11 years and 130+ songs of pure greatnesss 🔥❤️ I was working about 30 years in rockbusiness, seen few thousand gigs, all the major one multiple times and NEVER seen or heard BETTER band than Band-Maid. They have it all..Passion Work Heart Talent Groove. Greatest live band in this Universe with no contest. Magical band, amazing musicians, best friends. For me..Kanami Tōno, lead guitarist and composer, is the most impressive musician of the 21st Century. Pure genius as a composer, always composes to the whole band, shredding when it serve the song most, on stage true rock n’ Roll Star. Check out their livevideos 👍 maybe ” Hate?(Official Live Video)” Greets from Finland 🇫🇮🤘
The usage of English is very much an artistic choice by Band Maid. Often fits the flow of the song easier than the Japanese equivalent. The main lyricist, Miku likes to do word play on same sounding words of each language having different meanings. Best example that she has used several times is the Japanese word for love, AI. Pronounced the same as the English, I, first person. See Sayonakidori for how she does that.
Your point about things evolving -- like the maid clothing -- is something the band members themselves often point out, especially as it is reflected in their music. Even within the structure of Forbidden Tale itself, they wanted to write a song with a sense of development and change.
Brad & Jon, thanks for reacting to Band-Maid’s ‘Fobidden Tale’. Regarding Band-Maid’s singing in Japanese and English - the Maids are doing this for their fans, like everything musically related, to aid their English speaking fans in understanding the song. Whether it is necessary - that’s another discussion. Their success however indicates whatever they are doing - it is working.
Actually, Miku has said in interviews that she will choose English when it fits the rhythm and sound of the song better than Japanese. There is another comment in this video where the commenter does a good job explaining it
The songs already released earlier in the year are just Band-Maid awesomesauce! The six new songs are so tightly integrated and complex, it's going to take a Tokyo minute to assimilate. But I already love Forbidden Tale, and especially The One. 😉🤘 btw - We should all wish a "Good Luck" to Band-Maid's new self-run management company: Maidit, Co., LTD! Will they managing other bands, boost Cluppo and Maiko projects, or tour more internationally? Or maybe they will expand their business interest to other sectors of the music biz outside of Band-Maid. I believe Kanami wants to get more into composing, scoring and production. And as for Miku and Saiki, the sky's the limit for what they'll want to do in merch, fashion and art, etc.. Thx, Brad & Jon!
11 years and 130+ songs of pure greatnesss 🔥❤️ I was working about 30 years in rockbusiness, seen few thousand gigs, all the major one multiple times and NEVER seen or heard BETTER band than Band-Maid. They have it all..Passion Work Heart Talent Groove. Greatest live band in this Universe with no contest. Magical band, amazing musicians, best friends. For me..Kanami Tōno, lead guitarist and composer, is the most impressive musician of the 21st Century. Pure genius as a composer, always composes to the whole band, shredding when it serve the song most, on stage true rock n’ Roll Star. Check out their livevideos 👍 maybe ” Hate?(Official Live Video)” Greets from Finland 🇫🇮🤘
The usage of English is very much an artistic choice by Band Maid. Often fits the flow of the song easier than the Japanese equivalent. The main lyricist, Miku likes to do word play on same sounding words of each language having different meanings. Best example that she has used several times is the Japanese word for love, AI. Pronounced the same as the English, I, first person. See Sayonakidori for how she does that.
Your point about things evolving -- like the maid clothing -- is something the band members themselves often point out, especially as it is reflected in their music. Even within the structure of Forbidden Tale itself, they wanted to write a song with a sense of development and change.
BAND-MAID has been blending english and japanese since their beginning, and that's over 11 years since then.
Best rock band on the planet. If you haven't seen it yet watch HATE? live from Yokohama Arena and get rocked out. They're always better live.
Brad & Jon, thanks for reacting to Band-Maid’s ‘Fobidden Tale’. Regarding Band-Maid’s singing in Japanese and English - the Maids are doing this for their fans, like everything musically related, to aid their English speaking fans in understanding the song. Whether it is necessary - that’s another discussion. Their success however indicates whatever they are doing - it is working.
Actually, Miku has said in interviews that she will choose English when it fits the rhythm and sound of the song better than Japanese. There is another comment in this video where the commenter does a good job explaining it
J-ROCK and J-POP have traditionally been a mix of English and Japanese.
They are often sung in English in the chorus.
and continuing..Rock/Metal is not dead yet..It just lives in Japan nowadays 🔥🤘❤️
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Japanese music is very known for blending japanese and english, it is not new...
Welcome to the "Pigeon Hole"! Here's a guide to everything BAND-MAID: www.youtube.com/@Ohrenje. I highly recommend the Documentaries!
The 'fits are their latest version of what they call their "Armor" mostly designed by Saiki.
The band has learned after 11 years that some phrases work better in English than Japanese. Whatever suits the song.
They rhyme 2 languages together. And let's be real, most of the time you can't understand all of the lyrics in an all English song
The songs already released earlier in the year are just Band-Maid awesomesauce! The six new songs are so tightly integrated and complex, it's going to take a Tokyo minute to assimilate. But I already love Forbidden Tale, and especially The One. 😉🤘 btw - We should all wish a "Good Luck" to Band-Maid's new self-run management company: Maidit, Co., LTD! Will they managing other bands, boost Cluppo and Maiko projects, or tour more internationally? Or maybe they will expand their business interest to other sectors of the music biz outside of Band-Maid. I believe Kanami wants to get more into composing, scoring and production. And as for Miku and Saiki, the sky's the limit for what they'll want to do in merch, fashion and art, etc.. Thx, Brad & Jon!
Don’t be so lazy. It takes five seconds to learn the provenance of a song.
Throwing in a few English words sounds cool to a Japanese audience.
These guys barely have a pulse. Of course they're lazy. 🤣
They looked like they were enjoying it especially the latter half of the song, but the comments didn't reflect their reaction.😅
Other Asian all female bands to check out: Nemophila, Gacharic Spin, NEK!, Koiai, Lonesome Blue, Rolling Quartz, and DIH.
You forgot Hanabie and Doll$box! 😄