2023-02-24: Diamond Crevasse MV Release

Today, February 24, 0097, the long-anticipated music video for Sheryl Nome's Diamond Crevasse has dropped on Blu-Ray and other similar physical media! The cover features Sheryl in the crimson evening dress from the music video, standing at the top of a cliff made of rough-hewn diamond, an iridescent butterfly mask dangling from her fingertips. Sheryl herself faces away from the viewer to gaze up at a starry moonlit sky as the wind blows through her hair.

In addition to the video itself, there's also a lengthy making-of video that features interviews with Sheryl and members of the production crew, as well as the live adaptation of the music video that was performed during Sheryl's birthday concert on November 23, 0096. The box also has an insert featuring a booklet of the lyrics and photo shoots of various shots during the music video.

The music video itself is as follows:

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVuho32VSQo (Diamond Crevasse)
       
       The screen lights up with a shot of the early evening sky, which pans down to a city resembling Venice--those aware would know it's Neo Venezia, a recreation of the sunken metropolis--as rain falls in slow motion, almost suspended in midair.
       
       "Dear Lord in Heaven
       "Back when I was deep in love with you
       "There was not a moment when
       "I imagined such a parting would tear us in two... oooh..."
       
       Sheryl in a beautiful red evening dress strides slowly out into the rainy city, a butterfly-esque mask on her features. The shot switches to a view of the Macross Galaxy cityspace, though few present would be able to recognize it as such; it pans over to a dirty slum building, where a little girl huddles on a stairwell. A kitten rushes up the steps to her, drawing her attention.
       
       "If we were fated to never touch each other again
       "Then at least, before I wept, I wanted you to hold me tight and forget for then
       "Our long, long good-bye...
       "'Farewell to thee, farewell to thee,' times twenty thousand
       "So tenderly and cruelly to myself I said
       "Your gentleness when you waved your hand hitched my breath
       "So I want you now to answer me..."
       
       A sideswipe brings Sheryl back into view as she stops and stands before a grand piano, pulling off her mask to reveal a sorrowful expression. She plays a few notes with her long, delicate fingers, and a throng of masks seem to stare eyelessly down at her. A top-down pan of a church shows the little girl and the kitten again, clearly tired and empty-eyed. Sheryl plays several chords on the piano, and the mask flies away. She spins towards it, devastated, but it's too late, and the thrusters on a Variable Fighter burn.
       
       "I encountered you, and then I was born as the stars glittered above
       "So long as I live, so shall I continue to love
       "What's the point in waiting for a hopeless miracle you claim's forgone?
       "'Cause the shining of those stars, blurred by my tears, are all gone..."
       "I encountered you, and then I was born as the stars glittered above
       "So long as I live, so shall I continue to love
       "What's the point in waiting for a hopeless miracle you claim's forgone?
       "'Cause the shining of those stars, blurred by my tears, are all gone--"
       
       Playing with impassioned grief, Sheryl sings her heart out. Trailing blue light, the piano and Sheryl seem to fly over the city and into the starry night sky. On one of the canals of Neo Venezia, Sheryl glides down on a gondola, a lantern in hand. A silhouette in the foreground of the little girl watches, and Sheryl startles, staring up and over at her. Again the piano soars by, now passing over the full moon, before Sheryl's gondola reaches a dock. Down a dirty alleyway, the little girl and the kitten sit on a dumpster, head hanging, until she abruptly looks up.
       
       "If one day we can be reborn into a world where we're safe and free
       "Then I know I'll find you again, I know you'll race straight to me
       "Never let me go, let us never again take love for granted
       "'I won't let you feel alone,' I want you to whisper to me, planet..."
       
       A top view shows Sheryl playing the piano once more, now out in the vast expanses of space. In the alleyway, Sheryl reaches out to the little girl with a smile, who takes her hand, and the two of them embrace each other--until the little girl dissolves into motes of light. Sheryl looks around in confusion, the gondola fading into reality around her as she stares up at the starry, moonlit sky.
       
       From a bridge down the river, a paper airplane swoops in towards the gondola and lands in the water next to it. Blinking, Sheryl picks it up, and when she pulls it out, it is now her butterfly mask, returned to her. She smiles in joy as the light glitters off her iconic drop earring; then she gazes, comforted and in peace, up at the shimmering white moon as the last notes of the song warble out and a shooting star passes by.