Great reaction . The thing that always amazes me about Baby Metal is that if you were putting a proposition to a producer that went something like - " Well we've got this really heavy metal band and we've decided to front it with three very young looking cute girls who dance a bit and sound as if they're about 12 years old " - they would laugh you out of their office - BUT IT WORKS !
@@Cheezyxyz I've just found a video of this song where Su is asking for a big circlepit, instead of one, they're giving her 5 circle pits, one of them huge af, look for Catch me if you can - Live Rising Sun Rock from 2016, imo, the best live version of this song for me to date.
_Maada da yo!_ 🦊🤘👠 Heavy metal: You know there's a Beast. Doom metal: You preach about the Beast. Black metal: You obey the Beast. Death metal: You ARE the Beast. Power metal: You fight the Beast. Viking metal: You fight the Beast for Odin. Thrash metal: You're going to fucking kill the Beast. Metalcore/Nu metal: You crab with the Beast.🦀 Glam metal: You're too drunk to care about the Beast. Kawaii metal: You play hide and seek with the Beast.👹🤘🔥
Foxes in Japanese culture are essentially seen as close companions to humans and have taken on a supernatural/spiritual twist as many different qualities and entities such as guardian spirits. They also may serve to represent many different facets of power.
Mask is a metaphor for how women have to hide their emotions behind a mask. Also a reference to megitsune, a female fox that shape shifts and deceives. Going back centuries, there are tales of kitsune and megitsune, megitsune is a female kitsune, who deceive men and lead them to their doom. The song is pushing back on those tropes. Song writing process is rather opaque, we're not sure how it works. Su is beginning to write lyrics for songs, and Yui and Moa wrote 4 no Uta, other than that we don't know. How it works with other bands is the singer will say "I want a song that portrays this emotion", and there will be a meeting and different people will get assigned different song ideas. Is this how Babymetal does it? I don't know, but that is a model in Japan. We do know that Su decides when they do a song. They are presented songs, and until Su says she is ready to sing it, they stay on the shelf, and that can be for years, and presumably we've never heard some songs. And later on, Su calls out the mix - she wants more bass here, more guitar there. She is reportedly quite sophisticated in her demands for the mix
Also the mask is a kitsune mask, which is what this song references a lot - foxes that can shapeshift and blend into human society by pretending to be something they're not. It is important to note that megitsune don't always lead men to their doom. Often, megitsune in folklore pretend to be humans and even have human husbands who didn't realize they were foxes. So the megitsune can have human lives but can never be vulnerable or else lose their place in society. One of the most famous of these megitsune actually has a shrine. She was the mother of a famous onmyouji who is also enshrined, but had to leave him as a child when her identity as a kitsune was revealed
The "Catch me if you can" video - I got my leg into one of those positions once when I was many years younger. It was in a Taekwondo class, and I couldn't move without pain for about 2 weeks afterwards. Of course, it's all relative. They have (had?) the benefit of flexibility and stamina of youth. Or at least that's what we old 'uns keep telling ourselves. Truth is, they must have worked _astonishingly_ hard to be able to endure this kind of performance.
Confused about the songwriting process? So are hardcore fans. Reading the other comments I see a lot of embellishments and guesses over what is actually known, although the general gist seems mostly correct to me. Early songs were created and developed as a collaboration of producer, writers, arrangers in a typical Idol process. A good handful or so of regular writers. At some point, Su- began being called into the studio to create a wordless melody to a partially developed song. And early on Yui and Moa wrote Yon no Uta (Song 4, or Song of 4) which was then given a full Black Babymetal arrangement. What can be said now is that songs are developed in rock band fashion, although the writers/arrangers are generally different people from the musicians. The progression makes sense when one considers the trio were pre-teens when the group was formed. But we have heard bits and pieces from interview comments and so on that the trio had increasing say over things and more creative control as they got older. And now we have Su-metal with credit for the lyrics on Divine Attack - Shingeki -. And did she really play the piano during No Rain No Rainbow at the last of the 10 Babymetal Budokan shows? OTFGK 🤘🦊
_Sore!_ 🦊🤘🔥 Megitsune is a great song among BM fans favorite, although this version is with SuMetal singing live she's doing it with a backing track, if you wanna hear a full live version with the Kami Band then i highly suggest you live at Budokan 2014 and after, is even heavier. This song is always a work in progress for SuMetal and a real challenge so if you hear her voice a little bit down low that's just the mix, not because she lacks of vocal power. The first main section of this live concert is with backing track songs and the "baby-bones" air playing instruments, the encore section (when you hear Catch Me If You Can) is with a real band, the Kami Band. This song got drums arrangements inspired in songs like "Memphis May Fire - The Sinner", cool song. The mask are representing foxes, they're using fox imagery all over this song and since the beginning of the group when creating the Fox God which is the one who send the girls with this mission of Metal Resistance. Megitsune means "female vixen" and this is female empowerment song. Btw no one is credited for growlings in any BM song except on Distortion album song and live after. Thanks for sharing this and see you next time.🦊🤘🔥
The beginning of the song is an old popular poem. It translation that I remember is "a fox, a fox, I'm a vixen. All women are actors." So the fox mask is more repetitive of the poem and how women are actually foxs. That is how I interpret it at least
BabyMetal considers the crowd a member of the band and they make the music together which is why the fans are called "The One". The song writing in complicated, Japan does stuff at the team level, they have writers, musicians, producers, the girls. Su does work on the melody and the vocal delivery a lot. I read one example that Su came up with a melody and went to the writers and started hashing out the song then got some musicians involved (usually not the Kami band but they do have some writing credits). So, it seems to be a big mash up of people involved as the song evolves with everyone's input. You can tell that every little part of the song is picked apart and refined.
Yeah you can tell that their songs must be refined over and over. To me, it even seems like they improve the songs even more between the time they record the albums and when they finally play them live, but I have also heard that they have to make adjustments to the arrangements of the songs a little since the Kami band will be playing live.
The Makuhari Messe two days concert of 2019 is fully upload in YT if you want to watch a full concert, but probably will spoil some songs you haven't heard yet for a reaction 😋🦊🤘
Rondo of Nightmare with the mischief of Gods intro is a pretty awesome song. Try Hanabie- we love sweets (one of my favorite songs to see first reactions) and a brand new song that they just dropped last night called Pardon Me.
The song writing process is all over the place, but the live band just does a live interpretation. They are great guys, but rarely involved in the writing process. Writing of a song is often based on an abstract theme for a song or music or metal sub-genre. Often time it's an external song-writer, but they are regulars. Often it's about the girls or something they can related to, so even when the girls didn't write the song it's in their voice. Their are often things the girls, especially Su-metal, changes in the song before the final recording. Some songs were partly written by the girls. Also they might end up in the studio twice for a song, Su-metal records a melody after the music was written but before the lyrics are made.
Megitsume remains one of my favourite BM songs. The high energy, the choreography and the music (even if in this video it’s the fake band) are just too good! This song above all others convinced me that their cardio must be off the charts. Catch Me If You Can is just pure fun from beginning to end. Imagine these young girls commanding a huge crowd of thousands. There is a later live version of this where each of the Kami band play solos at the beginning. Definition worth checking out just for that.
Catch Me If You Can is the best Metal song ever about playing Hide and Seek. 🦊🤘🤘🦊Megitsune = vixen/female fox. Kitsune = fox/male fox. The mask Su holds up is a kitsune mask. If you'd like to see The Kami Band have a solo each - and who wouldn't? - then there's a version of Catch Me If You Can with a solo from each member before the girls appear. It's from the Black Night Legend concert and it has English subtitles too so yuou can sing along! ua-cam.com/video/ng8U_j0gpLI/v-deo.html 🦊🤘🤘🦊
Great reaction, thanks! And great choice: according to some polls, most favorite song and most favorite choreo respectively. The songwriting process involves Kobametal (Key Kobayashi), their producer and ideological creator of the whole concept and a bunch of songwriters. He's known for being incredibly picky and has the last word. For example, he sent back "Megitsune" several dozen times to the songwriters until he was 100% happy with it. The last addition to the writing team is some Su-metal... I believe you know her. 😁
@@rolandkarlsson7072 That's correct. "4 no uta" (pronounced "yon no uta", meaning "song of 4"). They wrote it during a bus trip in Singapore as a challenge proposed by Su, annoying the staff to the point some complained about it. Koba decided to arrange it to make a new song. 😊
@@springbliss4961 Th song is about the number 4. It's considered a bad luck number in Asia like our 13 (or 17 in some countries)... but even worse. This is why the staff complained about them singing about that number. 😁
Nice! Double feature of two of my favorite songs. I mean almost all of their songs are my favorite but these two are always floating around in my top 5. As we always say, best BABYMETAL is live BABYMETAL but when you can, on your own time or as a bonus reaction. Check out Megitsune official video. It is really well done. Catch me if you Can is the perfect blend of badass and cuteness in my opinion. Love the choreography in it. 🤘🦊🤘 You should also watch CMIYC live at Budokan. The Kami band do a intro to start it. This one was cute though as the girls went to each area of the stage to pump up the crowd and show them some love.
The Kami Band didn't play on Megitsune. They came out for an extended encore. Megitsune was a pre-recorded track with a fake band, Babybones, pretending to play.
'Catch Me If You Can' is the best metal song about playing a game that's a sort of cross between tag, blind man's bluff and hide & seek. It is the perfect mix of the two extremes with the brutal instrumentals and the sweet vocals - and the game they are playing, they're playing with an Oni (a sort of Japanese ogre 👹 popular in regional festivals and used specifically to frighten children ... and the idea of that probably amuses me a lot more than it really should 🤭), very little gets any more metal than that. 🤘 The growling vocals (they are on a backing track - mostly uncredited) are the Oni asking things like "Are you ready?" and the best response has to be "Maada da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance.🏃♀🏃♀🏃♀👹 This was one of the 5 encore songs at Legend 1997 so yes you finally got to see the Kami Band. In this one we got the girls hyping the crowd for 2 minutes before the song started. If you watch other versions (for example live at Budokan Black Night) you will get an instrumental intro by the Kami Band with each member taking turns to solo before the girls come out on stage.
Wuddup bra! .When theyr'e on tour , sometimes you seeThe cat's in skeletons, now they have weird masks..are studio musicians.. LEGIT studio musicians.. including this music MV, @ 7:00 ; Su slips SIC dagger out of mic.. outhey were alot younger. MUCH✌❤🙏 from 🐺WOLFPACK🐺 POLAND
First song, the Band wearing the skeleton outfits was "Babybones" they retired in 2014 and Second song was they Kami Band and they have backed them since, Kami Band are the ones in white with corpse paint. They swapped between them before Babybones retired.
⚡ 💀 💕 / 🦊 ⛩ - ⚡ 💀 💕 / 🏃♀👹 No Kami Band on the first song. Those guys in skeleton suits known to fans as "Babybones" or just "Hone" (bones) in Japan were just miming. The BABYMETAL members called them Hone-san (Mr. Bones). The live Kami Band came on stage for five encore songs, including 'Catch Me if You Can'. They were guitarist Mikio Fujioka (RIP), guitarist Leda Cygnus, BOH on bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums.
The growls on the first album (which includes these songs) aren't credited. The musician listed in BABYMETAL credits as TAKEMETAL (Takeru Youda) did growls on the second album. He also co-wrote the music for 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' on the first record. Alissa White-Gluz (from Arch Enemy) did the growls for the Metal Galaxy album version of 'Distortion'.
This concert had a mix of the Kami band, dressed in white death robes and corpse paint, and Baby Bones who are actors brought in by the production company Amuse as there was no money for at least 2 years whilst Babymetal did small venues, festivals and food halls, before a live band was introduced. The guys in CMIYC weren't the first Kami band members but the most seen. In 2012 there was Hiroki Arai guitar, Shiren guitar, Ryo bass and Shin drums. Their producer Key Kobayashi or Koba metal is the genius who upon seeing Su singing aged 10 was inspired to create a mix of Jpop and heavy metal, he being a long time lover of metal. Adding two angels to sing and dance complimented Su's voice BABYMETAL was created, but the company they are signed to expected this venture to fail, so not money, borrowed clothing and tiny venues piggybacked to Sakura Gakuin a school themed acting, dance and singing unit. They have a team of song writers who have psudonymes like Taka metal or Koba metal credited for BABYMETAL Death, same with the musicians on the albums, only Leda Cygnus is credited with bass and guitar and writing the live intro on Rondo of Nightmare etc. Both Yui and Moa are credited for writing 4 no Uta which was composed whilst in Singapore on the tour bus in 2012, but no one knows how much they add to other songs, only the fox god knows. #notacult
Did you see what awesome crowd that show had? What always blows my mind, is that show was in 2013, and they hadn't even released their first album yet at that time!! 🤣
Yeah, the first time you got it right, Kami Band. At that part, around 7 minutes, Su says "Nametara ikan zeyo", meaning "(Woman) shouldn't be underestimated". Note that "woman" (otome) is the last word she sings before saying it. Which is a phrase that has the same recognition in Japan as "say hello to my little friend" has here on the West. I use that comparison because the one Su says, came from a movie about Yakuza, and in it, a woman says that, just before stabbing an unsuspecting guy. Second song. They're playing Kakurenbo: A hide-and-seek + tag, in witch the seeker is an Oni. Oni are, to be more concise than correct, ogres/demons, in Japanese folklore. The gutural parts say "Oni-san" (Mr Oni), and the girls respond "mada da yo" (not ready yet). The last phrase is "red shoes are dangerous to wear" Another folklore mention. Comes from the fact that only foreigners (Catholic priests mainly) used red shoes in Japan, way back in 1500's, thus marking them as "fair game" to bandits, kidnappers and such. May I suggest "BxMxCx" for your next song. Su puts many veterans to shame in that song. Both studio *and* live, manages to nail the performance. The "x"s on BMC are just for style, instead of " . " 🤘🏻🦊🤘🏻
Great reaction! About the mask: Megitsune is essentially a song about how women "put on a mask" or present to the world a different face from their true selves. In this case, Megitsune literally means "female fox" or "vixen" and it kinda goes along with Babymetal's adherence to the Fox God. This is why at the end of the breakdown Su has the fox mask.
Yeah, also, my understanding of the lyrics, the mask represents putting on the appearance of what society (traditional Japanese culture, in this case) expects you, especially girls & women, to be; even if that is not what you are on the inside. Her tossing the mask away is symbolic of their rejection of this social expectation.
CMIYC is probably my favorite live performance song but then again so are all of their other songs! Can't go wrong with a song about hide and seek with the beast! Megitsune MV is the best version I think but then you got the copyright stuff. Great reaction! 🤘🤘🤘PS: I did exactly what you did with that breakdown on Megitsune over and over again the first time I heard the song.
Moa and Yui (the dancers) wrote a song off a dare from Su (the main vocalist)… It’s “Song 4” since it’s a morbid number (because four sounds like the word for death).
Please pay attention to BABYMETAL - Rondo of Nightmare - ua-cam.com/video/tmMocP99QkQ/v-deo.html There, Su-Metal performs without backup dancers, but this is one of her best and darkest songs. The same song with English subtitles, no musical intro - ua-cam.com/video/7q34G_VTnb8/v-deo.html
I didn't get it. I'm going to have to watch this again. and again and again. LOL Oh, wait I did that already. Maybe a few more times. You think if I watch this over 100x I can finally get it. Oh, wait I did that already too. I just going to do what Su says, "Don't Think, Feel". Ah. Who am I kidding. I love Babymetal. I've watched them since 2014. Babymetal is the happiest place in metal.
Great show, on " Catch Me If You Can" live show at Black Night Legend Doomsday show, would have been better, has Kami band Intro, with 2 Guitar Solos, Bass Solo, and Drum Solo, all before the girls appear, it is fantastic !!
Excelente ! BabyMetal never disappoint ! Please check Megitsune real live performance : BabyMetal Five Fox Festival 2017 (Red Fox ) Megitsune . with entire feminine crowd . the song is a hymn
You should check out Rondo of Nightmare Mischiefs of Metal Gods at Budokan Live Intro (Black Night) This is really where this band really excels. Their live shows are second to none & that performance proved it!! Su-Metal was just 16 in that performance & aready so f*** good!! Great Reaction here BTW!! 🤘🦊💕
I ABSOLUTELY ADORE JMETAL AND JROCK. I LOVE THE SINGING AND DANCING OF BM AND I LOVE THE EXTREMELY GOOD MUSICIANSHIP OF JAPANESE WOMEN BANDS! GIRL POWER AND MORE OF IT! THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT THE JWAVE!
Previously I thought the crowd in the pit was just there running and jostling each other. Later I found out that they kept listening to Su-metal singing and waving their hands or chanting along with Yuimetal and Moametal.😁
I suggest that you use the links below From the Babymetal Reactor Resource ua-cam.com/video/q40VmTHSh4c/v-deo.html Going forward, if reactors want to keep reacting to the videos, I've come up with a solution that will make it possible to continue using the videos with logos that have already been tested against blocks. I've made a spreadsheet - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZYdthVAHYaOAYL6AuhVOHotQinMoPPFEuspqDMIIGD4/edit#gid=0 with links to both the logo and the non-logo videos, hosting them on a Russian social media site that won't remove them, and is out of the reach of the copyright trolls. There are a bit over 30 videos on there now, but I'll keep uploading more every day until they're all backup. I'll also be adding new videos that I'll test on an alt UA-cam account before adding to the spreadsheet. If you can't access the spreadsheet for whatever reason, here are direct links to both the non-logo videos and the videos with logos: No logos - ok.ru/video/c6630874 With logos - ok.ru/video/c7184602 For reactors that want to put their logo over the videos, here is a link to the logos I use that are already made transparent - drive.google.com/file/d/1JUVfJGp36xR2n1FHl7PzRIxXhA5P4VyW/viewor you can use whatever logo you'd like. You can download the videos, which I recommend since the site can be a bit laggy sometimes, from this free website - okvid.download Although there are other videos on my channel there, only use the ones on the spreadsheet because some of the other non-logo videos aren't UA-cam-safe. Kitsunes UP!
Yes, her vocals are to low in the mix. Known issue of that Blu-ray. Try a different concert for a change. I suggest Budokan, either black night or 2021.
Really fun fact about Megistume, the girls like to play around in this song. When Su holds up the mask she often makes faces at Moa. At once concert in Germany when Su held up the mask and the two girls were facing her shaking their finger at her Moa yelled out "Hamburger" which is the punch line for a Japanese comedy routine and Riho Sayashi who was performing with them could not stop laughing and had to put her hand over her mouth to hide it.
@@IsaLinh all i could find is the short. you can clearly hear Moa yell Hamburger and as the camera pans you can see the other girl trying to hide her laughing. ua-cam.com/users/shortsVNuDCbOM9pE?feature=share
The mask is that of a fox, a fox god, which is who Babymetal attribute everything to (you'll often hear them comment that "only the Fox God knows" about future plans). It's a fun part of the Babymetal lore. The word for the nine-tailed fox god is kitsune (ki-tsu-ne) (think of the character Tails from the Sonic the Hedgehog games). A female kitsune is a megitsune (male vs female spellings). Thus the title of the song.
@@jakemuller8626 you do know that the kitsune is a Shinto God of Japan that far outdates Naruto, right? And that the image of the nine-tailed fox can be found almost everywhere in Japan? It didn't originate from Naruto.
Both of these songs combine quite a few elements of Japanese culture. Catch me if you Can references two common children's games that are similar to our Hide and Seek and Tag. In those game, they call the "tagger / it" oni-san. Oni translates to demon, devil, troll, ogre, ghoul etc. They make it playful by adding the friendly -san honorific to it, but the point is, you don't want to get caught. While playing kakurenbo (hide and seek) the Oni hides their eyes and counts. Then they call out "are you ready?". This is the first growl/ scream you hear in the song. It's the Oni asking, "Hey! Are you ready? Are you ready?" To which the girls reply "No, not yet! No, not yet!" Eventually the Oni is looking for them and there is a growl/screen "I FOUND YOU!" It's not to hard to pick it out if your watching the choreography, because it looks like they all jump up, freak out, and try to run away. There are also references to the red oni and blue oni, asking of there are any naughty children here. Parents tell young Japanese children, especially in northern Japan, traditional tales of these colored oni coming in the night to take away children who disobey. This is a story used to get kids to be good. And it's in this song too!
Metal Kingdom just dropped, and as no suprise, it's a banger!! No video this time, unfortunately but still worth checking out!! The vocals on this track are insane. Su-Metal now is definitely on a new level!! One week until their comeback performance at Tokyo International Exhibition Hall!!🤘🦊💕
What is one of the most amazing parts is that Megitsune MV and song incorporates many traditional Japanese elements, which includes that if you listen closely to the break down at 5:21 is actually based on the old traditional song: Sakura Sakura (just look it up)
Catch me if you can is one of those Babymetal oddball songs other than Avadama Fever and Yava. It's catchy as fuck. The thing I love about Babymetal is that they make metal fun.
The should check out Baby Metals official UA-cam. After you film your initial reaction to their song, check out their official music videos. Megitsune is especially good, in my opinion.
Great double reaction again. With Su's vocals being too low in the mix, I'm thinking whoever 'remastered' the video and made it 4K probably did something, other videos from Legend 1997 don't seem to have that problem. 'Megitsune' regularly tops fan polls for favourite song, it possibly represents who and what they are as well or better than any other of their songs and is the song they have performed live more than any other. It also reflects a lot of their Japanese culture starting with the traditional instruments (shamisen) in the intro and the lyrics about women being compared to foxes (kitsune - which also explains in part why Su had the fox mask) which in Japanese mythology are able to shape shift and take human form in order to deceive. It is also a bit of a push back against the traditional female role in Japanese society I think - or maybe it is. They are saying that women wearing their make up and hiding their true feelings are not trying to deceive anybody, they are simply trying to please everybody ("crying at heart, smiling at face") - so they are not kitsune (foxes), they are megitsune (female foxes or vixens) - and they are strong. The breakdown with the pig squeals uses the exact melody of the old and very well known Japanese folk song called 'Sakura Sakura' (Cherry Blossoms). When Su spoke a few words and did a high kick she said "Otome wa ... nametara ikan zeyo." (Maidens ... shouldn't be underestimated). The last part of this is a famous quote from a Japanese gangster movie said by the daughter of a gang boss. This performance was in the first half of the concert so the Kami Band were not playing - the instrumentals were on backing track and the Babybones (guys in skeleton suits) were miming them. It is even better and heavier with the Kami Band playing.
If you haven't had a proper introduction to the Kami band yet, you really should check out _Rondo of Nightmare,_ and specifically a version with the _Mischief of the Metal Gods_ intro. That will give you a nice solo from each of them: ua-cam.com/video/tmMocP99QkQ/v-deo.html
I love Catch Me If You Can. It's one of their heaviest songs and also one of the cutest. The band doesn't write the songs. They are session musicians who are hired to play concerts. Babymetal has songwriters. Excellent songwriters. They also use guest songwriters frequently.
The mask has to do with the story of song.... The whole fox/female theme....but moreover.... The Fox is BabyMetal "mascot".... If you watch closely, instead of throwing the standard ''Devil's Horns'' they pinch their middle fingers and thumb to form the shape of a Fox Head...(the horns are actually forming the ears of the fox'' They do it in pretty much ALL their songs... and the crowd is on it too... it you look, most of ppl in the crowd are throwing the Fox head instead of the traditional Devil's Horn sign you see so much in metal concerts.
The Megitsune mask is a fox mask. There's a lot of fox imagery with Babymetal, because the girls thought the heavy metal horns hand gesture looked like a shadow puppet of a fox. "Megitsune" means vixen, or female fox. "Kitsune" means male fox. Both words come up in the song a lot. That heavy breakdown at 5:21 is a very old Japanese melody called Sakura. It dates back to the samurai era, probably to the 17th or 18th century, and it's very big in Japanese culture. This metal version is great. Japanese crowds seem like the best in the world. They're quiet when they should be, chant when they should and cheer when they should. A culture of conformity, even in the metal scene. The girls and the band have very limited input in the music, though. It's all arranged by the producer and whoever he brings in to help. The girls and band just do their jobs, to the highest level.
A lot of fans always say, almost dogmatically that the live versions are always best. I'm going to unfashionably disagree. I think a lot of the music videos are good enough that they give a lot of context and nuance to their song that you might not get otherwise. I'd even go so heretically far as to say _all_ of them. A picture is worth a thousand words, and all that. A moving picture must be worth millions. In terms of the music, musicianship, showmanship, theatrics, talent, experience, awesomeness I agree; the live performances always win hands down. But in terms of 'stuff to watch to understand the song' I think the music videos have always done justice enough that I also love those versions. And in terms of reaction, surely that's the place to start, right? React to whichever; that's usually too tough to call. But don't think that because you've seen the music video or live version you've got all that song has. Both are usually amazing for quite different reasons.
The one thing that a lot of people forget is that at this concert Su-Metal had just turned 16 years old the day before the concert, and Moa and Yui were either 13 or just turned 14 in a rather short time period. For that age, this is an AMAZING performance.
It still blows my mind that Su-metal just turned 16 the day before this concert, and Yuimetal and Moametal were both only 14 years old! In the 2nd song you can see how comfortable they were on that stage and in front of that crowd which I believe was their largest at the time.🤘🦊🤘
You should check the lyrics of Megitsune with the explanation. Everything Japanese culture usually needs some kind of explanation. ... I see some comments already explained.
Ya que ha iniciado con el Kawai metal y idols, deberías ver otra muy buena banda es una combinación entre cyberpunk y metal se llaman Passcode y tienen una muy buena propuesta, no se arrepentirá !
I can tell you by experience that being in person at a concert you can hear Su clearly over the band rockin out and they rock out hard. These videos don't compare to listening to it in person.
You can't hear it very well or at all in this video, but in the official video (which you should check out since it's really good) for "Megitsune", during the breakdown you will hear some sick pig squeals! 🤘🦊🤘
BABYMETAL skyrocketed faster than anyone could have predicted. Teenage and preteen girls were controlling huge audiences like the one in this video. Close to their 10 year anniversary the lead guitarist died and Yui dropped out due to health problems. Su and Moa continued with subs for Yui. The Fox god issued a cryptic message regarding the group, if they plan to continue performing. In comes the human malware. The question remains-‘will they continue?’
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Great reaction .
The thing that always amazes me about Baby Metal is that if you were putting a proposition to a producer that went something like - " Well we've got this really heavy metal band and we've decided to front it with three very young looking cute girls who dance a bit and sound as if they're about 12 years old " - they would laugh you out of their office - BUT IT WORKS !
100%
They was 12 when it start though Su was 14
Oh well at least you would know, THEIR LOSS!!! 😘
@@Cheezyxyz I've just found a video of this song where Su is asking for a big circlepit, instead of one,
they're giving her 5 circle pits, one of them huge af, look for Catch me if you can - Live Rising Sun Rock from 2016, imo, the best live version of this song for me to date.
_Maada da yo!_ 🦊🤘👠
Heavy metal: You know there's a Beast.
Doom metal: You preach about the Beast.
Black metal: You obey the Beast.
Death metal: You ARE the Beast.
Power metal: You fight the Beast.
Viking metal: You fight the Beast for Odin.
Thrash metal: You're going to fucking kill the Beast.
Metalcore/Nu metal: You crab with the Beast.🦀
Glam metal: You're too drunk to care about the Beast.
Kawaii metal: You play hide and seek with the Beast.👹🤘🔥
If you're looking for a resemblance on this song, then try Slipknot - (sic).🤘🔥
Yes. Perfect definitions
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Babymetal lives rent free in your head. They can stay forever...
Foxes in Japanese culture are essentially seen as close companions to humans and have taken on a supernatural/spiritual twist as many different qualities and entities such as guardian spirits. They also may serve to represent many different facets of power.
Mask is a metaphor for how women have to hide their emotions behind a mask. Also a reference to megitsune, a female fox that shape shifts and deceives. Going back centuries, there are tales of kitsune and megitsune, megitsune is a female kitsune, who deceive men and lead them to their doom. The song is pushing back on those tropes.
Song writing process is rather opaque, we're not sure how it works. Su is beginning to write lyrics for songs, and Yui and Moa wrote 4 no Uta, other than that we don't know. How it works with other bands is the singer will say "I want a song that portrays this emotion", and there will be a meeting and different people will get assigned different song ideas. Is this how Babymetal does it? I don't know, but that is a model in Japan.
We do know that Su decides when they do a song. They are presented songs, and until Su says she is ready to sing it, they stay on the shelf, and that can be for years, and presumably we've never heard some songs. And later on, Su calls out the mix - she wants more bass here, more guitar there. She is reportedly quite sophisticated in her demands for the mix
Also the mask is a kitsune mask, which is what this song references a lot - foxes that can shapeshift and blend into human society by pretending to be something they're not. It is important to note that megitsune don't always lead men to their doom. Often, megitsune in folklore pretend to be humans and even have human husbands who didn't realize they were foxes. So the megitsune can have human lives but can never be vulnerable or else lose their place in society. One of the most famous of these megitsune actually has a shrine. She was the mother of a famous onmyouji who is also enshrined, but had to leave him as a child when her identity as a kitsune was revealed
Have you considered how much stamina these girls have. Note that Megitsume, Head Banger and Death are all from the same concert.
The "Catch me if you can" video - I got my leg into one of those positions once when I was many years younger. It was in a Taekwondo class, and I couldn't move without pain for about 2 weeks afterwards.
Of course, it's all relative. They have (had?) the benefit of flexibility and stamina of youth. Or at least that's what we old 'uns keep telling ourselves. Truth is, they must have worked _astonishingly_ hard to be able to endure this kind of performance.
SU is training by running on a treadmill and sings for hours. ❤❤❤ stamina
Confused about the songwriting process? So are hardcore fans. Reading the other comments I see a lot of embellishments and guesses over what is actually known, although the general gist seems mostly correct to me. Early songs were created and developed as a collaboration of producer, writers, arrangers in a typical Idol process. A good handful or so of regular writers. At some point, Su- began being called into the studio to create a wordless melody to a partially developed song. And early on Yui and Moa wrote Yon no Uta (Song 4, or Song of 4) which was then given a full Black Babymetal arrangement. What can be said now is that songs are developed in rock band fashion, although the writers/arrangers are generally different people from the musicians.
The progression makes sense when one considers the trio were pre-teens when the group was formed. But we have heard bits and pieces from interview comments and so on that the trio had increasing say over things and more creative control as they got older. And now we have Su-metal with credit for the lyrics on Divine Attack - Shingeki -. And did she really play the piano during No Rain No Rainbow at the last of the 10 Babymetal Budokan shows? OTFGK 🤘🦊
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Megitsune is a great song among BM fans favorite, although this version is with SuMetal singing live she's doing it with a backing track, if you wanna hear a full live version with the Kami Band then i highly suggest you live at Budokan 2014 and after, is even heavier. This song is always a work in progress for SuMetal and a real challenge so if you hear her voice a little bit down low that's just the mix, not because she lacks of vocal power.
The first main section of this live concert is with backing track songs and the "baby-bones" air playing instruments, the encore section (when you hear Catch Me If You Can) is with a real band, the Kami Band.
This song got drums arrangements inspired in songs like "Memphis May Fire - The Sinner", cool song.
The mask are representing foxes, they're using fox imagery all over this song and since the beginning of the group when creating the Fox God which is the one who send the girls with this mission of Metal Resistance.
Megitsune means "female vixen" and this is female empowerment song.
Btw no one is credited for growlings in any BM song except on Distortion album song and live after.
Thanks for sharing this and see you next time.🦊🤘🔥
You should check out the budokan live version with the kami band intro.
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Thank you for saving me from doing a lot of typing lol! 👍
The beginning of the song is an old popular poem. It translation that I remember is "a fox, a fox, I'm a vixen. All women are actors."
So the fox mask is more repetitive of the poem and how women are actually foxs. That is how I interpret it at least
Nice one.
Only just 16 and 14 years old and already filling stadiums.
BabyMetal considers the crowd a member of the band and they make the music together which is why the fans are called "The One". The song writing in complicated, Japan does stuff at the team level, they have writers, musicians, producers, the girls. Su does work on the melody and the vocal delivery a lot. I read one example that Su came up with a melody and went to the writers and started hashing out the song then got some musicians involved (usually not the Kami band but they do have some writing credits). So, it seems to be a big mash up of people involved as the song evolves with everyone's input. You can tell that every little part of the song is picked apart and refined.
Yeah you can tell that their songs must be refined over and over. To me, it even seems like they improve the songs even more between the time they record the albums and when they finally play them live, but I have also heard that they have to make adjustments to the arrangements of the songs a little since the Kami band will be playing live.
I guess you must be like the song "Kagerou"(BABYMETAL with Kami Band Intro) live!! → ua-cam.com/video/Hg3QsPI3x1M/v-deo.html
The Makuhari Messe two days concert of 2019 is fully upload in YT if you want to watch a full concert, but probably will spoil some songs you haven't heard yet for a reaction 😋🦊🤘
Legend Metal Galaxy Day 1 ua-cam.com/video/NvTD4dzTzfY/v-deo.html and Day 2 ua-cam.com/video/2HsRUZzjZkQ/v-deo.html January 2020
Rondo of Nightmare with the mischief of Gods intro is a pretty awesome song.
Try Hanabie- we love sweets (one of my favorite songs to see first reactions) and a brand new song that they just dropped last night called Pardon Me.
The song writing process is all over the place, but the live band just does a live interpretation. They are great guys, but rarely involved in the writing process.
Writing of a song is often based on an abstract theme for a song or music or metal sub-genre. Often time it's an external song-writer, but they are regulars.
Often it's about the girls or something they can related to, so even when the girls didn't write the song it's in their voice.
Their are often things the girls, especially Su-metal, changes in the song before the final recording.
Some songs were partly written by the girls.
Also they might end up in the studio twice for a song, Su-metal records a melody after the music was written but before the lyrics are made.
Babymetal is an awsome Vibe I hope I get to see them live one day. I think they are touring with Sabaton this year. It's gonna be epic!!
Megitsume remains one of my favourite BM songs. The high energy, the choreography and the music (even if in this video it’s the fake band) are just too good! This song above all others convinced me that their cardio must be off the charts.
Catch Me If You Can is just pure fun from beginning to end. Imagine these young girls commanding a huge crowd of thousands. There is a later live version of this where each of the Kami band play solos at the beginning. Definition worth checking out just for that.
Catch Me If You Can is the best Metal song ever about playing Hide and Seek. 🦊🤘🤘🦊Megitsune = vixen/female fox. Kitsune = fox/male fox. The mask Su holds up is a kitsune mask. If you'd like to see The Kami Band have a solo each - and who wouldn't? - then there's a version of Catch Me If You Can with a solo from each member before the girls appear. It's from the Black Night Legend concert and it has English subtitles too so yuou can sing along! ua-cam.com/video/ng8U_j0gpLI/v-deo.html 🦊🤘🤘🦊
Great reaction, thanks!
And great choice: according to some polls, most favorite song and most favorite choreo respectively.
The songwriting process involves Kobametal (Key Kobayashi), their producer and ideological creator of the whole concept and a bunch of songwriters. He's known for being incredibly picky and has the last word. For example, he sent back "Megitsune" several dozen times to the songwriters until he was 100% happy with it. The last addition to the writing team is some Su-metal... I believe you know her. 😁
If I am nor wrong - some of the Black Babymetal stuff is written by Yui and Moa. Maybe only 4 is UTA.
@@rolandkarlsson7072 That's correct. "4 no uta" (pronounced "yon no uta", meaning "song of 4"). They wrote it during a bus trip in Singapore as a challenge proposed by Su, annoying the staff to the point some complained about it. Koba decided to arrange it to make a new song. 😊
@@road-runner there are 3 of them, why song of 4?
@@springbliss4961 Th song is about the number 4. It's considered a bad luck number in Asia like our 13 (or 17 in some countries)... but even worse. This is why the staff complained about them singing about that number. 😁
@@road-runner oh, 😆 silly girls
Nice! Double feature of two of my favorite songs. I mean almost all of their songs are my favorite but these two are always floating around in my top 5. As we always say, best BABYMETAL is live BABYMETAL but when you can, on your own time or as a bonus reaction. Check out Megitsune official video. It is really well done.
Catch me if you Can is the perfect blend of badass and cuteness in my opinion. Love the choreography in it. 🤘🦊🤘
You should also watch CMIYC live at Budokan. The Kami band do a intro to start it. This one was cute though as the girls went to each area of the stage to pump up the crowd and show them some love.
Su's vocals are very intense in the music video for Megitsune, relentless even. It's a really good video too.
The Kami Band didn't play on Megitsune. They came out for an extended encore. Megitsune was a pre-recorded track with a fake band, Babybones, pretending to play.
Nice reaction. Another banger from that show is “Iine”(eenay)
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'Catch Me If You Can' is the best metal song about playing a game that's a sort of cross between tag, blind man's bluff and hide & seek.
It is the perfect mix of the two extremes with the brutal instrumentals and the sweet vocals - and the game they are playing, they're playing with an Oni (a sort of Japanese ogre 👹 popular in regional festivals and used specifically to frighten children ... and the idea of that probably amuses me a lot more than it really should 🤭), very little gets any more metal than that. 🤘
The growling vocals (they are on a backing track - mostly uncredited) are the Oni asking things like "Are you ready?" and the best response has to be "Maada da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance.🏃♀🏃♀🏃♀👹
This was one of the 5 encore songs at Legend 1997 so yes you finally got to see the Kami Band. In this one we got the girls hyping the crowd for 2 minutes before the song started. If you watch other versions (for example live at Budokan Black Night) you will get an instrumental intro by the Kami Band with each member taking turns to solo before the girls come out on stage.
Wuddup bra! .When theyr'e on tour , sometimes you seeThe cat's in skeletons, now they have weird masks..are studio musicians.. LEGIT studio musicians.. including this music MV, @ 7:00 ; Su slips SIC dagger out of mic.. outhey were alot younger. MUCH✌❤🙏 from 🐺WOLFPACK🐺 POLAND
Babymetal might be the best live act on the planet right now.
Great reaction btw
Thanks Der Wolf!
First song, the Band wearing the skeleton outfits was "Babybones" they retired in 2014 and Second song was they Kami Band and they have backed them since, Kami Band are the ones in white with corpse paint. They swapped between them before Babybones retired.
Yeah, two of my favorite BM tracks in one reaction - great 🙂
Catch me if you can live at budokan has a band solo in it 🦊🤘
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No Kami Band on the first song.
Those guys in skeleton suits known to fans as "Babybones" or just "Hone" (bones) in Japan were just miming.
The BABYMETAL members called them Hone-san (Mr. Bones).
The live Kami Band came on stage for five encore songs, including 'Catch Me if You Can'.
They were guitarist Mikio Fujioka (RIP), guitarist Leda Cygnus, BOH on bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums.
The growls on the first album (which includes these songs) aren't credited.
The musician listed in BABYMETAL credits as TAKEMETAL (Takeru Youda) did growls on the second album.
He also co-wrote the music for 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' on the first record.
Alissa White-Gluz (from Arch Enemy) did the growls for the Metal Galaxy album version of 'Distortion'.
This concert had a mix of the Kami band, dressed in white death robes and corpse paint, and Baby Bones who are actors brought in by the production company Amuse as there was no money for at least 2 years whilst Babymetal did small venues, festivals and food halls, before a live band was introduced. The guys in CMIYC weren't the first Kami band members but the most seen. In 2012 there was Hiroki Arai guitar, Shiren guitar, Ryo bass and Shin drums. Their producer Key Kobayashi or Koba metal is the genius who upon seeing Su singing aged 10 was inspired to create a mix of Jpop and heavy metal, he being a long time lover of metal. Adding two angels to sing and dance complimented Su's voice BABYMETAL was created, but the company they are signed to expected this venture to fail, so not money, borrowed clothing and tiny venues piggybacked to Sakura Gakuin a school themed acting, dance and singing unit. They have a team of song writers who have psudonymes like Taka metal or Koba metal credited for BABYMETAL Death, same with the musicians on the albums, only Leda Cygnus is credited with bass and guitar and writing the live intro on Rondo of Nightmare etc. Both Yui and Moa are credited for writing 4 no Uta which was composed whilst in Singapore on the tour bus in 2012, but no one knows how much they add to other songs, only the fox god knows. #notacult
Did you see what awesome crowd that show had? What always blows my mind, is that show was in 2013, and they hadn't even released their first album yet at that time!! 🤣
Megitsune is definitely a fan favorite! It's my favorite for sure! It's worth checking out the original music video too 🤘😎
Yeah, the first time you got it right, Kami Band.
At that part, around 7 minutes, Su says "Nametara ikan zeyo", meaning "(Woman) shouldn't be underestimated".
Note that "woman" (otome) is the last word she sings before saying it.
Which is a phrase that has the same recognition in Japan as "say hello to my little friend" has here on the West.
I use that comparison because the one Su says, came from a movie about Yakuza, and in it, a woman says that, just before stabbing an unsuspecting guy.
Second song.
They're playing Kakurenbo:
A hide-and-seek + tag, in witch the seeker is an Oni. Oni are, to be more concise than correct, ogres/demons, in Japanese folklore.
The gutural parts say "Oni-san" (Mr Oni), and the girls respond "mada da yo" (not ready yet).
The last phrase is "red shoes are dangerous to wear"
Another folklore mention. Comes from the fact that only foreigners (Catholic priests mainly) used red shoes in Japan, way back in 1500's, thus marking them as "fair game" to bandits, kidnappers and such.
May I suggest "BxMxCx" for your next song.
Su puts many veterans to shame in that song.
Both studio *and* live, manages to nail the performance.
The "x"s on BMC are just for style, instead of " . "
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Thanks for sharing!
@@Cheezyxyz no problem!
Just keep it up!
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even more impactful in the music video, because Su draws a tanto from her mike as she says it! ;)
Great reaction and attention to detail!
Recommendation for more by them: Karate, Syncopation, Yava!, Uki Uki Midnight, Brand New Day...
Great reaction! About the mask: Megitsune is essentially a song about how women "put on a mask" or present to the world a different face from their true selves. In this case, Megitsune literally means "female fox" or "vixen" and it kinda goes along with Babymetal's adherence to the Fox God. This is why at the end of the breakdown Su has the fox mask.
And throws it away....
Yeah, also, my understanding of the lyrics, the mask represents putting on the appearance of what society (traditional Japanese culture, in this case) expects you, especially girls & women, to be; even if that is not what you are on the inside. Her tossing the mask away is symbolic of their rejection of this social expectation.
Sore! 😍
CMIYC is probably my favorite live performance song but then again so are all of their other songs! Can't go wrong with a song about hide and seek with the beast! Megitsune MV is the best version I think but then you got the copyright stuff. Great reaction! 🤘🤘🤘PS: I did exactly what you did with that breakdown on Megitsune over and over again the first time I heard the song.
So glad to see that you appriciate the music, the band!
Moa and Yui (the dancers) wrote a song off a dare from Su (the main vocalist)… It’s “Song 4” since it’s a morbid number (because four sounds like the word for death).
Please pay attention to BABYMETAL - Rondo of Nightmare - ua-cam.com/video/tmMocP99QkQ/v-deo.html
There, Su-Metal performs without backup dancers, but this is one of her best and darkest songs.
The same song with English subtitles, no musical intro - ua-cam.com/video/7q34G_VTnb8/v-deo.html
I didn't get it. I'm going to have to watch this again. and again and again. LOL Oh, wait I did that already. Maybe a few more times. You think if I watch this over 100x I can finally get it. Oh, wait I did that already too. I just going to do what Su says, "Don't Think, Feel". Ah. Who am I kidding. I love Babymetal. I've watched them since 2014. Babymetal is the happiest place in metal.
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Great show, on " Catch Me If You Can" live show at Black Night Legend Doomsday show, would have been better, has Kami band Intro, with 2 Guitar Solos, Bass Solo, and Drum Solo, all before the girls appear, it is fantastic !!
Sadly the harsh vocals are just studio/backing track, mostly uncredited. But they could be manipulated to make them even harsher.
Excelente ! BabyMetal never disappoint ! Please check Megitsune real live performance : BabyMetal Five Fox Festival 2017 (Red Fox ) Megitsune . with entire feminine crowd . the song is a hymn
You should check out Rondo of Nightmare Mischiefs of Metal Gods at Budokan Live Intro (Black Night) This is really where this band really excels. Their live shows are second to none & that performance proved it!! Su-Metal was just 16 in that performance & aready so f*** good!! Great Reaction here BTW!! 🤘🦊💕
The stamina, man, the stamina. It's so incredible!
I ABSOLUTELY ADORE JMETAL AND JROCK. I LOVE THE SINGING AND DANCING OF BM AND I LOVE THE EXTREMELY GOOD MUSICIANSHIP OF JAPANESE WOMEN BANDS! GIRL POWER AND MORE OF IT! THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT THE JWAVE!
Previously I thought the crowd in the pit was just there running and jostling each other. Later I found out that they kept listening to Su-metal singing and waving their hands or chanting along with Yuimetal and Moametal.😁
Most of the time Babymetal crowds are not doing a moshpit, but a circlepit.
A classic banger from one of the new big 4, " Baby metal, Band maid, Nemophila and Lovebites" keep rocking my friend 🤘
Hell yeah! It's wonderful how the crowd is just so on point!! I can't wait for you to experience the takes of the Destinies and Syncopation!!!
I suggest that you use the links below
From the Babymetal Reactor Resource ua-cam.com/video/q40VmTHSh4c/v-deo.html
Going forward, if reactors want to keep reacting to the videos, I've come up with a solution that will make it possible to continue using the videos with logos that have already been tested against blocks.
I've made a spreadsheet - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZYdthVAHYaOAYL6AuhVOHotQinMoPPFEuspqDMIIGD4/edit#gid=0
with links to both the logo and the non-logo videos, hosting them on a Russian social media site that won't remove them, and is out of the reach of the copyright trolls. There are a bit over 30 videos on there now, but I'll keep uploading more every day until they're all backup. I'll also be adding new videos that I'll test on an alt UA-cam account before adding to the spreadsheet.
If you can't access the spreadsheet for whatever reason, here are direct links to both the non-logo videos and the videos with logos:
No logos - ok.ru/video/c6630874
With logos - ok.ru/video/c7184602
For reactors that want to put their logo over the videos, here is a link to the logos I use that are already made transparent - drive.google.com/file/d/1JUVfJGp36xR2n1FHl7PzRIxXhA5P4VyW/viewor you can use whatever logo you'd like.
You can download the videos, which I recommend since the site can be a bit laggy sometimes, from this free website - okvid.download
Although there are other videos on my channel there, only use the ones on the spreadsheet because some of the other non-logo videos aren't UA-cam-safe.
Kitsunes UP!
See the official video of MEGITSUNE, is more heavy.
Yes, her vocals are to low in the mix. Known issue of that Blu-ray. Try a different concert for a change. I suggest Budokan, either black night or 2021.
Out of all the outfits I have seen Babymetal wear, these are my favorite. They have an emo feel.
🤘🦊🤘 2nd song basically kami band show 😅
Dude you have so much to learn about baby metal it just takes research. They started so young.
Really fun fact about Megistume, the girls like to play around in this song. When Su holds up the mask she often makes faces at Moa. At once concert in Germany when Su held up the mask and the two girls were facing her shaking their finger at her Moa yelled out "Hamburger" which is the punch line for a Japanese comedy routine and Riho Sayashi who was performing with them could not stop laughing and had to put her hand over her mouth to hide it.
Got a link? I really wanna see that haha
@@IsaLinh all i could find is the short. you can clearly hear Moa yell Hamburger and as the camera pans you can see the other girl trying to hide her laughing.
ua-cam.com/users/shortsVNuDCbOM9pE?feature=share
You do great Babymetal reactions. It's easy to hear, you really like em. Kitsunes up! 🤘🏻 🦊🤘🏻 hope for many more
Thanks Henrik!
The mask is that of a fox, a fox god, which is who Babymetal attribute everything to (you'll often hear them comment that "only the Fox God knows" about future plans). It's a fun part of the Babymetal lore. The word for the nine-tailed fox god is kitsune (ki-tsu-ne) (think of the character Tails from the Sonic the Hedgehog games). A female kitsune is a megitsune (male vs female spellings). Thus the title of the song.
Thanks for sharing!
Nice comment but the "nine-tailed fox" lore is related to Naruto anime series, not to BabyMetal lore.
@@jakemuller8626 you do know that the kitsune is a Shinto God of Japan that far outdates Naruto, right? And that the image of the nine-tailed fox can be found almost everywhere in Japan? It didn't originate from Naruto.
Who does the screams? Only the Fox God knows 😜
What I think? It's the Oni (ogre/ devil/ demon) that is looking for/ chasing them in this song!
Both of these songs combine quite a few elements of Japanese culture. Catch me if you Can references two common children's games that are similar to our Hide and Seek and Tag. In those game, they call the "tagger / it" oni-san. Oni translates to demon, devil, troll, ogre, ghoul etc. They make it playful by adding the friendly -san honorific to it, but the point is, you don't want to get caught. While playing kakurenbo (hide and seek) the Oni hides their eyes and counts. Then they call out "are you ready?". This is the first growl/ scream you hear in the song. It's the Oni asking, "Hey! Are you ready? Are you ready?" To which the girls reply "No, not yet! No, not yet!"
Eventually the Oni is looking for them and there is a growl/screen "I FOUND YOU!" It's not to hard to pick it out if your watching the choreography, because it looks like they all jump up, freak out, and try to run away.
There are also references to the red oni and blue oni, asking of there are any naughty children here. Parents tell young Japanese children, especially in northern Japan, traditional tales of these colored oni coming in the night to take away children who disobey. This is a story used to get kids to be good. And it's in this song too!
Thanks for sharing!
Metal Kingdom just dropped, and as no suprise, it's a banger!! No video this time, unfortunately but still worth checking out!! The vocals on this track are insane.
Su-Metal now is definitely on a new level!! One week until their comeback performance at Tokyo International Exhibition Hall!!🤘🦊💕
CMIYC is the greatest metal song ever written about playing hide and seek with an Ogre, FYI Koba-metal their producer does the screams 🦊🤘
"Koba-metal their producer does the screams"
Not sure where you heard this, but it's certainly not true.
@@rickwagner- don't you ever get tired of gatekeeping?🙄
@@christopherjq7414 Not sure how pointing out a misconception is "gatekeeping".
You should probably look up the definition.
Saki from Nemophila is a huge fan of Babymetal so they did a cover of Megitsune, you should check it out 🦊🤘
Great cover!
What is one of the most amazing parts is that Megitsune MV and song incorporates many traditional Japanese elements, which includes that if you listen closely to the break down at 5:21 is actually based on the old traditional song: Sakura Sakura (just look it up)
Catch me if you can is one of those Babymetal oddball songs other than Avadama Fever and Yava. It's catchy as fuck. The thing I love about Babymetal is that they make metal fun.
The should check out Baby Metals official UA-cam. After you film your initial reaction to their song, check out their official music videos. Megitsune is especially good, in my opinion.
Great double reaction again. With Su's vocals being too low in the mix, I'm thinking whoever 'remastered' the video and made it 4K probably did something, other videos from Legend 1997 don't seem to have that problem.
'Megitsune' regularly tops fan polls for favourite song, it possibly represents who and what they are as well or better than any other of their songs and is the song they have performed live more than any other.
It also reflects a lot of their Japanese culture starting with the traditional instruments (shamisen) in the intro and the lyrics about women being compared to foxes (kitsune - which also explains in part why Su had the fox mask) which in Japanese mythology are able to shape shift and take human form in order to deceive. It is also a bit of a push back against the traditional female role in Japanese society I think - or maybe it is.
They are saying that women wearing their make up and hiding their true feelings are not trying to deceive anybody, they are simply trying to please everybody ("crying at heart, smiling at face") - so they are not kitsune (foxes), they are megitsune (female foxes or vixens) - and they are strong.
The breakdown with the pig squeals uses the exact melody of the old and very well known Japanese folk song called 'Sakura Sakura' (Cherry Blossoms).
When Su spoke a few words and did a high kick she said "Otome wa ... nametara ikan zeyo." (Maidens ... shouldn't be underestimated). The last part of this is a famous quote from a Japanese gangster movie said by the daughter of a gang boss.
This performance was in the first half of the concert so the Kami Band were not playing - the instrumentals were on backing track and the Babybones (guys in skeleton suits) were miming them. It is even better and heavier with the Kami Band playing.
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Hide and Seek but with a demon that will chase and catch you
If you haven't had a proper introduction to the Kami band yet, you really should check out _Rondo of Nightmare,_ and specifically a version with the _Mischief of the Metal Gods_ intro. That will give you a nice solo from each of them:
ua-cam.com/video/tmMocP99QkQ/v-deo.html
I love Catch Me If You Can. It's one of their heaviest songs and also one of the cutest.
The band doesn't write the songs. They are session musicians who are hired to play concerts. Babymetal has songwriters. Excellent songwriters. They also use guest songwriters frequently.
The mask has to do with the story of song.... The whole fox/female theme....but moreover.... The Fox is BabyMetal "mascot".... If you watch closely, instead of throwing the standard ''Devil's Horns'' they pinch their middle fingers and thumb to form the shape of a Fox Head...(the horns are actually forming the ears of the fox'' They do it in pretty much ALL their songs... and the crowd is on it too... it you look, most of ppl in the crowd are throwing the Fox head instead of the traditional Devil's Horn sign you see so much in metal concerts.
best fans in the world
damn, you chose 2 of my favorite babymetal songs, add ijime dame zettai, and you have the combo.
THe God Band (KAMI), Megitsume (Female FOX/Vixen)
The Megitsune mask is a fox mask. There's a lot of fox imagery with Babymetal, because the girls thought the heavy metal horns hand gesture looked like a shadow puppet of a fox. "Megitsune" means vixen, or female fox. "Kitsune" means male fox. Both words come up in the song a lot. That heavy breakdown at 5:21 is a very old Japanese melody called Sakura. It dates back to the samurai era, probably to the 17th or 18th century, and it's very big in Japanese culture. This metal version is great. Japanese crowds seem like the best in the world. They're quiet when they should be, chant when they should and cheer when they should. A culture of conformity, even in the metal scene. The girls and the band have very limited input in the music, though. It's all arranged by the producer and whoever he brings in to help. The girls and band just do their jobs, to the highest level.
A lot of fans always say, almost dogmatically that the live versions are always best.
I'm going to unfashionably disagree. I think a lot of the music videos are good enough that they give a lot of context and nuance to their song that you might not get otherwise. I'd even go so heretically far as to say _all_ of them. A picture is worth a thousand words, and all that. A moving picture must be worth millions.
In terms of the music, musicianship, showmanship, theatrics, talent, experience, awesomeness I agree; the live performances always win hands down. But in terms of 'stuff to watch to understand the song' I think the music videos have always done justice enough that I also love those versions. And in terms of reaction, surely that's the place to start, right?
React to whichever; that's usually too tough to call. But don't think that because you've seen the music video or live version you've got all that song has. Both are usually amazing for quite different reasons.
The one thing that a lot of people forget is that at this concert Su-Metal had just turned 16 years old the day before the concert, and Moa and Yui were either 13 or just turned 14 in a rather short time period. For that age, this is an AMAZING performance.
Just for context, this song is about a game of hide and seek, with a monster involved, lol.
Moa and Yui were 14. Their birthdays are just about 18 months after Su's (and only a week or two apart from each other, iirc).
@@nickydexgg4579 Thanks for clarifying !!!!
You should react to catch me if you can WITH the Intro bro
Nice reaction, for the next video i recommend, Akatsuki and Rondo of Nightmare, both live Budokan Black Night 2014, Su Metal sings alone in both songs
Know u love LOVEBITES, their just drop a new song (The Spirit Lives on)try to find out on UA-cam), sorry I didn't have the link
They dropped another song?!
Yes
Mask is the Fox God - Fox God is responsible for gifting us all with Baby Metal. Check out their version of the Metal Horns - it's a Fox
👍 👍Well done, enjoying your double reactions.
Thanks RAH22!
What gets me,is every song has a different dance,how the hell to they remember them all
React to Crystal Lake-Into The Great Beyond... Btw I'm in Reno,NV..
It still blows my mind that Su-metal just turned 16 the day before this concert, and Yuimetal and Moametal were both only 14 years old! In the 2nd song you can see how comfortable they were on that stage and in front of that crowd which I believe was their largest at the time.🤘🦊🤘
You should check the lyrics of Megitsune with the explanation. Everything Japanese culture usually needs some kind of explanation. ... I see some comments already explained.
Thanks for the reaction!
The studio version is better I think. 👍
Check out their Mortal Kombat-like rap-battle song, "BxMxCx".
Ya que ha iniciado con el Kawai metal y idols, deberías ver otra muy buena banda es una combinación entre cyberpunk y metal se llaman Passcode y tienen una muy buena propuesta, no se arrepentirá !
A song about kids Playing hide and seek with a Demon. That’s metal
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correctly is Megitsune
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It would be cool if you reacted to BM reacting to Metallica.
I can tell you by experience that being in person at a concert you can hear Su clearly over the band rockin out and they rock out hard. These videos don't compare to listening to it in person.
Nice Reaction 👍
Next please reacts Babymetal ❤️
- Rondo of nightmare live Budokan
- Ijime, Dame, Zettai Live in UK
You can't hear it very well or at all in this video, but in the official video (which you should check out since it's really good) for "Megitsune", during the breakdown you will hear some sick pig squeals! 🤘🦊🤘
BABYMETAL skyrocketed faster than anyone could have predicted. Teenage and preteen girls were controlling huge audiences like the one in this video. Close to their 10 year anniversary the lead guitarist died and Yui dropped out due to health problems. Su and Moa continued with subs for Yui. The Fox god issued a cryptic message regarding the group, if they plan to continue performing. In comes the human malware. The question remains-‘will they continue?’
"Catch me if you can" is the heaviest metal song about playing hide and seek with a Japanese ogre/demon that you will ever hear. 🤘🦊🤘