taboo tears you up

Song Information

taboo tears you up's jacket.

Artist: REDALiCE (HARDCORE TANO*C)
Composition: ZUN (Team Shanghai Alice)
Arrangement: REDALiCE
Movie: kouks
Album: 東方萃翠酒酔 (2007)
BPM: 180
Length: 2:22
maimai Genre: 東方Project
CHUNITHM Genre: 東方Project
First Music Game Appearance: maimai MURASAKi
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

Japanese

長く薄暗い　闇の中
確かなものは　右手の目だけ
あるとき　ようやくきづいたの
この世の目を　掌握するわたし
あらゆることが　つまらないから
握りつぶせば　世界の崩壊？
終末の前に　紅茶を飲もう
とっておきのエキスは　そう、あなた

近頃なんだか　面白くない
お姉様は神社に　入り浸り
追いかけようにも　お外は豪雨
雨は大キライ　イライラするから
館をつぶせば　戻ってくるかな
あれあれ　変なやつらがやってきた？
退屈だったし　弾幕ごっこ
あなたにコンティニューさせないんだから

Romaji

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Romaji

nagaku usugurai yami no naka
tashika na mono wa migite no me dake
aru toki youyaku kizuitara
kono yo no me wo shouaku suru watashi
arayuru koto ga tsumaranai kara
nigiri tsubuseba sekai no houkai?
shuumatsu no mae ni koucha wo nomou
totte oki no ekisu wa sou, anata

chikagoro nan da ga omoshirokunai
oneesama wa jinja ni iri bitari
oi kakeyou ni mo osoto wa gou'u
ame wa daikirai iraira suru kara
yakata wo tsubuseba modotte kuru ka na
are are hen na yatsura ga yatte kita?
taikutsu datta shi danmaku gokko
anata ni CONTINUE sasenai n dakara

English

Translation modified from Touhou Wiki.

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English

In the depths of a long and gloomy darkness
All I know for sure is the "eye" in my right hand
Eventually I finally understood
That I'm tightly gripping the world's eye
Everything is just so boring, so
If I break it, will the world be destroyed?
Let's drink some black tea before it all ends
The best essence comes, yes, from you

Lately, nothing interesting's been happening
My big sister just keeps going to the shrine
I thought I'd go after her, but it's pouring outside
I hate the rain, it makes me mad
I wonder if she'd come back if I broke the mansion
Oh, what's that? Some strange people have come around
I was really bored, so let's play danmaku
I won't let you continue

Song Connections / Remixes

taboo tears you up is a mashup of U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか？ (known as U.N. Owen was Her? in the English version), Extra Boss theme; ツェペシュの幼き末裔 (The Young Descendant of Tepes), Final Stage theme; 亡き王女の為のセプテット (Septette for the Dead Princess), Final Boss theme; and 魔法少女達の百年祭 (The Centennial Festival for Magical Girls), Extra Stage theme; all from the Touhou Project game, 東方紅魔郷～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
Two arrangements of taboo tears you up exist:
- taboo tears you up 2008 appears on REDALiCE's SCARLET EYES album, and is playable in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.
- taboo tears you up 2017 appears on REDALiCE's SELECTiONS album.
  - Two different arrangements of taboo tears you up 2017 exist, each sampling different songs:
    - taboo tears you up 2017 -GC EDIT-, playable in GROOVE COASTER WAI WAI PARTY!!!!.
    - taboo tears you up 2017【WACCA Edition】, playable in WACCA.
taboo tears you up references many songs from the BEMANI series: it samples a portion of the melody from waxing and wanding and GOLD RUSH, and shares samples with Go Berzerk, SigSig, Second Heaven, HELL SCAPER, and The legend of MAX.
- The 2008 version additionally shares samples with Do it!! Do it!!, B4U and ICARUS.

Trivia

Like many of IOSYS's songs, taboo tears you up was originally made as a Flash animation.
taboo tears you up was added to maimai MURASAKi at launch.
taboo tears you up was added to CHUNITHM AIR PLUS on May 25th, 2017.
- taboo tears you up was added to CHUNITHM SUPER STAR at launch.
taboo tears you up's CHUNITHM ID is among CHUNITHM songs, suggesting it was supposed to be added to the game earlier.
taboo tears you up received a WORLD'S END chart in CHUNITHM STAR on November 22th, 2017.
- This WORLD'S END chart was added to CHUNITHM SUPER STAR PLUS at launch. It was removed from the Asian version of CHUNITHM NEW.
taboo tears you up received DX charts in maimai でらっくす UNiVERSE at launch in both Japan and Asia. These charts can be unlocked until September 14th, 2022 by filling out a Stamp Card.
- In the Chinese version, these charts were added by default to 舞萌DX 2022 on December 16th, 2022.
taboo tears you up received an ULTIMA chart in CHUNITHM LUMINOUS on March 21st, 2024.

Genre Changes

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

maimai difficulty rated 1 to 13 from MURASAKi to MiLK PLUS, 1 to 14 from FiNALE to でらっくす, and 1 to 15 from でらっくす PLUS onwards.
CHUNITHM difficulty rated 1 to 14 from AIR PLUS to PARADISE LOST, 1 to 15 from NEW to LUMINOUS, and 1 to 15+ from LUMINOUS PLUS onwards.
WORLD'S END difficulty rated from 1 to 5 stars.
(Ratings and notecounts obtained from maimai on gamerch, and CHUNITHM and オンゲキ wikis on wikiwiki.)

maimai

Standard Charts

Game	Level
Game	Easy	Basic	Advanced	Expert	Master	Re:Master
Notecounts	109	273	367	545	937	-
(Tap / Hold / Slide / Break)	83 / 16 / 8 / 2	234 / 25 / 8 / 6	318 / 23 / 13 / 13	420 / 50 / 55 / 20	719 / 44 / 137 / 37	-
Chart Designer	-	-	-	ぴちネコ	如月ゆかり	-
maimai MURASAKi	3	5	7	9	11	-
maimai MURASAKi PLUS→FiNALE	3	5	7	9	11+	-
maimai でらっくす	-	5	7	9	11+	-
maimai でらっくす PLUS	-	5	7	10	12	-
maimai でらっくす Splash→UNiVERSE	-	5	7	10	12+	-
maimai でらっくす UNiVERSE PLUS	-	6	7	11	13	-
maimai でらっくす FESTiVAL→Present	-	6	8	11	13	-

DX Charts

Game	Level
Game	Basic	Advanced	Expert	Master	Re:Master
Notecounts	142	373	501	937	-
(Tap / Hold / Slide / Touch / Break)	98 / 20 / 4 / 16 / 4	294 / 17 / 23 / 28 / 11	378 / 62 / 28 / 26 / 7	651 / 106 / 95 / 52 / 33	-
Chart Designer	-	-	はっぴー	サファ太	-
maimai でらっくす UNiVERSE	4	7+	10+	13+	-
maimai でらっくす UNiVERSE PLUS→Present	3	7+	10+	13+	-

CHUNITHM

Game	Level
Game	Basic	Advanced	Expert	Master	Ultima
Notecounts	437	741	1166	1645	2429
(Tap / Hold / Slide / Air / Flick)	229 / 96 / 44 / 68	383 / 146 / 149 / 63	720 / 118 / 203 / 125	1049 / 70 / 88 / 391 / 47	1398 / 111 / 103 / 584 / 233
Chart Designer	-	-	ロシェ@ペンギン	ぴちネコ	Taboo "Forbidden Notes"
CHUNITHM AIR PLUS→PARADISE LOST	3	6	9	12+	-
CHUNITHM NEW→SUN PLUS	3	6	9+	13+	-
CHUNITHM LUMINOUS→Present	3	6	9+	13+	14+