Nice reaction!🦊💖This song is what made me realize how great KAMI BAND is. I bought a bass about 3months ago because I was particularly attracted to basses. However, my bass is a 4strings.😭🎸
@@Abigirl_Reacts Thank you!!! Abi you are a kind person💖😭 There are several reasons why I never realized how great KAMI BAND was. Japanese students sometimes go to karaoke with their friends after school, but I am a very bad singer and I hated the music itself until I met BABYMETAL. The next reason is that when I watch BABYMETAL, I was crazy about SU's beautiful singing voice and MOA's cute choreography. Of course now I love MOMO too. It was from the comments of many people that I finally understood that KAMI BAND is great🎸
Nice reaction. This is one of four Su-metal solos, two on each of the first two albums. Yui and Moa would get a break while Su performed those. There are also 4 songs without Su performed by Yui and Moa as a duo known as Black BABYMETAL. The Kami Band intro here is called 'Mischiefs of the Metal Gods'. In order of solos - Leda Cygnus (blue guitar), Takayoshi Ohmura (gold guitar), BOH (6 string bass) and Hideki Aoyama (drums). There can't be many 16 year old girls who could follow that intro and then just take over the whole stage and arena the way Su did. Su can get the effect on that quiet part by pressing the mic to her nose and singing across it (I saw a singer explaining the technique in a reaction a long time ago), so she may well have been singing it live, it may have been on track. Personally I like to think she sang this one live and in some later performances it was on track but OTFGK.🦊🙊 This is one of their darkest songs lyrically (pity you turned the subtitles on late and missed that, but Su is so good at expressing the emotion and meaning so it wasn't the worst thing you could have done). I understand rondo is a musical term denoting a repeated theme - something like that anyway. I believe they borrowed the term for the title of this song as Su is caught in a recurring nightmare, being chased through the darkness by something she can't see. Eventually she hides, but it is still coming closer. Knowing there is no escape she asks that if she is to die won't it at least reveal itself to her. This was only the second time Su had performed this song live - the first time was the night before. This was early March 2014. They played two nights at the Budokan in Tokyo (think the equivalent of Carnegie Hall or Madison Square Garden - it is the place all Japanese and many foreign artists aspire to play), Red Night and Black Night, becoming the youngest average age female band ever to headline there (Su was 16 and a couple of months, Yui and Moa still only 14). They had just released their first album - they sold out both nights. 🤘🦊🤘
Hi Grington, in relation to the radio effect segment where Abs questions whether that Su was singing live or if she was miming to track, while both are possible, I feel she Su is singing 'over' track. Let me explain my thoughts. First, the video you refer to about a singer explaining the vocal technique that Su used would most likely have been by Elizabeth Zharoff from The Charismatic Voice Channel on TH-cam. Elizabeth is a Grammy award winning artist and a world-acclaimed opera singer. Elizabeth reacted to and analysed Babymetal's Rondo of nightmare and went over that section a couple of times to hear what was going on and she landed on it being a vocal technique very similar to what you described. At the time, Elizabeth felt it was a live vocal technique. I will paste a direct lift from Elizabeth's bio from The Charismatic Voice's channel directly below to help you to evaluate her capabilities and her credibility within the wider music industry: "Our operatic founder and vocal guru, Elizabeth Zharoff, has multiple degrees in music and voice from the Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music. She's also a voice science nerd. Mrs. Zharoff has performed in 18 languages, throughout major venues in Europe, Asia, and North America. She has a uniquely modern career which bridges the gap between voice and technology, and aims to demystify singing for all." Fast forward a goodly while and I watched a live stream (I think from Dicodec, or maybe Gaigin Guys [same thing really]) where this song was put through a software analysis program that separated all the instrumentals, the track and Su's vocals and this showed that there is a radio effect on the vocal line in question on the backing track, but it also showed that Su was singing along into a hot mic. This would suggest a couple of possible scenarios: A). Su is miming - I think we can eliminate that one because her voice was recorded singing in that section as shown in the analysis software. B). Su was singing the section live with a filter on her voice without backing track - Again the software analysis showed that there was track in that section, so we know it was there. However, did Su sing as well, and C). That Su sang over pre-recorded track in that section. This is where those that evaluated the software analysis landed, and I am pretty comfortable with that. This makes sense, again, let me include my thoughts on why. (A side note here is that Elizabeth, or her production team, has removed any reference to the radio effect segment from Rondo of Nightmare from her published reaction video to the song, interesting). We already know that Su often has some of her own vocals pre-recorded into Babymetal backtracks, as does Moa and Momo, and Yui before her. This is often done to harmonise with their own live vocals, or to provide support if they start to run short of breath, or simply to make their vocals sound thicker, after all, these girls are pretty active on stage. Grington, I am sure you are familiar with some reactors doing the 'gotcha' moments where they 'catch' Babymetal 'miming'. Most of these gotchas are a result of the girls sometimes singing over backtracks of their own vocals, in spaces where they might be short of breath due to their routines, or, as Abs suggested, sucking in some air to ready themselves for the next vocal or dance stanza.
@@lencooke944 Are you sure she did Rondo? I thought Elizabeth from Charismatic Voice did Akatsuki, Karate, and Monochrome 1st Take. Not disagreeing regarding Su, just checking. Would love to see her analysis of Rondo!
@@davimoraes3731 Several videos were taken by fans of the ladies as they arrived at the airport and left their hotel during their South American tour.🤘🦊
Great reaction, thanks! And great song and version choice. This is the iconic and perfect version everyone wants to see. This is what we call a Su-metal's solo song. She has four on their two first albums: "Akatsuki", "Rondo of Nightmare", "No Rain , No Rainbow" and "Amore". Yui and Moa were underneath the stage taking a well deserved break (or doing their homework since they were still 14 at the time and had to go to school, lol). They also have four songs as a duo (without Su) known as Black BABYMETAL: "Onedari Daisakusen", "Yon no uta" (Song of 4), "GJ!" and "Sis. Anger". Yes, I also think that part with the effects on Su's voice is in a backing track since it sounds exactly the same in other shows. But I'm sure she's capable of doing this live and more... I learned my lesson a while ago. 😅 The instrumental intro song is called "Mischiefs of the Metal Gods". And it's great because every Kami Band member has their turn to shine... just to summon Su-metal who finally emerges from the depths ... well, at least from under the stage. 😁 "Rondo of Nightmare" is probably their darkest song lyrically. It's about Su being trapped into an endless nightmare, without any chance to escape, where she's chased by a dark entity as she tries to run away and hide. Finally she asks the entity to reveal its real nature before giving up. This was just the second time they performed it live (the first one was just the previous night at the same venue) and Su-metal, being 16 at the time, was standing by herself on a relatively small and elevated platform, without any safety and probably not being able so see a thing due to the spotlight. This is so freaking metal! Here are some Black BABYMETAL and another of Su's amazing solo songs: "Onedari Daisakusen" (Live at Budokan Black Night): th-cam.com/video/ju63cJtodS0/w-d-xo.html "Akatsuki" (Live at Budokan Black Night): th-cam.com/video/g2372C5PJLM/w-d-xo.html 🤘🦊
Oh god, you never did see a Su solo before. She does 4 (5 including an unfinished version of a song) and they are all super awesome. Moa and Yui are out back smoking a cig and slamming some beers.
@@Abigirl_ReactsAlso, in the early days they did not have enough songs to do a full show and Su does a few cover songs solo. Those were one-time performances.
@@Abigirl_Reactsthere are a couple of songs where Su takes a break and it’s just Moa and Yui. I would suggest the song GJ! Where Moa and Yui just destroy the place
Yui and Moa got the occasional break, this being one of them, obviously. It’s been told that sometimes they’d use the opportunity to get caught up on school homework, being only 15 and still in school.
Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。Kamis are amazing musicians. So, I sometimes go to see live performance by Kamis. I enjoyed a concert by BOH (Kami bassist) and Yuya (former Kami drummer) last month and a ticket to one by Isao (Kami guitarist) in December. "Rondo of Nightmare" is the song that I am longing for the revival with Su-Metal's matured rich voice. (Of course I love this 2014 version) "Rondo" is a musical form with a recurring leading theme. I can't tell how many times I have viewed this video. It is literally a rondo of happy dream for me. Kamis' (=Gods') super solos were excellent enough as a main event in the show, but once the 16-year-old Queen (as of 2014) emerged from the underground, she colored everything differently with her penetrating voice then turned Kami Band's plays into a ritual to summon her.
Love your reactions always, thank you! About whether Su-Metal was singing the stylized stanza near the end, I asked the same a long time ago in a forum and someone said she did - that she had the mic pressed up to her nose to create the effect and had learned to sing in a specific style just for that. I have no way of knowing what/how true it is, but someone posted cool info about it so I am sharing that bit; partially in hopes that the more knowledgeable viewers might expand on it? I am genuinely curious about the specifics there myself.
There was a reactor duo that noticed the mic-in-nose style. In the next video they said they went into the studio and tried it themselves and it sounded very similar to how Su-metal sounded.
You can emulate the 'old radio' filtered sound by pressing the mic to your nose, kinda, but it won't sound this perfect live. Another proof is that the filtered sound is still fading out while Su's live voice comes back in, so they overlap. And finally, everyone who has the Blu-ray disc of this set of shows can actually compare this performance (from the Black Night, day two) to the performance of the same song from the previous night (Red Night), and there she holds the mic in a different way (in front of her mouth, if I remember correctly), yet the filtered passage sounds exactly the same. Q.e.d. 😉 And of course there's no problem with using tracks for short lines that are too difficult to reproduce live. Babymetal have always done that with the 'kitsune, kitsune' breakdown vocal line (the one that's using the traditional 'sakura, sakura' melody) for example, but during that Su doesn't lip sync and does some acting with the fox mask, instead.
Some people may think that Rondo of Nightmare is an odd fit for their debut album, a dark song about nightmares amongst songs about chocolate cravings, early morning cartoons, bullying and a made up on the spot song about the number 4 lol, but what better place for a song about nightmares than their debut album. 95% of the most scary nightmares i had was when i was a kid. It fits perfectly.
@@kc28kenneth lol, same here. I was haunted by even a glimpse of the most lame horror movie or hearing a ghost story when I was a kid. I remember the fear at night it would cause. I once caught my own reflection in the window and nearly died of terror 😱 It's funny looking back now, but it wasn't funny then.
Thanks for your reaction Abi, glad you’ve witnessed your first Su’s solo, I’m gonna tell you a little detail about the song “Akatsuki”(another Su’s solo) for when the day comes and you pick it up to react to it, there are 3 iconic versions of “Akatsuki” - 2013 (Unfinished version from Legend 1997) it’s a piano version just like the “one take” version of monochrome you watched, the difference is the “one take of monochrome” was on a studio with only them alone and the “unfinished version of Akatsuki” was on a live performance with the kami band. - 2014 version (from Budokan Black Night 2014)it’s the full instrumental version of he song and the Kami band has a shinning moment, it also has the best audio quality of the instrumentals in my opinion. - 2021 version (from Budokan 2021 yes the same venue 7 years later!) it’s also the full instrumental version but the instrumental quality doesn’t shine like the 2014 version, the scenario effects are bit better than 2014 version but the Kami band doesn’t have a moment to shine in this version. I leave you those details for you to decide which version of the song you want to pick when you get to react to that song, I (and surely your other followers) would love to see you watching all of the 3 different version like you did with monochrome and the piano version, if I had to vote my vote would go for you to watch them in chronological order so you can notice the difference. And of course you don’t have to make the 3 reactions in a row like how was about to happen with Headbanger, we will love to watch to reaction no matter when you decide to make them! One last thing I want o tell you I wouldn’t recommend you to react to any of the Yui and Moa duets (without Su) the reason is just because those songs sang by them they apply very childish voices for those songs, if you want to add them to your list I would say to put them to the very end, but If you want to watch them soon at least I let you know that detail so you can be prepared to what to expect from those songs, the one I less like is “GJ”, the other 3 songs are funny and cute. Wish you a great weekend!
Really nice reaction. I believe that they are still the youngest artists to be invited to perform at The Budokan. And apparently artists can’t book the venue, they have to be invited. Not sure about the Elf&safety implications of Su being 20feet up in the air on a narrow platform with spotlights blinding her, without any safety harness!!! But then this was one of concerts where Yui fell off the stage while racing around!!!
@ there’s a story (not sure how much it’s grown over the years) that someone from a major rock band took a phone call saying that The Budokan would like them to play on certain dates, this person just said that wasn’t possible as the band would be in Europe then. When he saw the manager 20 minutes later he recounted the “weird” conversation he’d just had. The manager went white and immediately phoned the Budokan back, only to be told another band were happy to rearrange the South American leg of their tour and had taken those dates!!!! The band were never invited again.
Great reaction! I'm sure others have mentioned that this was 1 of 4 Su-metal solos, just as Yui & Moa had "Black Babymetal" Duets without Su. Rondo of Nightmare is probably one of my absolute favorites, and Su-metal delivers a hauntingly beautiful performance of this dark and ominous song. The visuals of this performance are incredible as well. WIth the Kami Band almost appears as the "Rond of Nightmare" that Su is trapped in, as they deliver that dirty, heavy, and dark music. I quite like the camera shake as well. It's obviously an added effect to increase intensity, but it feels so real. I just came back from their DC show yesterday, and while this song hasn't been performed in years, during their breakdowns of other songs, it truly felt like my "vision" was shaking as the entire audience was jumping and headbanging, lol. 🤘🦊
This was one of the Su solo songs. They used to do that in the Yui era when the concerts were longer. Yui and Moa used to have their songs without Su as well, and they were referred to as Black Babymetal. Apart from giving a little variety to the albums (the first two), this also allowed all three to take a break during the longer concerts. Also, the choreography used to be more energetic back then (they were younger). The part you wondered whether Su was singing is most probably backtracked. They left that part sounding different for effect. The live version of this song sounds much better than the studio version (although that is very good too). The shaking of the camera was done on purpose for effect. Every member of the Babymetal group, including the camerapersons, are so professional. You should check out some Black Babymetal. I would recommend Onedari Daisakusen or Sis Anger (for the latter, unfortunately, you probably will only find compilation videos, but they're good anyway). 🤘🦊🤘
They're definitely shaking the camera on purpose, there is a Prodigy live DVD, Worlds On Fire, and I always assumed they put a weird effect on the video, then I realized the bass was so loud the cameras simply couldn't be stabalized and the whole stadium and everything in it was shaking. (comments from people who were there confirm this)
When they were young the performance of the girls were, how can I put it, Harder (today you can compare how old dance moves are more on the softer side nowadays). So I believe Moa and Yui needed some time to rest and they used 4 Su's solo songs to give them some deserved rest. The same thing happened to Su when Moa and Yui would perform their songs and give her a break. When you react to Akatsuki you will really appreciate Su's vocal capabilities. And Onedari Daisakusen with Moa and Yui.
Hi from Ireland, su creats thar effect by holding Mike to her nose, and pronouncing more nasel tone, you can try bit by partially holding your nose whilst speaking, but su I would say practiced thus a lot. You should try more solos, Amore and no rain no rainbow are epic, loved your reaction as always 😊
she actually sang that part, with the falsetto technique usually sung by Japanese singers (other Asian countries) and even often used by anime voice actors.
@Abigirl_Reacts However, there are also several song lyrics that SU doesn't sing but she sings with has voice recorder so that they become a backtrack for the song, such as, "How would you know the difference between the virtual world And the real world? Maybe what you see with your eyes Is all an illusion, I don't know whose voice it was but it sounded clear to my ears that SU did it & Help me please! Please! Save me please! Please! Please, please, oh, please oh-majinai. it's like a soft, hoarse growl that SU recorded with has voice, but she didn't sing it live so it just became a backtrack vocal.
Hello Abi... BABYMETAL!!! Oh yeah... 🦊🦊🤘🤘 Oldschool classic "Rondo of nightmare" with Kami Band intro "Mischiefs of Metal Gods". Su-metal is incredible and her voice in beautiful and very emotional. She sold story of this song very well. Great reaction. "Rondo of Nightmare" is one of four songs (w/o covers) where Su-metal performing solo. ("Amore", "No Rain No Rainbow", "Akatsuki") There are also four song where Moa and Yui performing without Su-Metal. ("Song 4", "Sis Anger," "Onedari Daisakusen", "GJ!") That performance is "Black Babymetal"
@@Abigirl_ReactsWhen you ask about "Black Babymetal": "Song 4" and "Onedari Daisakusen" are from first album. "Sis Anger" and "GJ!" is from secoond album, so this two are from "the oldest age" (but still young).
You said you like string and guitar together, try Rainbow the song Stargazer probably one of the best songs ever written, the singer had the best rock vocals, unfortunately he died, it old band but I think you like it the strings come in at the end 👍
Yep, that´s a Su solo, it was at the Budokan, Black Night, in 2014. Premiered the evening before. It was performed last time at the Black Fox Festival in 2017. Never again since then, which is a pity. Maybe some day we will see it being performed once again, that would be great. You could react to "Onedari Daisakusen" from BLACK BABYMETAL, to watch a Yui&Moa "solo" 😁
As explained by Grington300, Su is running for her life by something she can't see and begs it to show itself before it takes her life, as haunting as that is I feel it's about something much darker, depression. I think what Su is actually running from is herself.
In my head cannon: This is Nakamoto Suzuka the soul that left Su-metal's body after the sacrifice of Legend 1997. The Kami band is mischievous and summons her soul on the stage, where we find out that her soul is trapped in an endless nightmare.
@@takevos1324 The beauty of music is that everyone can have their own interpretation of what a song means to them, ones thoughts doesn't make the other ones wrong, Monochrome is a perfect example of that.
You are getting to Babymetal "Karate" First do the music video and then a live version (UK Download 2016) is excellent. The performance will make more sense if the music video is seen first.
@@Abigirl_Reacts I respect that, but you'll be missing part of the essence of Babymetal. And the adorable quotient makes up for any vocal descrepiency.
For the true deep dive watch Karen's Girls. Of the two songs I prefer "Over the Future" 11-Year-old Suzuka Nakamoto (before she was Su-Metal) debuted in Karen's Girls as a part of a different trio than Babymetal.
That part is not Su singing that's on the backtrack. Where can I send you some links to BABYMETAL videos? I can't put them here in the comments because TH-cam will delete them
I loved the presentation of this song. Very spooky fairytale. Very dark. Vulnerable. Very Edgar Allan Poe. Su up on a pedestal while the band rotates around her, turning the whole stage into a creepy music box. Also, you are right about the distorted vocals being tracked. But idgaf. I’m sure it was for technical reasons. Enjoyed your reaction. Check out the other Su solos and the Yui/Moa Black Babymetal duos. Great stuff.
There's a few more Su solo performances, which are all great. If you really wanna be confused, you can find some solo performances by Moa and even, to a lesser extent, Yui.
SU done 4 solos, akatsuki, rondo, no rain no rainbow (i love this btw) and amore, Moa and Yui had “black babymetal (without SU) song 4, Onedari diakusn ( moa’s solo is immaculate 😎) GJ and Sis Anger (babymetals heaviest song) keep doing the great reviews Abi! 👊🏼🤘🏼🦊❤️
Babymetal do use piano & strings so effectively dont they?! nice reaction! yeah i can never work out if she sings the altered bit with an effect on the mic or if its backing track. You should keep an eye on Boh when hes in videos, hes always rocking out to the music. Kitsune Up!
You are right, that is not Su- live on the quiet verse. What i don't know is whether it was live at the venue, but I suspect not. Around this time Su- explained in an interview that she had learned to do a nasal resonance mic technique. Pretty sure that is what was done in-studio. And obviously what she was showing here. But yeah, she pulls the mic away too soon in order to set up to come back in with that heavy metal waltz of a chorus. Su-metal's mic discipline is stellar but fails often when not actually singing. 😂
In fact on this song the band had several bets runing. The Band thought that it would be impossible that Su's tony voice would be able to get through this noise carpet. The, obviously never knew that this was an experiment of multiple european metal bands. And they found out that female voices build a layer above this white noise that transfered their meaning. It had nothing to do with noise but with frequency.
Nice reaction!🦊💖This song is what made me realize how great KAMI BAND is. I bought a bass about 3months ago because I was particularly attracted to basses. However, my bass is a 4strings.😭🎸
That is awesome Yuna! Are you practicing a lot? I need to practice my guitar skills hehe
@@Abigirl_Reacts Thank you!!! Abi you are a kind person💖😭
There are several reasons why I never realized how great KAMI BAND was. Japanese students sometimes go to karaoke with their friends after school, but I am a very bad singer and I hated the music itself until I met BABYMETAL.
The next reason is that when I watch BABYMETAL, I was crazy about SU's beautiful singing voice and MOA's cute choreography. Of course now I love MOMO too.
It was from the comments of many people that I finally understood that KAMI BAND is great🎸
@@yunametal344Ganbare masu Yuna-chan!💪🦊🤘🧡
Same with me actually about appreciating all the comments about the kami band!
@@jakemuller8626Thank you Jake!!!🎸💕
Nice reaction. This is one of four Su-metal solos, two on each of the first two albums. Yui and Moa would get a break while Su performed those.
There are also 4 songs without Su performed by Yui and Moa as a duo known as Black BABYMETAL.
The Kami Band intro here is called 'Mischiefs of the Metal Gods'. In order of solos - Leda Cygnus (blue guitar), Takayoshi Ohmura (gold guitar), BOH (6 string bass) and Hideki Aoyama (drums).
There can't be many 16 year old girls who could follow that intro and then just take over the whole stage and arena the way Su did.
Su can get the effect on that quiet part by pressing the mic to her nose and singing across it (I saw a singer explaining the technique in a reaction a long time ago), so she may well have been singing it live, it may have been on track. Personally I like to think she sang this one live and in some later performances it was on track but OTFGK.🦊🙊
This is one of their darkest songs lyrically (pity you turned the subtitles on late and missed that, but Su is so good at expressing the emotion and meaning so it wasn't the worst thing you could have done). I understand rondo is a musical term denoting a repeated theme - something like that anyway. I believe they borrowed the term for the title of this song as Su is caught in a recurring nightmare, being chased through the darkness by something she can't see. Eventually she hides, but it is still coming closer. Knowing there is no escape she asks that if she is to die won't it at least reveal itself to her.
This was only the second time Su had performed this song live - the first time was the night before.
This was early March 2014. They played two nights at the Budokan in Tokyo (think the equivalent of Carnegie Hall or Madison Square Garden - it is the place all Japanese and many foreign artists aspire to play), Red Night and Black Night, becoming the youngest average age female band ever to headline there (Su was 16 and a couple of months, Yui and Moa still only 14). They had just released their first album - they sold out both nights. 🤘🦊🤘
I missed the dark lyrics, dang it!
Hi Grington, in relation to the radio effect segment where Abs questions whether that Su was singing live or if she was miming to track, while both are possible, I feel she Su is singing 'over' track. Let me explain my thoughts.
First, the video you refer to about a singer explaining the vocal technique that Su used would most likely have been by Elizabeth Zharoff from The Charismatic Voice Channel on TH-cam. Elizabeth is a Grammy award winning artist and a world-acclaimed opera singer. Elizabeth reacted to and analysed Babymetal's Rondo of nightmare and went over that section a couple of times to hear what was going on and she landed on it being a vocal technique very similar to what you described. At the time, Elizabeth felt it was a live vocal technique. I will paste a direct lift from Elizabeth's bio from The Charismatic Voice's channel directly below to help you to evaluate her capabilities and her credibility within the wider music industry:
"Our operatic founder and vocal guru, Elizabeth Zharoff, has multiple degrees in music and voice from the Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music. She's also a voice science nerd. Mrs. Zharoff has performed in 18 languages, throughout major venues in Europe, Asia, and North America. She has a uniquely modern career which bridges the gap between voice and technology, and aims to demystify singing for all."
Fast forward a goodly while and I watched a live stream (I think from Dicodec, or maybe Gaigin Guys [same thing really]) where this song was put through a software analysis program that separated all the instrumentals, the track and Su's vocals and this showed that there is a radio effect on the vocal line in question on the backing track, but it also showed that Su was singing along into a hot mic. This would suggest a couple of possible scenarios: A). Su is miming - I think we can eliminate that one because her voice was recorded singing in that section as shown in the analysis software. B). Su was singing the section live with a filter on her voice without backing track - Again the software analysis showed that there was track in that section, so we know it was there. However, did Su sing as well, and C). That Su sang over pre-recorded track in that section. This is where those that evaluated the software analysis landed, and I am pretty comfortable with that. This makes sense, again, let me include my thoughts on why. (A side note here is that Elizabeth, or her production team, has removed any reference to the radio effect segment from Rondo of Nightmare from her published reaction video to the song, interesting).
We already know that Su often has some of her own vocals pre-recorded into Babymetal backtracks, as does Moa and Momo, and Yui before her. This is often done to harmonise with their own live vocals, or to provide support if they start to run short of breath, or simply to make their vocals sound thicker, after all, these girls are pretty active on stage. Grington, I am sure you are familiar with some reactors doing the 'gotcha' moments where they 'catch' Babymetal 'miming'. Most of these gotchas are a result of the girls sometimes singing over backtracks of their own vocals, in spaces where they might be short of breath due to their routines, or, as Abs suggested, sucking in some air to ready themselves for the next vocal or dance stanza.
@@lencooke944 Thanks - good research.👍
@@lencooke944 Are you sure she did Rondo? I thought Elizabeth from Charismatic Voice did Akatsuki, Karate, and Monochrome 1st Take.
Not disagreeing regarding Su, just checking. Would love to see her analysis of Rondo!
Thank you both for your insightful comments! I learn a lot reading from you both ^_^
Su is almost 27 years old and still looks like a 16 year old girl off stage.
She's not 27 in this performance right?
@@Abigirl_Reacts At this time, she is 16 years old.
Bro Its rare to find anything of SU WIthout the costume i think the only thing i saw was i pic with su and moa with normal clothes
@@davimoraes3731 Several videos were taken by fans of the ladies as they arrived at the airport and left their hotel during their South American tour.🤘🦊
I’ve seen her arriving at the venue in Toulouse last year and trust me, she does indeed look like 18 without the costume, and so does Moa ❤🤘🦊🔥
Great reaction, thanks!
And great song and version choice. This is the iconic and perfect version everyone wants to see.
This is what we call a Su-metal's solo song. She has four on their two first albums: "Akatsuki", "Rondo of Nightmare", "No Rain , No Rainbow" and "Amore".
Yui and Moa were underneath the stage taking a well deserved break (or doing their homework since they were still 14 at the time and had to go to school, lol).
They also have four songs as a duo (without Su) known as Black BABYMETAL: "Onedari Daisakusen", "Yon no uta" (Song of 4), "GJ!" and "Sis. Anger".
Yes, I also think that part with the effects on Su's voice is in a backing track since it sounds exactly the same in other shows.
But I'm sure she's capable of doing this live and more... I learned my lesson a while ago. 😅
The instrumental intro song is called "Mischiefs of the Metal Gods". And it's great because every Kami Band member has their turn to shine... just to summon Su-metal who finally emerges from the depths ... well, at least from under the stage. 😁
"Rondo of Nightmare" is probably their darkest song lyrically. It's about Su being trapped into an endless nightmare, without any chance to escape, where she's chased by a dark entity as she tries to run away and hide. Finally she asks the entity to reveal its real nature before giving up.
This was just the second time they performed it live (the first one was just the previous night at the same venue) and Su-metal, being 16 at the time, was standing by herself on a relatively small and elevated platform, without any safety and probably not being able so see a thing due to the spotlight. This is so freaking metal!
Here are some Black BABYMETAL and another of Su's amazing solo songs:
"Onedari Daisakusen" (Live at Budokan Black Night): th-cam.com/video/ju63cJtodS0/w-d-xo.html
"Akatsuki" (Live at Budokan Black Night): th-cam.com/video/g2372C5PJLM/w-d-xo.html
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Yessss thank you so much for the links! This really helps ^_^
@@Abigirl_Reacts Happy to help! 😊
Oh god, you never did see a Su solo before. She does 4 (5 including an unfinished version of a song) and they are all super awesome. Moa and Yui are out back smoking a cig and slamming some beers.
I'll have to hear the rest of them
@@Abigirl_ReactsAlso, in the early days they did not have enough songs to do a full show and Su does a few cover songs solo. Those were one-time performances.
@@Abigirl_Reactsthere are a couple of songs where Su takes a break and it’s just Moa and Yui. I would suggest the song GJ! Where Moa and Yui just destroy the place
@@Abigirl_Reacts Akatsuki unfinished is amazing so moving. This one has subtitles th-cam.com/video/nwsinmxTxbo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_3Ym92IHpie87Cjt
Yui and Moa got the occasional break, this being one of them, obviously. It’s been told that sometimes they’d use the opportunity to get caught up on school homework, being only 15 and still in school.
That makes sense actually
Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。Kamis are amazing musicians. So, I sometimes go to see live performance by Kamis. I enjoyed a concert by BOH (Kami bassist) and Yuya (former Kami drummer) last month and a ticket to one by Isao (Kami guitarist) in December.
"Rondo of Nightmare" is the song that I am longing for the revival with Su-Metal's matured rich voice. (Of course I love this 2014 version) "Rondo" is a musical form with a recurring leading theme. I can't tell how many times I have viewed this video. It is literally a rondo of happy dream for me. Kamis' (=Gods') super solos were excellent enough as a main event in the show, but once the 16-year-old Queen (as of 2014) emerged from the underground, she colored everything differently with her penetrating voice then turned Kami Band's plays into a ritual to summon her.
The kami band is definitely one of my favorites parts!
Is the Kari Band project still going strong?
Love your reactions always, thank you! About whether Su-Metal was singing the stylized stanza near the end, I asked the same a long time ago in a forum and someone said she did - that she had the mic pressed up to her nose to create the effect and had learned to sing in a specific style just for that. I have no way of knowing what/how true it is, but someone posted cool info about it so I am sharing that bit; partially in hopes that the more knowledgeable viewers might expand on it? I am genuinely curious about the specifics there myself.
Awesome good to know!
There was a reactor duo that noticed the mic-in-nose style. In the next video they said they went into the studio and tried it themselves and it sounded very similar to how Su-metal sounded.
You can emulate the 'old radio' filtered sound by pressing the mic to your nose, kinda, but it won't sound this perfect live. Another proof is that the filtered sound is still fading out while Su's live voice comes back in, so they overlap. And finally, everyone who has the Blu-ray disc of this set of shows can actually compare this performance (from the Black Night, day two) to the performance of the same song from the previous night (Red Night), and there she holds the mic in a different way (in front of her mouth, if I remember correctly), yet the filtered passage sounds exactly the same. Q.e.d. 😉
And of course there's no problem with using tracks for short lines that are too difficult to reproduce live. Babymetal have always done that with the 'kitsune, kitsune' breakdown vocal line (the one that's using the traditional 'sakura, sakura' melody) for example, but during that Su doesn't lip sync and does some acting with the fox mask, instead.
@@takevos1324that was Dicodec a few years back
Some people may think that Rondo of Nightmare is an odd fit for their debut album, a dark song about nightmares amongst songs about chocolate cravings, early morning cartoons, bullying and a made up on the spot song about the number 4 lol, but what better place for a song about nightmares than their debut album. 95% of the most scary nightmares i had was when i was a kid. It fits perfectly.
It really does!
Exactly. I remember when I was a child and was even scared to sleep next to a window after watching a horror movie.
@@kc28kenneth lol, same here. I was haunted by even a glimpse of the most lame horror movie or hearing a ghost story when I was a kid. I remember the fear at night it would cause. I once caught my own reflection in the window and nearly died of terror 😱 It's funny looking back now, but it wasn't funny then.
Thanks for your reaction Abi, glad you’ve witnessed your first Su’s solo, I’m gonna tell you a little detail about the song “Akatsuki”(another Su’s solo) for when the day comes and you pick it up to react to it, there are 3 iconic versions of “Akatsuki”
- 2013 (Unfinished version from Legend 1997) it’s a piano version just like the “one take” version of monochrome you watched, the difference is the “one take of monochrome” was on a studio with only them alone and the “unfinished version of Akatsuki” was on a live performance with the kami band.
- 2014 version (from Budokan Black Night 2014)it’s the full instrumental version of he song and the Kami band has a shinning moment, it also has the best audio quality of the instrumentals in my opinion.
- 2021 version (from Budokan 2021 yes the same venue 7 years later!) it’s also the full instrumental version but the instrumental quality doesn’t shine like the 2014 version, the scenario effects are bit better than 2014 version but the Kami band doesn’t have a moment to shine in this version.
I leave you those details for you to decide which version of the song you want to pick when you get to react to that song, I (and surely your other followers) would love to see you watching all of the 3 different version like you did with monochrome and the piano version, if I had to vote my vote would go for you to watch them in chronological order so you can notice the difference. And of course you don’t have to make the 3 reactions in a row like how was about to happen with Headbanger, we will love to watch to reaction no matter when you decide to make them!
One last thing I want o tell you I wouldn’t recommend you to react to any of the Yui and Moa duets (without Su) the reason is just because those songs sang by them they apply very childish voices for those songs, if you want to add them to your list I would say to put them to the very end, but If you want to watch them soon at least I let you know that detail so you can be prepared to what to expect from those songs, the one I less like is “GJ”, the other 3 songs are funny and cute. Wish you a great weekend!
Nice, thanks for the info!
@@Abigirl_ReactsI completed my comment hope you get to read it Abi thanks take care!
The child voices is what makes the songs even better because of the contrast and the subject matter.
Nice reaction! Su has 4 solo songs, which are Rondo of Nightmare, Akatsuki, Amore and No Rain No Rainbow.
Oh wow good to know!
Angelic. Once heard someone call Su's voice angelic. And it is. Strip everything else down and you hear an "angel singing."
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King Boh. So much heart that he brought into Babymetal performances!
Agreed 💯
Really nice reaction. I believe that they are still the youngest artists to be invited to perform at The Budokan. And apparently artists can’t book the venue, they have to be invited.
Not sure about the Elf&safety implications of Su being 20feet up in the air on a narrow platform with spotlights blinding her, without any safety harness!!! But then this was one of concerts where Yui fell off the stage while racing around!!!
They have to be invited, interesting!
@ there’s a story (not sure how much it’s grown over the years) that someone from a major rock band took a phone call saying that The Budokan would like them to play on certain dates, this person just said that wasn’t possible as the band would be in Europe then. When he saw the manager 20 minutes later he recounted the “weird” conversation he’d just had. The manager went white and immediately phoned the Budokan back, only to be told another band were happy to rearrange the South American leg of their tour and had taken those dates!!!! The band were never invited again.
Rondo of Nightmare and Amore should be back on the setlist. These two songs are missing! ☹️
Thanks for the suggestion! ^_^
Great reaction! I'm sure others have mentioned that this was 1 of 4 Su-metal solos, just as Yui & Moa had "Black Babymetal" Duets without Su. Rondo of Nightmare is probably one of my absolute favorites, and Su-metal delivers a hauntingly beautiful performance of this dark and ominous song. The visuals of this performance are incredible as well. WIth the Kami Band almost appears as the "Rond of Nightmare" that Su is trapped in, as they deliver that dirty, heavy, and dark music.
I quite like the camera shake as well. It's obviously an added effect to increase intensity, but it feels so real. I just came back from their DC show yesterday, and while this song hasn't been performed in years, during their breakdowns of other songs, it truly felt like my "vision" was shaking as the entire audience was jumping and headbanging, lol.
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I felt the intensity! ^_^
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This was one of the Su solo songs. They used to do that in the Yui era when the concerts were longer. Yui and Moa used to have their songs without Su as well, and they were referred to as Black Babymetal. Apart from giving a little variety to the albums (the first two), this also allowed all three to take a break during the longer concerts. Also, the choreography used to be more energetic back then (they were younger).
The part you wondered whether Su was singing is most probably backtracked. They left that part sounding different for effect. The live version of this song sounds much better than the studio version (although that is very good too).
The shaking of the camera was done on purpose for effect. Every member of the Babymetal group, including the camerapersons, are so professional.
You should check out some Black Babymetal. I would recommend Onedari Daisakusen or Sis Anger (for the latter, unfortunately, you probably will only find compilation videos, but they're good anyway).
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Thanks Kenny! Yea I liked the shaky camera. Brought a cool effect to the video ^_^
They're definitely shaking the camera on purpose, there is a Prodigy live DVD, Worlds On Fire, and I always assumed they put a weird effect on the video, then I realized the bass was so loud the cameras simply couldn't be stabalized and the whole stadium and everything in it was shaking. (comments from people who were there confirm this)
I like that shaky effect!
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Teenage relentless little Su is amazing.🦊🤘🔥
Haha isn't she?
When they were young the performance of the girls were, how can I put it, Harder (today you can compare how old dance moves are more on the softer side nowadays). So I believe Moa and Yui needed some time to rest and they used 4 Su's solo songs to give them some deserved rest. The same thing happened to Su when Moa and Yui would perform their songs and give her a break. When you react to Akatsuki you will really appreciate Su's vocal capabilities. And Onedari Daisakusen with Moa and Yui.
Nice, thanks for it suggestions! Added
The longer rest breaks were more for compliance with child-labor laws, which they are no longer affected by.
My favorite Black Babymetal is "Onedari Daisakusen". My favorite version is Tokyo Dome Black Night
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Yesterday I saw a photo of one of the girls being iced down during a break. I know how hot I get in a concert venue... And I'm just standing there!
Oh wow, I bet!
8 days to their Madison, WI show. Already excited.
When you do her Akatsuki solo song, you gotta do Budokan 2021 for the latest version. SuQueen slays
Thanks for the tip!
Hi from Ireland, su creats thar effect by holding Mike to her nose, and pronouncing more nasel tone, you can try bit by partially holding your nose whilst speaking, but su I would say practiced thus a lot. You should try more solos, Amore and no rain no rainbow are epic, loved your reaction as always 😊
Thanks for the suggestion and for watching! ^_^
she actually sang that part, with the falsetto technique usually sung by Japanese singers (other Asian countries) and even often used by anime voice actors.
Oh cool, do you mean on the back track? She recorded it?
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However, there are also several song lyrics that SU doesn't sing but she sings with has voice recorder so that they become a backtrack for the song, such as, "How would you know the difference between the virtual world
And the real world?
Maybe what you see with your eyes
Is all an illusion, I don't know whose voice it was but it sounded clear to my ears that SU did it & Help me please! Please! Save me please! Please!
Please, please, oh, please oh-majinai. it's like a soft, hoarse growl that SU recorded with has voice, but she didn't sing it live so it just became a backtrack vocal.
That makes sense ^_^
I love this song, particularly rhis version
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Same!
Hello Abi... BABYMETAL!!! Oh yeah... 🦊🦊🤘🤘 Oldschool classic "Rondo of nightmare" with Kami Band intro "Mischiefs of Metal Gods". Su-metal is incredible and her voice in beautiful and very emotional. She sold story of this song very well.
Great reaction.
"Rondo of Nightmare" is one of four songs (w/o covers) where Su-metal performing solo. ("Amore", "No Rain No Rainbow", "Akatsuki")
There are also four song where Moa and Yui performing without Su-Metal. ("Song 4", "Sis Anger," "Onedari Daisakusen", "GJ!") That performance is "Black Babymetal"
Awesome, thanks for letting me know! Added Which one of those four has them at the oldest age?
@@Abigirl_ReactsWhen you ask about "Black Babymetal": "Song 4" and "Onedari Daisakusen" are from first album. "Sis Anger" and "GJ!" is from secoond album, so this two are from "the oldest age" (but still young).
You really should hear No Rain, no rainbow Legend Live S. Probably one of the best solo performances by Su.
Its on my list, ty!
My standard of Catchy is different it took me a couple of listen to fully grasp the melody of this song when a first heard
It was easy to hum along with for me do i enjoyed it rather quickly!
You said you like string and guitar together, try Rainbow the song Stargazer probably one of the best songs ever written, the singer had the best rock vocals, unfortunately he died, it old band but I think you like it the strings come in at the end 👍
Thanks for the suggestion! ^_^
Yep, that´s a Su solo, it was at the Budokan, Black Night, in 2014. Premiered the evening before. It was performed last time at the Black Fox Festival in 2017. Never again since then, which is a pity. Maybe some day we will see it being performed once again, that would be great.
You could react to "Onedari Daisakusen" from BLACK BABYMETAL, to watch a Yui&Moa "solo" 😁
Oh neato, thanks!
@@Abigirl_Reacts The HEAD123456 channel has a HQ version of the Budokan 2014 Black Night performance, it includes the Kamishibai 😁
stop by to see your reaction to the darkest (if what not) theme song by Babymetal
Thanks for watching ^_^
As explained by Grington300, Su is running for her life by something she can't see and begs it to show itself before it takes her life, as haunting as that is I feel it's about something much darker, depression. I think what Su is actually running from is herself.
In my head cannon: This is Nakamoto Suzuka the soul that left Su-metal's body after the sacrifice of Legend 1997. The Kami band is mischievous and summons her soul on the stage, where we find out that her soul is trapped in an endless nightmare.
@@takevos1324 The beauty of music is that everyone can have their own interpretation of what a song means to them, ones thoughts doesn't make the other ones wrong, Monochrome is a perfect example of that.
I love hearing everyone's different interpretations!
Sugoiii..
Still gives me goosebumps
Me too!
Su doing solo while Moa and Yui doing some homeworks
I heard! Haha
You are getting to Babymetal "Karate" First do the music video and then a live version (UK Download 2016) is excellent. The performance will make more sense if the music video is seen first.
Oh OK!
If you want to see a performance where Su is not present, give 'Sis Anger' a shot.
Nice, I will. Thanks!
Wow you look so different without glasses! You got two awesome styles then :P thanks for the video!
Do I? Oh boy haha it's like superman. My alter ego! ^_^
You need to watch the official music video for "Doki Doki Morning" as this will give you Babymetal at their youngest.
I prefer more mature voices though
@@Abigirl_Reacts I respect that, but you'll be missing part of the essence of Babymetal. And the adorable quotient makes up for any vocal descrepiency.
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Queen supported by Kamis !
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It's definitely a good day for me now u have uploaded thanks for the reaction hope you have a lovely chilled weekend and an awesome night
Thank you too!
@@Abigirl_Reacts Ur welcome queen
There's onedari daisakusen from 2021 that only has moa
Awesome! I'll have to check it out
@@Abigirl_Reactsmaybe Onedari Daisakusen with Yui first?😅
For the true deep dive watch Karen's Girls. Of the two songs I prefer "Over the Future" 11-Year-old Suzuka Nakamoto (before she was Su-Metal) debuted in Karen's Girls as a part of a different trio than Babymetal.
Oh wow how interesting!
YESSS! was waiting for this one ❤
Thanks for watching ^_^
That part is not Su singing that's on the backtrack. Where can I send you some links to BABYMETAL videos? I can't put them here in the comments because TH-cam will delete them
Is it a link to the spreadsheet? If so, I have that!
@@Abigirl_Reacts No is for the OK(Russian site) channel of the BABYMETAL Reactors Resource, which has videos without a watermark.
Oh interesting, OK and YT won't let you post it here?
@@Abigirl_Reacts No because it is a link to an external site, not TH-cam
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I loved the presentation of this song. Very spooky fairytale. Very dark. Vulnerable. Very Edgar Allan Poe. Su up on a pedestal while the band rotates around her, turning the whole stage into a creepy music box. Also, you are right about the distorted vocals being tracked. But idgaf. I’m sure it was for technical reasons. Enjoyed your reaction. Check out the other Su solos and the Yui/Moa Black Babymetal duos. Great stuff.
Oh yea, it does have creepy music box vibes!
There's a few more Su solo performances, which are all great. If you really wanna be confused, you can find some solo performances by Moa and even, to a lesser extent, Yui.
Awesome, I'll have to check it out!
SU done 4 solos, akatsuki, rondo, no rain no rainbow (i love this btw) and amore, Moa and Yui had “black babymetal (without SU) song 4, Onedari diakusn ( moa’s solo is immaculate 😎) GJ and Sis Anger (babymetals heaviest song) keep doing the great reviews Abi! 👊🏼🤘🏼🦊❤️
Thanks so much for watching! ^_^
Babymetal do use piano & strings so effectively dont they?! nice reaction! yeah i can never work out if she sings the altered bit with an effect on the mic or if its backing track. You should keep an eye on Boh when hes in videos, hes always rocking out to the music. Kitsune Up!
Boh is always so passionate, so fun to watch!
You are right, that is not Su- live on the quiet verse. What i don't know is whether it was live at the venue, but I suspect not. Around this time Su- explained in an interview that she had learned to do a nasal resonance mic technique. Pretty sure that is what was done in-studio. And obviously what she was showing here. But yeah, she pulls the mic away too soon in order to set up to come back in with that heavy metal waltz of a chorus. Su-metal's mic discipline is stellar but fails often when not actually singing. 😂
She sounded great nonetheless right?! ^_^
In fact on this song the band had several bets runing. The Band thought that it would be impossible that Su's tony voice would be able to get through this noise carpet. The, obviously never knew that this was an experiment of multiple european metal bands. And they found out that female voices build a layer above this white noise that transfered their meaning. It had nothing to do with noise but with frequency.
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@@Abigirl_Reacts And totally unsupported by any interview or any other real source.
Some fans like to make up things and present them as facts. : )
Excellent playing and good song till the brief break, then the vocals came in and ruined it.
Su's vocals?!
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@@oldmanjimh3165, ok boomer.
Pathetic comment.
Yawn.