As a die hard Babymetal fan for nearly 10 years, I hope to see you do more Babymetal reactions. Gimme Chocolate is about a girl who likes chocolate but is worried about getting fat. In the end she decides to eat it anyway because she's worked hard and she feels she deserves it. Can't get more metal than that!
FYI this was done in december 2013 the day after the lead singer turned 16. the other two were 14 years old. they were formed in 2010 before a lot of other Japanese bands you have mentioned. Babymetal is like the gateway to other Japanese bands. Babymetal opened the door to the west for Japanese bands to be accepted. the lyrics are talking about females wanting to stay slim but they love chocolate so it is kind of fighting between the loosing weight or eating what you like no matter what. the band was formed around the lead singer first. this song actually had a fake band because early in their career they couldn't afford a live band but later in this show the real band played the last five songs and they never used the fake band again. they are more a performance band than anything. they have done so many different genres and still good at all of them.
Saw them a few months ago in Dallas- they are still performing this, and still %100 awesome. Su is 26 now, and completely commands the stage (which she's been going since she was 13).
Baby metal was my "gateway" band. Around 7-8 years ago i found them. Today on Apple music i have 738 albums spanning 177 bands. (all Japanese) The Japanese in song title is "gimi choko! !"
The reason their vocals sound so different from normal heavy metal vocals is because their vocal style is more of an Idol style, which has a lot of emphasis on being cute and friendly and is usually a more Pop sound. Their shows are also much more Idol-style and so there's lots of dancing and moving around and absolutely huge crowds.
For more Babymetal, I would suggest Headbanger, or Road of Resistance. Always do live versions of this group if possible. The energy in the crowds is incredible.
I don't know why Baby Metal fans always recommend "Give Me Chocolate" as the first song to introduce them to new viewers. "Headbanger", "Road of Resistance" or "Pa Pa Ya", for instance, would be far more indicative of what they do. This song is from their early years when they were doing mostly lighter fare.
@@Tyyppl Yeah, that may be true, but I've also seen a lot of recommendations. This is a good song and all, but it's on the "baby" side more than their later stuff.
Not just trend-setters. These 3 little girls shattered the wall of isolationism that the Japanese music industry was notorious for in 2014 with this viral video to provide the path for bands like Band-Maid, Nemophila, Hanabie and so on to gain international attention. To see when Babymetal gained international validation, watch "Ijime, Dame, Zettaii" live at Sonisphere 2014. 🤘🦊🤘
Babymetal has been on the fore front of the music industry pushing boundaries since they were 11, 11 and 12 in 2010 and started a new wave of Japanese artists getting more famous in the west. I would definitely recommend checking out more from them. Subbed for more.
2018 was the greatest concert, but sadly it was just after Yui left. Yes, it does say "gimmie chocolate" in Karakana. Yes, the song is about chocolate, as in "give me chocolate, but I don't want to get chubby, but I LOVE chocolate"
Babymetal is an offshoot of the idol training school/group called Sakura Gakuin. Sakura Gakuin, often shortened to SG, had several different themed clubs/groups with Babymetal being the heavy metal club. Babymetal was built around Su-Metal (Suzuka Nakamoto), the tallest and oldest of the three girls you see here. The other two are Yuimetal (Yui Mizuno) and Moametal (Moa Kikuchi), fellow graduates of SG who were chosen for Babymetal because of their similar height, appearance, and voices. Their look, at least during these days, is called "Gothic Lolita," while BAND-MAID wears modified maid costumes based on maid cafes in Japan. The "band" behind them are actors in suits. They were called Babybones and mimed to the music on a backing track; this is because Babymetal didn't have the biggest budget when they first started out. This is actually the last show that the Babybones appeared. After this show, they were permanently replaced by the Kami Band, a rotating lineup of highly-skilled musicians. Babymetal has released studio four albums and a ton of live concerts. Yuimetal left the group in 2018 due to undisclosed health reasons and has seemingly fallen off the face of the planet. Other backups dancers filled in for Yui, the most prominent of which were a rotating trio called The Avengers. Two of the Avengers quietly drifted away from Babymetal and moved on to other projects, but the third, Momoko Okazaki, was made the third member of Babymetal in April 2023 and dubbed Momometal. That's the nutshell version of Babymetal's history. They have a lot of diversity in their songs, so don't expect all of their songs to sound like this. Also, don't make up your mind about the group based on this one video. They have a lot to offer and are one of the most addictive groups I listen to.
Babymetal have gone from strength to strength and they are pretty unique in what they do and touch many genres. Su's voice is incredible. I recommend you check out some of their newer stuff like monochrome.
It’s definitely better to start from the front and then go down the rabbit hole. While us fans may love their new music, it’s just way harder to get into from an outsider’s point of view.
Nice reaction :) This song is around 10 years old and is about a teenage girl who loves chocolate but is afraid of gaining weight. This was my first introduction to BabyMetal and at first I wasn't sold on it either. But then a couple of days later I realized I had the lead singers voice still stuck in my head and I felt bad about judging a band on just one song, so I tried them again. I can't remember if it was the Megitsune studio mv or Headbanger live at the legend of 97 (The year Su, the lead singer, was born. She's 26 now) concert but I was blown away. I'm a huge fan now. This is an extraordinary band with 4 studio albums (The latest came out last year) and a ton of live material. I strongly urge you not to give up on them!
It was exactly this for me, too. Heard this song, and was kind like, meh. Then, I heard it a second time, and heard so many things I didn’t catch the first time. They r THE reason I’m such a huge metal head now
1:14 Japanese Kana characters are syllabic, meaning that most characters are what would be a consonant and a vowel. There are characters for the English equivalents of vowels and one character for the English equivalent of "n." This video was shot the day after the lead singer's (Su-Metal) 16th birthday. The other two girls (current member Moametal and past member Yuimetal) were 14 1/2. The opening lyrics basically translate to da da da da da...
Babymetal just makes me smile ear to ear. The girls are so adorable, the instrumentals are hard as hell, the singing is super animated style, the choreography is ridiculous.
This is like their happy and playful song, not to take seriously, just to have a good time, believe me, this band here has absolute bangers. Hope you all guys don't stop listening to them.
BabyMetal will always hold a special spot for me because the algorithm led me from them to Band Maid. In fact, it was “Gimme chocolate!!” as my intro. I had never heard or imagined the combination of fast and heavy metal with Jpop vocals. It made me smile. Not my thing, but I immediately knew they deserved a big audience. Very creative and unique. Babymetal, to me, is heavy metal theater. As a proper band of musicians, I went for the Band Maid route. But eternally grateful to Babymetal for opening up the Japanese rock scene for me
Welcome to the Foxhole and BabyMetal journey 🦊🤘🔥 I'm always glad to see more reactors getting into this amazing group. They were rocking out the whole World Tour 2023 and everyone were having a blast with the setlist, the new songs from latest album and the classic hits, especially GC! either you hate or love it, is a song with crazy amount of views and they don't wanna leave behind in any of their setlist. This song is having 10 Years anniversary and recently they released a GC! Challenge clip on social network, a lot of fans are having so much fun. Dance choreography and metal had never been seen before and they somehow managed to make it works creating their unique own genre called kawaii-metal, mixing Jpop (not Kpop) and heavy metal along with many more sub genres and rhythms, you'll have so much fun going through this journey. This isn't actually live sound, is studio album version over a live performance which was partially live only on the vocals and choreography with backing track sound. They have their own band called Kami Band introduced later on that same show and after that Kami Band become regular at live performance but they're not official members, only these trio are the front women. BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock group called Sakura Gakuin, they had 11 and 12 years old when started this and become independent after 2013, they created their own genre called kawaii-metal (kawaii means cute) mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms. Their name is a reference to a new genre and not related to their ages or "baby" faces, is a pun intended play words with "heavy-metal" which sounds similar to "baby-metal". They are: *SuMetal* lead vocalist, now 26. *MoaMetal* scream and dance, now 24. *YuiMetal* scream and dance, former member since 2018. *MomoMetal* scream and dance, she's 20 and is the new official member since April 1st recently. None of them are related. After 2018 you'll see backup dancers performing along with them but none of them are official members, they don't sing, only dance, but that status change recently like i said. This was in December 2013 at SuMetal 16th Birthday, the other girls had 14 yo and there was a big party you have seen nothing yet, wait for _"Babymetal Death"._ The backing band here are called "baby-bones", they don't actually play they're just mimicking air playing instrument, later on this same concert and after 2014 you'll see the girls performing with a real band called the Kami Band, more of them later. Some recommendations for next songs like: - _"Road Of Resistance"_ live in Japan official. - _Megitsune_ official MV. - _Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!_ live at this same live performance Legend 1997 in Makuhari Messe Japan when SuMetal is celebrating her birthday becoming a metal goddess queen and leaving her idol jpop form (you can find one at Gans Tomas channel under "Head Bangya" title). You have more than 60 songs to discover. Amuse their label is very hard to deal so if you want to avoid copyright blocked you have "Babymetal Reactor Resource" channel you'll get full original clips of their best live performance with watermarked logo safe to react, look for "Future Plans" vid, follow instructions and you'll get all of them, upload the one with the logo for us and you can watch without it, don't worry for us we already saw all of them. I'm gonna try to leave in my next comment where to get safe clips to react if YT allows me to do it. See you next time! 🦊🤘🍫
Here's the list of live performance clips usually safe to reacts without any filters so you won't need to rely on live compilations, there might be some exceptions: - Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!! live at Legend 1997, SuMetal 16th Birthday in 2013, they got MV of this and is fun, but live is a blast. th-cam.com/video/LNFiDWJh2FA/w-d-xo.html - Akatsuki, live at Budokan 2014, this is a SuMetal solo. th-cam.com/video/g2372C5PJLM/w-d-xo.html - Megitsune, official MV is my first recommendation but is usually blocked if you don't put filters, so if you want live and safe to react, check it out Budokan 2014. th-cam.com/video/dU38CYkpBvI/w-d-xo.html - Akatsuki Unfinished Version, SuMetal solo again but with only a piano behind special performance at Legend 1997. th-cam.com/video/nwsinmxTxbo/w-d-xo.html - Babymetal Death, live at Legend 1997, this is the big finale, you're gonna blow your mind with this one. th-cam.com/video/jRc9dbgiBPI/w-d-xo.html - Catch Me If You Can with Kami Band intro live at Budokan 2014. th-cam.com/video/ng8U_j0gpLI/w-d-xo.html - Ijime, Dame, Zettai live at Sonisphere Festival 2014, sometimes the official live MV isn't so friendly so you know what to do. th-cam.com/video/Ro-_cbfdrYE/w-d-xo.html - Rondo Of Nightmare, with Mischiefs Of Metal Gods Intro live at Budokan 2014, another SuMetal solo but way different than usual happy songs. th-cam.com/video/8WBDiLMNZcE/w-d-xo.html - Doki Doki Morning, official MV, their very first song and MV full of kawaiiness, usually is safe to react so try it, if you want a live performance, this is the first proshot version with the Kami Band live at Legend 1999 (YuiMetal and MoaMetal 14th birthday). th-cam.com/video/BSjv9OYtWZ0/w-d-xo.html - Uki Uki Midnight, this one is a follow up to Doki Doki Morning but way different sound, this is the PV, is super fun but the sound isn't so great but at least is live. th-cam.com/video/Yj-UQIlqsIQ/w-d-xo.html If you want better sound with the Kami Band, then live at Budokan 2014 it is. th-cam.com/video/ESzY9dL613Q/w-d-xo.html - Onedari Daisakusen, live at Legend 1997, this is a Black Babymetal song, is a subgroup with only YuiMetal and MoaMetal. th-cam.com/video/1dT1ywYR5So/w-d-xo.html - Iine! again official MV hits way better but if you want live, here live at Budokan 2014. th-cam.com/video/5sCvYVNeD0w/w-d-xo.html - Karate live at Download Festival 2016, "kitsune6001" got this with a short interview intro. th-cam.com/video/FKOL6v3Md2c/w-d-xo.html - Road Of Resistance live in Japan official, this one is easily to find but be careful with the blocked by putting some filters just in case. - Kimi To Anime Ga Mitai - Answer For Animation With You, live at Budokan 2014, not sure if it's still safe, so try some filters, if is audio blocked try to mute or just cut the parts. th-cam.com/video/M8FKumvh-w8/w-d-xo.html Here's a song you can find at Babymetal Reactor Resource (BMRR), a helpful place to get watermarked logo clips of the original live version to curve the annoying algo. - GJ! live at Wembley Arena 2016, another Black Babymetal song. th-cam.com/video/Hg0Rylcg8F0/w-d-xo.html This is BMRR short vid to follow instructions and get the spreadsheet with the full list. th-cam.com/video/q40VmTHSh4c/w-d-xo.html And here's a BM guide (the long one). th-cam.com/video/gDne0xwniTg/w-d-xo.html There's a more recent beginners guide at "Briaghh" called "So... What is BabyMetal?" is more short and with some fair update until this year unlike the other one. th-cam.com/video/9X5vj1-Sg_4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ebbxVxI_mEgt-6SG 🦊🤘
They are also really respected within the Metal community. "Kingslayer" with Bring Me The Horizon, they performed live with Rob Halford of Judas Priest, even made a cameo on Corey Taylor from Slipknot's "CMFT Must be Stopped" video
BABYMETAL have been the leaders of the female J-metal genre for more than a decade,and they're still going strong to this day. They're now in their mid 20's and one of top metal acts in the world. You should check out their recent music including collaborations with Tom Morello and Bring Me The Horizon 🦊🤘
Exactly. And not just leaders of the J-metal genre, but also the creators of the Kawaii metal done today. Without Babymetal, there are not other J-metal or Kawaii metal bands
Your's is a very common first reaction, especially to "Gimme Chocolate", which is their most polorizing song. I always say this song is the narrowest gate into the vast garden that is BABYMETAL. You should try one of their newer songs, perhaps MONOCHROME, to see another side of the newer, more mature BABYMETAL. Kitsune dao!
In my case, the very first song I stumbled across was "The Song of Four", and that does not have Su-metal... I was totally puzzled but the band kept me listening. I must say, those that came across Gimme Chocolate" are lucky. haha
So stoked. I could have sworn yall have reacted to Babymetal before. I've watched quite a few of yalls reactions . Dig the vibe. Please do more Babymetal
Want odd matches - do Ghost Mary on a Cross live in Tampa, these guys look like a Norwegian Black Metal band but they Arena Rock mixed with Metal and Pop, and they won the Grammy's for best Metal song several years back.
So, BABYMETAL is innovative in a number of ways and one of the most interesting things to happen in metal in the last decade or so (they have been going strong since 2010). They invented their own metal sub-genre, a mixture of J-Pop elements with metal elements called Kawaii Metal (meaning "cute" metal). They were the first to combine J-Pop style choreography with metal musicality. Their band structure is also unique. They are backed by top-tier metal musicians called the Kami Band, which consists of Japanese session players, whose members sometimes rotate in and out. At this point, their are actually two Kami Bands - the original Japanese Kami Band, and also the Western Kami Band, which is made up entirely of American musicians. "BABYMETAL" is technically just the three vocalists by the way. As with many Japanese bands, they do incorporate a lot of English in a number of their songs. They also have quite a few songs sung entirely in English - "Believing" being the most recent example of this from their most recent album (their 4th full length album) titled "The Other One." At this point and upon releasing their fourth album, musically, they have begun to move away from the cuter elements of the past and have become more and more "mature" metal band. Like you, a lot of people might not consider their older stuff to be something that they would listen to on the regular, but their more recent stuff I think many people would consider adding to their metal playlists, so you should check out their more recent stuff. I'm sure some other commenters here will make some further recommendations in any case. Anyway, I recommend checking more of them out. They have a tendency to really grow on most everyone, as they are ultimately just a kick ass band doing something no one else does, and they are legendary as being one of the best live performing musical acts in the world today.
The group don't have a fixed band, hence the band is makeup and/or wearing masks. As I understand it, the band is not even traveling with them on tours but instead they recruit locals however, I not too sure about that fact. I just know that if you look closely, the different musicians very between different concerts. It is all about the group of girls. The lead singer is the same but also the dancers can sometimes vary but not so often.
Thank you very much for your reaction to Babymetal at over 180 million views gimme chocolate has been many people's jumping off point or introduction to Babymetal over the years going all the way back to when this video was released in 2014 and went viral but now in 2024 they are a lot more mature in their mid-20s with their newest member at 20 years old The album released last year The other one has a lot more mature sound please check out Babymetal Monochrome Babymetal begins live at PIA arena clear night also Metal kingdom Babymetal begins Live at PIA arena Claire night and their song Divine attack also from Babymetal begins at PIA arena Claire night All our epic performances
You both were reminded of Electric Callboy when you first listened to Babymetal, thus I would love to see you both react to the very newly released collaboration song by Babymetal x Electric Callboy - Ratatata. 😊
BABYMETAL equals fun. They mix every genre you can think of with metal and Jpop and give you a one of a kind experience you won't find anywhere else. They are more of a performance group than they are a band. Their early songs, like this one, are silly and fun and aimed more at young girls. Their second album is harder and with more adult themes. Their third album is experimental with world and ethnic music, mixing everything from Celtic to Indian to Rap and everything in between. Their fourth album is a concept album and is pure progressive metal at it's core. No two songs are alike. Don't judge on just this song. Please!
yes , as suggested below Road of Resistance a must see , with real band, also Headbanger live, and their first surprise appearance on mainstage of Sonisphere Festival. btw they started when they were 13-11yo age bracket. below are best versions of above songs to start with , in my opinion . th-cam.com/video/YjjWZpf_jSs/w-d-xo.html Headbanger (1997 refers to singers birth date) th-cam.com/video/zTEYUFgLveY/w-d-xo.html Road of Resistance live th-cam.com/video/Ro-_cbfdrYE/w-d-xo.html No More Bullying
Babymetal is Japan's #1 International Group with #1 Albums in the USA on Billboards "Top Rock Album" chart and the "UK Rock" chart!! They have been turning the Metal World on its Ear for more than a Decade now!! Ages in this video...Suzuka just turned 16 the day before this show and Yui and Moa were both 14. This show in Dec. 2013 was the last time(*) that "Babybones" played with Babymetal. Babybones was a "Fake" band that accompanied Babymetal as they sang and danced to a "Backing Track"...as Babymetal could not always afford a Live Band early on in their career. The "Kami Band" is Babymetal's "Real" Live Band that had played Encore's for shows since 2012 but became the Full Time Band starting with the Budokan shows in March of 2014, More Babymetal Always!! Put your Kiutsune UP!! Po! *(I know about the other time they brought them out but it was a one-off so don't come at me)
Excellent first reaction, you clearly got the main gist of what they are doing and what makes them so different and unique ... I hope you will react to more BABYMETAL, you will not find another song quite like this, they will surprise you every time - and you will very likely find more than a few of their songs that you will happily listen to and add to your various play lists.
The girls had already been performing with the parent idol group Sakura Gakuin for years and were already consummate professional performers before Babymetal's first headlining concert. Yes, they practiced alot, but not as much as we think they do because they were already doing synchronized choreo with Sakura Gakuin. Many of them can learn the entire choreo in an hour, and just practice from there. The girls of Sakura Gakuin were among the most talented girls at Amuse, hence they were selected to be in Sakura Gakuin.
They are kind of set up like some rap groups. You've got the Kami band behind them, and Suzuka "Su-Metal" Nakamoto is the leader, and Moa "Moa-Metal" Kikuchi & Yui "Yui-Metal" Mizuno are her "hype girls".
The Kami band is amazing, if you watch the live video of Rondo of Nightmare they perform a face-melting instrumental called "Mischief of Gods" with all four members performing extended solos (yes, including BOH on the 6-string bass) to lead into the song.
Welcome & Thanks from Japan 有難う💛。 BABYMETAL is the best musical phenomenon I have ever experienced in my 68-year-long life. (Before BM, I was a stubborn jazz / funk lover) We say "Japan is the country obsessed by Rock Music". The history is very long and the obsession started in 1966 when Beatles visited Japan and held 5 concerts at Budokan. Speaking of hard rock / heavy metal music, a number of bands started to come to Japan since as early as 1970s : Led Zeppelin / Grand Funk Railroad (1971), Deep Purple (1972), Queen (1975), Kiss (1977), Cheap Trick / Van Halen / Scorpions (1978), Judas Priest (1978/79) and so on. Now, any type of rock can be enjoyed here, especially by many all-female or women-fronted bands. They are daughters of American / European rock, for sure. (Many are grand-daughters in terms of age.) Uh-oh, we also say "Japan is the country obsessed by Jazz". It had started earlier than rock 😄
9:40 So serendipitous that you said they reminded you of Electric Callboy--Babymetal just did a collab with them titled "RATATATA"--I highly recommend you checking it out if you haven't already.
This was more or less a 2 part concert. The band here isn't really playing. They were a mime band but the live Kami Band was past the halfway mark Calling them uber musicians is an utter understatement. You can see them in the Rondo of Nightmare live, which is a straight up heavy metal song. They do their own instrumental piece of music before the song begins. Gimme Chocolate was one of their more silly songs, if you will. Road of Resistance Live from Japan will put all doubts to rest whether they are a heavy metal band or not. There are other more recent versions but that is the GOAT of all of their lives.
Self proclaimed “metal dance unit” formed around main singer Su’s voice, with the other two chosen for matching pixie-ish-ness. Brought together by a metal-loving kids’ show producer when they were already veterans of stadium shows at ages 11 to (almost) 13, think summer before 6th grade. This was Su’s 16th birthday extravaganza (other two 18months younger), 3years together and although being BabyMetal meant they had started over playing cafes & such, they had made it back to arenas. Those first three years they danced and sang to a DJ (with actors miming instruments), this roughly marks their transition to using live musicians (now that they could afford the best), which helped propel them to international stardom. Great story, groundbreaking entertainment ‼️🤘🎸💃😎 And yes, Japanese use a native phonic alphabet, as well as all Chinese characters (but with Japanese pronunciations), plus the Latin/Roman/Romance (English) alphabet, plus a second unique Japanese alphabet that incorporates foreign-to-their-phonetic-alphabet sounds (as with this title, Gimme Chocolate). It’s actually fairly easy to pronounce and hear (simple, in ways that Spanish is simpler than English), but ya, the written language is tough
First time on your channel, awesome reaction to this video. And funny you mentioned Electric callboy, not sure if you've heard but Babymetal and Electric callboy just released a collab, named Ratatata. Definitely a good video.
That's funny, just a few hours ago I had never heard of your channel but I just saw a reaction of yours pop up in my TH-cam recommendations this morning. It was your reaction to 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot. While I was watching that I was thinking about how I'd like to see you guys react to Babymetal. Well, here you are. 😅 You will get plenty of info on who Babymetal is and what the song is all about but I will just say this. Babymetal is much much more than just this song. Every song they do is different and every song is like a new adventure. For a nice contrast to Gimme Chocolate, I would recommend a newer song like 'Monochrome'. It is a thing of beauty. Please watch the live performance from PIA arena.
They want chocolate, but don't want to become fat from eating too much. Do Headbanger Live Legend of 1997. That has some impressive crowd participation.
Here are some fun facts about this song and the group 1. Gimme Chocolate was named one of the most important metal songs of the last 10 years 2. Dragon Force performed this song with BabyMetal 3. The Red Hot Chili Pepper performed this song with them. 4. They are buds with Metallica and Slipknot 5. They had a cameo in Corey Taylor's video 6. They performed the Judas Priest classics Pain Killer and Breaking the Law with Rob Halford of Judas Priest 7. They are the only Asian group to ever hit #1 on Billboards Top Rock chart. 8. BabyMetal and Black Pink are the only albums by girl groups in history to enter the Top 10 of Billboard’s World Albums Year End Chart. 9. In a recent interview Corey Taylor of Slipknot was asked who he listened to at home and he said "BabyMetal" 10. In 2015 Vogue Magazine Japan named them Women of The Year. As for what to watch next: 1. Head Banger - Legend of 1997 - your will have to change your entire concept of audience reaction. Your headphones will fly off your head. 2. Road of Resistance Live in Japan - Generally considered one of the finest recordings of a live performance ever by anyone. 3. Pa Pa Ya feat. F. Hero When Metallica saw them live they said they were astonished by their awesomeness
Gimmie chocolate has that effect, not their best song, not even close, jaw dropping for sure tho...but definitely check out these .... 1. Megitsune music video (probably their best older song) 2. BMTH Kingslayer ft BabyMetal (favorite song all time) 3. Rondo of Nightmare with Mischiefs of God intro Budokan live (if you love the Kami band behind the girls this is the one to check for sure, front and center and they show out 🔥) 4. Monochrome live (new album) 5. Road of Resistance live in Japan (probably their most iconic live show) 6. Pa Pa ya live And many many more
I love BABYMETAL LIVE concerts are awesome ! seen them live and will see them live again been a fan for almost 10 years also seen BAND-MAID , NEMOPHILA , OKTOBOKE BEAVER , HANABIE all live love rock from Japan
Oh, man! You have started on a journey that I really hope you will continue. It's scientifically proven that listening to Babymetal makes your life much better. 🦊🤘 As you said, they are very young in this video. You should definitely listen to some of their later songs also. I would recommend Monochrome, both the live version from PIA Arena and the acoustic version from F1rst Take. And you will never stop getting surprised what their music will sounds like. It's most often heavy AF, but they are not afraid of experimenting. The girls in this video was Su-Metal as the singer, and Yui-Metal and Moa-Metal on scream and dance. Yui-Metal had to leave the band in 2018, so Su and Moa went on as a duo for a while. After a hiatus they came back and has been joined by a new 3rd member, Momo-Metal. Like I said, I recommend the PIA version of Monochrome cause that's the first concert where Momo-Metal was official member. You can see how happy they all are to get back on stage as a trio, you can see that Su-Metal and Moa-Metal, welcomes Momo-Metal in, and also the audience welcomes Momo-Metal. Also, probably tears, cause even if it is a happy song, it tends to make people emotional. They've also done a collaboration with Bring Me The Horizon with the song Kingslayer. It got made during the pandemic, but suddenly the girls appeared at a concert in Japan. Let's just say it got wild. The live video is very worth a look. Also, they have crucified Su-Metal four(?) times on stage. Actually they did it as the ending of the concert you just watched with the song Babymetal Death, and yeah, you should check it out. But remember it's #NotACult. 🦊🤘 I'm no expert, so I will stop now, but I'm sure some other member of The One/Foxhole will do a long comment with loads of recommendation and tell you about the lore. Oh yeah, there's lore, LOTS of lore. Also, I'm 52, went to my first concert with them last year. Happiest moment of my life for years, jumped around like a madman at times, cried a little in there, but had a FANTASTIC experience. The connection the band and the audience have is somewhat magic.
You ain't seen nothing yet. th-cam.com/video/zTEYUFgLveY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=waqhXe6NJxpo7jmB Or something a bit newer where they re all grown up with newest member Momo th-cam.com/video/XJZhy7fWNyY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IU2kRZia9E_LGFfW
Japanese writing is... Complicated. They have tree writing systems, Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic (symbols are directly related to sound, in their case, a symbol is a spillable made of a consonant+vowel, except the 5 basic vowels, which are one per symbol, and the consonant n, which has also a consonant-only symbol besides the n-syllabic symbols) syllabaries used contextually; then they have an ideographic (hyerogliphic like) catalog, derived from Chinese writing called Kanji. Kanjis are written in pairs, and each Kanji has 2 possible pronunciations (made of two syllables each, phonetically), making for 4 possible pronunciations per pair; with each pronunciation having a different meaning. And this is before accounting for homophones. Oh! And meaning is extremely context-depending, so some words have *radically* different meaning depending on where, when, why, how and who says them! Yeah... Japanese writing is... Difficult. Regarding their dresses, they go by a style called 'goth loli', popular among many Japanese girls. Oh! And they have been around for a looooooong time by now. You should check their history, it's really cool!
3 young aspiring Jpop Idols were recruited in to a sub-group of their Idol School, the "Heavy Music Club", by a very forward thinking talent manager and this was the result.
They were part of a J pop group from the dark music club. And their producers thought they could do metal songs. The band playing the music is the Kami Band, Kami means, Divine, god, etc. If you watch Rondo of Nightmare with Mischief of the Metal Gods intro, you'll see the band.
1:04 You are correct. The title is written in katakana characters, which are just sounds usually used to write foreign words. There are 46 katakana in total. These katakana are "GEE MEE CHO KO" or "Gimme choco," and abbreviation for chocolate. So yeah, it's technically English written in Japanese characters.
To answer your question about the symbols, there are three Japense writing systems: kanji, katakana, and hiragana. This is katakana, used for loan words from other languages. Each symbol (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) reads gi mi cho ko respectively to form gimi choko, which they translated into gimme chocolate in English :) But yes, check out some of their other (live) songs, you'll like them a lot more!
Probably worth mentioning Babymetal just performed with Bring me The Horizon with Kingslayer live in Vegas at the Sick New World Festival. This wasn't a one off either but a genuine collaboration over 3 years in the making. It's a brilliant performance of which has only been performed twice live. The other time was in Japan at Next_Fest last year. Bring me the Horizon has an official video of the performance in Japan on his TH-cam page. They also just recently dropped a new single & collaboration with Thai Rapper F-Hero and Thai Rock Band Bodyslam called Leave it all behind. Might be their best yet and we aren't even into summer yet lol. 🤘🦊
BABYMETAL started in 2010 and had a goal to create heavy metal music that young girls could relate to. Gimme Chocolate is about wanting to eat chocolate but worrying about their weight. In this video, the concert is celebrating the lead singer's, Su-metal, 16th birthday.🤘🦊🤘
I couldn't help but love them. I saw this video a while back and bought everything up and love it!!! My wife gets a little more kick out of it than myself. She is dying to go to one of their shows. Great reaction as per usual guys. GO BOSTON BRUINS!!! 🍻🤟👏
This show was filmed when Su-Metal, the main singer, had just turned 16. The other girls were 14. This song was early in the show and featured the "Babybones" who simulated playing the instruments. Later in the show, the actual band was introduced. They are known as the Kami Band and are made up of some of the best session musicians in Japan. You will see them dressed in white robes. This is one of their lighter songs. Please listen to the songs Papaya, Headbangerr and Road of Resistance.
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As a die hard Babymetal fan for nearly 10 years, I hope to see you do more Babymetal reactions. Gimme Chocolate is about a girl who likes chocolate but is worried about getting fat. In the end she decides to eat it anyway because she's worked hard and she feels she deserves it. Can't get more metal than that!
yes... you can... you can get a lot more metal than that, lol. :)
@@oktober-vh6glI guess you're right. Babymetal also has a song called Bubblegum Fever about a mint-flavored time machine. That's pretty metal too. :)
lol, yup. @@ForAnAngel 🤘
@@oktober-vh6glYea, like Death & Su-Metal being cruisifed at the alter was my WTF moment!! 🤘🦊🔥
@@BlazinNSoulSpeaking of which, they just released a new video of Babymetal Death.
FYI this was done in december 2013 the day after the lead singer turned 16. the other two were 14 years old. they were formed in 2010 before a lot of other Japanese bands you have mentioned. Babymetal is like the gateway to other Japanese bands. Babymetal opened the door to the west for Japanese bands to be accepted. the lyrics are talking about females wanting to stay slim but they love chocolate so it is kind of fighting between the loosing weight or eating what you like no matter what. the band was formed around the lead singer first. this song actually had a fake band because early in their career they couldn't afford a live band but later in this show the real band played the last five songs and they never used the fake band again. they are more a performance band than anything. they have done so many different genres and still good at all of them.
Saw them a few months ago in Dallas- they are still performing this, and still %100 awesome. Su is 26 now, and completely commands the stage (which she's been going since she was 13).
Baby metal was my "gateway" band. Around 7-8 years ago i found them. Today on Apple music i have 738 albums spanning 177 bands. (all Japanese) The Japanese in song title is "gimi choko! !"
The reason their vocals sound so different from normal heavy metal vocals is because their vocal style is more of an Idol style, which has a lot of emphasis on being cute and friendly and is usually a more Pop sound. Their shows are also much more Idol-style and so there's lots of dancing and moving around and absolutely huge crowds.
For more Babymetal, I would suggest Headbanger, or Road of Resistance. Always do live versions of this group if possible. The energy in the crowds is incredible.
I don't know why Baby Metal fans always recommend "Give Me Chocolate" as the first song to introduce them to new viewers. "Headbanger", "Road of Resistance" or "Pa Pa Ya", for instance, would be far more indicative of what they do. This song is from their early years when they were doing mostly lighter fare.
Pretty sure fans don't recommend it. Reactors just see that it has almost 200 million views and assume it's a good song for a first reaction.
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Yeah, that may be true, but I've also seen a lot of recommendations. This is a good song and all, but it's on the "baby" side more than their later stuff.
@@mikkj1It's a good song to cull the weak. If you like Gimme Choco you certainly will like most of the other babymetal songs:D
I agree with @Tyyppl. It's a good song to get people who aren't really into metal a kind of fun song.
Don't forget karate
Not just trend-setters. These 3 little girls shattered the wall of isolationism that the Japanese music industry was notorious for in 2014 with this viral video to provide the path for bands like Band-Maid, Nemophila, Hanabie and so on to gain international attention.
To see when Babymetal gained international validation, watch "Ijime, Dame, Zettaii" live at Sonisphere 2014.
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Babymetal has been on the fore front of the music industry pushing boundaries since they were 11, 11 and 12 in 2010 and started a new wave of Japanese artists getting more famous in the west. I would definitely recommend checking out more from them. Subbed for more.
ohhh boy,,get ready to have your mind blown on this journey
2018 was the greatest concert, but sadly it was just after Yui left.
Yes, it does say "gimmie chocolate" in Karakana.
Yes, the song is about chocolate, as in "give me chocolate, but I don't want to get chubby, but I LOVE chocolate"
Babymetal is an offshoot of the idol training school/group called Sakura Gakuin. Sakura Gakuin, often shortened to SG, had several different themed clubs/groups with Babymetal being the heavy metal club. Babymetal was built around Su-Metal (Suzuka Nakamoto), the tallest and oldest of the three girls you see here. The other two are Yuimetal (Yui Mizuno) and Moametal (Moa Kikuchi), fellow graduates of SG who were chosen for Babymetal because of their similar height, appearance, and voices. Their look, at least during these days, is called "Gothic Lolita," while BAND-MAID wears modified maid costumes based on maid cafes in Japan.
The "band" behind them are actors in suits. They were called Babybones and mimed to the music on a backing track; this is because Babymetal didn't have the biggest budget when they first started out. This is actually the last show that the Babybones appeared. After this show, they were permanently replaced by the Kami Band, a rotating lineup of highly-skilled musicians.
Babymetal has released studio four albums and a ton of live concerts. Yuimetal left the group in 2018 due to undisclosed health reasons and has seemingly fallen off the face of the planet. Other backups dancers filled in for Yui, the most prominent of which were a rotating trio called The Avengers. Two of the Avengers quietly drifted away from Babymetal and moved on to other projects, but the third, Momoko Okazaki, was made the third member of Babymetal in April 2023 and dubbed Momometal.
That's the nutshell version of Babymetal's history. They have a lot of diversity in their songs, so don't expect all of their songs to sound like this. Also, don't make up your mind about the group based on this one video. They have a lot to offer and are one of the most addictive groups I listen to.
Babymetal have gone from strength to strength and they are pretty unique in what they do and touch many genres. Su's voice is incredible. I recommend you check out some of their newer stuff like monochrome.
Pa Pa Ya! You want to see a mad crazy crowd? Wow.
You guys really need to watch BABYMETAL's latest videos, the live performances of Metali and Kingslayer with Bring Me The Horizon.
Agreed. Kingslayer is an awesome song.
OOOH! I haven't seen those yet. Got to see them live a few months ago though right after Metali came out.
disagree take a journey from beginning to current. it is worth it. Kingslayer live is great it will still be great when you get to it.
It’s definitely better to start from the front and then go down the rabbit hole. While us fans may love their new music, it’s just way harder to get into from an outsider’s point of view.
I now have them as a sound in my car - love it!! By the way I am 74 years young !!!!
😂amazing comment 🦊🤘
Yay! I am 75 and I was running around in the circle pit, twirling a towel @ Makuhari last January!
I'm just a youngin' at 52 and have been a BABYMETAL fan since 2015/2016
Nice reaction :) This song is around 10 years old and is about a teenage girl who loves chocolate but is afraid of gaining weight. This was my first introduction to BabyMetal and at first I wasn't sold on it either. But then a couple of days later I realized I had the lead singers voice still stuck in my head and I felt bad about judging a band on just one song, so I tried them again. I can't remember if it was the Megitsune studio mv or Headbanger live at the legend of 97 (The year Su, the lead singer, was born. She's 26 now) concert but I was blown away. I'm a huge fan now. This is an extraordinary band with 4 studio albums (The latest came out last year) and a ton of live material. I strongly urge you not to give up on them!
It was exactly this for me, too. Heard this song, and was kind like, meh. Then, I heard it a second time, and heard so many things I didn’t catch the first time. They r THE reason I’m such a huge metal head now
I was lucky enough to see them live in Vegas with Dethklok. It was an amazing show.
1:14 Japanese Kana characters are syllabic, meaning that most characters are what would be a consonant and a vowel. There are characters for the English equivalents of vowels and one character for the English equivalent of "n."
This video was shot the day after the lead singer's (Su-Metal) 16th birthday. The other two girls (current member Moametal and past member Yuimetal) were 14 1/2.
The opening lyrics basically translate to da da da da da...
Babymetal just makes me smile ear to ear. The girls are so adorable, the instrumentals are hard as hell, the singing is super animated style, the choreography is ridiculous.
This is like their happy and playful song, not to take seriously, just to have a good time, believe me, this band here has absolute bangers. Hope you all guys don't stop listening to them.
BabyMetal will always hold a special spot for me because the algorithm led me from them to Band Maid. In fact, it was “Gimme chocolate!!” as my intro.
I had never heard or imagined the combination of fast and heavy metal with Jpop vocals. It made me smile. Not my thing, but I immediately knew they deserved a big audience. Very creative and unique.
Babymetal, to me, is heavy metal theater. As a proper band of musicians, I went for the Band Maid route. But eternally grateful to Babymetal for opening up the Japanese rock scene for me
Very good reaction! But now you should see how they are now. I suggest Monochrome live at Pia Arena in 2023.
Welcome to the Foxhole and BabyMetal journey 🦊🤘🔥
I'm always glad to see more reactors getting into this amazing group. They were rocking out the whole World Tour 2023 and everyone were having a blast with the setlist, the new songs from latest album and the classic hits, especially GC! either you hate or love it, is a song with crazy amount of views and they don't wanna leave behind in any of their setlist.
This song is having 10 Years anniversary and recently they released a GC! Challenge clip on social network, a lot of fans are having so much fun.
Dance choreography and metal had never been seen before and they somehow managed to make it works creating their unique own genre called kawaii-metal, mixing Jpop (not Kpop) and heavy metal along with many more sub genres and rhythms, you'll have so much fun going through this journey.
This isn't actually live sound, is studio album version over a live performance which was partially live only on the vocals and choreography with backing track sound. They have their own band called Kami Band introduced later on that same show and after that Kami Band become regular at live performance but they're not official members, only these trio are the front women.
BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock group called Sakura Gakuin, they had 11 and 12 years old when started this and become independent after 2013, they created their own genre called kawaii-metal (kawaii means cute) mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms. Their name is a reference to a new genre and not related to their ages or "baby" faces, is a pun intended play words with "heavy-metal" which sounds similar to "baby-metal".
They are:
*SuMetal* lead vocalist, now 26.
*MoaMetal* scream and dance, now 24.
*YuiMetal* scream and dance, former member since 2018.
*MomoMetal* scream and dance, she's 20 and is the new official member since April 1st recently.
None of them are related.
After 2018 you'll see backup dancers performing along with them but none of them are official members, they don't sing, only dance, but that status change recently like i said.
This was in December 2013 at SuMetal 16th Birthday, the other girls had 14 yo and there was a big party you have seen nothing yet, wait for _"Babymetal Death"._
The backing band here are called "baby-bones", they don't actually play they're just mimicking air playing instrument, later on this same concert and after 2014 you'll see the girls performing with a real band called the Kami Band, more of them later.
Some recommendations for next songs like:
- _"Road Of Resistance"_ live in Japan official.
- _Megitsune_ official MV.
- _Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!_ live at this same live performance Legend 1997 in Makuhari Messe Japan when SuMetal is celebrating her birthday becoming a metal goddess queen and leaving her idol jpop form (you can find one at Gans Tomas channel under "Head Bangya" title).
You have more than 60 songs to discover. Amuse their label is very hard to deal so if you want to avoid copyright blocked you have "Babymetal Reactor Resource" channel you'll get full original clips of their best live performance with watermarked logo safe to react, look for "Future Plans" vid, follow instructions and you'll get all of them, upload the one with the logo for us and you can watch without it, don't worry for us we already saw all of them.
I'm gonna try to leave in my next comment where to get safe clips to react if YT allows me to do it.
See you next time! 🦊🤘🍫
Here's the list of live performance clips usually safe to reacts without any filters so you won't need to rely on live compilations, there might be some exceptions:
- Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!! live at Legend 1997, SuMetal 16th Birthday in 2013, they got MV of this and is fun, but live is a blast.
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- Akatsuki, live at Budokan 2014, this is a SuMetal solo.
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- Megitsune, official MV is my first recommendation but is usually blocked if you don't put filters, so if you want live and safe to react, check it out Budokan 2014.
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- Akatsuki Unfinished Version, SuMetal solo again but with only a piano behind special performance at Legend 1997.
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- Babymetal Death, live at Legend 1997, this is the big finale, you're gonna blow your mind with this one.
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- Catch Me If You Can with Kami Band intro live at Budokan 2014.
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- Ijime, Dame, Zettai live at Sonisphere Festival 2014, sometimes the official live MV isn't so friendly so you know what to do.
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- Rondo Of Nightmare, with Mischiefs Of Metal Gods Intro live at Budokan 2014, another SuMetal solo but way different than usual happy songs.
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- Doki Doki Morning, official MV, their very first song and MV full of kawaiiness, usually is safe to react so try it, if you want a live performance, this is the first proshot version with the Kami Band live at Legend 1999 (YuiMetal and MoaMetal 14th birthday).
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- Uki Uki Midnight, this one is a follow up to Doki Doki Morning but way different sound, this is the PV, is super fun but the sound isn't so great but at least is live.
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If you want better sound with the Kami Band, then live at Budokan 2014 it is.
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- Onedari Daisakusen, live at Legend 1997, this is a Black Babymetal song, is a subgroup with only YuiMetal and MoaMetal.
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- Iine! again official MV hits way better but if you want live, here live at Budokan 2014.
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- Karate live at Download Festival 2016, "kitsune6001" got this with a short interview intro.
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- Road Of Resistance live in Japan official, this one is easily to find but be careful with the blocked by putting some filters just in case.
- Kimi To Anime Ga Mitai - Answer For Animation With You, live at Budokan 2014, not sure if it's still safe, so try some filters, if is audio blocked try to mute or just cut the parts.
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Here's a song you can find at Babymetal Reactor Resource (BMRR), a helpful place to get watermarked logo clips of the original live version to curve the annoying algo.
- GJ! live at Wembley Arena 2016, another Black Babymetal song.
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This is BMRR short vid to follow instructions and get the spreadsheet with the full list.
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And here's a BM guide (the long one).
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There's a more recent beginners guide at "Briaghh" called "So... What is BabyMetal?" is more short and with some fair update until this year unlike the other one.
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Awesome, thank you!
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@@barsandbarbells2022 They just release a collab with Electric Call Boy. You should really check that out.
BABYMETAL are Godzilla of the Japanese metal/rock industry 🦊🤘
They are also really respected within the Metal community. "Kingslayer" with Bring Me The Horizon, they performed live with Rob Halford of Judas Priest, even made a cameo on Corey Taylor from Slipknot's "CMFT Must be Stopped" video
japanese people really hate godzilla btw
@@apatheisticbastard Real Japanese people, or just the ones who get stepped on by Godzilla in the movies?
@@apatheisticbastard I made that comparison because like Godzilla they've crushed every obstacle in their path 🦊🤘
Zilla God.
BABYMETAL have been the leaders of the female J-metal genre for more than a decade,and they're still going strong to this day. They're now in their mid 20's and one of top metal acts in the world. You should check out their recent music including collaborations with Tom Morello and Bring Me The Horizon 🦊🤘
It feels so weird to think of Sumetal being 26 now. I feel old.
Exactly. And not just leaders of the J-metal genre, but also the creators of the Kawaii metal done today. Without Babymetal, there are not other J-metal or Kawaii metal bands
Those girls work hard!!!!! I love it :)
Its hard not to enjoy them, even if it isn't your type of music.
The came from an Idol School named Sakura Gakuin and were around 17 (Suzuka - Main Vocals) and 15 (Yui & Moa - Back Vocals) at this point
I saw those smiles. That's what BabyMetal is all about.
Your's is a very common first reaction, especially to "Gimme Chocolate", which is their most polorizing song. I always say this song is the narrowest gate into the vast garden that is BABYMETAL.
You should try one of their newer songs, perhaps MONOCHROME, to see another side of the newer, more mature BABYMETAL.
Kitsune dao!
"The narrowest path is always the holiest" 🦊🤘
In my case, the very first song I stumbled across was "The Song of Four", and that does not have Su-metal... I was totally puzzled but the band kept me listening. I must say, those that came across Gimme Chocolate" are lucky. haha
@@htusda1 mine was headbanger
@@htusda1it’s weird how with out Su-metal they are called Black Babymetal..
Just wait until they find out about Metalverse and their new song..lol
So stoked. I could have sworn yall have reacted to Babymetal before. I've watched quite a few of yalls reactions . Dig the vibe. Please do more Babymetal
Want odd matches - do Ghost Mary on a Cross live in Tampa, these guys look like a Norwegian Black Metal band but they Arena Rock mixed with Metal and Pop, and they won the Grammy's for best Metal song several years back.
So, BABYMETAL is innovative in a number of ways and one of the most interesting things to happen in metal in the last decade or so (they have been going strong since 2010). They invented their own metal sub-genre, a mixture of J-Pop elements with metal elements called Kawaii Metal (meaning "cute" metal). They were the first to combine J-Pop style choreography with metal musicality. Their band structure is also unique. They are backed by top-tier metal musicians called the Kami Band, which consists of Japanese session players, whose members sometimes rotate in and out. At this point, their are actually two Kami Bands - the original Japanese Kami Band, and also the Western Kami Band, which is made up entirely of American musicians. "BABYMETAL" is technically just the three vocalists by the way.
As with many Japanese bands, they do incorporate a lot of English in a number of their songs. They also have quite a few songs sung entirely in English - "Believing" being the most recent example of this from their most recent album (their 4th full length album) titled "The Other One."
At this point and upon releasing their fourth album, musically, they have begun to move away from the cuter elements of the past and have become more and more "mature" metal band. Like you, a lot of people might not consider their older stuff to be something that they would listen to on the regular, but their more recent stuff I think many people would consider adding to their metal playlists, so you should check out their more recent stuff. I'm sure some other commenters here will make some further recommendations in any case.
Anyway, I recommend checking more of them out. They have a tendency to really grow on most everyone, as they are ultimately just a kick ass band doing something no one else does, and they are legendary as being one of the best live performing musical acts in the world today.
well, they don't look "like" BandMaid it is the other way around if at all. BM started in 2010
The group don't have a fixed band, hence the band is makeup and/or wearing masks. As I understand it, the band is not even traveling with them on tours but instead they recruit locals however, I not too sure about that fact. I just know that if you look closely, the different musicians very between different concerts. It is all about the group of girls. The lead singer is the same but also the dancers can sometimes vary but not so often.
Thank you very much for your reaction to Babymetal at over 180 million views gimme chocolate has been many people's jumping off point or introduction to Babymetal over the years going all the way back to when this video was released in 2014 and went viral but now in 2024 they are a lot more mature in their mid-20s with their newest member at 20 years old The album released last year The other one has a lot more mature sound please check out Babymetal Monochrome Babymetal begins live at PIA arena clear night also Metal kingdom Babymetal begins Live at PIA arena Claire night and their song Divine attack also from Babymetal begins at PIA arena Claire night All our epic performances
Finally saw them live last year. Best thing ever.
You both were reminded of Electric Callboy when you first listened to Babymetal, thus I would love to see you both react to the very newly released collaboration song by Babymetal x Electric Callboy - Ratatata. 😊
Their costumes are part armor, it a kawaii and anime warrior look.
BABYMETAL equals fun. They mix every genre you can think of with metal and Jpop and give you a one of a kind experience you won't find anywhere else. They are more of a performance group than they are a band. Their early songs, like this one, are silly and fun and aimed more at young girls. Their second album is harder and with more adult themes. Their third album is experimental with world and ethnic music, mixing everything from Celtic to Indian to Rap and everything in between. Their fourth album is a concept album and is pure progressive metal at it's core. No two songs are alike. Don't judge on just this song. Please!
yes , as suggested below Road of Resistance a must see , with real band, also Headbanger live, and their first surprise appearance on mainstage of Sonisphere Festival. btw they started when they were 13-11yo age bracket. below are best versions of above songs to start with , in my opinion .
th-cam.com/video/YjjWZpf_jSs/w-d-xo.html Headbanger (1997 refers to singers birth date)
th-cam.com/video/zTEYUFgLveY/w-d-xo.html Road of Resistance live
th-cam.com/video/Ro-_cbfdrYE/w-d-xo.html No More Bullying
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Babymetal made heavy metal fun again. I've been a fan since 2012. Welcome to the Foxhole!
Babymetal is Japan's #1 International Group with #1 Albums in the USA on Billboards "Top Rock Album" chart and the "UK Rock" chart!! They have been turning the Metal World on its Ear for more than a Decade now!!
Ages in this video...Suzuka just turned 16 the day before this show and Yui and Moa were both 14.
This show in Dec. 2013 was the last time(*) that "Babybones" played with Babymetal. Babybones was a "Fake" band that accompanied Babymetal as they sang and danced to a "Backing Track"...as Babymetal could not always afford a Live Band early on in their career.
The "Kami Band" is Babymetal's "Real" Live Band that had played Encore's for shows since 2012 but became the Full Time Band starting with the Budokan shows in March of 2014,
More Babymetal Always!!
Put your Kiutsune UP!! Po!
*(I know about the other time they brought them out but it was a one-off so don't come at me)
Epic ❤❤❤
Excellent first reaction, you clearly got the main gist of what they are doing and what makes them so different and unique ... I hope you will react to more BABYMETAL, you will not find another song quite like this, they will surprise you every time - and you will very likely find more than a few of their songs that you will happily listen to and add to your various play lists.
You might be ready for Die Antwoord. Fatty Boom Boom was a fun starting point.
Hell yeah!!!!!!
Off stage it must have taken hours of practice to become this in sync with each other.
The girls had already been performing with the parent idol group Sakura Gakuin for years and were already consummate professional performers before Babymetal's first headlining concert. Yes, they practiced alot, but not as much as we think they do because they were already doing synchronized choreo with Sakura Gakuin. Many of them can learn the entire choreo in an hour, and just practice from there. The girls of Sakura Gakuin were among the most talented girls at Amuse, hence they were selected to be in Sakura Gakuin.
@@Codametal i appreciate this comment ( i acknowledge your knowledge)
They are kind of set up like some rap groups. You've got the Kami band behind them, and Suzuka "Su-Metal" Nakamoto is the leader, and Moa "Moa-Metal" Kikuchi & Yui "Yui-Metal" Mizuno are her "hype girls".
The Kami band is amazing, if you watch the live video of Rondo of Nightmare they perform a face-melting instrumental called "Mischief of Gods" with all four members performing extended solos (yes, including BOH on the 6-string bass) to lead into the song.
You need to check out Ratatatat by Baby Metal & Electric Callboy! 😁
I just love that it’s metal.. but y’know, cute.. it’s Babymetal 😂 works perfectly!
Never in my life....I LOVE IT!
They have a lot of very good songs and have toured the world over in the last decade. And the Kami band rocks \m/
in 2023, they performed 94 live shows in 25 countries! I was at 3 of them: Japan, US, Spain.
I moved into my flat with this on Kerrang Radio think it was around 2015 i was blown away by how catchy it was it really brings back good memories.
Welcome & Thanks from Japan 有難う💛。 BABYMETAL is the best musical phenomenon I have ever experienced in my 68-year-long life. (Before BM, I was a stubborn jazz / funk lover) We say "Japan is the country obsessed by Rock Music". The history is very long and the obsession started in 1966 when Beatles visited Japan and held 5 concerts at Budokan. Speaking of hard rock / heavy metal music, a number of bands started to come to Japan since as early as 1970s : Led Zeppelin / Grand Funk Railroad (1971), Deep Purple (1972), Queen (1975), Kiss (1977), Cheap Trick / Van Halen / Scorpions (1978), Judas Priest (1978/79) and so on. Now, any type of rock can be enjoyed here, especially by many all-female or women-fronted bands. They are daughters of American / European rock, for sure. (Many are grand-daughters in terms of age.)
Uh-oh, we also say "Japan is the country obsessed by Jazz". It had started earlier than rock 😄
They just made a song with electric callboy
9:40 So serendipitous that you said they reminded you of Electric Callboy--Babymetal just did a collab with them titled "RATATATA"--I highly recommend you checking it out if you haven't already.
Another favorite group. Su Metal's voice is awesome. They have a metal band playing.
This was more or less a 2 part concert. The band here isn't really playing. They were a mime band but the live Kami Band was past the halfway mark Calling them uber musicians is an utter understatement. You can see them in the Rondo of Nightmare live, which is a straight up heavy metal song. They do their own instrumental piece of music before the song begins. Gimme Chocolate was one of their more silly songs, if you will. Road of Resistance Live from Japan will put all doubts to rest whether they are a heavy metal band or not. There are other more recent versions but that is the GOAT of all of their lives.
Self proclaimed “metal dance unit” formed around main singer Su’s voice, with the other two chosen for matching pixie-ish-ness. Brought together by a metal-loving kids’ show producer when they were already veterans of stadium shows at ages 11 to (almost) 13, think summer before 6th grade.
This was Su’s 16th birthday extravaganza (other two 18months younger), 3years together and although being BabyMetal meant they had started over playing cafes & such, they had made it back to arenas. Those first three years they danced and sang to a DJ (with actors miming instruments), this roughly marks their transition to using live musicians (now that they could afford the best), which helped propel them to international stardom. Great story, groundbreaking entertainment ‼️🤘🎸💃😎
And yes, Japanese use a native phonic alphabet, as well as all Chinese characters (but with Japanese pronunciations), plus the Latin/Roman/Romance (English) alphabet, plus a second unique Japanese alphabet that incorporates foreign-to-their-phonetic-alphabet sounds (as with this title, Gimme Chocolate). It’s actually fairly easy to pronounce and hear (simple, in ways that Spanish is simpler than English), but ya, the written language is tough
First time on your channel, awesome reaction to this video. And funny you mentioned Electric callboy, not sure if you've heard but Babymetal and Electric callboy just released a collab, named Ratatata. Definitely a good video.
👊🏽⚡️🦊🤘🏾 Definitely need to check out a newer song. Not as cutesy…more meat on the bone. I recommend their song, “ Believing”.
Subscribed. 👍👍👍 BABYMETAL is timeless. Joy/Happiness never goes out of style. 🦊 🖖 ❤
That's funny, just a few hours ago I had never heard of your channel but I just saw a reaction of yours pop up in my TH-cam recommendations this morning. It was your reaction to 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot. While I was watching that I was thinking about how I'd like to see you guys react to Babymetal. Well, here you are. 😅
You will get plenty of info on who Babymetal is and what the song is all about but I will just say this. Babymetal is much much more than just this song. Every song they do is different and every song is like a new adventure. For a nice contrast to Gimme Chocolate, I would recommend a newer song like 'Monochrome'. It is a thing of beauty. Please watch the live performance from PIA arena.
They want chocolate, but don't want to become fat from eating too much.
Do Headbanger Live Legend of 1997. That has some impressive crowd participation.
All their songs are positive especially for young women.
With all the running around they do at the performances, only way they'd get any extra weight is if they ate 10 pounds daily.
After a while, when something like this pops up from japan, you just shrug and go "japan"
Here are some fun facts about this song and the group
1. Gimme Chocolate was named one of the most important metal songs of the last 10 years
2. Dragon Force performed this song with BabyMetal
3. The Red Hot Chili Pepper performed this song with them.
4. They are buds with Metallica and Slipknot
5. They had a cameo in Corey Taylor's video
6. They performed the Judas Priest classics Pain Killer and Breaking the Law with Rob Halford of Judas Priest
7. They are the only Asian group to ever hit #1 on Billboards Top Rock chart.
8. BabyMetal and Black Pink are the only albums by girl groups in history to enter the Top 10 of Billboard’s World Albums Year End Chart.
9. In a recent interview Corey Taylor of Slipknot was asked who he listened to at home and he said "BabyMetal"
10. In 2015 Vogue Magazine Japan named them Women of The Year.
As for what to watch next:
1. Head Banger - Legend of 1997 - your will have to change your entire concept of audience reaction. Your headphones will fly off your head.
2. Road of Resistance Live in Japan - Generally considered one of the finest recordings of a live performance ever by anyone.
3. Pa Pa Ya feat. F. Hero
When Metallica saw them live they said they were astonished by their awesomeness
BABY METAL 🔥🤘🦊🤘🔥
More babymetal please 😂
Gimmie chocolate has that effect, not their best song, not even close, jaw dropping for sure tho...but definitely check out these ....
1. Megitsune music video (probably their best older song)
2. BMTH Kingslayer ft BabyMetal (favorite song all time)
3. Rondo of Nightmare with Mischiefs of God intro Budokan live (if you love the Kami band behind the girls this is the one to check for sure, front and center and they show out 🔥)
4. Monochrome live (new album)
5. Road of Resistance live in Japan (probably their most iconic live show)
6. Pa Pa ya live
And many many more
Wonderful. Please watch Headbanger. Same concert.
i saw them last year at the PNE in Vancouver BC Canada 🤘😎
yea metalpocalypse-i saw queens of the stones age the same night or i would ve def been there
I love BABYMETAL
LIVE concerts are awesome !
seen them live and will see them live again
been a fan for almost 10 years
also seen BAND-MAID , NEMOPHILA , OKTOBOKE BEAVER , HANABIE all live
love rock from Japan
"What did we just witness?" Sure as heck not what you showed in your thumbnail! 😂
You just don't know. A BabyMetal concert is the most fun thing going!
Yui, the cutest 🍅in the world! We will never forget you, little 🦊
Oh, man! You have started on a journey that I really hope you will continue. It's scientifically proven that listening to Babymetal makes your life much better. 🦊🤘
As you said, they are very young in this video. You should definitely listen to some of their later songs also. I would recommend Monochrome, both the live version from PIA Arena and the acoustic version from F1rst Take. And you will never stop getting surprised what their music will sounds like. It's most often heavy AF, but they are not afraid of experimenting.
The girls in this video was Su-Metal as the singer, and Yui-Metal and Moa-Metal on scream and dance. Yui-Metal had to leave the band in 2018, so Su and Moa went on as a duo for a while. After a hiatus they came back and has been joined by a new 3rd member, Momo-Metal. Like I said, I recommend the PIA version of Monochrome cause that's the first concert where Momo-Metal was official member. You can see how happy they all are to get back on stage as a trio, you can see that Su-Metal and Moa-Metal, welcomes Momo-Metal in, and also the audience welcomes Momo-Metal. Also, probably tears, cause even if it is a happy song, it tends to make people emotional.
They've also done a collaboration with Bring Me The Horizon with the song Kingslayer. It got made during the pandemic, but suddenly the girls appeared at a concert in Japan. Let's just say it got wild. The live video is very worth a look.
Also, they have crucified Su-Metal four(?) times on stage. Actually they did it as the ending of the concert you just watched with the song Babymetal Death, and yeah, you should check it out. But remember it's #NotACult. 🦊🤘
I'm no expert, so I will stop now, but I'm sure some other member of The One/Foxhole will do a long comment with loads of recommendation and tell you about the lore. Oh yeah, there's lore, LOTS of lore.
Also, I'm 52, went to my first concert with them last year. Happiest moment of my life for years, jumped around like a madman at times, cried a little in there, but had a FANTASTIC experience. The connection the band and the audience have is somewhat magic.
Start your journey to universe Babymetal!! enjoy, please react Akatsuki!! 🤟🤟⚡⚡🎸🎸
Nice reaction and welcome to BABYMETAL's Fox Hole!
You have literature for days in the comments so, I just wanted to say: expect the unexpected. 😁
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This is best described at kawaii metal or "cute" metal. A mix of J-pop and heavy metal. Three girls singing and dancing using a back up Kami band.
In this video it's not Kamiband backing them up. It's the babybones.
@@TyypplThanks. Babybones, that's so cute.
That's just blown my mind....it's unbelievable
You ain't seen nothing yet. th-cam.com/video/zTEYUFgLveY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=waqhXe6NJxpo7jmB Or something a bit newer where they re all grown up with newest member Momo th-cam.com/video/XJZhy7fWNyY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IU2kRZia9E_LGFfW
Nothing like them!!!! One of the greatest bands ever!!!
Um no I can name 100 bands greater than this but they are good
@@christopherbluhm2523 I can name 100 worse..what is your point.
Well I see your point thier but I don't understand the hype yet
@@christopherbluhm2523 Just watch all their LIVE videos
Japanese writing is... Complicated. They have tree writing systems, Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic (symbols are directly related to sound, in their case, a symbol is a spillable made of a consonant+vowel, except the 5 basic vowels, which are one per symbol, and the consonant n, which has also a consonant-only symbol besides the n-syllabic symbols) syllabaries used contextually; then they have an ideographic (hyerogliphic like) catalog, derived from Chinese writing called Kanji. Kanjis are written in pairs, and each Kanji has 2 possible pronunciations (made of two syllables each, phonetically), making for 4 possible pronunciations per pair; with each pronunciation having a different meaning. And this is before accounting for homophones. Oh! And meaning is extremely context-depending, so some words have *radically* different meaning depending on where, when, why, how and who says them!
Yeah... Japanese writing is... Difficult.
Regarding their dresses, they go by a style called 'goth loli', popular among many Japanese girls.
Oh! And they have been around for a looooooong time by now. You should check their history, it's really cool!
It is important to check out Headbanger Live or Road to Resistance, to get a very intense sense of Babymetal
3 young aspiring Jpop Idols were recruited in to a sub-group of their Idol School, the "Heavy Music Club", by a very forward thinking talent manager and this was the result.
My favorite Babymetal song is iine. It's strange, but a fun song to listen to.
They were part of a J pop group from the dark music club. And their producers thought they could do metal songs. The band playing the music is the Kami Band, Kami means, Divine, god, etc. If you watch Rondo of Nightmare with Mischief of the Metal Gods intro, you'll see the band.
Yes.
small correction. It was "heavy music club" not "dark music club"
@@Tyyppl Thks, trying to think back almost a decade.
@@gerardcote8391Yeah remembering all the stuff related to babymetal is pretty impossible task:D
1:04 You are correct. The title is written in katakana characters, which are just sounds usually used to write foreign words. There are 46 katakana in total.
These katakana are "GEE MEE CHO KO" or "Gimme choco," and abbreviation for chocolate. So yeah, it's technically English written in Japanese characters.
Aside from all the other great babymetal suggestions, check out Karate!
To answer your question about the symbols, there are three Japense writing systems: kanji, katakana, and hiragana. This is katakana, used for loan words from other languages. Each symbol (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) reads gi mi cho ko respectively to form gimi choko, which they translated into gimme chocolate in English :)
But yes, check out some of their other (live) songs, you'll like them a lot more!
Probably worth mentioning Babymetal just performed with Bring me The Horizon with Kingslayer live in Vegas at the Sick New World Festival. This wasn't a one off either but a genuine collaboration over 3 years in the making.
It's a brilliant performance of which has only been performed twice live. The other time was in Japan at Next_Fest last year. Bring me the Horizon has an official video of the performance in Japan on his TH-cam page.
They also just recently dropped a new single & collaboration with Thai Rapper F-Hero and Thai Rock Band Bodyslam called Leave it all behind. Might be their best yet and we aren't even into summer yet lol. 🤘🦊
1 hour. 1200 views. 👍👍
BABYMETAL is happiness.
🎶🦊👁️👁️🦊🎶
Babymetal is a world in itself. Every song is different.
BABYMETAL started in 2010 and had a goal to create heavy metal music that young girls could relate to. Gimme Chocolate is about wanting to eat chocolate but worrying about their weight. In this video, the concert is celebrating the lead singer's, Su-metal, 16th birthday.🤘🦊🤘
If you enjoyed Baby Metal you should definitely check out LadyBaby-Nippon Manju. It always puts a smile on my face.
Babymetal is fun and endless energy
Dont judge them by one song .they are metal to the core. This was a hello watch this song.for you i would recommend karate. 🤘😎🤘
Yes they are indeed METAL. However, instead of shouting anger, it is HAPPY METAL that can cheer people up and make them smile😁
They didn't know about metal until they did their first metal song Sue- metal was I believe 14 and Mo-metal and Yui-metal were 12
Don't stop now. No two songs are alike.
I couldn't help but love them. I saw this video a while back and bought everything up and love it!!! My wife gets a little more kick out of it than myself. She is dying to go to one of their shows. Great reaction as per usual guys. GO BOSTON BRUINS!!! 🍻🤟👏
This show was filmed when Su-Metal, the main singer, had just turned 16. The other girls were 14. This song was early in the show and featured the "Babybones" who simulated playing the instruments. Later in the show, the actual band was introduced. They are known as the Kami Band and are made up of some of the best session musicians in Japan. You will see them dressed in white robes.
This is one of their lighter songs. Please listen to the songs Papaya, Headbangerr and Road of Resistance.