So Greedy this is a love song to the Masters and Princesses. During the pandemic, after the initial lockdown, BandMaid was scheduled to play the famous Buddocan venue. And then Covid had a resurgence and that concert was canceled. Saiki made a speech about this song being a gift to the fans that was supposed to premiere at the Buddocan concert. This is a message to us about their thiughts and emotions regsrding the fans during the lockdown. So this song , along with Smile and Memorable, have been called by some the Smile trilogy. So the words you hear sre directly to you. The music, especially the vocals of Miku and Saiki, are so exquisitely beautiful. Well done Greedy!
Fans can sometimes over do their appreciation for bands. But when a band has a huge disappointment as they did when the Bukokan concert was cancelled yet they bother to write a song to say to fans don't worry we will get back there one day and meanwhile we will all meet up again. Well we have to admit that they are something special and genuine about them. Sometimes in our World that is worth clinging onto.
I always say that Band-Maid is one of the few rock bands around that can "melt your face" and then "melt your heart" during the same concert. They are just so damned good! I'm a Maidiac and damned proud of it!!!!!
So many more Band-Maid songs that you can find online. - Why, Why, Why - Corallium - Hibana - Without Holding Back - Giovanni (Instrumental version) Plus, on their official channel, see the “Releases” tab and every song their released is there in music only format. 🤷🏻♂️ Take care and rock on 🤘🏼🔥🎸🥁🎤🎹🎼😎✌🏼
Info file incoming: This is part of what I call the "Smile" trilogy. The first song being Smile, the "B-side" to their song Bubble. The music was written by Kentaro Akutsu who wrote their breakout song "Thrill" but with lyrics by Miku. The second song is "About US" a love song to their fans during the lockdowns written by the Ladies themselves. When it was performed live for the first time during their on-line concert to replace their canceled Budokan concert, Saiki gave a brief speech before the song started, that had many of us getting attacked by dust. Then the song itself brought out the onion ninjas and made many us have allergy attacks as well. Then we have "Memorable". It was almost 3 years since the Ladies had last toured the US, and they were concerned they had lost their momentum. Even though being told they were selling out their shows, they didn't believe what they were being told, they thought their management was lying to them or playing a joke on them. They came over and performed at Aftershock, then they got on their tour bus, (A first for them, as they normally would either fly or rent a couple vans to tour in) and drove to their first show of their 2022 US Tour. Seattle. It was at Seattle, that the Ladies got confirmation of just how much their fans love them and how much we missed them. As they walked out on stage, according to several people who were at the show, they were shocked. And Saiki as she came out, was said to have looked like someone had hit her with a bat, her eyes were so wide. The crowd response, and the emotions coming off them fed the Ladies energy as the performed their show. And as they went to their next concert, the response there was the same. And the next show, with the fans sending gifts for MISA's birthday, having several hundred custom printed towels handed out to the audience celebrating MISA's birthday. All these things hit the Ladies in their hearts. And Kanami had an idea for a new song. This next part is hearsay so I have no way of confirming it, but the sounds at the beginning before the guitar part starts was the sound that Kanami heard while back stage at the Los Angeles show. Hearing music and the audience talking. Supposedly, she actually recorded it on her phone before their introduction music started playing. Again that is hearsay and I have no way to confirm it. But from the L.A. show Kanami started writing the vocal melody line. If you have a chance to watch the Behind the scenes documentary from their TGT Concert DVD-BD, Kanami discusses and sings the vocal melody. She later sang and played it to Saiki and Saiki told Kanami to finish the song, then Saiki and Miku wrote the lyrics together. The lyrics are about looking out into the audience while being up on stage, and seeing the smiles of their "Masters and Princesses" And how much that means to them, the Ladies of Band-Maid, and how much they love us as their fans, and how much they feel our love of them as performers. The Ladies finished the song after they returned home to Japan, and worked it up, and performed it live for the first time at their January 9th concert at the Tokyo Gardens Theater, which was later released as a DVD/BD with the BTS Documentary. But just a month after their concert at TGT, they were back in the US as the opening band for the "Last Rock Stars" a Japanese supergroup, for 3 shows. Two in New York and one in Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, the outside desert portion of this video were recorded, just outside of Lancaster California, the performance portions were taken from the very first live performance at the TGT. So know you know the story behind the song. It is a love song from the Ladies of the band, to their fans, telling us how we lift them up, and how they love being able to perform for us. As I wrote at the very beginning, this is the 3 song of the trilogy, and all of them are about how much the Ladies love us their fans. And for that, we love them back.
Band-Maid always throw in several mid-tempo rock-ballads in their concert setlist, exactly in the way you suggested. They change up intro and outro of some of their songs, add one instrumental or two, maybe one or two acoustic. There are always a lot of happy and fun surprises. Those people who are critical of Band-Maid haven't listened to enough songs yet to understand their music. But if you aren't a fan, you wouldn't like to go through their catalogue anyway and certainly don't wanna go to their live - and live is where the true magic happens. You really have to experience Band-Maid live to fully appreciate the band. It's something else. They do have plenty enough mid-tempo gems.
"About Us" is B-M's love letter to the Maidiacs about how much they missed playing live to an audience during the Covid lockdowns. But in private Kanami said "About us" is really "About Me".😏
Watch the whole Lollapalooza 2023 set. It’s from the Hulu broadcast even though uploaded by someone else. Also the whole set of Welcome to Rockville 2023. That one’s a fancam but good audio/video.
Here's a few you haven't reacted to yet. "Memories of Wind And Wine" instrumental. "Freedom" official live video. "Onset" official live video. Maybe you've heard them, but just not reacted to them. Also The channel 'Instrumental Maid' has 30 or so videos where I'm sure you haven't seen them all.
Well, if you have been using TH-cam to listen to Band-Maid maybe you have not heard hide-and-seek because it's missing from the Glory single for some reason and hard to find. One of my favs. th-cam.com/video/VQgMoXzcgaM/w-d-xo.html
Never said i want to stop Jim lol Thanks for watching. New reaction has been recorded and ready to be released on Thursday thanks too the Madiacs that follow this music reaction channel. As well as a few live performances not on the official Band-Maid YT page.
I must say that I found "Bestie" disappointing, it's not bad, but it's very forgettable -- it sounds like something playing during the end credits of an American romantic comedy, like something I've heard before, and it's apparently an attempt to break into the American market. I wouldn't have paid attention to it if I didn't know it was Band-Maid. "About Us"", on the other hand, shows us why Band-Maid are so great: this song is unpredictable, it goes off-piste, and it keeps surprising. Most of their songs go off-piste and surprise us, especially since they began writing their own material. Band-Maid, and some of these other Japanese bands, rebooted my interest in (new) music. I haven't cared for new music in maybe 25 years.
So Greedy this is a love song to the Masters and Princesses. During the pandemic, after the initial lockdown, BandMaid was scheduled to play the famous Buddocan venue. And then Covid had a resurgence and that concert was canceled. Saiki made a speech about this song being a gift to the fans that was supposed to premiere at the Buddocan concert. This is a message to us about their thiughts and emotions regsrding the fans during the lockdown. So this song , along with Smile and Memorable, have been called by some the Smile trilogy. So the words you hear sre directly to you. The music, especially the vocals of Miku and Saiki, are so exquisitely beautiful. Well done Greedy!
Wow amazing thank you. I thought it was a love song. And it was for ME!!!!! lol
Fans can sometimes over do their appreciation for bands. But when a band has a huge disappointment as they did when the Bukokan concert was cancelled yet they bother to write a song to say to fans don't worry we will get back there one day and meanwhile we will all meet up again. Well we have to admit that they are something special and genuine about them. Sometimes in our World that is worth clinging onto.
That's what makes this band special Russell
I always say that Band-Maid is one of the few rock bands around that can "melt your face" and then "melt your heart" during the same concert. They are just so damned good! I'm a Maidiac and damned proud of it!!!!!
You should be proud Bill.
Band Maid has a number of slower beautiful songs, Page, Smile - from the online Okyuji, Daydreaming, Anemone, to name a few.
Amazing thank you
So many more Band-Maid songs that you can find online.
- Why, Why, Why
- Corallium
- Hibana
- Without Holding Back
- Giovanni (Instrumental version)
Plus, on their official channel, see the “Releases” tab and every song their released is there in music only format. 🤷🏻♂️
Take care and rock on 🤘🏼🔥🎸🥁🎤🎹🎼😎✌🏼
Unfortunately most i have heard, but i am a Maidiac now lol But there is 2 i havnt so watch this space. Thank you
Info file incoming:
This is part of what I call the "Smile" trilogy. The first song being Smile, the "B-side" to their song Bubble. The music was written by Kentaro Akutsu who wrote their breakout song "Thrill" but with lyrics by Miku. The second song is "About US" a love song to their fans during the lockdowns written by the Ladies themselves. When it was performed live for the first time during their on-line concert to replace their canceled Budokan concert, Saiki gave a brief speech before the song started, that had many of us getting attacked by dust. Then the song itself brought out the onion ninjas and made many us have allergy attacks as well.
Then we have "Memorable". It was almost 3 years since the Ladies had last toured the US, and they were concerned they had lost their momentum. Even though being told they were selling out their shows, they didn't believe what they were being told, they thought their management was lying to them or playing a joke on them. They came over and performed at Aftershock, then they got on their tour bus, (A first for them, as they normally would either fly or rent a couple vans to tour in) and drove to their first show of their 2022 US Tour. Seattle.
It was at Seattle, that the Ladies got confirmation of just how much their fans love them and how much we missed them. As they walked out on stage, according to several people who were at the show, they were shocked. And Saiki as she came out, was said to have looked like someone had hit her with a bat, her eyes were so wide. The crowd response, and the emotions coming off them fed the Ladies energy as the performed their show. And as they went to their next concert, the response there was the same. And the next show, with the fans sending gifts for MISA's birthday, having several hundred custom printed towels handed out to the audience celebrating MISA's birthday. All these things hit the Ladies in their hearts.
And Kanami had an idea for a new song.
This next part is hearsay so I have no way of confirming it, but the sounds at the beginning before the guitar part starts was the sound that Kanami heard while back stage at the Los Angeles show. Hearing music and the audience talking. Supposedly, she actually recorded it on her phone before their introduction music started playing. Again that is hearsay and I have no way to confirm it.
But from the L.A. show Kanami started writing the vocal melody line. If you have a chance to watch the Behind the scenes documentary from their TGT Concert DVD-BD, Kanami discusses and sings the vocal melody. She later sang and played it to Saiki and Saiki told Kanami to finish the song, then Saiki and Miku wrote the lyrics together.
The lyrics are about looking out into the audience while being up on stage, and seeing the smiles of their "Masters and Princesses" And how much that means to them, the Ladies of Band-Maid, and how much they love us as their fans, and how much they feel our love of them as performers.
The Ladies finished the song after they returned home to Japan, and worked it up, and performed it live for the first time at their January 9th concert at the Tokyo Gardens Theater, which was later released as a DVD/BD with the BTS Documentary. But just a month after their concert at TGT, they were back in the US as the opening band for the "Last Rock Stars" a Japanese supergroup, for 3 shows. Two in New York and one in Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, the outside desert portion of this video were recorded, just outside of Lancaster California, the performance portions were taken from the very first live performance at the TGT.
So know you know the story behind the song. It is a love song from the Ladies of the band, to their fans, telling us how we lift them up, and how they love being able to perform for us.
As I wrote at the very beginning, this is the 3 song of the trilogy, and all of them are about how much the Ladies love us their fans. And for that, we love them back.
Amazing info, very much appreciated. There are new fans that would love this so thank you
Band-Maid always throw in several mid-tempo rock-ballads in their concert setlist, exactly in the way you suggested. They change up intro and outro of some of their songs, add one instrumental or two, maybe one or two acoustic.
There are always a lot of happy and fun surprises. Those people who are critical of Band-Maid haven't listened to enough songs yet to understand their music.
But if you aren't a fan, you wouldn't like to go through their catalogue anyway and certainly don't wanna go to their live - and live is where the true magic happens.
You really have to experience Band-Maid live to fully appreciate the band. It's something else. They do have plenty enough mid-tempo gems.
Really want to experience them live and will be one of the first in the queue if they tour the uk
You do know they have well over 100 songs, over 150 if you count different versions.
Very much aware, as i said i have heard alot on spotify but tried to avoid there TH-cam stuff so i could do first time reactions. I am now a maidiac .
"About Us" is B-M's love letter to the Maidiacs about how much they missed playing live to an audience during the Covid lockdowns. But in private Kanami said "About us" is really "About Me".😏
Nope... It's about me check the pinned comment lol
@@greedyandmoobag Haha😂 Hey i did say she told me that "In private" :)
Dude these girl's lie for your attention. But it's ok we are here for you buddy.
@rogerchance9074 Roger go on tell Greedy, you recorded that conversation, right. Have you still got it?
Dont do it Roger, Think of his heart..........NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
BAND-MAID's love letter to their fans during Covid.
Love them too
Watch the whole Lollapalooza 2023 set. It’s from the Hulu broadcast even though uploaded by someone else. Also the whole set of Welcome to Rockville 2023. That one’s a fancam but good audio/video.
Thank you so much
One of B-M's songs that you can just sit back and relax while listening to. 😊
Btw, I don't think you've reacted to their song 'Bubble'?
Will have to double check on that. Im sure we did before, but if not im sure it will be up soon.
@@greedyandmoobag If you already heard it, it's fine. Just wanted to make sure you haven't missed it 😉
I'm from Barbados so when I hear "hit me for six" I smile
Beautiful country for a Maidiac and welcome
@@greedyandmoobag we have world cup coming up. Wonder if any maidiacs will be here
@@DaElfer lol that would be interesting
Here's a few you haven't reacted to yet.
"Memories of Wind And Wine" instrumental.
"Freedom" official live video.
"Onset" official live video.
Maybe you've heard them, but just not reacted to them.
Also The channel 'Instrumental Maid' has 30 or so videos where I'm sure you haven't seen them all.
heard Onset and freedom. But the first one will me up soon.
Please update your Band Maid playlist.
They're all >= 1 year. 😉
Oh someone still watches those lol. will do thanks
Updated
Thank you for another great reaction 🙌🙌🙌
My pleasure!! and thank you for your continuous support
Well, if you have been using TH-cam to listen to Band-Maid maybe you have not heard hide-and-seek because it's missing from the Glory single for some reason and hard to find. One of my favs. th-cam.com/video/VQgMoXzcgaM/w-d-xo.html
Thank you
Thanks
Thank is very kind of you Monika, am very happy to have you as a subscriber.
Same musicians, same instrumentation as “Shambles” and “Hate”.
Only one question remains: “How is this possible?”
Answer: “Band Maid, Po!”
Amazingly put Mike
Have checked out Beastie. I believe the video will be released tomorrow
I have heard and reacted to the track and waiting for the new video to drop later so look out for that reaction too.
Why are reactors so much in a hurry to stop Band-Maid videos.....I don't get it . Help me understand.
Never said i want to stop Jim lol Thanks for watching. New reaction has been recorded and ready to be released on Thursday thanks too the Madiacs that follow this music reaction channel. As well as a few live performances not on the official Band-Maid YT page.
I must say that I found "Bestie" disappointing, it's not bad, but it's very forgettable -- it sounds like something playing during the end credits of an American romantic comedy, like something I've heard before, and it's apparently an attempt to break into the American market. I wouldn't have paid attention to it if I didn't know it was Band-Maid. "About Us"", on the other hand, shows us why Band-Maid are so great: this song is unpredictable, it goes off-piste, and it keeps surprising. Most of their songs go off-piste and surprise us, especially since they began writing their own material. Band-Maid, and some of these other Japanese bands, rebooted my interest in (new) music. I haven't cared for new music in maybe 25 years.
It's grown on my after a few listens