Great first reaction and welcome to the BABYMETAL Foxhole.🦊 You will get no argument from me about this being the best collaboration of the year.🤘 This collaboration came about because BABYMETAL, who like to mix things up (they have about 70 songs now and each one different to the last - some are good hard metal, some lean towards their pop roots, they do everything in between and they will also mix and blend in so many other musical styles and genres with the metal) were wanting to make a song in the Electric Callboy style that everybody could dance along with, but they felt something was missing. They decided they would ask EC if they wanted to get involved, so as they were both playing in Boston BABYMETAL went to the EC concert and met up with them back stage and chatted before the show. 'RATATATA' was the result and, although it is very much in the EC style, it was a real 50-50 collaboration with a lot of back and forth between the bands with their respective ideas ... and they had something like 20+ versions before agreeing on this final version. They have played it live together at least 8 times already in Tokyo and at festivals in Germany and Spain and you can see they are all having the very best time. BABYMETAL do everything. That's one reason their collaborations all work so well, they are so versatile they can do pretty much whatever style and match up with whoever they are collaborating with. If you are interested in something original and unique BABYMETAL should be just the thing for you. They formed in 2010 creating their own new metal sub-genre. In the 14 years since then we have watched them grow up (they were aged 12 and 11 when they started) to become one of the very best live bands on the planet (not just my opinion, they have international awards that say the same thing). They started as a fusion of Metal with J-Pop hooks, melodies and aesthetics including choreographed dance - but not as you know it. Their choreo is not used to titillate or distract like it is by most pop acts etc, it is interpretive, relating to the meaning of the song or a lyric - very handy for us non-Japanese speakers - but most importantly it is used to engage with, include and involve the audience. They are masters of crowd control and can get whole arenas (not just the front rows) jumping, chanting and joining in, following their lead. As an old school rock and metalhead I had no interest in choreographed dance (and I still don't with any other artists), but BABYMETAL's choreo just enhances and improves everything ... I have no idea how, it just does. BABYMETAL are: Su-metal lead vocalist, now 26. Moametal scream (ie backing vocals, harmonies leading crowd chants etc) and dance, recently turned 25. Momometal scream and dance (it was her facial expressions you were enjoying), she's 21 and became the official third member on April 1st last year. The original third member was Yuimetal (scream and dance). She last appeared in October 2017 then missed the big shows for Su's 20th birthday in December under her doctor's advice. She was missing for the 2018 tour and in October 2018 she announced she was still not fully recovered and had decided to leave the band. Su and Moa continued as a duo for the next 4 or 5 years supported by any one of 3 dancers (the Avengers) for live shows. After about March 2020 only one Avenger was still with them - that was Momoko Okazaki ... and on 1st April 2023 she was finally revealed as the new third member Momometal and got a mic so she can help Moa out with the backing vocals and so on. As I said, they have about 70 songs, each one different to the last. Their official videos are all very good and worth seeing (3 or 4 are almost essential viewing), but they are even better live. jakemuller8626 has left you a list of great suggestions (although I would swap in the PIA Arena April 2023 performance of 'Monochrome'). You could pick anything and they will never disappoint you - although they will surprise you.
🪩 ❤❤ 🦊 🔌 Such a great blend. Especially with Nico from Electric Callboy's high range, Su's soprano, and the growls from Kevin and from Momometal, the newest BABYMETAL member. That's Momometal with an "Are you ready?" growl and joining in with the "Everybody!" growls.
Welcome back to the Foxhole 🦊🤘🔥 Wow no comments here, i guess this was unblocked just recently after three days from the upload. I don't remember following your BM journey but it's always nice to see more reactors and og BM fans coming back to listen more of this amazing group, they're a global phenomenon from Japan and you got quite a few songs left to keep enjoying. Here's a basic info to refresh your memory: BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock group called Sakura Gakuin, they had 11 and 12 years old when started this and become independent after 2013, they created their own genre called kawaii-metal (kawaii means cute) mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms. Their name is a reference to a new genre and not related to their ages or "baby" faces, is a pun intended play on words with "heavy-metal" which sounds similar to "baby-metal". They are: *SuMetal* lead vocalist, now 26. *MoaMetal* scream and dance, recently 25. *MomoMetal* scream and dance, she's 21 and is the new official member since April 1st last year. -YuiMetal- scream and dance, former member since 2018. None of them are related. After 2018 you'll see backup dancers performing along with them but none of them are official members, they don't sing, only dance, but remember that status changed last year. There's no other group like them around and teaming up with this group from Germany just elevated them even higher. If you like Jpop and edm elements then you're gonna find a lot of cool songs blended with heavy metal in their latest album "The Other One" released last year. Songs like Divine Attack - Shingeki, METALIZM, Time Wave and Light and Darkness among other great songs as well tracks and live performance from early era will make you bounce and rock with this insane group. This song reached Number 1 best selling song in the US Billboard rock/metal chart for the first time for both bands! The last weekend of May they did the live premiere of this song in Japan at FOX_FEST (a festival held by BM) just a few days after the single was released and everyone went wild with this collab, the live version is already out if you don't wanna stop enjoying this song. They played this together once again at Rock Am Ring and the day before at Rock Im Park in Germany twice in the same day, one during EC show and later at BM show. Last month they finished the Europe Tour at Resurrection Fest in Spain playing this collab once again in the same stage twice. The girl in the middle is the lead singer SuMetal and she actually dances less than the other girls (MoaMetal and MomoMetal) because she sings most of the time but regardless she can dance and sing and you won't even notice she's out of breath. About this song: This was filmed in Germany and the concept of the MV is they're breaking boundaries with the genres and they don't care about corporation decisions. The "hips don't lie" is definitely a Shakira reference. The "Fu Fu" part reminds me Backstreet Boys - Everybody female backing chorus but it's also used in Japanese karaoke as well many others songs. I found funny the "push it to the limit" line is used in the Scarface's movie OST, another post disco, dance rock song with some guitar elements. The moment when they're bursting the wall could be an homage to Aerosmith x Run DMC - Walk This Way MV, symbolism of breaking the boundaries with the music genres like I already said. Also one of the singers is holding up the cable with electricity during the breakdown it could be a reference to "The Cable Guy" movie. When I heard the official audio I thought the second "Are you ready?" chorus was MomoMetal doing the backing growling but they didn't show that in the MV, although later fans spotted in the live performance, so it was her after all as well in the third chorus when singing "Everybody". There's probably more references but I'm a little bit far away from pop culture nowadays that I'm probably missing a lot more. Fun fact: EC said in a reactor comment and later at their own reaction video that they did the bursting the walls scene in one shot, there will be a bts so we're waiting for more. The crew had to put all those disco ball on the celling manually just for this song. They met each other last year when BM went to see EC live in Boston and they asked them to work together, this is a 50/50 collab song. I'm gonna leave in my next comment where to get more proshot clips safe to react if YT allows me to do it. Meanwhile next suggestion: - Monochrome live at Makuhari Messe 2023. They will be in Brazil, Argentina (October) and Chile for the first time in South America as part of the Knotfest, also Peru with a headlining show and later after starting the US Tour they will coming back to Mexico as special guests for Slipknot, we can't wait for this and hopefully next year they will have a tour along with EC, maybe Baby-Callboy Tour (?), last year they started the Babyklok Tour along with Dethklok around the US, also Sabaton in Europe, this time if they don't have an album together, a tour will be a blast for sure. See you next time 🦊🤘🐭
Here's some proshot clips and songs from latest album called "The Other One" to enjoy without copyright blocked. - Metal Kingdom live at PIA Arena MM 2023 ua-cam.com/video/xd-lswJ2e3k/v-deo.htmlsi=oHJ6MBficfPr_YXB - Divine Attack - Shingeki live at PIA Arena MM 2023 official MV ua-cam.com/video/INRPP78SvXs/v-deo.htmlsi=-hXruCH2H94WekB0 - Mirror Mirror live at PIA Arena MM 2023 ua-cam.com/video/wQsarT7q5HE/v-deo.htmlsi=pe5vo8GcGN5bmlfN - MAYA live at PIA Arena MM 2023 official MV ua-cam.com/video/DE8lACLWMtI/v-deo.htmlsi=jOu9iyoNMJHRMwMn - MAYA live at PIA Arena MM 2023 (Extended intro) ua-cam.com/video/2oVVX1yIdig/v-deo.htmlsi=FlKh6pekaiaYoS_0 - Time Wave live at PIA Arena MM 2023 ua-cam.com/video/UzWfgTk3DEY/v-deo.htmlsi=bF2FWvrqZosJBnmL - Believing live at PIA Arena MM 2023 ua-cam.com/video/_mKCol39Cvs/v-deo.htmlsi=x2Q8q9_kVDaclfHb - METALIZM live at PIA Arena MM 2023 ua-cam.com/video/O7KUxBcU2rs/v-deo.htmlsi=db9KK2HvskIkWK3U - Monochrome live at Makuhari Messe 2023 (East Kami Band) ua-cam.com/video/DzqpuUZ7jNY/v-deo.htmlsi=81HgxsTMxVPLZ67k - Light and Darkness live at Makuhari Messe 2023 ua-cam.com/video/e5EQ4hHFHG8/v-deo.htmlsi=IRS9yfDmo447iohV - The Legend live at PIA Arena MM 2023 ua-cam.com/video/RjYtcNyCrJs/v-deo.htmlsi=nBAg9S3PlQ0k2vR_ Outside of the album but new live proshot clips: - メタり！！or METALI!! feat. Tom Morello live at NEX_FEST Festival ua-cam.com/video/RIgjfGHgwDc/v-deo.htmlsi=WlB8VVET2GY55wZ7 - Bring Me The Horizon (feat. BabyMetal) - Kingslayer live at NEX_FEST Festival ua-cam.com/video/hb2mMVdx1KU/v-deo.htmlsi=bJDNXVZ3BzFJL9iu - BabyMetal x Electric Callboy - RATATATA official live at FOX_FEST 2024 ua-cam.com/video/ChmVcJK7N-c/v-deo.htmlsi=wW0Neou9eBXM8dTT - Brand New Day feat. Tim Henson & Scott Le page official live at FOX_FEST 2024. ua-cam.com/video/G9li0LFVaGU/v-deo.htmlsi=WDKS5BX_voizZOn5 New MV: メタり！！or METALI!! feat. Tom Morello official MV. ua-cam.com/video/hkij4LvACZ0/v-deo.htmlsi=rJ_e3YtSz-BJfofP - F.Hero x Bodyslam x BabyMetal - Leave It All Behind official MV ua-cam.com/video/7rdc-QV6P6s/v-deo.htmlsi=phxaa5ssxHAYdNoR
Great first reaction and welcome to the BABYMETAL Foxhole.🦊 You will get no argument from me about this being the best collaboration of the year.🤘
This collaboration came about because BABYMETAL, who like to mix things up (they have about 70 songs now and each one different to the last - some are good hard metal, some lean towards their pop roots, they do everything in between and they will also mix and blend in so many other musical styles and genres with the metal) were wanting to make a song in the Electric Callboy style that everybody could dance along with, but they felt something was missing.
They decided they would ask EC if they wanted to get involved, so as they were both playing in Boston BABYMETAL went to the EC concert and met up with them back stage and chatted before the show.
'RATATATA' was the result and, although it is very much in the EC style, it was a real 50-50 collaboration with a lot of back and forth between the bands with their respective ideas ... and they had something like 20+ versions before agreeing on this final version.
They have played it live together at least 8 times already in Tokyo and at festivals in Germany and Spain and you can see they are all having the very best time.
BABYMETAL do everything. That's one reason their collaborations all work so well, they are so versatile they can do pretty much whatever style and match up with whoever they are collaborating with.
If you are interested in something original and unique BABYMETAL should be just the thing for you. They formed in 2010 creating their own new metal sub-genre. In the 14 years since then we have watched them grow up (they were aged 12 and 11 when they started) to become one of the very best live bands on the planet (not just my opinion, they have international awards that say the same thing).
They started as a fusion of Metal with J-Pop hooks, melodies and aesthetics including choreographed dance - but not as you know it. Their choreo is not used to titillate or distract like it is by most pop acts etc, it is interpretive, relating to the meaning of the song or a lyric - very handy for us non-Japanese speakers - but most importantly it is used to engage with, include and involve the audience. They are masters of crowd control and can get whole arenas (not just the front rows) jumping, chanting and joining in, following their lead.
As an old school rock and metalhead I had no interest in choreographed dance (and I still don't with any other artists), but BABYMETAL's choreo just enhances and improves everything ... I have no idea how, it just does.
BABYMETAL are:
Su-metal lead vocalist, now 26.
Moametal scream (ie backing vocals, harmonies leading crowd chants etc) and dance, recently turned 25.
Momometal scream and dance (it was her facial expressions you were enjoying), she's 21 and became the official third member on April 1st last year.
The original third member was Yuimetal (scream and dance). She last appeared in October 2017 then missed the big shows for Su's 20th birthday in December under her doctor's advice. She was missing for the 2018 tour and in October 2018 she announced she was still not fully recovered and had decided to leave the band.
Su and Moa continued as a duo for the next 4 or 5 years supported by any one of 3 dancers (the Avengers) for live shows. After about March 2020 only one Avenger was still with them - that was Momoko Okazaki ... and on 1st April 2023 she was finally revealed as the new third member Momometal and got a mic so she can help Moa out with the backing vocals and so on.
As I said, they have about 70 songs, each one different to the last. Their official videos are all very good and worth seeing (3 or 4 are almost essential viewing), but they are even better live.
jakemuller8626 has left you a list of great suggestions (although I would swap in the PIA Arena April 2023 performance of 'Monochrome'). You could pick anything and they will never disappoint you - although they will surprise you.
🪩 ❤❤ 🦊 🔌
Such a great blend.
Especially with Nico from Electric Callboy's high range, Su's soprano, and the growls from Kevin and from Momometal, the newest BABYMETAL member.
That's Momometal with an "Are you ready?" growl and joining in with the "Everybody!" growls.
🍅💀🍅
🪩🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼🪩
😻RATATATA😻
BUN BUN BUN Fu〜♪ Fu〜♪
EPIC
Welcome back to the Foxhole 🦊🤘🔥
Wow no comments here, i guess this was unblocked just recently after three days from the upload.
I don't remember following your BM journey but it's always nice to see more reactors and og BM fans coming back to listen more of this amazing group, they're a global phenomenon from Japan and you got quite a few songs left to keep enjoying.
Here's a basic info to refresh your memory:
BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock group called Sakura Gakuin, they had 11 and 12 years old when started this and become independent after 2013, they created their own genre called kawaii-metal (kawaii means cute) mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms. Their name is a reference to a new genre and not related to their ages or "baby" faces, is a pun intended play on words with "heavy-metal" which sounds similar to "baby-metal".
They are:
*SuMetal* lead vocalist, now 26.
*MoaMetal* scream and dance, recently 25.
*MomoMetal* scream and dance, she's 21 and is the new official member since April 1st last year.
-YuiMetal- scream and dance, former member since 2018.
None of them are related.
After 2018 you'll see backup dancers performing along with them but none of them are official members, they don't sing, only dance, but remember that status changed last year.
There's no other group like them around and teaming up with this group from Germany just elevated them even higher.
If you like Jpop and edm elements then you're gonna find a lot of cool songs blended with heavy metal in their latest album "The Other One" released last year. Songs like Divine Attack - Shingeki, METALIZM, Time Wave and Light and Darkness among other great songs as well tracks and live performance from early era will make you bounce and rock with this insane group.
This song reached Number 1 best selling song in the US Billboard rock/metal chart for the first time for both bands!
The last weekend of May they did the live premiere of this song in Japan at FOX_FEST (a festival held by BM) just a few days after the single was released and everyone went wild with this collab, the live version is already out if you don't wanna stop enjoying this song. They played this together once again at Rock Am Ring and the day before at Rock Im Park in Germany twice in the same day, one during EC show and later at BM show.
Last month they finished the Europe Tour at Resurrection Fest in Spain playing this collab once again in the same stage twice.
The girl in the middle is the lead singer SuMetal and she actually dances less than the other girls (MoaMetal and MomoMetal) because she sings most of the time but regardless she can dance and sing and you won't even notice she's out of breath.
About this song:
This was filmed in Germany and the concept of the MV is they're breaking boundaries with the genres and they don't care about corporation decisions.
The "hips don't lie" is definitely a Shakira reference.
The "Fu Fu" part reminds me Backstreet Boys - Everybody female backing chorus but it's also used in Japanese karaoke as well many others songs.
I found funny the "push it to the limit" line is used in the Scarface's movie OST, another post disco, dance rock song with some guitar elements.
The moment when they're bursting the wall could be an homage to Aerosmith x Run DMC - Walk This Way MV, symbolism of breaking the boundaries with the music genres like I already said.
Also one of the singers is holding up the cable with electricity during the breakdown it could be a reference to "The Cable Guy" movie.
When I heard the official audio I thought the second "Are you ready?" chorus was MomoMetal doing the backing growling but they didn't show that in the MV, although later fans spotted in the live performance, so it was her after all as well in the third chorus when singing "Everybody".
There's probably more references but I'm a little bit far away from pop culture nowadays that I'm probably missing a lot more.
Fun fact: EC said in a reactor comment and later at their own reaction video that they did the bursting the walls scene in one shot, there will be a bts so we're waiting for more.
The crew had to put all those disco ball on the celling manually just for this song.
They met each other last year when BM went to see EC live in Boston and they asked them to work together, this is a 50/50 collab song.
I'm gonna leave in my next comment where to get more proshot clips safe to react if YT allows me to do it.
Meanwhile next suggestion:
- Monochrome live at Makuhari Messe 2023.
They will be in Brazil, Argentina (October) and Chile for the first time in South America as part of the Knotfest, also Peru with a headlining show and later after starting the US Tour they will coming back to Mexico as special guests for Slipknot, we can't wait for this and hopefully next year they will have a tour along with EC, maybe Baby-Callboy Tour (?), last year they started the Babyklok Tour along with Dethklok around the US, also Sabaton in Europe, this time if they don't have an album together, a tour will be a blast for sure.
See you next time 🦊🤘🐭
Here's some proshot clips and songs from latest album called "The Other One" to enjoy without copyright blocked.
- Metal Kingdom live at PIA Arena MM 2023
ua-cam.com/video/xd-lswJ2e3k/v-deo.htmlsi=oHJ6MBficfPr_YXB
- Divine Attack - Shingeki live at PIA Arena MM 2023 official MV
ua-cam.com/video/INRPP78SvXs/v-deo.htmlsi=-hXruCH2H94WekB0
- Mirror Mirror live at PIA Arena MM 2023
ua-cam.com/video/wQsarT7q5HE/v-deo.htmlsi=pe5vo8GcGN5bmlfN
- MAYA live at PIA Arena MM 2023 official MV
ua-cam.com/video/DE8lACLWMtI/v-deo.htmlsi=jOu9iyoNMJHRMwMn
- MAYA live at PIA Arena MM 2023 (Extended intro)
ua-cam.com/video/2oVVX1yIdig/v-deo.htmlsi=FlKh6pekaiaYoS_0
- Time Wave live at PIA Arena MM 2023
ua-cam.com/video/UzWfgTk3DEY/v-deo.htmlsi=bF2FWvrqZosJBnmL
- Believing live at PIA Arena MM 2023
ua-cam.com/video/_mKCol39Cvs/v-deo.htmlsi=x2Q8q9_kVDaclfHb
- METALIZM live at PIA Arena MM 2023
ua-cam.com/video/O7KUxBcU2rs/v-deo.htmlsi=db9KK2HvskIkWK3U
- Monochrome live at Makuhari Messe 2023 (East Kami Band)
ua-cam.com/video/DzqpuUZ7jNY/v-deo.htmlsi=81HgxsTMxVPLZ67k
- Light and Darkness live at Makuhari Messe 2023
ua-cam.com/video/e5EQ4hHFHG8/v-deo.htmlsi=IRS9yfDmo447iohV
- The Legend live at PIA Arena MM 2023
ua-cam.com/video/RjYtcNyCrJs/v-deo.htmlsi=nBAg9S3PlQ0k2vR_
Outside of the album but new live proshot clips:
- メタり！！or METALI!! feat. Tom Morello live at NEX_FEST Festival
ua-cam.com/video/RIgjfGHgwDc/v-deo.htmlsi=WlB8VVET2GY55wZ7
- Bring Me The Horizon (feat. BabyMetal) - Kingslayer live at NEX_FEST Festival
ua-cam.com/video/hb2mMVdx1KU/v-deo.htmlsi=bJDNXVZ3BzFJL9iu
- BabyMetal x Electric Callboy - RATATATA official live at FOX_FEST 2024
ua-cam.com/video/ChmVcJK7N-c/v-deo.htmlsi=wW0Neou9eBXM8dTT
- Brand New Day feat. Tim Henson & Scott Le page official live at FOX_FEST 2024.
ua-cam.com/video/G9li0LFVaGU/v-deo.htmlsi=WDKS5BX_voizZOn5
New MV:
メタり！！or METALI!! feat. Tom Morello official MV.
ua-cam.com/video/hkij4LvACZ0/v-deo.htmlsi=rJ_e3YtSz-BJfofP
- F.Hero x Bodyslam x BabyMetal - Leave It All Behind official MV
ua-cam.com/video/7rdc-QV6P6s/v-deo.htmlsi=phxaa5ssxHAYdNoR