Blue Butterfly Review
Justin Era E. Apelo
COL 1-J
August 6, 2025
It reminds of lo-fi, a genre of music that can be played whilst studying with minimal
distraction and inducing focus on the student listening. Although I'm not entirely sure about its
main message, what I can say is that it makes my mind wander off and think of things I haven’t
though about for a while now. Perhaps the butterfly was meant to be symbolic. A butterfly is
usually associated with beauty and elegance. Just on an instant analysis of its semantic
construction, a butter (which is soft and melts) that flies (denoting a thing that is free from the
ground or restrictions) is a dead giveaway of its characteristics. The color blue is synonymous
with sadness and/or mellowness. Inferring from previous assumptions, the song might refer to
the beauty and significance of our not-so-happy memories, that is at face value, we might think
could hurt us. However, looking back it makes us appreciate the memories we once had, as
intense, ache-inducing, painful as it was yet it can be seen now as sweet and fruitful. One
colloquial interpretation of butterflies, at least in my town, is that butterflies are known to send
omens, black butterflies for death, and white butterflies for passed love ones that is now in
heaven. No concrete structure of meaning that is connoted on each and every butterflies of
course, hence why the interpretation can vary depending on the person you ask. Personally, a
blue one just feels like the person from the beyond would say “remember that time when…”.
Nothing is as much bitter-sweet than nostalgia and that is what the song invokes from yours
truly. All in all, the song gives a mellow vibes and induces retrospective tendencies, at least on
my part.
