it would have exposed the song, by the way. That’s how my Youtube videos I like. ↩︎
