In 'Disaster Utopia' Keropoyo is being strangely annoying by playing completely unfitting high energy beach music to Miyao, while he is doom scrolling the news.
This brings up the possibility that the BGM we hear is actually diagetic to the story, as in it's actually playing for Miyao through his Selcom on a background app like an A3W version of spotify. This might sound ridiculous, but there is actually more proof that this is true.
After beating the game a Music room is unlocked with all the tracks from the game you can listen to, Keropoyo is also there, and you're even able to uninstall him.
I believe Keropoyo is used by Miyao's handler to manipulate his mood and worldview by showing him information that fits a narrative they want Miyao to believe. There are many instances where Keropoyo bombards Miyao with bad news to bring him down. The way this fits into this theory is that Music is a powerful method of manipulation.
Music acts as a powerful tool for mental manipulation by bypassing conscious reasoning to directly influence emotions, physiology, and behavior and is commonly used in marketing as well as propaganda.
It can tint experiences and memories and completely recontextualize them, for example playing a happy song over something would make you associate whatever is happening with that emotion, contrarily playing a sad song over something would make you see whatever is happening as sad.
One example of this is when the subject of getting rid of the physical body is brought up and this very hopeful and tranquil music is playing:
This is a prime example of emotional manipulation through music. To double the impact right after this keropoyo plays some curated news segments of people being awful and the factory world vision is played for Miyao again, this time reframed as a hopeful positive future for humanity.
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