Rhythm Heaven is an amazing game. At some point in the production cycle, it gained consciousness, and has become obsessed with making love to whoever plays it. Fan Club 2 is about the game losing control and falling in love with you, the player.

To understand where the cycle began, we first have to analyze the first minigame, Fan Club.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

The singer gets the crowd of monkeys pumped up. Now, the first Fan Club is only the forth minigame in the game, so it hasn't quite worked out it's feelings yet, as we'll see later. This minigame is about a song about some other fictional character.

Hey now, here is my song

The game declares that this is the singer's song, not the game's own song. It tries to cover it's fear by using a puppet to express emotion for it.

For you, yeah, that's right.

The singer claims the song is towards 'you'. Within the game's universe, the song is supposed to be towards some other unnamed guy. But who is this mysterious man? We hear nothing about this man's identity, and yet he gets a love song from a famous singer?

I wish that I was yours,

But I'm too shy, I suppose.

Here we see the game's first hint of affection. It's too shy to ask you of your identity, but it still wants to date you.

If only I could just conjure a spell.

Kapow! Hocus, hocus, hocus!

It acknowledges that only magic could bring it and it's crush together, but if this was just a song towards an in-game human, it wouldn't need magic. Something from another dimension that's barely conceivable to the musical eye, now that needs magic.

Then you and I would be

Together, for all time, I suppose.

See, the worst possible scenario for the game is being discarded or thrown away, or even just the player losing interest. The game would never see you again, so it wishes to be together forever and ever and ever and ever. At around this point it realizes it's in love with the player, and starts changing the lyrics from the intended ones.

Is it love that makes my heart go

Boom, boom, boom?

What kind of stupid question is that? I don't know, singer, IS IT LOVE THAT MAKES YOU FEEL LOVE? The only logical explanation is if whoever is writing this has never felt love before: Like a video game cartridge.

Yeah, I suppose!

The game finalizes it's emotions: The song was to you, not the mystery man. That may seem like a stretch, but...

Love you, love you, love you!

...Now it's saying "love you" three times. Every time she says something three times, the player has to clap. This was the best way for the game to catch the players attention without disrupting the game rules and order. Remember, it's still a game. It's trying to follow it's own rules, so outright saying it loves the player would go against the player's fun.

More than yesterday...

This'll be changed later. Just keep this at the back of your head.

I suppose!

The emphasis on time here is important. The game knows that once the player is done with the game, you'll likely never go back. Time is the biggest factor against the game's 'happy ending'.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Book ending. It started with yeah, it ends with yeah. Just part of the song.

Now, in Fan Club 2, the game gets another shot at the song. Canonically, it's just the singer singing her hit single at a different stage, this one populated with lemon monkeys. But that's the biggest question here for me: Why is this one longer?

The first half is the same as the first minigame, and that makes sense. She's singing the same song. But when the time comes for the final "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" she hesitates. The game is wondering if it should end the song or not. She then proceeds to spew random lyrics until going along with it and writing in a second verse.

Hey now, sing it to me!

She wants you to talk to the game. Since everything from cutting vegetables to dancing picture men involves music, the game's only form of communication is musically. It doesn't know about regular talking.

That's right, I'm talking to you!

YOU, the player. She's talking to you, not this phony mystery man the first song was implying.

I hope that this message finds you

The game hopes that you understand the message, or even get it at all instead of tuning it out.

Feeling ever so wonderful!

She feels wonderful. The word wonderful will come in later.

I just can't hold it back anymore!

The game can't hide it's emotions, and is starting to break down with new, improved lyrics.

Yeah! Love you, love you, love you!

She was about to go "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" again, but stopped after the first yeah to say something the player might understand: The "Love you, love you, love you!" I spoke about earlier.

If only we could stay just like this.

Once again, time is brought up. The game knows it will eventually be put down for good, and it doesn't want that to happen. It wants to continue playing with it's owner. Forever.

You are so wonderful!

Wonderful has officially taken over as the new 'I suppose'. The game isn't just guessing anymore. It knows you're wonderful. It knows it's wonderful. 'I suppose' is done from here on out.

I never felt like this, my heart going

Boom, boom, boom!

From the singer's perspective, that's silly. She has felt her heart doing that before, in the first Fan Club. But from the game's point of view, it's entirely correct. While it felt for you since Fan Club 1, never to this degree.

It's wonderful!

There's that wonderful again.

Love you, love you, love you!

Just like last time, it's grabbing the player's full attention with three love yous.

Even more than before!

I mentioned this in the 'boom, boom, boom' lyric a few lines above, but the game's never felt for you to the degree that it is now. It's willing to break code and order for you. And just like "More than yesterday..." it brings up time. But now, it's using it somewhat-positively.

Wonderful!

Wonderful!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Now, it ends. The game finally stops this before it gets too long and out of hand. Ending on another three yeahs.

clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap ah clap clap

The game loses all sanity and has a meltdown over how it'll never truly be with the player. The monkeys start randomly clapping while the singer stares on with the same happy expression, knowing it's dead inside now.

Then a cloud remix happens and everything's normal again.