Guys, Babymetal is still Japan’s #1 International Group!! I just went and saw them on Black Friday in Oklahoma City and they are still performing this song!! They are Fantastic!! Besides the #1 Single “Ratatata” they did with Electric Callboy earlier this year, they were just Featured on Bloodywood’s new track “Bekhaf”!!! They also have 3 scenes in the recently released movie “Heavier Trip” LoL..funny movie!! Anyway, as always, More Babymetal!! Put your Kitsune UP!!
@@Dragon-Believer Ado might do bigger shows but babymetal does A LOT more of them. And next year babymetal will tour pretty much the same arenas in Europe as Ado is doing but again doing more of them. So depends how you want to view it but just fact that metal group is even comparable to a pop artist is pretty telling how popular babymetal is:D
@autohmae I love Atarashii Gakko but they're much smaller than Babymetal I think. They had tiny shows in America. In my city it was 20k Ado. 5k Babymetal. 2k Atarashii Gakko.
Well done. Just to fill in a couple of details and help you with some of the bits you didn't quite get right - yes this video was recorded at their 'Legend 1997' concert in December 2013 celebrating lead singer Su-metal's 16th birthday. Yui and Moa were both 14. The video went viral in 2014 shortly before they did their first "world" tour, mainly because of the shock value and reactions it gets. This is a very important song in their history and its a blast when they play it live, but it is not typical of their catalogue. They have about 70 songs now, each one different to the last, some are good hard metal, some lean towards their pop roots and they do everything in between as well as mixing and blending so many more musical styles and genres with the metal - so yes they have a very select team of writers all taking their orders from their producer Kei Kobayashi who had the idea of fusing metal with JPop after seeing Su-metal performing with her previous JPop group. He is a lifelong metalhead and he was so impressed with her talents that he thought she would be wasted on pop and he had his mad idea of fusing metal with JPop hooks, melodies and aesthetics with a view to attracting a new and younger audience to metal - especially girls. Their audiences now are the most diverse of any metal concerts I've ever been to with young parents with their 6 and 7 year old daughters dressed up as the girls headbanging together with tattooed metalheads and old rockers in their 70s and all types, all nationalities, all backgrounds. You could watch them playing their very first metal festival and their first major event outside of Japan when they played at Sonisphere in the UK in 2014. They were originally booked for a small side stage or tent but Gimme Chocolate went viral and they had a solo concert booked in London a couple of days later that sold out fast, so they were moved to the main stage a couple of months before the event. They had over 50k UK metalheads who didn't know who they were (plus a few who thought they were a gimmick - they were never a gimmick, just doing something different, original and unique) to impress. Last song of the set was 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' (Bullying, No More, For Ever - you can call it IDZ). You will hear what the crowd thought after just 5 songs at the end. BABYMETAL are the 3 girls. In this video the guys in skeleton suits (Babybones) wasn't even a real band - they didn't have the funding for a live band early on so they would sing and dance and the instrumentals were pre-recorded. The Babybones guys would dance around at the back pretending to play (everybody knew what they were doing, there was no real pretence). Their live band is the Kami Band - every one of them a world class musician. They first appeared in 2012 and were phased in over the next 18 months or so playing the encores in some shows (including this one, they came on for the last 5 songs) until they became the full time support for all live shows in March 2014. If you want to see what happened to the statue at the back (which did bear a resemblance to Mary, but that was just part of the theatrics for this concert), the last song of the concert was 'BABYMETAL DEATH' - I think they will surprise you (and you won't be making Babyshark comparisons with that). Make sure it is the live at Legend 1997. They will be doing their first European arena tour next May ending up at the O2 in London
Welcome to Babymetal! Just saw them in the US a few weeks ago, and they are one of _THE_ best live performance bands on this planet today! These gals have been selling out major venues like SSE Wembley and Tokyo Dome since 2016. Don’t let their cutsiness fool you, they also have quite a few epic, brutal, heavy, and serious songs too. Now that they are in their mid-20s, they’ve traded their child-like cutsiness for a more mature, but wholesome bad-ass-ness. This concert is “Legend 1997”, the Dec 2013 show celebrating lead Su-metal’s 16th birthday. Theme is death (of a J-pop idol) and rebirth (of a metal goddess), hence the Virgin Mary statue, among other things throughout this concert. *Here are a few suggestions:* *Road of Resistance (Official Live):* An epic anthem from Jan 2015. *Ijime, Dame, Zettai (Sonisphere UK 2014):* Babymetal wins over 50K confused UK metalheads 😂. *Karate (Download UK 2016):* Babymetal crushes the UK rain. *Megitsune (Official Live BluRay - Legend 43):* A 2024 performance of an amazing classic. Hope you guys check out more Babymetal! 🤘🦊
Yes they do have a team, but they were created by one metalhead who is their main producer, not by the team. Because this song has almost 200 million views it would be rational to assume that it must be their best or most important song, but it's neither. And if only judging them only on this comedic song it would be fair to assume they were a gimmick, but they're not that either. They're a unique and unconventional pop-metal act that pioneered a brand new sub-genre of music that they are still going strong with 14 years later. They are my second favourite musical act after Black Sabbath, mainly because of their live performances and their originality.
The simplest way to think about it: if what they do didn't work, they wouldn't have been around for over 10 years growing their audience every year. There is real talent and hard work in what they are doing.
@@autohmae There's so many positive and cool things about them it hard to list in one post. People would think you were just making it all up, lol. They perpetually feel like they are a new band who are on the rise. This next album feels like it's their second debut album, which sounds like a paradox, but then Babymetal are paradoxical. They can be two opposite things at the same time in many ways without contradicting themselves at all. I like bands and acts that are way beyond anything I could ever come up with.
Subscribed. BABYMETAL is an awesome band, no 2 songs are the same. BABYMETAL is timeless. Joy/Happiness never goes out of style. Welcome to the foxhole. Their fans are female and male from the age of 8 to 80😊. 🦊 🖖❤ Babymetal - Metal Kingdom (PIA Arena 2023 Live) Eng Subs MAYA【Live Blu-ray/DVD「BABYMETAL BEGINS - THE OTHER ONE -」"BLACK NIGHT"】
Unfortunately too many reactors react to this song/performance because of the viral nature however.......Understand that this is not really who they are. See them today below. Megitsune LIVE at PIA ARENA 2023 HQ Pro Shot from the For The Fox God channel
Just saw them in the US a few weeks ago (Dec. 2024) and the crowd was quite diverse. I saw kids, young women, older women, teens, older metal heads and lots of millennials. So their audience is pretty diverse. You should go to their shows and judge for yourself. It was a great show by the way!!
Fair reaction, like you guys mentioned they started young, 16, 14 and 14 when that video was shot. Their producer (Koba-metal) felt the metal scene was getting old in Japan and Babymetal was his passion project to 1) get kids interested in the genre and 2) get more girls interested in metal. So a lot of their earlier songs you'll see are age appropriate and targeted towards girls. Like this song Gimme Chocolate about a girl being worried about weight gain eating chocolate. With them all being in their 20s now they've moved away from those kinds of songs if you watch anything more recent. Although even then I still like some of their earlier songs, you should check out Rondo of Nightmare w/ Kami band intro, which is still an earlier song but one of my favourites.
Babymetal have moved well beyond having a simple cult following as they are worldwide famous and will be doing their first UK European arena tour in 2025 and have completed a South America tour and sold out US tour recently
Thanks, subbed for more. Bit odd to mention China a couple of times and K-Pop as you seemed to be familiar with that they are from Japan. I guess you didn't know K-Pop is called K-Pop because it's from (South) Korea and thus J-Pop is from Japan. In Japan chcolate is associated with valentines day, oddly enough KFC is associated with Christmas. If you want to see the statue again: please react to: Babymetal Death at Legend 1997. A bit of a heavier song. The UK and international breakthrough aligns with a performance in the UK, if you react to: Ijime, Dame, Zettai at Sonispherem UK in 2014, you can see the end of their set at that festival, their first big out-of-Japan festival and they got mainstage, in part because of how they went viral on the Internet. They were slotted for a smaller stage at first (I think it was a tent). This performance was make or break, would the rock/metal fans accept them and it became the 'talk of the town' in metal and music industry.
100% agree with recomending the UK sonisphere performance in this case. I hope they go into it with the context behind it before the reaction though. It's not just any old performance in front of any old crowd. This is one case where context is more about the history of the metal genre than just trying to explain what the song is about.
a gimmick does not last nearly 15 years (next year) older men like them because they can remember when a singer could hold a melody together . although their fandom is all genres, races and ages from 6 to 60+ . relaxing when going to watch BabyMetal ! good look with that guys 🤣 i ached for week afterwards and had a sore throat from joining in with the songs and a sore neck from a crowd surfer landing on me 😮 try any song from Legend MM maybe Metali or Syncopation 😁🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼
Guys, Babymetal is still Japan’s #1 International Group!! I just went and saw them on Black Friday in Oklahoma City and they are still performing this song!! They are Fantastic!!
Besides the #1 Single “Ratatata” they did with Electric Callboy earlier this year, they were just Featured on Bloodywood’s new track “Bekhaf”!!! They also have 3 scenes in the recently released movie “Heavier Trip” LoL..funny movie!!
Anyway, as always, More Babymetal!!
Put your Kitsune UP!!
Nice! I saw them twice in Texas last year for my wife and I's first times. Absolutely mind blowing!
I don't know about that. Ado has a much bigger show in my area than Babymetal did. Yoasobi got Billboard #1 in America.
@@Dragon-Believer Ado might do bigger shows but babymetal does A LOT more of them. And next year babymetal will tour pretty much the same arenas in Europe as Ado is doing but again doing more of them. So depends how you want to view it but just fact that metal group is even comparable to a pop artist is pretty telling how popular babymetal is:D
Babymetal's bigger modern competitor are Atarashii Gakko and Ado I think
@autohmae I love Atarashii Gakko but they're much smaller than Babymetal I think. They had tiny shows in America. In my city it was 20k Ado. 5k Babymetal. 2k Atarashii Gakko.
Well done. Just to fill in a couple of details and help you with some of the bits you didn't quite get right - yes this video was recorded at their 'Legend 1997' concert in December 2013 celebrating lead singer Su-metal's 16th birthday. Yui and Moa were both 14.
The video went viral in 2014 shortly before they did their first "world" tour, mainly because of the shock value and reactions it gets. This is a very important song in their history and its a blast when they play it live, but it is not typical of their catalogue.
They have about 70 songs now, each one different to the last, some are good hard metal, some lean towards their pop roots and they do everything in between as well as mixing and blending so many more musical styles and genres with the metal - so yes they have a very select team of writers all taking their orders from their producer Kei Kobayashi who had the idea of fusing metal with JPop after seeing Su-metal performing with her previous JPop group.
He is a lifelong metalhead and he was so impressed with her talents that he thought she would be wasted on pop and he had his mad idea of fusing metal with JPop hooks, melodies and aesthetics with a view to attracting a new and younger audience to metal - especially girls.
Their audiences now are the most diverse of any metal concerts I've ever been to with young parents with their 6 and 7 year old daughters dressed up as the girls headbanging together with tattooed metalheads and old rockers in their 70s and all types, all nationalities, all backgrounds.
You could watch them playing their very first metal festival and their first major event outside of Japan when they played at Sonisphere in the UK in 2014.
They were originally booked for a small side stage or tent but Gimme Chocolate went viral and they had a solo concert booked in London a couple of days later that sold out fast, so they were moved to the main stage a couple of months before the event.
They had over 50k UK metalheads who didn't know who they were (plus a few who thought they were a gimmick - they were never a gimmick, just doing something different, original and unique) to impress.
Last song of the set was 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' (Bullying, No More, For Ever - you can call it IDZ). You will hear what the crowd thought after just 5 songs at the end.
BABYMETAL are the 3 girls. In this video the guys in skeleton suits (Babybones) wasn't even a real band - they didn't have the funding for a live band early on so they would sing and dance and the instrumentals were pre-recorded. The Babybones guys would dance around at the back pretending to play (everybody knew what they were doing, there was no real pretence).
Their live band is the Kami Band - every one of them a world class musician. They first appeared in 2012 and were phased in over the next 18 months or so playing the encores in some shows (including this one, they came on for the last 5 songs) until they became the full time support for all live shows in March 2014.
If you want to see what happened to the statue at the back (which did bear a resemblance to Mary, but that was just part of the theatrics for this concert), the last song of the concert was 'BABYMETAL DEATH' - I think they will surprise you (and you won't be making Babyshark comparisons with that).
Make sure it is the live at Legend 1997.
They will be doing their first European arena tour next May ending up at the O2 in London
Welcome to Babymetal! Just saw them in the US a few weeks ago, and they are one of _THE_ best live performance bands on this planet today! These gals have been selling out major venues like SSE Wembley and Tokyo Dome since 2016.
Don’t let their cutsiness fool you, they also have quite a few epic, brutal, heavy, and serious songs too. Now that they are in their mid-20s, they’ve traded their child-like cutsiness for a more mature, but wholesome bad-ass-ness.
This concert is “Legend 1997”, the Dec 2013 show celebrating lead Su-metal’s 16th birthday. Theme is death (of a J-pop idol) and rebirth (of a metal goddess), hence the Virgin Mary statue, among other things throughout this concert.
*Here are a few suggestions:*
*Road of Resistance (Official Live):* An epic anthem from Jan 2015.
*Ijime, Dame, Zettai (Sonisphere UK 2014):* Babymetal wins over 50K confused UK metalheads 😂.
*Karate (Download UK 2016):* Babymetal crushes the UK rain.
*Megitsune (Official Live BluRay - Legend 43):* A 2024 performance of an amazing classic.
Hope you guys check out more Babymetal! 🤘🦊
@@Ganimal83 that’s great , we’ll check it out
@ Look forward to it!
Yes they do have a team, but they were created by one metalhead who is their main producer, not by the team.
Because this song has almost 200 million views it would be rational to assume that it must be their best or most important song, but it's neither. And if only judging them only on this comedic song it would be fair to assume they were a gimmick, but they're not that either. They're a unique and unconventional pop-metal act that pioneered a brand new sub-genre of music that they are still going strong with 14 years later.
They are my second favourite musical act after Black Sabbath, mainly because of their live performances and their originality.
@Ryujin170 thanks for the extra detail👍
The simplest way to think about it: if what they do didn't work, they wouldn't have been around for over 10 years growing their audience every year. There is real talent and hard work in what they are doing.
@@autohmae There's so many positive and cool things about them it hard to list in one post. People would think you were just making it all up, lol.
They perpetually feel like they are a new band who are on the rise. This next album feels like it's their second debut album, which sounds like a paradox, but then Babymetal are paradoxical. They can be two opposite things at the same time in many ways without contradicting themselves at all. I like bands and acts that are way beyond anything I could ever come up with.
Subscribed. BABYMETAL is an awesome band, no 2 songs are the same. BABYMETAL is timeless. Joy/Happiness never goes out of style. Welcome to the foxhole. Their fans are female and male from the age of 8 to 80😊. 🦊 🖖❤
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Unfortunately too many reactors react to this song/performance because of the viral nature however.......Understand that this is not really who they are.
See them today below.
Megitsune LIVE at PIA ARENA 2023 HQ Pro Shot from the For The Fox God channel
Yeah, Megitsune IS Quintessential Babymetal!!
@ 👍
Just saw them in the US a few weeks ago (Dec. 2024) and the crowd was quite diverse. I saw kids, young women, older women, teens, older metal heads and lots of millennials. So their audience is pretty diverse. You should go to their shows and judge for yourself. It was a great show by the way!!
@@randie-k-m3k we’re definitely gonna look out for them … cheers
Fair reaction, like you guys mentioned they started young, 16, 14 and 14 when that video was shot. Their producer (Koba-metal) felt the metal scene was getting old in Japan and Babymetal was his passion project to 1) get kids interested in the genre and 2) get more girls interested in metal. So a lot of their earlier songs you'll see are age appropriate and targeted towards girls. Like this song Gimme Chocolate about a girl being worried about weight gain eating chocolate. With them all being in their 20s now they've moved away from those kinds of songs if you watch anything more recent. Although even then I still like some of their earlier songs, you should check out Rondo of Nightmare w/ Kami band intro, which is still an earlier song but one of my favourites.
Babymetal have moved well beyond having a simple cult following as they are worldwide famous and will be doing their first UK European arena tour in 2025 and have completed a South America tour and sold out US tour recently
#notacult 😉
Thanks, subbed for more.
Bit odd to mention China a couple of times and K-Pop as you seemed to be familiar with that they are from Japan. I guess you didn't know K-Pop is called K-Pop because it's from (South) Korea and thus J-Pop is from Japan.
In Japan chcolate is associated with valentines day, oddly enough KFC is associated with Christmas.
If you want to see the statue again: please react to: Babymetal Death at Legend 1997. A bit of a heavier song.
The UK and international breakthrough aligns with a performance in the UK, if you react to:
Ijime, Dame, Zettai at Sonispherem UK in 2014, you can see the end of their set at that festival, their first big out-of-Japan festival and they got mainstage, in part because of how they went viral on the Internet. They were slotted for a smaller stage at first (I think it was a tent). This performance was make or break, would the rock/metal fans accept them and it became the 'talk of the town' in metal and music industry.
100% agree with recomending the UK sonisphere performance in this case. I hope they go into it with the context behind it before the reaction though. It's not just any old performance in front of any old crowd. This is one case where context is more about the history of the metal genre than just trying to explain what the song is about.
a gimmick does not last nearly 15 years (next year) older men like them because they can remember when a singer could hold a melody together .
although their fandom is all genres, races and ages from 6 to 60+ . relaxing when going to watch BabyMetal ! good look with that guys 🤣 i ached for week afterwards and had a sore throat from joining in with the songs and a sore neck from a crowd surfer landing on me 😮 try any song from Legend MM maybe Metali or Syncopation 😁🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼
@@martinmetal7481 will do, cheers for the words 👍
@jifnotcif5044 Thanks for your reply 😁🤘🏼🦊