愛のブラックホール literally means “love’s black hole,” combining the cosmic image of a black hole with overwhelming romantic attraction. In the song, it appears in the playful warning 愛のブラックホール警報 発令中!, suggesting that this boundless love is pulling everyone in and cannot be escaped.
BUDDiiS open this one by addressing every galaxy, the whole universe and all of humanity, then announce that a love black hole warning is in effect: "愛のブラックホール警報 発令中!" [A love black hole warning is now in effect!]. That is the scale the whole song works at. Love here is "megaton class", it breaks the speed of light, and it heads for the edge of space. It is loud, silly and completely sincere, and I think it is great fun.
The jokes are worth slowing down for, because a translation flattens them. In Japanese, the English letter "I", the word アイ (ai, which sounds like 愛, "love") and "AI" all sound the same. So when he sings "愛するアイ AI じゃないわ ココロがあるんだ" [The ai I love isn't AI, it has a heart], he is playing on all three at once. He also wants the two of them to chase pi together and never let it end, and asks for more love even past 314 trillion, a nod to the digits of pi that people keep computing.
The middle section is a numbered list of shout-outs, from "you're a miracle star" to the gloriously random "ネコは宇宙" [Cats are the universe]. Then the chorus keeps landing on one kind idea: "みんな違って そう みんな素敵!" [Everyone's different, yeah, and everyone's wonderful]. Useful word: チャラ (chara) means wiping a slate clean, so "わっはっは! って笑えば 全部チャラだ" [If you laugh "wahaha!", it all gets cancelled out] says a good laugh erases the bad stuff. And "昭和も平成も令和も馬鹿騒ぎしたい everybody!" [Showa, Heisei and Reiwa, I want to party with everybody!] names Japan's last three imperial eras, so he is inviting every generation, roughly 1926 to today, onto the same dance floor.
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