Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30450220-20170626021526/@comment-98.197.5.70-20170626064639

Shine and Not Fall in Love with You don't have direct references to the characters in them (though in the latter case, it's likely because it wasn't actually written for the series), so there is precedent for love songs that don't have them. And there are lots of other non love-songs that never needed to include quotes from the show for people to understand who they are supposed to be about. Just look at Gold or basically any of the Weiss songs. Until now, people have been pretty good about using their context clues and accepting fairly obvious things. Bumblebee reference + puns all over the place + darkness and gloom + girl singing to another girl = Bumblebee is actually a lot less subtle then a lot of the other songs Jeff has done.

As for lack of depth, I think that's kind of by design. I think I read something about Jeff wanting to evoke the more upbeat and cheerful sort of stuff he did for the V2 soundtrack (Shine, Boop, Dream Come True, etc). Something to liven up the V4 sountrack, which let's face it, it kind of needed. I mean, with the exception of this and the acoustic version of Boop, the rest of the songs on the soundtrack are all really rather heavy in one way or another (Let's Just Live is hopeful and This Life is Mine and Armed and Ready are empowering, but none of them are at all happy. that was something it was  very much missing). Jeff wouldn't have been able to record a song with this sort of postive vibe if it was all  "oh, I loved you and I fought to save you and lost my arm and you abanadoned me" or whatever. Just because this is what Jeff wanted the song to be, doesn't really reflect anything onto the actual relationship in the show.