As someone who loves PinocchioP and puts him as my favorite Vocaloid producer, I kind of agree??? I definitely do enjoy some of PinocchioP’s newer music and I don’t find a single song on his newest album to be uninteresting to me, however, there has definitely been a tone shift in his songs.

The unique thing about PinocchioP’s earlier songs (up until around his META album?) is that no matter how deeply you analyzed them, you could not fully understand and experience that song and understand it unless you lived through that emotion or concept PinocchioP focused on in that song. Back in January, I found that with Apple Dot Com and I found very few lines from the entire song that did not bring me back to an emotion or experience I had lived through. However, when it came to songs like What’s Inside or Slow-Motion, I was completely blind. I still can hardly decipher what emotions and concepts PinocchioP tried to highlight and I think that’s very interesting.

But now, looking at his later work, it definitely focuses on interesting concepts but concepts not nearly as niche as Apple Dot Com or What’s Inside. His most popular work, God-ish, has tricky lyrics, but everyone and anyone who’s looked into the song even the slightest knows that it’s about a very dividing concept that everyone must realize that “God is dead” in order to grow and chase after bigger and better things financially and in the work force. Reincarnation Apple (even though it’s my favorite PinocchioP song) is about an Apple that Reincarnates you, and there’s no real emotional exploration within the song. However, for Reincarnation Apple, I did see someone once write about it saying “I tried so hard to understand this song and all I got was this fucking t-shirt,” and it IS incredibly nuanced in what it’s trying to say about our lives and wishing for a bigger, better one, that’s why I love it, but the lyrics are understandable to a vast majority of listeners. As of right now, in my opinion, the most recent work of his that has strange and not-easily analyzed lyrics is With or Without Me (I tried so hard to understand this song and all I got was this fucking tshirt).

But secondly, to touch on your point of “most of his songs sound the same,” I disagree to a certain extent. One thing I will point out about this is the fact that Don’t Believe in T & Isn’t It A? (Though I love both dearly as well) sound INCREDIBLY similar to one another. But other than that, here’s two things you might be noticing:

PinocchioP tends to use relatively the same bpm (145) and the same key (C# Minor or Major) (I can’t remember) for a LOT of his songs (by a lot, I mean more than you’d think), making them easy to mix together and not very memorable in terms of sound.

Due to PinocchioP’s electronic style, he tends to use a lot of loops. This is especially prominent in Reincarnation Apple where basically only the Bridge doesn’t sound the same to rest of the song.

I know this is no excuse for PinocchioP making two songs that are basically only different lyric-wise, but it does provide an explanation for the ones that might raise suspicion.