Mayu is just incredible. I prefer listening to her singing rather than screaming just because her voice is that damn good. As you mentioned, Saki and Hazuki work so well together. ✌
This song is a big swing at the western markets. I know we would all love an extended US tour, but Tamu's children are both around 0-1.5 year olds. That makes for some very special logistic issues. That puts a twist on Baby Metal.
In only a little over 2 years, this band has accomplished so much, with the duel guitar attack, a ruthless rhythm section that rival's much older band's, and of course the complete uniqueness of Mayu's vocals have propelled this band into the forefront of heavy music today, we won't be waiting 10 years before we see them in larger venues, it will come quickly for these gal's, maybe even by 2023.
Just epic sound and looks too! They will be a force to reckon with for a long time! Haraguchi-san slaying it too (so often overlooked as of course surrounded by such immense musicianship)!
Nemophila is projected to achieve its true potential, topping most of other Japanese bands in a very short time. In addition to their skills in playing instrument and compose brilliant songs, each of the member also has such a beautiful and humble personality. Combination of all those will bring the band to the new height internationally. Nemophila really remind me how much I love heavy metal and trash metal music in the 80s-mid90s, as if I just met my 'old flame' that I left in the 90s without a proper closure.
Thank you for reacting to Nemophila's new song immediately. Great songs and playing techniques as usual! But something is missing ⁉︎ What is it?🤔 hook? (Is it because I listened to Band-Maid too much?😅) Still i like this song!🤘
Nemophila is second to Band-Maid for me. I was worried(?) that this song wouldn't be as good as their album, but wow! I was pleasantly surprised. Great riff, Mayu's vocals are so strong, great solos. It is your (a)typical banging rock song. These ladies are awesome and on my list to see them live one day. Purchased the concert blu-ray and can't wait to watch it. I am so looking forward to their next album! Thanks again Ryan!
Nemophila is one of those rare bands, alongside with Coldrain, that i can enjoy despite the screaming vocals. Mayu is such an unique singer, she can do really wild stuff with her voice Great new song!, heavy and powerful, but softer when it needs to
Nemophila 🤟 always enjoy the moment with the music.... Oh dmmmmm Mayu..... Always awesome with those screams....... nevertheless....i love her clean voice tooooo...
When this came up on Spotify last night along with like 4 or 5 others stellar singles, ep’s, and albums, I had to stop and play thins on repeat for a while. It’s a great song! They just keep getting better.
Always love your reactions. You and your Gaijin bros. You have nice tidbits of things, I always learn something from. I love this band, the way they have me rocking out, and then wiping tears away in softer songs. Nemophila, Band Maid and Lovebites have epic and wonderful music.
What no unibrow jokes (if you are in Ryan's discord you would understand)? This song is killer and gets better with each listen, I totally woke up with it stuck in my head lol
I agree with you on the Revive Disc of Nemophila - I like that a lot. I'm not a big 'Cookie Monster' scream fan. {A term my son's teacher used to describe that type of music my son liked. Stuck} However, I like it when it is used for an effect. Sorry about dragging on. In short, I like their creativity and sound, except for the extended screams. However, thanks as always, Ryan. I appreciate your thoughts.
MAYUs' vocals are so damn good...all her vocal modes are fire. Some noted, and think they are right, that this track is aimed squarely at the Western market at large. Looking forward to having my face shredded off even more from these ladies in the next couple tracks that are inbound. 🌸✨🌠
Mayu's scream reminds me of Cradle of Filth from back in the day, only so much better. Her clean voice is totally unique and probably my favorite metal vocals.
That transition from first chorus to second verse on Mayu singing "is in my heart" ... it's just so fucking good. This band has overcome my dislike of scream vocals.
@@GaryHolloway-810 Morning Gary! It’s a simplistic comparison to be sure, obviously both can play anything they want. It’s just that I’ve noticed a trend where , in NEMOPHILA, Hazuki usually solos first with something bendy, hammered and tapped versus Saki’s straight up shred fest. In the end, they always blaze away in unison. With those 2, it’s always a Masterclass in Guitar Artistry.😄💪🏻🤘🏻
@@bigbrutalbassbeer410 Hey i couldn't say i'd noticed that but you're right. Where as Midori & Miyako from Lovebites tend to play back & forth virtuoso pieces :)
Great reaction and yes I love this song to. Your good buddy Wave Potter did a cool review of this as well. Its weird but each time I listen to it something new sticks out for me that I like. Its a very Nemophila style song which I've heard Mayu say is important to them when she described REVIVE. I guess she wants the band to stamp their own identity early on with new Japanese metal and a variety of styles all mixed together with positive lyrics.
Normally I can figure out things in music. But Saki did something at the beginning of her section of the solo I can't figure out. That was very unique. Looks like had her right hand doing something with the whammy bar, then brought her left close to the first pick up. WTF was that she did?
Ryan, can I get you to react to a Band Maid song from their Maid in Japan album. It is the ninth track (a bonus track). The track is titled in Japanese only. But I call it "Tell Me Why", which is a predominate lyric in the song. The music has a 70's jazzy, Steely Dan vibe. I swear it has become an earworm that has stuck with me for a week.
There are Japanese bands i like, bands i love, & one i adore above all others. Then there's Nemophila who are rising fast in my affections. Heck i'm open to some music polygamy.😏
@@waterwalker9600 I agree, W.W. Less animosity than between other bands too, & man Nemophila's subs are rising fast. Hmm🤔 Maybe i should ask them to do a song called "Rising Fast" :)
Hola Mr Ryan no es mi favorita canción pero aprobado gran banda pueden lanzar cualquier tema alucinante hay mucho talento en la banda Nemophila saludos amigo y hasta pronto 😎👌
Oh wow, not that I haven't seen this video before, as I saw it when it first came out on their channel, but as I was listening to this with you and drinking a hot tea, I got chills when the Hasuki/Saki solo(s) came up. I didn't think I'd like this song as much as I do. Maybe a bit too much scream on the initial listen, but after a couple times it doesn't even register over what the rest of the band is doing and the clean vocals shining through. Her accent is quite thick though. With a good 90% of this song in English, unless you've got the lyrics in front of you, you might not catch it all. I think she does great with the language switching, especially being a native Japanese speaker. English is really a mess of a language. lol The Japanese language isn't all roses either though. There are Four writing systems/alphabets they use... WTF
The song is slowly growing on me but will never be my Nemophila favorite. I'm afraid they start to use a "formula" , and so soon in their career it worries me a bit. But I enjoy the song anyway, and Saki's use of the kill switch in the beginning of her solo is one of the best use of this trick I've heard in a long time!
Yes, I find this very "core" style fairly uninteresting. Chuggy main riff, screamed verse, clean chorus, repeat * 2, bit of a breakdown, trade 4 or 8 bar solos with a little unison section at the end, low dynamic version of chorus, high dynamic version of chorus, riff to end. It's all great don't get me wrong but I like a bit of song-writing variety. It's good for sure but not something that's going to get me coming back over and over. It's a bit too much like what I consider to be by far their least interesting song which is Dissension. I LOVE Raitei though and I thought Revive was good as well even if following "the formula" quite closely.
Thank you for excellent reaction. Please try "Onmyo-za" (band name), "Seiten no Tsuki" (The title of song). th-cam.com/video/fcVSDmJmJfU/w-d-xo.html This one (Japanese band) is also very cool + beautiful.
Oh! Awesome! This one wasn’t a fave of mine, so I’m hoping I like the other two more. I dig Mayu’s scream style, but I personally prefer her clean vocals like in Fighter, Oiran (studio), and Rollin’ Rollin’.
Ryan, it must be me. I have listened to this song about 4 times...and I do not like it at all. I feel bad because I really like Nemophila, but NOT THIS TUNE! Help me out. What am I missing? Ilike so many of their other songs, but this does nothing for me or to me. Your thoughts are welcome.
Man, I don't know what to say! This is right in line with what they do. You don't like anything about it? Guitar parts? Vocals? Drums? Maybe you were expecting something a little different. That can throw you off from a song. What's one of your favorites from them?
You're not alone. I wouldn't go as far as to say I don't "like" it, but it feels like a half-baked "filler" song. Too formulaic, borrowing too much from their other songs.
@@RyanMear , they play well all the time. That is never an issue for me, but there was something off and I don't know why. To be real about it, just because you like a band that doesn't mean you have to like all of their material.
I dunno, sounds kind of bland, like they were following the formula for Dissension and came up with Dissension Lite. Mayu's voice is still the outstanding element, as it is for all their songs. The guitar pieces for their songs are starting to sound the same, they repeat too many runs across multiple songs. Not nearly as dynamic as their other songs. It will anger the True Believers, but this song is just kind of bland. It's not bad, and if it was some other group it would be a big deal, but this group has too many songs that are better in their catalog for this song to be significant in any way. I'm getting the feeling that they are starting to feel some "creativity fatigue." All they've done, practically since their formation, is studio sessions, write, and record for two years, outside of a handful of one off live performances. If their was ever a band that NEEDED to go on the road to stir up the creative juices it's this one.
I oviedo don't agree with your critique of the song, but I agree with them needing to play. Maybe they need to be able to write their OWN music completely?
@@RyanMear What percentage of their music is being written by songwriters, not the band? It's strange that THIS group, who have probably 20 years of experience between them, would rely on songwriters at all. This isn't BandMaid, who didn't have much group experience, let alone hard rock experience, between them when they started, and were all pretty green. Nemophila members were all rock musicians before they were in Nemophila; Saki alone has a decade of playing hard rock/metal. But maybe this is related to something I've surmised for a while--that following the international break out of BabyMetal that there has been a deliberate effort by these Japanese acts to appeal to a western audience specifically. BandMaid, Lovebites, Nemophila, they all have made deliberate efforts to adopt a more "western" sound. And maybe that's why they have outside songwriters, to steer them into a more "western" sound.
@@FuglyStick I believe all of Nemophila's songs are written by a songwriting team. They come up with their own solos and they do work with the songwriters on tweaking and adjusting things, but the core of all the songs is provided to them. I remember reading an article where they talked about it a while ago but maybe they've changed up how they're doing things since?
@@nanakakitano9724 I was not aware that that was their standard practice, thanks for the info. I still think it's strange that a group with so much cumulative experience would rely on songwriters for their material - unless, as I speculated, they NEED those songwriters to write the material that is crafted to reach the demographic that they are trying to reach, ie, western audiences. I wonder if it matters to the fans that fawn over the band as "Saviors of Music" that they are actually just being "focus grouped," like they are being sold a toaster or a pair of socks? I don't care, personally, that they use a songwriting team, but I'm also not one of the people claiming that the group is "revolutionary."
NEMOPHIA
We will perform at \"AFTERSHOCK FETIVAL 2022\" on 7/Oct 2022 KISS＆NEMOPHILA Can you see the collaboration?
Let's not forget that the will be streaming their 6/11 concert live. This she will have special guest Loudness. Tix at Zakio :) \m/
they all shine. but I´ve to mention tamus phenomenal sounding drumming. it fits the song perfectly. unstoppable.
Thanks for getting right on this. For sure, they are carving out a space all their own.
This short 3 minutes has it all, brutal but emotion, fast and slow, heavy riffs and guitar solos, screaming and clean vocal. 🤘🏻🌸🤘🏻
I hesitate, but agree!
Mayu is just incredible. I prefer listening to her singing rather than screaming just because her voice is that damn good. As you mentioned, Saki and Hazuki work so well together.
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This song is a big swing at the western markets. I know we would all love an extended US tour, but Tamu's children are both around 0-1.5 year olds. That makes for some very special logistic issues. That puts a twist on Baby Metal.
You see it too !! NEMOPHILA has got their sights set on the West big time.
In only a little over 2 years, this band has accomplished so much, with the duel guitar attack, a ruthless rhythm section that rival's much older band's, and of course the complete uniqueness of Mayu's vocals have propelled this band into the forefront of heavy music today, we won't be waiting 10 years before we see them in larger venues, it will come quickly for these gal's, maybe even by 2023.
Just epic sound and looks too! They will be a force to reckon with for a long time! Haraguchi-san slaying it too (so often overlooked as of course surrounded by such immense musicianship)!
Nemophila is projected to achieve its true potential, topping most of other Japanese bands in a very short time. In addition to their skills in playing instrument and compose brilliant songs, each of the member also has such a beautiful and humble personality. Combination of all those will bring the band to the new height internationally. Nemophila really remind me how much I love heavy metal and trash metal music in the 80s-mid90s, as if I just met my 'old flame' that I left in the 90s without a proper closure.
Thank you for reacting to Nemophila's new song immediately. Great songs and playing techniques as usual! But something is missing ⁉︎ What is it?🤔 hook? (Is it because I listened to Band-Maid too much?😅) Still i like this song!🤘
Thanks Ryan, this band is really starting to hit their stride and their potential is nothing short of phenomenal, cheers, peace and love Po 👍🎼🥁🎤🎸🍻
Awesome song! Love the solos and the heaviness of the verse. Saki did a great job with the lyrics! Thank you for reacting to this video.
Her screams in this one remind me of Lena Scissorhands with Infected Rain. That's a good thing.
My third listen now. Its growing on me. Yeah, Mayo sounds great in this and I love how the song ends with her.
Nemophila is second to Band-Maid for me. I was worried(?) that this song wouldn't be as good as their album, but wow! I was pleasantly surprised. Great riff, Mayu's vocals are so strong, great solos. It is your (a)typical banging rock song. These ladies are awesome and on my list to see them live one day. Purchased the concert blu-ray and can't wait to watch it. I am so looking forward to their next album! Thanks again Ryan!
Forgot to mention the awesome lyrics. You don't hear lyrics like that in North America! Loads of praise for Saki!
Nice track a good change up and SAKI sounds great as always. Thanks Ryan
Nemophila is one of those rare bands, alongside with Coldrain, that i can enjoy despite the screaming vocals. Mayu is such an unique singer, she can do really wild stuff with her voice
Great new song!, heavy and powerful, but softer when it needs to
Great to see you do this so quick they are just amazing and going places more to come over the next months
NEMOPHIA New song announced for 3 consecutive months
Nemophila 🤟 always enjoy the moment with the music.... Oh dmmmmm Mayu..... Always awesome with those screams....... nevertheless....i love her clean voice tooooo...
Mayu contributes with an important dosis uniqueness to this band. Excellent song, heavy and originally nemophilaic. Thank you!
Perhaps Nemophila will find their way to Chicago. Mayu's vocals are unequaled. After BAND MAID, Nemophila is a band I really enjoy.
And I suggest you add LOVEBITES to your list.
@@lawrencegambrell4293 Absolutely love them and many others. Glim Spanky are superb.Can't wait for Lovebites new bassist.
When this came up on Spotify last night along with like 4 or 5 others stellar singles, ep’s, and albums, I had to stop and play thins on repeat for a while. It’s a great song! They just keep getting better.
believe me, I wanted to listen to it soo bad!!
@@RyanMear Worth the wait though!
Always love your reactions. You and your Gaijin bros. You have nice tidbits of things, I always learn something from. I love this band, the way they have me rocking out, and then wiping tears away in softer songs. Nemophila, Band Maid and Lovebites have epic and wonderful music.
Thanks, they are all amazing
What no unibrow jokes (if you are in Ryan's discord you would understand)? This song is killer and gets better with each listen, I totally woke up with it stuck in my head lol
I agree with you on the Revive Disc of Nemophila - I like that a lot. I'm not a big 'Cookie Monster' scream fan. {A term my son's teacher used to describe that type of music my son liked. Stuck} However, I like it when it is used for an effect. Sorry about dragging on. In short, I like their creativity and sound, except for the extended screams. However, thanks as always, Ryan. I appreciate your thoughts.
Thank you!
MAYUs' vocals are so damn good...all her vocal modes are fire. Some noted, and think they are right, that this track is aimed squarely at the Western market at large. Looking forward to having my face shredded off even more from these ladies in the next couple tracks that are inbound. 🌸✨🌠
If this is what they want to aim at the Western market then i'm all on board for that :)
@@GaryHolloway-810 sign me up!
@@GaryHolloway-810 🤘😁🤘
@@DragonPhlyy same !!
@@GaryHolloway-810 Me four.
I am just all in with these girls! Outstanding!
I got pocket Aces what you got?
Mayu's scream reminds me of Cradle of Filth from back in the day, only so much better. Her clean voice is totally unique and probably my favorite metal vocals.
ROCK.. LIKE IT'S SPOSTA BE!!!!!🔥🤟🔥🤟🔥🤟👍👍👍❤️🙏
This song is firework, diamond.
That transition from first chorus to second verse on Mayu singing "is in my heart" ... it's just so fucking good. This band has overcome my dislike of scream vocals.
Great reaction as always.
Nice Kanami shirt too😁
After a bit I was scared that Mayu would scream for the entire song... Luckily it wasn't the case xD
Man if I love her cleans!!
I flip flop which I like more haha
SO GOOD! :)
Hazuki is like NEMOPHILA’s Dave Murray to Saki’s Adrian Smith.🤔💪🏻🤘🏻
Nice comparison Quad B.👍
@@GaryHolloway-810
Morning Gary! It’s a simplistic comparison to be sure, obviously both can play anything they want. It’s just that I’ve noticed a trend where , in NEMOPHILA, Hazuki usually solos first with something bendy, hammered and tapped versus Saki’s straight up shred fest. In the end, they always blaze away in unison. With those 2, it’s always a Masterclass in Guitar Artistry.😄💪🏻🤘🏻
@@bigbrutalbassbeer410 Hey i couldn't say i'd noticed that but you're right. Where as Midori & Miyako from Lovebites tend to play back & forth virtuoso pieces :)
Another great song , I loved their new look so badass ,kicking up the goddess image . Beautiful visually they're all 10s imo
I wasn't to sure about the song right away. But it's growing on me.
I'm no astro-physicist, but Nemophila's trajectory into the stratosphere is off the charts ! 🤘😁🤘
I'm certain you've been reading my comments now. Good one.👍
100% This band man...holy smokes these ladies are good. Aces, all of them 🤘😁🤘
You might just be on to something here....
Great some and thx for the reaction…
I love everything about this new song, Mayu's new look, my honest first impression was 'wow, she could be Hal-Ca's older sister ;)
Like a kick ass metal movie sound track song kinda, of a inspirational kick ass movie.
Great reaction and yes I love this song to. Your good buddy Wave Potter did a cool review of this as well. Its weird but each time I listen to it something new sticks out for me that I like. Its a very Nemophila style song which I've heard Mayu say is important to them when she described REVIVE. I guess she wants the band to stamp their own identity early on with new Japanese metal and a variety of styles all mixed together with positive lyrics.
Yep better with each listen for sure
Ahh...I really love Mayu's voice and such a great song.
Normally I can figure out things in music. But Saki did something at the beginning of her section of the solo I can't figure out. That was very unique. Looks like had her right hand doing something with the whammy bar, then brought her left close to the first pick up. WTF was that she did?
It was a "killswitch" It cuts out the signal , that's how she got that stutter in the beginning. There's a button by the other controls👍
@@RyanMear AHHHHH thank you. I know drums fairly well. And brass. But not guitars. Thanks.
that was sooooo aaaawwwweeessssooommmeee
NEMOPHIA Whiskey A Go Go live on July 1st
Ryan, can I get you to react to a Band Maid song from their Maid in Japan album. It is the ninth track (a bonus track). The track is titled in Japanese only. But I call it "Tell Me Why", which is a predominate lyric in the song. The music has a 70's jazzy, Steely Dan vibe. I swear it has become an earworm that has stuck with me for a week.
#SuperGroup 🔥🤟🏻
There are Japanese bands i like, bands i love, & one i adore above all others. Then there's Nemophila who are rising fast in my affections. Heck i'm open to some music polygamy.😏
I dated a girl called Polly Gamey once, until I found out she was seeing others guys behind my back !
@@brandydynamite5877 LOL. Heeey Brandy have you been trawling thru my comments....again?😆 "Say "Hi" to Haruna for me.👍
@@GaryHolloway-810 Will do, old chum !
Hahaha 🤣 My thoughts as well. This band right here is bridging the J-Rock and J-Metal communities like no other and I'm here for it.
@@waterwalker9600 I agree, W.W. Less animosity than between other bands too, & man Nemophila's subs are rising fast. Hmm🤔 Maybe i should ask them to do a song called "Rising Fast" :)
Love 💪 🔥 Nemophila!!! ❤️ ❤️
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#MusicJapanForever
#MysicJapanRules
I'm seeing some old Priest vibes In this
Haraguchi-san Haraguchi-san Haraguchi-san!
Everything you said and typed on screen. Maybe a longer guitar duet, just to make it even better?
I'll never complain about a longer song
Pretty good. I liked the first two songs better.
What?
@@RyanMear I liked Revive and Hypnosis better. Sorry, I was a little vague. LOL
Hola Mr Ryan no es mi favorita canción pero aprobado gran banda pueden lanzar cualquier tema alucinante hay mucho talento en la banda Nemophila
saludos amigo y hasta pronto 😎👌
Hola!
@@DragonPhlyy hola amigo que tal, Mayu es única!
Hope too they come out with a album just as our maids will this summer 😃
An EP from BAND-MAID, but yeah.
Well they are releasing a new single every month from May through July.
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Oh wow, not that I haven't seen this video before, as I saw it when it first came out on their channel, but as I was listening to this with you and drinking a hot tea, I got chills when the Hasuki/Saki solo(s) came up. I didn't think I'd like this song as much as I do. Maybe a bit too much scream on the initial listen, but after a couple times it doesn't even register over what the rest of the band is doing and the clean vocals shining through.
Her accent is quite thick though. With a good 90% of this song in English, unless you've got the lyrics in front of you, you might not catch it all. I think she does great with the language switching, especially being a native Japanese speaker. English is really a mess of a language. lol The Japanese language isn't all roses either though. There are Four writing systems/alphabets they use... WTF
June 22 July 20 Continuous new song announcement
The song is slowly growing on me but will never be my Nemophila favorite. I'm afraid they start to use a "formula" , and so soon in their career it worries me a bit. But I enjoy the song anyway, and Saki's use of the kill switch in the beginning of her solo is one of the best use of this trick I've heard in a long time!
Yes, I find this very "core" style fairly uninteresting. Chuggy main riff, screamed verse, clean chorus, repeat * 2, bit of a breakdown, trade 4 or 8 bar solos with a little unison section at the end, low dynamic version of chorus, high dynamic version of chorus, riff to end. It's all great don't get me wrong but I like a bit of song-writing variety. It's good for sure but not something that's going to get me coming back over and over. It's a bit too much like what I consider to be by far their least interesting song which is Dissension. I LOVE Raitei though and I thought Revive was good as well even if following "the formula" quite closely.
I think they have been playing it very safe from the start. I enjoy them, but many fans don't want to admit that fact it seems.
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Thank you for excellent reaction. Please try "Onmyo-za" (band name), "Seiten no Tsuki" (The title of song).
th-cam.com/video/fcVSDmJmJfU/w-d-xo.html
This one (Japanese band) is also very cool + beautiful.
Is there a new album coming out?
I mean, I really really hope so! They just released Revive not to long ago, but that was held up, I think.
@@RyanMear I thought I read somewhere that they have 3 singles they would release over a 3 month period. This is the first one.🤘🎸🥁🔥
Yes, you're right!
Oh! Awesome! This one wasn’t a fave of mine, so I’m hoping I like the other two more. I dig Mayu’s scream style, but I personally prefer her clean vocals like in Fighter, Oiran (studio), and Rollin’ Rollin’.
It's funny, not one obvious comment about the mix on here
Ryan, it must be me. I have listened to this song about 4 times...and I do not like it at all. I feel bad because I really like Nemophila, but NOT THIS TUNE!
Help me out. What am I missing? Ilike so many of their other songs, but this does nothing for me or to me.
Your thoughts are welcome.
Man, I don't know what to say! This is right in line with what they do. You don't like anything about it? Guitar parts? Vocals? Drums? Maybe you were expecting something a little different. That can throw you off from a song. What's one of your favorites from them?
You're not alone. I wouldn't go as far as to say I don't "like" it, but it feels like a half-baked "filler" song. Too formulaic, borrowing too much from their other songs.
This might be an issue with their outside writers
@@RyanMear , "Oiran" , Their cover of Show-Ya's "Watashi Wa Arashi", "Fighter".
I love their versatility, but this song just missed me.
@@RyanMear , they play well all the time. That is never an issue for me, but there was something off and I don't know why.
To be real about it, just because you like a band that doesn't mean you have to like all of their material.
Just can't get into the screaming. I like a lot of their rock covers but the screaming thrash doesn't do it for me.
I dunno, sounds kind of bland, like they were following the formula for Dissension and came up with Dissension Lite. Mayu's voice is still the outstanding element, as it is for all their songs. The guitar pieces for their songs are starting to sound the same, they repeat too many runs across multiple songs. Not nearly as dynamic as their other songs. It will anger the True Believers, but this song is just kind of bland. It's not bad, and if it was some other group it would be a big deal, but this group has too many songs that are better in their catalog for this song to be significant in any way. I'm getting the feeling that they are starting to feel some "creativity fatigue." All they've done, practically since their formation, is studio sessions, write, and record for two years, outside of a handful of one off live performances. If their was ever a band that NEEDED to go on the road to stir up the creative juices it's this one.
I oviedo don't agree with your critique of the song, but I agree with them needing to play. Maybe they need to be able to write their OWN music completely?
@@RyanMear What percentage of their music is being written by songwriters, not the band? It's strange that THIS group, who have probably 20 years of experience between them, would rely on songwriters at all. This isn't BandMaid, who didn't have much group experience, let alone hard rock experience, between them when they started, and were all pretty green. Nemophila members were all rock musicians before they were in Nemophila; Saki alone has a decade of playing hard rock/metal.
But maybe this is related to something I've surmised for a while--that following the international break out of BabyMetal that there has been a deliberate effort by these Japanese acts to appeal to a western audience specifically. BandMaid, Lovebites, Nemophila, they all have made deliberate efforts to adopt a more "western" sound. And maybe that's why they have outside songwriters, to steer them into a more "western" sound.
@@FuglyStick I believe all of Nemophila's songs are written by a songwriting team. They come up with their own solos and they do work with the songwriters on tweaking and adjusting things, but the core of all the songs is provided to them. I remember reading an article where they talked about it a while ago but maybe they've changed up how they're doing things since?
@@nanakakitano9724 I was not aware that that was their standard practice, thanks for the info. I still think it's strange that a group with so much cumulative experience would rely on songwriters for their material - unless, as I speculated, they NEED those songwriters to write the material that is crafted to reach the demographic that they are trying to reach, ie, western audiences.
I wonder if it matters to the fans that fawn over the band as "Saviors of Music" that they are actually just being "focus grouped," like they are being sold a toaster or a pair of socks? I don't care, personally, that they use a songwriting team, but I'm also not one of the people claiming that the group is "revolutionary."
Whoever has the money must think it's necessary...... regardless of whether it is or not.