When ever i hear main actor from her, i just cry because of her emotion she brings through singing she is sooo good!!!!!! pls main actor for the next reaction!
Damn, made me shed tears. I had listened to this piece multiple times but never read the translated lyrics. It was already making me emotional, but after paying attention to the lyrics, I found myself crying.
I think the idea is that if you act fake for long enough, it's hard to be able to be genuinly yourself again. Not just because you have no confidence in yourself but because everyone knows you as someone you're not. Being accepted as someone you are not almost hurts more than not being accepted at all.
There's also the risk of not even knowing who you really are yourself. That's at least a possible outcome of always craving for everyone to like me. I grow up to become someone who doesn't even know myself.
A little interesting thing, Minami actually has performed a few of her songs with her guitar in twitter videos, I really recommend seeing those because you really hear her rough performance with no post production or anything and its honestly even more impressive
One thing i noticed in this song is when her original self is speaking, the instrumentals are very calm like only an acoustic guitar and piano are playing but when she starts having conflicts it switches to more noisy instruments. This is why i love Minami so much
Dealing with self-image and identity is not easy and she nails it with the lyrics and performance. Makes me emotional everytime. Great reaction. Main Actor next for more great lyrics and performance.
Minami is the queen of emotions. And you know what? I see a similarity between you two. You are both very expressive in what you do and I absolutely love it. This makes it easy for me to resonate with your feelings and emotions. That's why minami is my favorite singer and your channel is my favorite among others similar.
one of my favourite things about this song is at the last chorus (and the first) the bpm slows down from 205 to 185 and when she starts screaming is goes back 205 which amplifies everything even more
I love watching vocal teacher react to minami cuz i can learn a lot and it make me interested in singing even tho i can't sing that just how impactful minami's voice are😂
You're taking me back, man. I recall listening to her non-stop in the last year of highschool and 1st year of uni. She was my Oshi, but it's a bit sad she's not as active.
Got the Chance to see her in live 2 times the emotion she can transmit with her voice it's amazing i never felt that with any singer before but she gave me goosbumps everytime i hear her and even sometimes tears, My favorite song from her is Ame wo Matsu
I absolutely LOVE this track. The clear breath & voice breaks add SO MUCH emotion. So rarely can I hear a vocalist use the sound of them taking a breath in to add to a song. Usually, it feels like it gets avoided. Not from Minami. She deliberately makes you hear her breath. Gasping for air in desperation to give more impact I get brought to tears very often listening to it.
So so happy you reacted to this!! One of my favorite songs and probly one of if not the most emotional songs I know, and with such a powerful message. Minami is such an incredible singer, gives me goosbumps evertime I listen to her. Amazing video Chris! Keep up the amazing work!
thank you cris. Best reaction channel ever, much appriciated for reacting to my favoruite song that has been my favourite for more than a year now and now making it even more favorite by showing me how good she is, cus man i just don't realize half of her golden voice. see you on the next one, have a great day!
Oh man, I always get teary with Minami, and the fact that you're also reactin to it akes it miles better!! Thank you again for al your openess and transparency, that makes me appreciate you a lot more! Makes me happy to see you enjoy this artists, hopefully it does makes you happy to see us enjoying your reactions aswell! Thank you for all the insights!
Her way of making you connect with the lyrics. You can truly FEEL what shes saying in the song. I've dealt with depression for a long time, and I've never felt more identified with a song than her song "Main Actor". It's just beyond words what she's capable of communicate So glad you're making this videos, I'm loving them :)
Let's go more Minami! What she lacks in quantity of songs, she more than makes up for with quality, every single song of hers is a masterpiece I would highly recommend checking out.
For me personally, when I look for artists that I like, I never go/ seek out those with great techniques or having a "great voice" or what most people consider "good singers". I go for those who are genuine, and really connected to what they are singing. Those that mean and truly believe in what they are singing. Technique and polish can always be improved on, LiSA is a PRIME example of it. If you heard how she sounds like at the start of her career, most people(especially in mainstream) wouldve just not given her a second thought. But look at her now. Her technique has gotten so polished but her very essence, her genuine approach to her songs and performance are still the same as she did way back then. You can see and hear and FEEL it. And to me, Minami also has something similar to that, though i have not listened to Minami live like i had from LiSA, I believe I wouldnt be disappointed. And on that note, react to LiSA's old performances(especially lives) back in the early 2010s. Youll see what i mean.
@@klicka1 ya you can see her face but wasn’t allowed to take photos or videos during the concert. She doesn’t really hiding her identity, maybe she just doesn’t want the public to acknowledge her through her appearance but music.
Thank you Chris for disconnecting yourself for a little bit from the vocal analysis part and talking about your feelings too. That really adds to how you feel listening to powerful music like this.
thank you for reacting to more minami. one of the most underrated japanese artists and it always makes me sad she is not as well known as your usual suspects like Lisa, Ado, Aimer, etc
Some people have commented about checking out Main Actor next and I mostly agree with that, but Drop(specifically, the ending section) is what made Minami one of my favorite singers- not just of Japan, but in general.
As I'm learning Japanese right now, I've started listening to more and more Japanese music, Minami (美波）is just one of the best singers I've ever heard from Japan. Ado, Syudou, Minami, Stack (from 暁records) and a couple others are the main ones helping me learn a TON of words. If you go over a song from Stack again, PLEASE PLEASE do Psycholily. Genuinely insane singing, and you'd probably have a field day with it.
I tought I had finally stopped crying to this song (still tearing up), then you repeated a section in 12:17 and the waterfalls broke loose. I am a metalhead, but while metal packs anger and energy into a distilled sound, Minami packs sadness, regret, and emotions that are too complex to distil into a cohesive sentence. Now time to go get something to clean my drawing tablet from the tears QvQ
I find that singers are much too smooth in their way of singing in the majority of what we hear “industrialized” (pop, rock, rap...) and no longer allow themselves as much vocal madness. Where as the Japanese are more creative and free in their singing. They live their songs, the emotions linked to them, and convey it all in their voices, whether in music or anime. Emotions are omnipresent in their interpretation and emotion. Which is paradoxical in their everyday social lives. I think it's their way of expressing their emotions that they keep to themselves. And it's taking whether we understand the lyrics or not, emotions are enough to understand a context an emotion ... That's why I love music. For me, music should be a means of transmitting emotions and bringing them to life. The best universal expression. Thank you for your honest and true way of living with the songs you're listening to and discovering for the first time. And for your love for music !
Thank you for the great video! Minami is my favorite japanese artist so I throughoutly enjoyed this analysis. I love one her most recent songs called Time Gram, its such a banger and would love to see you react and give exposure to it! There is also others people have mentioned like Waiting for Rain, Main Actor, and Drop, those are all great and offer different experiences 🙂
como me alegra que se empiece a reconocer a minami fuera de japon, la escuche por alla como en 2016 o 2017 cuando no habia videos de ella en ningun lado ni en ingles ni español, por mucho habian traducciones de sus letras
She has such a beautiful, story teller voice💯🥰 I keep finding myself getting lost in her voice when trying to stay locked into the video/lyrics on screen😅
the thing about all these artists ado minami all these jp artist they mastered the art of using emotions to show us a song does not have to be one way. we all feel pain but to keep going despite it. whether we like or not broken people find each other and it can go any way. if you have a chance listen to gravity by Irys from hololive it makes me cry each time but after that cry I feel better more calm and at ease
For anyone interested, Minami released the new single a month ago, called Good Morning! It's great as always! I enjoyed Your analysis, I'm off to check out Your other videos! You talk with so much passion I can't stop watching 😂
Yeess more Minami! Would like to suggest Dir En Grey's Vinushka or Obscure for reaction video. Kyo is amazing vocalist and love to experiment with his voice a lot. If you like Ado, I think, you'll definitely like his singing haha.
Best reaction Chris, you show so much I dont see, for the next song, definitely gotta be WAITING FOR RAIN PLSSS, subtitle is kinda obscure in this song but the concept and progress of that song will be pretty new for you too I believe cus that song doesnt have a hook, it is sung out like a poem with some absolute gem of a composition, Would looove to hear more from u
I really like your reactions, i wish u could do more artists, there is so many great ones, Tatsuya Kitani, Milet, Aimer, i really recommend those ones, it would be great to see u reacting to them. Greetings from Brazil
Well that was awesome! glad to know this artist now. For some other Japanese women (TH-cam titles): Drop's -「こわして」Studio Session Such a cool song. A very gritty, cool voice Hana Sekitori, has an extremely beautiful voice: - 関取花 君の住む街 - 関取花 朝 - 関取花 もしも僕に
"Ame wo Matsu", i think Minami puts the hardest technique, so many switching between head voice and chest voice in this song, just wait in last second of this song
If anyone is with me, please like this comment to let Chris know that Eve is really worth looking into. Rebellious emotional singing can be done even without techniques like distortion
![MUSIC DIRECTOR REACTS | Minami「DROP]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GFGJ6gX9h3o/mqdefault.jpg)
she writes, sings, and composes her own music!!!
And play guitar at same time !
@@0XteaZz0 yes that too
@@0XteaZz0 when you talk about talent
Not while singing but yea @@0XteaZz0
"If you'd like more help... connecting to your voice" oh, i thought you're overing therapy session after listening to this song
I am haha
@@chrisliepewould you please, listen to [ Rude, Lose, Dance ] by Minami as well, sensei? ❤
Waiting Waiting for rain and Main actor
アメヲマツ❤︎
私も好きです！！
ブルーグラスとグッドラッカー、ルードルーズダンスもオススメです！
Main actor is an exceptional song. He should for sure listen to it.
"Waiting for rain" and "Main actor" are my favorite Minami's songs, being "Main actor" my top and the lyrics are SO relatable and so full of emotions
My personal favorite is Lilac.
When ever i hear main actor from her, i just cry because of her emotion she brings through singing
she is sooo good!!!!!!
pls main actor for the next reaction!
Seconding this, if Hollowness gives me chills, Main Actor gives me tears
@@UguuUng if Hollowness gives me tears, Main Actor gives me waterfall tears
Got goosebumps during that final long high note...! Her breath control is next level.
Damn, made me shed tears. I had listened to this piece multiple times but never read the translated lyrics. It was already making me emotional, but after paying attention to the lyrics, I found myself crying.
I think the idea is that if you act fake for long enough, it's hard to be able to be genuinly yourself again. Not just because you have no confidence in yourself but because everyone knows you as someone you're not.
Being accepted as someone you are not almost hurts more than not being accepted at all.
There's also the risk of not even knowing who you really are yourself.
That's at least a possible outcome of always craving for everyone to like me. I grow up to become someone who doesn't even know myself.
@@JeppeBeier I had those moments in highschool. Never again. I will be myself, I don't care if somebody hates me for it
yeah more often happens because social media too
A little interesting thing, Minami actually has performed a few of her songs with her guitar in twitter videos, I really recommend seeing those because you really hear her rough performance with no post production or anything and its honestly even more impressive
I came for a decent vocal analysis. I did not expect an excellent take on the meaning of the song as well. With personal associations too. Cool bonus.
One thing i noticed in this song is when her original self is speaking, the instrumentals are very calm like only an acoustic guitar and piano are playing but when she starts having conflicts it switches to more noisy instruments. This is why i love Minami so much
she is so genius
Main Actor is definitely the next Minami song to check out, one of her absolute best
Dealing with self-image and identity is not easy and she nails it with the lyrics and performance. Makes me emotional everytime. Great reaction. Main Actor next for more great lyrics and performance.
Minami is the queen of emotions. And you know what? I see a similarity between you two. You are both very expressive in what you do and I absolutely love it. This makes it easy for me to resonate with your feelings and emotions. That's why minami is my favorite singer and your channel is my favorite among others similar.
I absolutely love minami's way of using her voice, just hits so straight on to the soul.
one of my favourite things about this song is at the last chorus (and the first) the bpm slows down from 205 to 185 and when she starts screaming is goes back 205 which amplifies everything even more
I love watching vocal teacher react to minami cuz i can learn a lot and it make me interested in singing even tho i can't sing that just how impactful minami's voice are😂
Her squeeky inhales remind me of fingers running on acoustic guitar strings, which also add more flavor to the sound.
I love your breakdowns, Chris, I've been doing your free vocal lessons as well, I'm trying to learn to sing now and you've helped me a lot
i'm always flabbergasted every time I hear this song. It's singing emotion and expression at its peak
You're taking me back, man. I recall listening to her non-stop in the last year of highschool and 1st year of uni. She was my Oshi, but it's a bit sad she's not as active.
She made a mini album last year, it's not that bad.
She's been on tour in Japan, so I guess thats the main reason
There was a new release of her 14 days ago named "good morning"
MORE MINAMI
i love your reactions and analyses and i love minami!!
YEESSS i've been hoping for this one 🥹 thank you Chris!!
Got the Chance to see her in live 2 times the emotion she can transmit with her voice it's amazing i never felt that with any singer before but she gave me goosbumps everytime i hear her and even sometimes tears, My favorite song from her is Ame wo Matsu
I absolutely LOVE this track.
The clear breath & voice breaks add SO MUCH emotion.
So rarely can I hear a vocalist use the sound of them taking a breath in to add to a song. Usually, it feels like it gets avoided.
Not from Minami. She deliberately makes you hear her breath. Gasping for air in desperation to give more impact
I get brought to tears very often listening to it.
Minami's "Drop" is a fantastic song I think you'll enjoy as well!
drop-minami wellll
So so happy you reacted to this!! One of my favorite songs and probly one of if not the most emotional songs I know, and with such a powerful message. Minami is such an incredible singer, gives me goosbumps evertime I listen to her. Amazing video Chris! Keep up the amazing work!
thank you cris. Best reaction channel ever, much appriciated for reacting to my favoruite song that has been my favourite for more than a year now and now making it even more favorite by showing me how good she is, cus man i just don't realize half of her golden voice.
see you on the next one, have a great day!
Have loved minami and this song for years but never read the lyrics. Really adds to the song/performance honestly now that I know. Keep it up Chris!!
Oh man, I always get teary with Minami, and the fact that you're also reactin to it akes it miles better!!
Thank you again for al your openess and transparency, that makes me appreciate you a lot more! Makes me happy to see you enjoy this artists, hopefully it does makes you happy to see us enjoying your reactions aswell!
Thank you for all the insights!
Her way of making you connect with the lyrics. You can truly FEEL what shes saying in the song.
I've dealt with depression for a long time, and I've never felt more identified with a song than her song "Main Actor". It's just beyond words what she's capable of communicate
So glad you're making this videos, I'm loving them :)
thats why I love minami so much siince she can put so much emotion in her music since she was a actress before
Let's go more Minami!
What she lacks in quantity of songs, she more than makes up for with quality, every single song of hers is a masterpiece I would highly recommend checking out.
日本では美波さんはそこまで有名ではなく、解説動画も無いので困ってました。英語はわかりませんが、このように解説を聞いてるだけで、歌うときに意識するべきことが伝わりました。MVを初めてまじまじと見ましたが、本当に心にきますね。美波さんの息の吸い方は到底真似できません…
Она популярна из-за трека Домашней подруги,там 214млн просмотров,остальные треки до 70млн и это только за рубежом.
Yeah, I love Minami.
Thanks for the content!
Minami is just a ball of emotions. I just feel so many different emotions when listening to her.
For me personally, when I look for artists that I like, I never go/ seek out those with great techniques or having a "great voice" or what most people consider "good singers".
I go for those who are genuine, and really connected to what they are singing. Those that mean and truly believe in what they are singing. Technique and polish can always be improved on, LiSA is a PRIME example of it. If you heard how she sounds like at the start of her career, most people(especially in mainstream) wouldve just not given her a second thought.
But look at her now. Her technique has gotten so polished but her very essence, her genuine approach to her songs and performance are still the same as she did way back then. You can see and hear and FEEL it. And to me, Minami also has something similar to that, though i have not listened to Minami live like i had from LiSA, I believe I wouldnt be disappointed.
And on that note, react to LiSA's old performances(especially lives) back in the early 2010s. Youll see what i mean.
her song gives me goosebumps every time
Chester's belting has a huge impact in Japanese modern Rock history. That belting at the "I have my word" part.
love her "whistling" breath intake
I'm so glad that I went to her concert before, I love minami so much!
Wow it was like a private concert where people were able to actually see her? Because she is like trying to hide her identity
@@klicka1 ya you can see her face but wasn’t allowed to take photos or videos during the concert. She doesn’t really hiding her identity, maybe she just doesn’t want the public to acknowledge her through her appearance but music.
@@bocchi2729 thank you, wow, yea concerts are better without phones anyway hehe
Thank you Chris for disconnecting yourself for a little bit from the vocal analysis part and talking about your feelings too. That really adds to how you feel listening to powerful music like this.
thank you for reacting to more minami. one of the most underrated japanese artists and it always makes me sad she is not as well known as your usual suspects like Lisa, Ado, Aimer, etc
Some people have commented about checking out Main Actor next and I mostly agree with that, but Drop(specifically, the ending section) is what made Minami one of my favorite singers- not just of Japan, but in general.
Love getting to come to these videos not only for your amazing knowledge but for the amazing music recommendations 👏
As I'm learning Japanese right now, I've started listening to more and more Japanese music, Minami (美波）is just one of the best singers I've ever heard from Japan. Ado, Syudou, Minami, Stack (from 暁records) and a couple others are the main ones helping me learn a TON of words.
If you go over a song from Stack again, PLEASE PLEASE do Psycholily. Genuinely insane singing, and you'd probably have a field day with it.
The emotion on the voice is real.
From Minami, I think Good Lucker has a lot of good features that she uses in all her songs. Like, everything she has is used there
I tought I had finally stopped crying to this song (still tearing up), then you repeated a section in 12:17 and the waterfalls broke loose.
I am a metalhead, but while metal packs anger and energy into a distilled sound, Minami packs sadness, regret, and emotions that are too complex to distil into a cohesive sentence.
Now time to go get something to clean my drawing tablet from the tears QvQ
I find that singers are much too smooth in their way of singing in the majority of what we hear “industrialized” (pop, rock, rap...) and no longer allow themselves as much vocal madness. Where as the Japanese are more creative and free in their singing. They live their songs, the emotions linked to them, and convey it all in their voices, whether in music or anime. Emotions are omnipresent in their interpretation and emotion. Which is paradoxical in their everyday social lives. I think it's their way of expressing their emotions that they keep to themselves. And it's taking whether we understand the lyrics or not, emotions are enough to understand a context an emotion ... That's why I love music. For me, music should be a means of transmitting emotions and bringing them to life.
The best universal expression.
Thank you for your honest and true way of living with the songs you're listening to and discovering for the first time.
And for your love for music !
YEAHHHH I'M SO READY FOR MORE MINAMI
I just wanna say that you blessed with a good soul
9:29 IKR that's why I love her.
My girl deserves all the love ❤ thanks Chris.
The ending of this song is so emotional.
Minami’s nice tunes 🎶 and strong words. Off I head forward into my day now wanting to be earnestly gentle
Thank you for the great video! Minami is my favorite japanese artist so I throughoutly enjoyed this analysis.
I love one her most recent songs called Time Gram, its such a banger and would love to see you react and give exposure to it!
There is also others people have mentioned like Waiting for Rain, Main Actor, and Drop, those are all great and offer different experiences 🙂
Omg yessssss this is my favourite song ever I’m so excited you did this
como me alegra que se empiece a reconocer a minami fuera de japon, la escuche por alla como en 2016 o 2017 cuando no habia videos de ella en ningun lado ni en ingles ni español, por mucho habian traducciones de sus letras
I like DROP and Waiting for Rain the most, after Hollowness and Crying for Rain!
Hollowness is definitely my number 1.
Been waiting for this one!
She has such a beautiful, story teller voice💯🥰
I keep finding myself getting lost in her voice when trying to stay locked into the video/lyrics on screen😅
Wow love the singing in english lyrics XD makes me pretend that you're singing an official english cover!
total goosebumps. first and last chorus also have slower tempo which increase the despair feeling of the song,
Been waiting so long for this one! Main actor or Waiting for rain would be my recommendations next!
I love you reacting and discovering Japanese artists. This song gives me goosebumps
I love this girl
It's fun to see everyone's jaw drop when minami hits the high note at the end
YAAAY!! Finally we do Hollowness, love your reaction Chris, thanks for it!❤
This has quickly become one of my favorite songs over the last month or so. The last 90 seconds absolutely destroy me.
Again, love your analysis on her vocals.
Other Minami songs you can react to next are 'Waiting for Rain' and 'Lilac'.
the thing about all these artists ado minami all these jp artist they mastered the art of using emotions to show us a song does not have to be one way. we all feel pain but to keep going despite it. whether we like or not broken people find each other and it can go any way. if you have a chance listen to gravity by Irys from hololive it makes me cry each time but after that cry I feel better more calm and at ease
Same here. I don't know if I like more Kawaki wo Ameku or Hollowness. Both are so so so good!
Finally! I love Minami's voice and in this song his interpretation stands out a lot. I recommend Eternal Blue for the next reaction👌
im convinced Minami is the best singer in recent time
For anyone interested, Minami released the new single a month ago, called Good Morning! It's great as always!
I enjoyed Your analysis, I'm off to check out Your other videos! You talk with so much passion I can't stop watching 😂
bro sums it up 10000x better than AI about how insane minami is...
Minami the great
Main actor and Lilac must be the next reaction of Minami. Both songs has a great message
one of my favorite songs of all time. Great vids as of late
your reaction to that last note is spot on too
You should react to the acoustic version Minami's voice is just so good
Lovely analysis! Main actor for next!
Yeess more Minami!
Would like to suggest Dir En Grey's Vinushka or Obscure for reaction video. Kyo is amazing vocalist and love to experiment with his voice a lot. If you like Ado, I think, you'll definitely like his singing haha.
Best reaction Chris, you show so much I dont see, for the next song, definitely gotta be WAITING FOR RAIN PLSSS, subtitle is kinda obscure in this song but the concept and progress of that song will be pretty new for you too I believe cus that song doesnt have a hook, it is sung out like a poem with some absolute gem of a composition, Would looove to hear more from u
thank you for your content, the next song of minami should be main actor!!
Honest Diary is definitely her most underrated song....
Waiting for Rain and DROP are my all time Minami favorites
I really like your reactions, i wish u could do more artists, there is so many great ones, Tatsuya Kitani, Milet, Aimer, i really recommend those ones, it would be great to see u reacting to them. Greetings from Brazil
I wish i could sing like Minami 🥲
Well that was awesome! glad to know this artist now. For some other Japanese women (TH-cam titles):
Drop's
-「こわして」Studio Session
Such a cool song. A very gritty, cool voice
Hana Sekitori, has an extremely beautiful voice:
- 関取花 君の住む街
- 関取花 朝
- 関取花 もしも僕に
Thanks for the reaction! Would love to react to Lilac by Minami :)
Minami is amazing, i need your reaction to Waiting for rain and Time Gram, please.
AMAZING!!!!
thank you, this was a great analysis, next one from Minami has to be Drop!
Check out her song titled Underwater Reflection, it's so emotional!!
You can listen to this song with no visuals at all without understanding any Japanese and you can just feel her emotion.
absolutely what I love about this!
"Ame wo Matsu", i think Minami puts the hardest technique,
so many switching between head voice and chest voice in this song,
just wait in last second of this song
VAAAAMOOOOSSS finally!!! Minami God
Bruh her song hit like a damn truck
Nice‼︎ More More Minami‼︎ Next ‘Drop’‼︎😢
If anyone is with me, please like this comment to let Chris know that Eve is really worth looking into. Rebellious emotional singing can be done even without techniques like distortion
hi, nice video bro!
Finally!