A lot of Band-Maid myth about this one, so I'll let the band summarize it. Kanami(K): Recently the composing of songs is started by me making a demo, but the timing before this song I was in a slump. I couldn't decide what kind of song to make. I wanted to take care of the pillar of our songs which is hard rock, but we have also received opinions on making songs more pop or melodious. So I decided to have a talk with the band members. Actually in our 5 years it was the first time all the band members conferred about a song together. There we brainstormed and decided we wanted to make a song that was easy to sing in Karaoke. Image like a song from our first album [MAID IN JAPAN] from our indies days. So this was not going back to our major debut days, but really back to our roots. - The last phrase it pretty shocking. I was surprised this was allowed as a lyric.(laughs) Kobato: It was OK po. I submitted it meekly po(laughs). I didn't want to end the song popishly. If so there is no need for the current BAND-MAID to make such a song. So I wanted to have aggressiveness left here and attacked po. Actually this song had many more English phrases, but I changed most of it to Japanese. But left the last phrase English for it's impact.
Whitney Houston's "How will I know"...hmm, I never thought about that🤔 That small portion does resemble to it...interesting🧐 Kanami listens to many songs from many genres. So it is possible that she got the idea from that song. But how will I know?...😏
You'll get to HEAR Kanami play keyboards, but seeing her doing it on stage is very very rare! You have my sympathy for the ant attack... of course, Saiki doesn't give a ...
Mmmmmmm Miku's Mother of Pearl Zemaitis.....stunning! Nice funky vibe and MISA's, The Slide Queen, did not disappoint. Love Miku's backing vocals, she compliments Saiki so well. Very underrated song by the Maids.
I don't give a fuck what anybody says, this song is under appreciated greatness! I always felt like this video, the band portion, anyway, influenced the look of the video for 'Manners'. Good stuff
@@stephenchigwidden7504 Soz Stephen, not notified. Did you mean the commonwealth games? Australia are leading the way on the medals table, that's only cos they bribed all of the UK's athletes with free roast legs of lamb....probably.
I've got bad news and great news. Yes, you are now an addict. Welcome to the club. The great news, is that it's best addiction ever. No rehab for you, SB!
I love Band-Maid's "Start Over" because I'm into great writing, playing and well-constructed songs. But the jewelry store ad MV... not so much. Songs like Daydreaming, About Us, Anemone, Endless Story, PAGE, Wonderland, Awkward, Start Over, Mirage, At the Drop of a Hat and Smile can help them more than most of their catalog to become more approachable and widely accepted by the general public. Look at the tens to hundreds of millions of views idol, hip hop and pop receive. You don't have to be hard core anything to bob and weave to a lot of these manufactured, ah... "songs?" I'm afraid the kind of songs I love, Band-Maid, The Warning and Jinjer type songs, will remain a tiny, tiny niche -- like a sea slug in the ocean of teaming pop life. BTW - Start Over sounded awesome in their online live OOJ Concert. And it gets great fan reaction as seen here in Amsterdam: :ua-cam.com/video/AGyWuUm0SIA/v-deo.html (Fanvid thanks to Vladimir Chupin)
People say this is a "response" to them "going soft" but it came out after World Domination so I have no idea how anyone can possibly think that. There's a lot of wishful fanfiction about this band 😆 Here's the real story (thanks to t-shinji for the translation of this interview): Kanami: I always write demos and send them to my bandmates, but this time I couldn’t decide what kind of song to write, because of hitting a kind of slump, so all of us gathered to have a meeting. Then Sai-chan (Saiki) proposed like “How about reviewing our roots?” - What do you mean by your roots? Kanami: The first mini-album we released, Maid in Japan, had many songs a little closer to J-pop. We listened to all those songs once again, and got an inspiration about what we used to be in the beginning. Also, we wanted to have a song more and more people can sing, so we were conscious of making it karaoke-friendly. Kobato: Band-Maid songs are often hard to sing on karaoke (laughs). We thought it might be nice to have a song everyone can sing more easily, po. Kanami: We thought we had established our own hard rock style pretty well in our last album, and in order to achieve our goal of “world domination”, we wanted our song to be sung by a wider range of people. And the IDGAF? "So do the lyrics reflect your journey up to now?" Kobato: That’s right, po. However, just going straight is far from what we are now, so I wanted to show we’ve come here while overcoming obstacles, in order to have something more resonating with ourselves. That’s why I included “Bringing up this peace sign / I don’t give a fxxk” in the lyrics. Whether it’s fxxk in peace or peace in fxxk, we want to go ahead while taking the opposite things positively.
Did they? I know people said they'd gone too soft when they released "Endless Story" but the Maids quickly followed that with"RINNE" so that put that argument to bed. Now the important Q is "When exactly did Akane stop wearing her her Tiny Hat"? I know she was wearing it for part of the 2018 european tour but when B-M played London in 2019 it was missing. 😔 I never got to see Akane wearing her Tiny Hat, Tiny Hat :(
This song adds a completely different genre to their musical caperbilities. Any other band done such an intro? Lovely backing call and responce section with vocals between Saiki and Miku. Jazzy/funky? fine with that- always up for some kind of fusion in music.
I can only think of piano intro on Queen 'Death On Two Legs' 😁 And what an album, A Night At The Opera...every song a different style. No wonder I love the Maid's classy songwriting variety. They're in the tradition of eclectic rock and song matters more than genre. Tailor-made for me...every track they've done.
Your observation of the contrast between the couple in the dark and Band-Maid in the light certainly reflects their message of Start Over fresh when a relationship is troubled.
The concept in the video...the un-smashing and reversing back to Start Over. Simple but decent enough...doesn't deserve the hate 😁 Great little song...perfectly executed.
Kanami hasn't figured out how to play both piano and guitar at the same time yet, or we would have seen it done by now! Maybe have a synched video of her playing piano during a live ?
I love this song. It has the 90s jazz vibe with Kanami's piano intro, plus classic Band-Maid crescendo into the abrupt ending. The last chorus with the beautifully layered instrumental sounds like nobody else but Band-Maid. I wonder if you're the first reactor actually enjoyed the song. Awesome. Awesome 😉
This song sometimes divides the fans 😂 I personally really like it, though the whole story going on in the video I could do without. I only watch it every now and again to see the Maids and keep adding to their views 💜 Can't wait for the side B of this one 😎 Rock on, Po! 🕊️🤘🖤
You have been hearing Kanami on keyboards many times. She records it as a backing track usually though there is footage of her on keyboard in concert as well. Every sound you hear was made by the band whether pre recorded or not. As to I don't give a fuck, people. Ok? Saiki added that herself in answer to the several "critics" at the time who complained about the band going soft. Thus, her impromptu response. Later you will hear Rin-ne. Reincarnation. And as that is one of their absolutely heavier numbers Sai-chan opines at the end of that one and again to the "critics" It's sink or swim. Shut up! What do you expect from a punk band?
Well, I guess that's about it for the creepy-crawly as a fan of Band-Maid. 😆 Saiki's last sentence, the cover for this single and also the song itself, which lacks some of the Band-Maid we know (e.g. a Kanami solo) and the video for it, I think were designed from the get-go to poke fun at the naysayers who thought they had become too poppy. And that they are not too shy for such largely designed stuff, we know at the latest since various April Fool's jokes. They have a sense of humour I can easily live with. And even on purpose, they can't pull off a bad song. :) _____________________ 「 _'Our rock never dies ever. Forever!'_ 」 --- from *BAND-MAID* 'Manners' 🕊
Hey SBR, I hope you are having a great day! There are actually some videos of Kanami playing the piano on Ohrenje's You Tube channel, she is playing Band Maid songs by herself. In one video she is teaching her sister how to play "Daydreaming" on the piano. On another note, it appears that you have become a Maidiac, that's definitely not a bad thing, it just shows you have good taste in music. I'm not complaining, I'm happy to listen to Band Maid anytime.
To be honest, at the time, I didn't fully understand why so many Band-Maid fans were angry against "Start over" - I had just discovered the band back then and wasn't listening to them in chronological order, so "Start Over" didn't seemed out of place besides early tracks like "Love Passion Matador". But while following you on your chronological Band-Maid path, I understand better: "Start over" comes just after such a powerfull (and nearly exclusively) hard-rock album that it had to shock some people. The cringy video (I mean the acting parts! coming from a fiction where Start Over was used ) didn't help too. But most people learned to love it afterwards, partly because the live version was great, and then because Band-Maid kept on diversifying their sound with the next album. And c'mon: if only for Saiki's last words, it's a gem 😄.
I think he did it but when I click on the link above, I get a message that Sony won't allow it to be played in my country (Japan). Probably not in your country, either.
That huge bug was an ant? Ant's are tiny in England. SB you'd better check any abandoned mines where you live for some dumped barrels of nuclear waste.🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
@@GaryHolloway-810 It has a line in it me and my late partner used to say..It's when the Professor says "Shoot the antenna, they're useless without them!"...The ants make a particular noise which sounds like a train pulling away (well the trains here in Scotland) like a high pitch squeaking. So everytime we went on a train (usually to Edinburgh) when the train made the noise, we'd both say " "Shoot the antenna, they're useless without them!"...So the movie has good memories for me. I have it on DVD as a part of my classic sci-fi collection.
@@Bodneyblue HAHA That's an awesome story. Didn't passengers give you sideways glances when you said that? I am more of a horror buff & own a vast collection of vids & DVD's. So many in fact, that they're also clogging up my brothers house :)
@@GaryHolloway-810 I still say it if I hear it when hear stations or on a train...We also had another saying I also still say....We were out walking and ended up in a field of sheep.....Along came the farmer in his tractor and he was not happy....and told us to get out of his field...This was like 20 odd years ago.....Ever since then everytime a tractor passed us.(get alot here in Scotland..I see them almost everytime I go out walking) we'd say "I got a track-er, get off my land!" (in a kind of Bristol, cornish accent)...And I still say it everytime one passes me...It's a force of habit..haha.
Same middle aged guys regurgitating about Saiki dropping an F bomb at the end ? Really ? Are we still in high school ? Love these 5 phenomenally talented beautiful musicians. But the middle aged fanboyism has to give it a rest once in a while. Starts to get to repetitive, tired stale and old ! P.S.You do a magnificent job as always !
Band-Maid - Start Over (feat. Carpenter Ant)
Good comparison to whitney. It’s always fun to find the similarities to what has come before.
A lot of Band-Maid myth about this one, so I'll let the band summarize it.
Kanami(K): Recently the composing of songs is started by me making a demo, but the timing before this song I was in a slump. I couldn't decide what kind of song to make. I wanted to take care of the pillar of our songs which is hard rock, but we have also received opinions on making songs more pop or melodious. So I decided to have a talk with the band members. Actually in our 5 years it was the first time all the band members conferred about a song together. There we brainstormed and decided we wanted to make a song that was easy to sing in Karaoke. Image like a song from our first album [MAID IN JAPAN] from our indies days. So this was not going back to our major debut days, but really back to our roots.
- The last phrase it pretty shocking. I was surprised this was allowed as a lyric.(laughs)
Kobato: It was OK po. I submitted it meekly po(laughs). I didn't want to end the song popishly. If so there is no need for the current BAND-MAID to make such a song. So I wanted to have aggressiveness left here and attacked po. Actually this song had many more English phrases, but I changed most of it to Japanese. But left the last phrase English for it's impact.
Like everything they put their minds to...it's a bloody good song ❤👍
One of the songs that parts of the Band Maid fandom got their knickers in a twist over. Personally I love this song and listen to it nearly every day.
Not a fan of the video, but the song is awesome.
The couple is certainly deplorable, the song is not
Remember? Don't you tell ME had actors too. The next time will be in the MV for Endless Story.
"Don't Let Me Down" had dozens of extras.😏
The recent Dice had girl with scary doll 🙈
This song has a Toto, Boz Scaggs feel to it. Kanami, Akane and Misa were trained with jazz influences
Whitney Houston's "How will I know"...hmm, I never thought about that🤔
That small portion does resemble to it...interesting🧐
Kanami listens to many songs from many genres. So it is possible that she got the idea from that song.
But how will I know?...😏
You'll get to HEAR Kanami play keyboards, but seeing her doing it on stage is very very rare! You have my sympathy for the ant attack... of course, Saiki doesn't give a ...
Mmmmmmm Miku's Mother of Pearl Zemaitis.....stunning! Nice funky vibe and MISA's, The Slide Queen, did not disappoint. Love Miku's backing vocals, she compliments Saiki so well. Very underrated song by the Maids.
"I don't give a fuck, be born again."
people ok lol
I like Misa's jazzy side showing through on this song.
I don't give a fuck what anybody says, this song is under appreciated greatness!
I always felt like this video, the band portion, anyway, influenced the look of the video for 'Manners'. Good stuff
And i fuckin' agree with you.👍
@@GaryHolloway-810 Cussing...are you and 2Gen related?? 🤣
@@philproffitt8363 Well we do both come from London. I got carried away in the moment.🤣
Fark yeah from Oz this is a fantastic song 😄👍🎼🍻
This song has seriously grown on me every time I listen to it. It's B-M and they do it their way.
I love AKANE's rhythm in this song🥁🎶
You all know what Saiki thinks at the end of this song about the people who said it was too poppy. Go Sai-chan Go.🖕🖕
Watching the Olympics and the weather looks great 👍
@P in D² Yep that'd be it.😉
@@stephenchigwidden7504 Soz Stephen, not notified. Did you mean the commonwealth games? Australia are leading the way on the medals table, that's only cos they bribed all of the UK's athletes with free roast legs of lamb....probably.
'Their selling duck' apparently. I've always loved this song personally. I don't get the hate it gets at all.
I've got bad news and great news. Yes, you are now an addict. Welcome to the club. The great news, is that it's best addiction ever. No rehab for you, SB!
I love Band-Maid's "Start Over" because I'm into great writing, playing and well-constructed songs. But the jewelry store ad MV... not so much. Songs like Daydreaming, About Us, Anemone, Endless Story, PAGE, Wonderland, Awkward, Start Over, Mirage, At the Drop of a Hat and Smile can help them more than most of their catalog to become more approachable and widely accepted by the general public.
Look at the tens to hundreds of millions of views idol, hip hop and pop receive. You don't have to be hard core anything to bob and weave to a lot of these manufactured, ah... "songs?" I'm afraid the kind of songs I love, Band-Maid, The Warning and Jinjer type songs, will remain a tiny, tiny niche -- like a sea slug in the ocean of teaming pop life.
BTW - Start Over sounded awesome in their online live OOJ Concert. And it gets great fan reaction as seen here in Amsterdam: :ua-cam.com/video/AGyWuUm0SIA/v-deo.html (Fanvid thanks to Vladimir Chupin)
"Jewelry Store Ad" LOL. Good one Tom.
@@falconsooner 😁💍
People say this is a "response" to them "going soft" but it came out after World Domination so I have no idea how anyone can possibly think that. There's a lot of wishful fanfiction about this band 😆
Here's the real story (thanks to t-shinji for the translation of this interview):
Kanami: I always write demos and send them to my bandmates, but this time I couldn’t decide what kind of song to write, because of hitting a kind of slump, so all of us gathered to have a meeting. Then Sai-chan (Saiki) proposed like “How about reviewing our roots?”
- What do you mean by your roots?
Kanami: The first mini-album we released, Maid in Japan, had many songs a little closer to J-pop. We listened to all those songs once again, and got an inspiration about what we used to be in the beginning. Also, we wanted to have a song more and more people can sing, so we were conscious of making it karaoke-friendly.
Kobato: Band-Maid songs are often hard to sing on karaoke (laughs). We thought it might be nice to have a song everyone can sing more easily, po.
Kanami: We thought we had established our own hard rock style pretty well in our last album, and in order to achieve our goal of “world domination”, we wanted our song to be sung by a wider range of people.
And the IDGAF?
"So do the lyrics reflect your journey up to now?"
Kobato: That’s right, po. However, just going straight is far from what we are now, so I wanted to show we’ve come here while overcoming obstacles, in order to have something more resonating with ourselves. That’s why I included “Bringing up this peace sign / I don’t give a fxxk” in the lyrics. Whether it’s fxxk in peace or peace in fxxk, we want to go ahead while taking the opposite things positively.
Did they? I know people said they'd gone too soft when they released "Endless Story" but the Maids quickly followed that with"RINNE" so that put that argument to bed. Now the important Q is "When exactly did Akane stop wearing her her Tiny Hat"? I know she was wearing it for part of the 2018 european tour but when B-M played London in 2019 it was missing. 😔 I never got to see Akane wearing her Tiny Hat, Tiny Hat :(
This song adds a completely different genre to their musical caperbilities. Any other band done such an intro? Lovely backing call and responce section with vocals between Saiki and Miku. Jazzy/funky? fine with that- always up for some kind of fusion in music.
I can only think of piano intro on Queen 'Death On Two Legs' 😁 And what an album, A Night At The Opera...every song a different style. No wonder I love the Maid's classy songwriting variety. They're in the tradition of eclectic rock and song matters more than genre. Tailor-made for me...every track they've done.
Your observation of the contrast between the couple in the dark and Band-Maid in the light certainly reflects their message of Start Over fresh when a relationship is troubled.
The concept in the video...the un-smashing and reversing back to Start Over. Simple but decent enough...doesn't deserve the hate 😁 Great little song...perfectly executed.
Kanami hasn't figured out how to play both piano and guitar at the same time yet, or we would have seen it done by now! Maybe have a synched video of her playing piano during a live ?
PRS needs to make her a keytar, already!
@@TehPhysics I've often thought Saiki could play a gothic looking keytar 😁
@@philproffitt8363 Sick! I'd love to see that. Even just a regular keyboard. Then it could be all 5 members rocking out during an instrumental. 🎸
@@TehPhysics If it never happens...then we know Saiki DOES need pee break not vocal rest 🤣
@@philproffitt8363 😯 I think you're on to something. We'll see what happens in October.
I love this song. It has the 90s jazz vibe with Kanami's piano intro, plus classic Band-Maid crescendo into the abrupt ending. The last chorus with the beautifully layered instrumental sounds like nobody else but Band-Maid.
I wonder if you're the first reactor actually enjoyed the song. Awesome. Awesome 😉
This song sometimes divides the fans 😂 I personally really like it, though the whole story going on in the video I could do without. I only watch it every now and again to see the Maids and keep adding to their views 💜
Can't wait for the side B of this one 😎
Rock on, Po! 🕊️🤘🖤
You have been hearing Kanami on keyboards many times. She records it as a backing track usually though there is footage of her on keyboard in concert as well. Every sound you hear was made by the band whether pre recorded or not. As to I don't give a fuck, people. Ok? Saiki added that herself in answer to the several "critics" at the time who complained about the band going soft. Thus, her impromptu response. Later you will hear Rin-ne. Reincarnation. And as that is one of their absolutely heavier numbers Sai-chan opines at the end of that one and again to the "critics" It's sink or swim. Shut up! What do you expect from a punk band?
This song reminds me of the EIGHTIES
Well, I guess that's about it for the creepy-crawly as a fan of Band-Maid. 😆
Saiki's last sentence, the cover for this single and also the song itself, which lacks some of the Band-Maid we know (e.g. a Kanami solo) and the video for it, I think were designed from the get-go to poke fun at the naysayers who thought they had become too poppy. And that they are not too shy for such largely designed stuff, we know at the latest since various April Fool's jokes.
They have a sense of humour I can easily live with. And even on purpose, they can't pull off a bad song. :)
_____________________
「 _'Our rock never dies ever. Forever!'_ 」 --- from *BAND-MAID* 'Manners' 🕊
Hey SBR, I hope you are having a great day! There are actually some videos of Kanami playing the piano on Ohrenje's You Tube channel, she is playing Band Maid songs by herself. In one video she is teaching her sister how to play "Daydreaming" on the piano. On another note, it appears that you have become a Maidiac, that's definitely not a bad thing, it just shows you have good taste in music. I'm not complaining, I'm happy to listen to Band Maid anytime.
The ladies can do it all
Entertaining reaction. Very easy listening song.
Another great react!👍❤ You know ants are attracted to buffalo!😂🤣
To be honest, at the time, I didn't fully understand why so many Band-Maid fans were angry against "Start over" - I had just discovered the band back then and wasn't listening to them in chronological order, so "Start Over" didn't seemed out of place besides early tracks like "Love Passion Matador". But while following you on your chronological Band-Maid path, I understand better: "Start over" comes just after such a powerfull (and nearly exclusively) hard-rock album that it had to shock some people. The cringy video (I mean the acting parts! coming from a fiction where Start Over was used ) didn't help too. But most people learned to love it afterwards, partly because the live version was great, and then because Band-Maid kept on diversifying their sound with the next album. And c'mon: if only for Saiki's last words, it's a gem 😄.
👍👍 band maid ・ smile live
Surprise! lol
That ant is the size of a spider.
This song belongs on American radio but we know that our radio stations are so closed minded they don't have the guts to do what's right
A lot of backtracking on this one. Many people hated this but it's a great song. Now that they realized it they now complain about the video.
You missed 'Honey' off WD. It's a cover but a great cover and well worth checking out. Band-Maid Barracuda.
I think he did it but when I click on the link above, I get a message that Sony won't allow it to be played in my country (Japan). Probably not in your country, either.
Yeah it got blocked in Japan for copyright, sorry!
@@skippingbuffaloreactions8578 was it blocked because of the MUCC original? Great dual reaction BTW 👌
That huge bug was an ant? Ant's are tiny in England. SB you'd better check any abandoned mines where you live for some dumped barrels of nuclear waste.🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
"THEM!"...anyone who knows sci-fi will know.
@@Bodneyblue Hiya Bodney, yep that film is a classic sci-fi of nuclear age paranoia :)
@@GaryHolloway-810 It has a line in it me and my late partner used to say..It's when the Professor says "Shoot the antenna, they're useless without them!"...The ants make a particular noise which sounds like a train pulling away (well the trains here in Scotland) like a high pitch squeaking. So everytime we went on a train (usually to Edinburgh) when the train made the noise, we'd both say " "Shoot the antenna, they're useless without them!"...So the movie has good memories for me. I have it on DVD as a part of my classic sci-fi collection.
@@Bodneyblue HAHA That's an awesome story. Didn't passengers give you sideways glances when you said that? I am more of a horror buff & own a vast collection of vids & DVD's. So many in fact, that they're also clogging up my brothers house :)
@@GaryHolloway-810 I still say it if I hear it when hear stations or on a train...We also had another saying I also still say....We were out walking and ended up in a field of sheep.....Along came the farmer in his tractor and he was not happy....and told us to get out of his field...This was like 20 odd years ago.....Ever since then everytime a tractor passed us.(get alot here in Scotland..I see them almost everytime I go out walking) we'd say "I got a track-er, get off my land!" (in a kind of Bristol, cornish accent)...And I still say it everytime one passes me...It's a force of habit..haha.
A silly music video that distracts from a great song, IMO.
Same middle aged guys regurgitating about Saiki dropping an F bomb at the end ? Really ? Are we still in high school ? Love these 5 phenomenally talented beautiful musicians. But the middle aged fanboyism has to give it a rest once in a while. Starts to get to repetitive, tired stale and old ! P.S.You do a magnificent job as always !
Could of done with out the t.v.show/movie backstory.
I like the song, but I hate the video. I have a thing about anything that could be considered domestic violence.
Exactly why I don't like the video.