Great reaction, thanks! "Megitsune" is one of their most loved songs by fans and their most played live one (up to 277 tines to be exact... and counting!). It's also one of my top favorite songs. It was released in June 2013. Su-metal was 15 years old while Yuimetal and Moametal were both 13 (about to turn 14) back then. The style sub-genre is called electronicore, a mix between electronica and metalcore with a hardcore style breakdown. The word "Megitsune" = "me" + "kitsune" which means female + fox so, vixen. Hence the "kitsune" masks everywhere. In the Japanese folklore, the kitsune is an entity which is able to transfigure into a human form, mainly into the form of a young lady, with the objective to deceive men and cause them pain. So they sing that they aren't kitsunes but megitsunes, "pure-hearted maiden-like female foxes". BABYMETAL fans are known as "The ONE" collectively and "kitsune" / "megitsune" individually. So you can tell this song is important! And I'm sure you have seen our 🦊 emojis on comments. That breakdown hits hard and besides the pig squeals, the melody is from a Japanese folk song called "Sakura Sakura" (Cherry Blossoms). It took 36 demos to Takehiro Mamiya best known as Yuyoyuppe (or Yuppemetal), the song's arranger, until Kobametal (their producer) was 100% happy with the final result. It may sound crazy but this is why "Megitsune" is one of their best songs (if not the best). In my opinion, this music video is a masterpiece. And about its locations: - The stage where they are performing is called Nohgakudo at Asagaya Shinmei-gu Shrine in Tokyo. This is a stage where music and dances are performed during festivals. - The shrine right before the breakdown with the orange-ish torii gates is the famous Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto. The girls were so happy that the director traveled to Kyoto just to film that sequence. Until next time! 🤘🦊
road-runner -- Well explained! And still there are so many symbols and elements in the vid that one could talk about them for half an hour, e.g. the traditional instruments, the mirror scene, the glass pearl game, the dagger mic, the pantomime similar dance (forming a fan with the hand to cover the face), the lyrics, etc. Megitsune is not just a song, but a little compendium of Japanese art. Although from a purely musical point I prefer other BM songs (e.g. Rondo of Nightmare), Megitsune is BM's "deepest" and most important song and became the anthem of the Japanese fräulein wonder in rock and metal (see the Nemophila cover).
@@bernardoesperanto3194 Thanks! And you are totally right. We can write an entire essay about it 😁 Now I realize I messed up with the number of live performances, since it's 315 counting till yesterday's in Oslo. 😊
You should watch "Doki Doki Morning", that's Babymetal very first MV ever! And its a historical moment, because that was the very first "Kawaii Metal" music video in human history!!! 🤘🦊🤘
_Sore!_ 🦊🤘🔥 Glad to see you're back with this suggestion, they were quite young in this one but wait to see Doki Doki Morning or Iine!!, you can enjoy this song with the live sound of the Kami Band at Budokan 2014 or Budokan 2021 with the new formation. Fans were enjoying and having so much fun watching this live every night at Sabaton's Europe Tour and later at Asian and Australian Tour, and The Babyklok Tour in the US, they also got another Europe headline tour this month, you don't wanna miss the chance to see them live and performing this song like they did recently in all these concerts, we always love the shanenigans when performing live between the girls in the middle section after the breakdown. This was released in 2013 when having around 13/14 (Yui and MoaMetal )and 15 yo (SuMetal, the lead singer), so is one of their early hits and is full of japanese elements, like the "shamizen", a japanese traditional instrument, and is a party festival song (matsuri). "Sore" "seiya" and "soya" are typical shouts among Japanese festival and it works like a "c'mon!" or "let's go" for them. During the breakdown you can hear another typical japanese folk song called "Sakura Sakura" and they're doing a traditional Japanese dance. In summary, song is about female empowerment and if you follow the lyrics you'll see about it, "Megitsune" means female fox (vixen) and they talk about women acting with a smile in their face while crying inside, just to fit in society or what is expected from them, when they're kind to you they're not trying to make falling in love with them, they're just being their own way, and men tend to confuse and think they're cheating or deceiving like the mythological fox. "Megitsune" used to be a peyorative term in Japanese culture, pretty much just like around the world, but BM is using this as a way to empower women despite the meaning itself. When SuMetal is pulling out the "tanto" she's saying "maidens shouldn't be underestimated", that refers to a japanese mob film about some boss mafia daughter before attacking someone. During live performance she does something different and looks really cool doing it. Megitsune is a quintessential BM song and among top ranking songs by fans, SuMetal said she didn't mastered yet, that's why she used to sound check with this song before live concerts. The origin of the "fox sign" is really long to explained but here's a short summary: The Fox God (Kitsune Sama) is the Metal God who sent these girls (and Kami Band after to help them with the metal sound) to unify the world and set them free from Jpop slavery. The kitsune sign came out by accident around the time they created the group by the girls when trying to imitate the typical metal horn sign they noticed it was similar when doing fox shadow shape, they implemented this as part of the lore, imagery, theme and live concerts, the lore is huge so take your time and keep digging and riding the Foxhole 🦊🤘 Btw they praised for real and made a ritual to the Fox God for this song to be a hit and successful, and thanks to the Fox God this is one of their major hits and favorite BM fan songs. -NotACult- 👀 This is a song with the arrangements by YuppeMetal, he took inspiration from "Memphis May Fire - The Sinner" for the drum section, another song that i recommend you for your own time if you want. Next suggestion: - Ijime, Dame, Zettai live at Sonisphere Festival 2014. See you next time. 🦊🤘🔥
I like this MV because it gives more insight into their message. I also learn so much from the comments from the fan base: for instance, one pointed out how at the beginning YUI and MOA pull on SU’s Japanese costume and the next scene she is transformed into SU-METAL. 🦊 🖖❤
Great reaction to a great song. I'm so happy that I can finally support these wonderful young women live in Cologne again in a few days. Please keep up the good work. Forever THE ONE 🤗❤🤘🦊🤘
This band is the apex of music, made to have fun and make you forget bad things, vibrate and feel the energy, for me it's the greatest band in the world!
Great reaction - and good job with the pronunciation. The masks are all Fox masks (still no wolves here). Megitsune even translates as female fox or vixen. You've had all the explanations already so I won't repeat everything. This was from 2013 - they were talented from the start and the whole concept was formed around Su-metal's vocal talents .... earlier songs include: 'Doki Doki Morning' 'Iine' (that is iine pronounced ee-neh) 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' (call it IDZ if it is easier) 'Headbanger' 'Uki Uki Midnight'
this is BEAUTIFUL...... i feel like i am understanding metal for the first time.. strangely. the whole composition, the energy, choreography, drums, rhythm, intensity..... just beautiful. I am shocked.
If you think they're young here watch the 'Doki Doki Morning' music video. It was filmed in Oct 2011. The song was recorded Oct 2010. Doki Doki is Onamonapia (spelling) word that sounds like what it is. It is a heartbeat doki doki. It means exciting. There are a lot of those in Japanese. Like Mogu Mogu is chewing. So Doki Doki Morning is exciting morning.
Great reaction! Fun fact: this song had been played live by Babymetal over 300 times to date. Definitely one of their staple songs and a fan favorite. A lot of their live performances also has audience engagement sections built in during the extended breakdown section. Look forward to more! 🤘🦊
⚡ 💀 💕 / 🦊 ⛩ [MOA] SU-METAL will slash you. Really. [YUI] Yeah. [SU] (laughs) (Megitsune video commentary from the BABYMETAL members) You were pretty close on the pronunciation of the song title. They spell it out, but unfortunately in katakana: メギツネ. It's "Meh-gee-tsoo-neh". Su was 15. Yui and Moa were 13, almost 14 when the music video was released. Even though they were wearing white robes, this was not the Kami Band. The performers pretending to play the traditional Japanese instruments in this video are dancers with the Movement Design group. Chidori Yakumo is their director. She is the woman performing the fan dance during the breakdown. Megitsune is my jam. It's still my favorite BABYMETAL song, video and choreography. Definitely quintessential BABYMETAL. Like their new song 'Metali' (メタり！！) you could even call this Kawaii Festival Metal. BABYMETAL's producer Koba sent this song back to the song arranger Yuyoyuppe dozens of times before he was satisfied with it. This one consistently tops fan polls, and has been performed live more than any other BABYMETAL song. Much of the video was shot on location on a Noh drama stage by the Asagaya Shinmei Shrine in Tokyo. This has since become something of a pilgrimmage site for BABYMETAL fans.
If you want the earliest, 'Doki Doki ☆ Morning' is their first song and first music video. The DVD single and the abridged music video were released in October 2011. Suzuka was 13, Yui and Moa were 12. They recorded it a year before that. The 'Megitsune' single and music video were released in June of 2013.
it's a fox mask. Megitsune is a female fox. Look up Japanese mythology of a god that disguises itself as a fox. The song is about how girls/women grow up/get through the world. It's about girl-power.
This is the first Babymetal song I heard. It immediately got me hooked on Babymetal. Travelling from Malta to Munich in a few days' time to see them live. 🤘🦊🤘
Megitsune will go down as among the greatest non English heavy metal songs of all time, right up there with Rammstein's or Sepultura's classic bangers.
From the outside, it just looks like any normal shrine with a sizeable stone torii gate but just a short walk beyond that is the main filming location for the ‘ Megitsune ‘ (2013) music video.The Noh Hall is used for various traditional performing arts, festivals and a Babymetal video! The three girls and the band perform the song on stage with the modern impression of bonsai pictured on the wooden panel behind them. This part of the shrine complex is not open every day so please be aware of that should you wish to see it in all its glory. Sunday seems to be the best bet for when it is open for public viewing. This is one of the “Ten Shrines Of Tokyo‘ which are considered the most important as they were selected in 1868 by Emperor Meiji after he had moved to Edo and renamed it Tokyo. The beautiful red torii gates also featured in ‘Tokyo Pop‘ (1988) and they are proof that you really don’t need to go to Kyoto to see such an image!
It is perfect that your pronunciation of the song title. This song, Gimme Choco!, and Road of Resistance or something are now classic songs of BABYMETAL. BM played them at the recent NEX_Fest in Makuhari, Chiba (Tokyo), Japan too and I was there but I almost died from moshing and couldn't listen to it properly, lol. BM'll be touring EU & UK soon. Thank you from Japan!
Hello. I saw it in Seattle recently. I would love to see it in Japan. I have been studying Japanese. The crowd was most excited for Metari. I shouted when the intro to Headbanger started and a guy in front turned around and gave me a high 5.
@@Jordan-Ramses Did you see them in Seattle? That's great. I saw B×M×C, Brand New Day and MAYA in Makuhari, and I was moved. I saw them in the general area, almost in the front row, and I was almost crushed to death! Good luck with your Japanese language studies! I'll do my best in English.
@minamihideki7123 your English is great. I've been studying Japanese for 6 months. I'm halfway through the Duolingo Japanese. Yeah I saw Babymetal in Seattle. I saw Band-Maid last year in Seattle. I like American/English language stuff too. What English entertainment do you like?
@@Jordan-Ramses Thank you for my poor English.😀 I wonder what I like about English stuff... As for music, the majority of my generation in Japan discovered Western music when we were teenagers and almost got into it, but I had moved away from Western music since after that. Nevertheless, after I grew up and had the financial means to do so, I collected at least one album by some major Western rock artists. I hardly listen to hip-hop or anything like that. So I had listened to Japanese jazz fusion for a long time. In movies, I like Clint Eastwood, and Woody Allen or so. In TV drama, I liked the early ER series. As for Band Maid, it had a live on 2th September at the live bar, Club Junk Box in Nagano city, near my hometown, but it was no announcement about tickets going on sale anytime soon, and when I found out, they went on sale and were sold out immediately, (tears). But I did see Ningen Isu live the other day at the same place. It was great.
Great reaction! Have liked BabyMetal for long time. They lead me to other Japanese bands one of them being Nemophila which does a fun cover of this. Another cool live BabyMetal song to check out is Ijime, Dame, Zettai live at Sonisphere 2014. It was there first big concert outside of Japan. It was there big breakout into the international metal scene. Supposedly they were going to appear on a smaller stage but got switch to main stage. People were there to see METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER and more and up comes BabyMetal. By the end of the show they had the crowd cheering for more and they were the surprise talk of the festival. Very cool anti bullying song and the solo section is sick! You will dig it.
Very cool!!! To see them young, “Doki Doki Morning” and “Iine”, original music videos, show the beginning of the project. It's great to see how the production managed to create a light song, with 11, 12 year old girls singing and mixing very well done metal elements. I saw that you reacted to other bands from Japan (I follow Nemophila, Band Maid, Unlucky Morpheus, Lovebites and Wagakki Band). Nemophila has some videos playing covers, as you may have already noticed. One of these covers is precisely Nemophila playing this song that you reacted to here (Megitsune - Babymetal). Worth checking out! Enjoy Babymetal! 🦊🤘🦊
The Fox God is Babymetal's patron deity and so you'll see lots of foxes in Babymetal's imagery. The Megitsune lyrics draw parallels with the traits of foxes in Japanese myths and the traditional way Japanese women (and maybe all women) have to behave in patriarchal societies. If I had to choose one song to sum up BM's soul it would be Megitsune. BM's path to today has not been entirely straight; the third album wasn't Kobayashi's best work and it took them a long time to recover from Yui leaving and the death of their lead guitarist, Mikio Fujioka. Actually, the Kami Band hasn't really recovered because their integration into the performances has changed and they now wear masks, which I will always dislike. But they are back touring with a new member, Momoko, and the latest album, The One, has some great songs on it. Megitsune, or vixen, is an early Babymetal song released in 2013, so Su will be 15 in the video and Moa and Yui are 13, and it is one of BM's female empowerment songs. The temple and the Japanese instruments sets a very traditional tone, but right from the start old Japanese values are challenged as Yui and Moa pull on Su's obi (sash) to release her from her kimono so she can do the high leg lift dance. That dance contrasts with the traditional restrained dance in the break down. That break down is a very old song called "Sakura, Sakura" and is about the cherry blossom, but BM even subvert that and Su sing's "kitsune, kitsune" (fox, fox). This is also a call back to their parent idol group which is Sakura Gakuin or Cherry Blossom Academy. In Japan the fox is seen as a clever shape shifter and the lyrics liken women to female foxes in the way they have to change themselves to please others or to hide their true feelings. In the dance BM mime wearing a mask and also putting on make up as another way to hide themselves. But the strength of women is emphasized and the expression of this peaks when Su shouts: "Otome wa nametara ikan zeyo" and draws a knife from her microphone. The phrase is translated as "Maidens shouldn’t be underestimated" (credit Du-metal), although that is a polite interpretation. It's also used in a famous Japanese gangster film called Onimasa and is translated there as " don't you sh*t with me". Some of BM's lyrics can be quite shocking to Japanese audiences and native speakers say that gets lost on non-Japanese speakers who have to experience Babymetal's lyrics through the distorting lens of translation.
Yes!! So pronounced Megitsune correctly! One of my fave Babymetal songs!!! Guess what!! Did you know Nemophila covered Megitsune too?? Guitarist, Saki-san is a big Babymetal fan so Nemophila decided to cover it! My hope is that Babymetal & Nemophila go on tour together where they can perform this song. Imagine Babymetal doing this with Nemophila as the band!! Please react to Nemophila's cover of MEGITSUNE!!!
Awesome! Yeah Ive been falling down this J-Metal rabbit hole since the beginning of this year. I was so lucky to see Nemophila and then Hanabie. when they were in NYC for their respective tours. I'm getting into Babymetal now and will have to check other bands like Lovebites and BandMaid. So happy that these bands are pushing metal to the next level!! Thank you so much for your reactions and helping the world know about these awesome bands!!
Two things - if you want and can, react to live version of this song. Its entirely different beast with the audience engaged. Also a side note: I've been trying to engage other youtuber to react to a song and hope you could be the first one - Skyfire - Dimension Unseen - it's one of the most melodic death metals I've ever heard. Its a song by Sweeding group dating back in 1995 (still active) and the song is from 2001. It has one hell of a solo in the middle.
You nailed the pronunciation. Their new song, Metali, and its' video especially, is like a modern follow-up to Megitsune. Both are very fun! I got to see them at Louder Than Life festival in September, where they had a condensed set due to time constraints. They had been playing these two songs back to back, but cut Megitsune in favor of the newer song, which made sense, but GOD I would have loved to hear them both!
Megitsune (eng below) Sore! Sore! Sore Sore Sore Sore! Sore! Sore! Sore Sore Sore Sore! Omekashi kitsune-san Chiki chiki washoi! Chiki chiki washoi! Tsuinte nabikase te Kira kira washoi! Kira kira washoi! Hajike te doron shi te Kura kura washoi! Kura kura washoi! Iza yuki shichihenge Go go go gogo go gogo! Sore! Sore! Sore Sore Sore Sore! Sore! Sore! Sore Sore Sore Sore! Inishie no oteme tachi yo Kari some no yume ni odoru Iku sen no toki o koe te Ima o ikiru Ah... So yoi tso demo onna Wa joyu yo Kitsune ja nai! Kitsune ja nai! Otome wa megitsune! Ah... Yamatonadeshiko onna Wa kawaru no Kao de waratte Kokoro denaite Soyo nette Namida wa misei nai yo Kitsune kitsune Watashi wa megitsune Onna wa joyu yo Sore! Sore! Sore Sore Sore Sore! Sore! Sore! Sore Sore Sore Sore! Inishie no otome tachi yo Kari some no yuime ni odoru Ikusen no toki okoe te Koko ni ikiru Ah... So yoi tso demo onna Wa joyu yo Kitsune ja nai! Kitsune ja nai! Otome wa... Nametara ikanzeyo Ah... Yamatonadeshiko onno Wa kawaru no Zutto itsumo kie nai yo ni Hanabi o ageru no Ah... Saite chiru noga onna no Sadame yo Kaode waratte Kokoro denaite Junjo otome na megitsune yo [eng]________________ Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go! Dressed-up Miss Fox [Check it! Cheer up! Check it! Cheer up!] waves her twin ponytails in the air. [Fluttering! Cheer up! Fluttering! Cheer up!] She pops and vanishes. [Whirling! Cheer up! Whirling! Cheer up!] Let her show her various aspects! [Kon kon kon ko, kon kon ko kon!] Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go! Ancient maidens, you dance in the transient dream. Getting over thousands years, you live today. Ah. It’s right. Always women are actresses. We’re not foxes, not deceiving, but maiden-like female foxes. Ah, girls are becoming more like an ideal woman. Smiling at face, crying at heart, saying “It’s right”, we never show our tears. A fox, a fox, I’m a female fox. Women are actresses. Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go! Ancient maidens, you sing in the transient dream. Getting over thousands years, you live inside us. Ah. It’s right. Always women are actresses. We’re not foxes, not deceiving. Maidens… … shouldn’t be underestimated. Ah, girls are becoming more like an ideal woman. Continuously, to keep blazing, we shoot up the fireworks. Ah, blooming and falling is the fate for a woman. Smiling at face, crying at heart, we’re pure-hearted maiden-like female foxes. Ah…
When they play this live and everyone on the floor, including the pit, jumps with them ... The building shakes . It's insane. Moa and Yui look like they are 10 years old in this video. They definitely had fun making it.
Pronounced correctly! Well done! Arguably one of the best songs and music videos done by BABYMETAL, it was recorded in 2013. I suggest you react to BABYMETAL's first two music videos: "Doki Doki Morning" and "Iine!" (pronounced "E-nay") both done in 2011 when Su-metal was 13 and both Yuimetal and Moametal were 12. I know I suggested this before but, hey, you can't remember everything, right? Perhaps take notes? Keep rockin’ BABYMETAL!!! KITSUNE UP!!! 🤘🦊🤘
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘this first time i saw /heard this group was the "Headbanger" legend show vid i had no clue what to think of them now however after seeing them live in NYC and following them for about two years have become one of my favorite bands i looked through your vid list and i have a suggestion for you "Gacharic Spin" another all girl group from Japan that absolutely defies any genre label they mix metal ,hard rock, funk, jazz and jpop sometimes all in one song i recommend you start with the song "Mindset" do the official vid first then if you want do the live version just to see that frak yes they can do that live
Some Japanese bands, old and new. Take your pick: BAND-MAID [All their songs... really!], LOVEBITES [Break the Wall, Raise some Hell, and all the other songs], BABYMETAL [All their songs, because they are all different], MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [Yoshu Fukushu], DEXCORE [Earthworm], CROSSFAITH [Catastrophe], SiM [Killing Me], NINGEN ISU [Heartless Scat], UNLUCKY MORPHEUS [Black Pentagram], YOUSEI TEIKOKU [Astral Dogma, Patriot Anthem (Live)] and their other band: DenKare [Detonator], COLDRAIN [Die Tomorrow], CRYSTAL LAKE [The Circle], GIVEN BY THE FLAMES [Ronove], LONESOME_BLUE [Face the Fear], ANGRY FROG REBIRTH [2Step Syndrome], SILENTLY SHOOTING TRAITORS [Manipulate], ALDIOUS [Dominator], TRiDENT [Ambivalent, Spoopy], BRIDEAR [Light in the Dark], CINQ ELEMENT [Destiny], MARY'S BLOOD [Marionette], GRAUPEL [Bereavement], DOLL$BOXX [Take my Chance], SOKONINARU [Tenohira De Odoru], HELLO SLEEPWALKERS [Flying Saucer], TELECiDE [Tied up Memories], NEKO [Ghost on a Record], MARDELAS [G-Metal], MERGINGMOON [Greyen], ROTTENGRAFFTY [Hallelujah], JILUKA [Mephisto, Overkill], BROKEN BY THE SCREAM [Emotion Cross-Counter], FATE GEAR [Unbreakable Wings], LYNCH [Devil], GACHARIC SPIN [Mindset], DIR EN GREY [Ningen wo Kaburu], X JAPAN [Kurenai], DAZZLE VISION [Second], DEVILOOF [Torture], JUPITER [My Enemy], NOKUTO [Life of Desire], GALNERYUS [Angel of Salvation], SAISEIGA [Ride On], BLOOD STAIN CHILD [Del-Sol], NEMOPHILA [Rise, Hypnosis], DADAROMA [Lucid Dream], JILUKA [Overkill, Lluvia, or Venom], HANABIE [We Love Sweets, Be the GAL], ZEILE [Deathside], A CROWD OF REBELLION [Re:Create of the Re:d], PALEDUSK [Area PD], POLKADOT STINGRAY [any song], MUTANT MONSTERS [Abnormal], BLACKLAB [Insanity], ASTERISM [Fiction, Rising Moon, Unravel, or Church], NOISEMAKER [Hunter or Prey], BiSH [The Night When Stars Twinkle], SCANDAL [A.M.D.K.J.], DEEP GIRL [I kill], Mrs. GREEN APPLE [Inferno], BRATS [Doudatte Yokatta], THE ORAL CIGARETTES [Frenzy Hey Kids!!], GIRUGAMESH [Drain], LiLiHoLi [From Darkness to Light], THE DEVIL’S KILLING MERRY-GO-ROUND [Diabolos], OTOBOKE BEAVER [Don't Light My Fire, Love is Short], and many many more...
Это песня, в которой говорится о силе и мужестве женщин, а метафорой служит традиционная фигура кицунэ в лисьей маске. Песня призывает женщин быть самими собой и быть сильными, несмотря на любые трудности, с которыми они могут столкнуться. В тексте песни также подчеркивается, что в жизни женщин есть радость, даже когда они сталкиваются с трудными решениями и моментами грусти. Уникальная и жизнерадостная мелодия отражает радостный акт преодоления границ и возвышения над трудностями, когда рассказчик говорит женщинам сиять и показать миру, на что они способны. К концу песни рассказчик призывает женщин быть самими собой и принять свою подлинную сущность, повторяя припев: "Kitsune janai! Kitsune ja nai! Otome na Megitsune!" ("Ты не кицунэ, ты не кицунэ! Ты дева Мегицунэ!")
i heard this song back in late 2013 and been hooked ever since. to think they were 15 and 13 years old here. now you have to do this song live. just remember Babymetal was formed when Su was 12 and Moa and Yui were 11. their first video was Doki Doki Morning. in that video they used borrowed clothes. they even taught the fake band to dance and move. Amuse thought it was an experiment so no budget for the video. and now look at them now with their shows in Japan. again i will make a suggestion for reacting to the Guide to Babymetal by Cryptic Misery, the 45 minute version. it will help you with the history of Babymetal and how it came about. well worth the reaction.
Nemophila covered Megitsune and added the parts it needed - Mayu actually does the screaming and growling and it’s chilling. On your journey down this rabbit hole you still haven’t found the first successful band - Aldious. Start with Megalomaniac live to get a sense of where all of this comes from.
The fox mask is representing the kitsune. Kitsune is the Japanese word for fox. Foxes are well known around the world as cunning tricksters, but Kitsune (Japanese for fox) are a little different. Kitsune are spiritual beings that can shapeshift into either male or female forms and possess superior intelligence. Part of the Japanese folklore pictured in the video (orange Tori gates) are Fushimi Inari which are guarded by the Inari fox statues at the gates. 🦊🦊🦊
Someone probably already explained its basically a female empowerment song if I can call it that. The Fox 🦊symbol is the foxgod. As someone already said check out their comment below for more details. I imported myself a Noh-Theatre Fox mask because they look sick and wanted a traditionally handmade one. Great that you enjoy this song its one of my favorites 🤘🦊🤘 #notacult
The song is about a woman who transforms into a fox goddess, and how she can change her appearance to fit in with the times but still stay true to her inner self. The lyrics emphasize the idea that women are like actresses, always putting on a show and hiding their true feelings, but ultimately they have the strength to endure and overcome their challenges. The chorus reminds us that women are always changing, just like the fox goddess, and that they should never be underestimated.
This song’s themes focus on women’s tendencies to hide their true intentions and emotions in order to be perceived as “ideal women”, making comparisons to actresses and, more notably, foxes
Bro, if you can get around to it please do Motteke Sailor Fuku when they were still in Sakura Gakuin and even younger than this! I promise you will love it 😊
It's a great song from Baby metal.. Do more of them and watch their progress.. Also check out your new favorite bands cover of this.. Nemophila/Megitsune cover it's awesome..
@@TRMReacts62812 This is where my journey started in Japanese music. I know you enjoy Nemophila and need to check out that cover. Saki is a big supporter of Babymetal.
Great reaction, thanks!
"Megitsune" is one of their most loved songs by fans and their most played live one (up to 277 tines to be exact... and counting!). It's also one of my top favorite songs.
It was released in June 2013. Su-metal was 15 years old while Yuimetal and Moametal were both 13 (about to turn 14) back then.
The style sub-genre is called electronicore, a mix between electronica and metalcore with a hardcore style breakdown.
The word "Megitsune" = "me" + "kitsune" which means female + fox so, vixen. Hence the "kitsune" masks everywhere.
In the Japanese folklore, the kitsune is an entity which is able to transfigure into a human form, mainly into the form of a young lady, with the objective to deceive men and cause them pain. So they sing that they aren't kitsunes but megitsunes, "pure-hearted maiden-like female foxes".
BABYMETAL fans are known as "The ONE" collectively and "kitsune" / "megitsune" individually. So you can tell this song is important! And I'm sure you have seen our 🦊 emojis on comments.
That breakdown hits hard and besides the pig squeals, the melody is from a Japanese folk song called "Sakura Sakura" (Cherry Blossoms).
It took 36 demos to Takehiro Mamiya best known as Yuyoyuppe (or Yuppemetal), the song's arranger, until Kobametal (their producer) was 100% happy with the final result. It may sound crazy but this is why "Megitsune" is one of their best songs (if not the best).
In my opinion, this music video is a masterpiece. And about its locations:
- The stage where they are performing is called Nohgakudo at Asagaya Shinmei-gu Shrine in Tokyo. This is a stage where music and dances are performed during festivals.
- The shrine right before the breakdown with the orange-ish torii gates is the famous Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto. The girls were so happy that the director traveled to Kyoto just to film that sequence.
Until next time!
🤘🦊
road-runner -- Well explained! And still there are so many symbols and elements in the vid that one could talk about them for half an hour, e.g. the traditional instruments, the mirror scene, the glass pearl game, the dagger mic, the pantomime similar dance (forming a fan with the hand to cover the face), the lyrics, etc. Megitsune is not just a song, but a little compendium of Japanese art. Although from a purely musical point I prefer other BM songs (e.g. Rondo of Nightmare), Megitsune is BM's "deepest" and most important song and became the anthem of the Japanese fräulein wonder in rock and metal (see the Nemophila cover).
@@bernardoesperanto3194 Thanks! And you are totally right. We can write an entire essay about it 😁
Now I realize I messed up with the number of live performances, since it's 315 counting till yesterday's in Oslo. 😊
You should watch "Doki Doki Morning", that's Babymetal very first MV ever!
And its a historical moment, because that was the very first "Kawaii Metal" music video in human history!!! 🤘🦊🤘
_Sore!_ 🦊🤘🔥
Glad to see you're back with this suggestion, they were quite young in this one but wait to see Doki Doki Morning or Iine!!, you can enjoy this song with the live sound of the Kami Band at Budokan 2014 or Budokan 2021 with the new formation.
Fans were enjoying and having so much fun watching this live every night at Sabaton's Europe Tour and later at Asian and Australian Tour, and The Babyklok Tour in the US, they also got another Europe headline tour this month, you don't wanna miss the chance to see them live and performing this song like they did recently in all these concerts, we always love the shanenigans when performing live between the girls in the middle section after the breakdown.
This was released in 2013 when having around 13/14 (Yui and MoaMetal )and 15 yo (SuMetal, the lead singer), so is one of their early hits and is full of japanese elements, like the "shamizen", a japanese traditional instrument, and is a party festival song (matsuri).
"Sore" "seiya" and "soya" are typical shouts among Japanese festival and it works like a "c'mon!" or "let's go" for them.
During the breakdown you can hear another typical japanese folk song called "Sakura Sakura" and they're doing a traditional Japanese dance.
In summary, song is about female empowerment and if you follow the lyrics you'll see about it, "Megitsune" means female fox (vixen) and they talk about women acting with a smile in their face while crying inside, just to fit in society or what is expected from them, when they're kind to you they're not trying to make falling in love with them, they're just being their own way, and men tend to confuse and think they're cheating or deceiving like the mythological fox.
"Megitsune" used to be a peyorative term in Japanese culture, pretty much just like around the world, but BM is using this as a way to empower women despite the meaning itself.
When SuMetal is pulling out the "tanto" she's saying "maidens shouldn't be underestimated", that refers to a japanese mob film about some boss mafia daughter before attacking someone. During live performance she does something different and looks really cool doing it.
Megitsune is a quintessential BM song and among top ranking songs by fans, SuMetal said she didn't mastered yet, that's why she used to sound check with this song before live concerts.
The origin of the "fox sign" is really long to explained but here's a short summary:
The Fox God (Kitsune Sama) is the Metal God who sent these girls (and Kami Band after to help them with the metal sound) to unify the world and set them free from Jpop slavery. The kitsune sign came out by accident around the time they created the group by the girls when trying to imitate the typical metal horn sign they noticed it was similar when doing fox shadow shape, they implemented this as part of the lore, imagery, theme and live concerts, the lore is huge so take your time and keep digging and riding the Foxhole 🦊🤘
Btw they praised for real and made a ritual to the Fox God for this song to be a hit and successful, and thanks to the Fox God this is one of their major hits and favorite BM fan songs. -NotACult- 👀
This is a song with the arrangements by YuppeMetal, he took inspiration from "Memphis May Fire - The Sinner" for the drum section, another song that i recommend you for your own time if you want.
Next suggestion:
- Ijime, Dame, Zettai live at Sonisphere Festival 2014.
See you next time. 🦊🤘🔥
I like this MV because it gives more insight into their message. I also learn so much from the comments from the fan base: for instance, one pointed out how at the beginning YUI and MOA pull on SU’s Japanese costume and the next scene she is transformed into SU-METAL. 🦊 🖖❤
I love their early stuff the most. Just joyfully insane.
Great reaction to a great song. I'm so happy that I can finally support these wonderful young women live in Cologne again in a few days. Please keep up the good work. Forever THE ONE 🤗❤🤘🦊🤘
I appreciate you taking the time to watch! Thank you so much!
I like when reactors start off their Megitsune journey with the MV, because it doesn't spoil the awesome breakdown like the live versions do.
This band is the apex of music, made to have fun and make you forget bad things, vibrate and feel the energy, for me it's the greatest band in the world!
Great reaction - and good job with the pronunciation. The masks are all Fox masks (still no wolves here). Megitsune even translates as female fox or vixen.
You've had all the explanations already so I won't repeat everything.
This was from 2013 - they were talented from the start and the whole concept was formed around Su-metal's vocal talents .... earlier songs include:
'Doki Doki Morning'
'Iine' (that is iine pronounced ee-neh)
'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' (call it IDZ if it is easier)
'Headbanger'
'Uki Uki Midnight'
I appreciate you watching and thank you so much for your support! 🙏🤘❤️🎸🔥🦊🤘
this is BEAUTIFUL...... i feel like i am understanding metal for the first time.. strangely. the whole composition, the energy, choreography, drums, rhythm, intensity..... just beautiful. I am shocked.
If you think they're young here watch the 'Doki Doki Morning' music video. It was filmed in Oct 2011. The song was recorded Oct 2010.
Doki Doki is Onamonapia (spelling) word that sounds like what it is. It is a heartbeat doki doki. It means exciting. There are a lot of those in Japanese. Like Mogu Mogu is chewing. So Doki Doki Morning is exciting morning.
Great reaction! Fun fact: this song had been played live by Babymetal over 300 times to date. Definitely one of their staple songs and a fan favorite. A lot of their live performances also has audience engagement sections built in during the extended breakdown section.
Look forward to more! 🤘🦊
Definitely time you watch the Babymetal guide to see where it all came from. BTW life performances of Megitsune are always HYPE. Greets from Germany.
This is a great song live!
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[MOA] SU-METAL will slash you. Really.
[YUI] Yeah. [SU] (laughs)
(Megitsune video commentary from the BABYMETAL members)
You were pretty close on the pronunciation of the song title.
They spell it out, but unfortunately in katakana: メギツネ.
It's "Meh-gee-tsoo-neh".
Su was 15. Yui and Moa were 13, almost 14 when the music video was released.
Even though they were wearing white robes, this was not the Kami Band.
The performers pretending to play the traditional Japanese instruments in this video are dancers with the Movement Design group.
Chidori Yakumo is their director. She is the woman performing the fan dance during the breakdown.
Megitsune is my jam. It's still my favorite BABYMETAL song, video and choreography.
Definitely quintessential BABYMETAL. Like their new song 'Metali' (メタり！！) you could even call this Kawaii Festival Metal.
BABYMETAL's producer Koba sent this song back to the song arranger Yuyoyuppe dozens of times before he was satisfied with it.
This one consistently tops fan polls, and has been performed live more than any other BABYMETAL song.
Much of the video was shot on location on a Noh drama stage by the Asagaya Shinmei Shrine in Tokyo.
This has since become something of a pilgrimmage site for BABYMETAL fans.
If you want the earliest, 'Doki Doki ☆ Morning' is their first song and first music video.
The DVD single and the abridged music video were released in October 2011.
Suzuka was 13, Yui and Moa were 12.
They recorded it a year before that.
The 'Megitsune' single and music video were released in June of 2013.
Rick is back!! from Crab boat!!! 🦀🏴☠
Great reaction! Thanks! 🤘🦊🤘
Thank you for watching! 😊 🙏
BABYMETAL live show Road Of Resistance(Mosh Pit) Megitsune, Give Me Chocolate, Head Banger, Legend Of 1979, GJ, KARATE(MV)
This song and pa pa ya live are their best workout songs haha
it's a fox mask. Megitsune is a female fox. Look up Japanese mythology of a god that disguises itself as a fox. The song is about how girls/women grow up/get through the world. It's about girl-power.
I appreciate the breakdown. Thank you so much!
@@TRMReacts62812 There is a great performance of this song live in Japan in front of a ravenous all-female audience. I’ll leave the link.
This version has English subs🦊🤘🏾 th-cam.com/video/7pfSwQdeZC4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bnpWlymmrMJyxpvV
This is one of their best songs, hope i'll hear it live one day 😁
This is the first Babymetal song I heard. It immediately got me hooked on Babymetal. Travelling from Malta to Munich in a few days' time to see them live. 🤘🦊🤘
Great reaction! May FoxGod bless you🤘🦊♪
Amazing how professional at a young age they were . Live Megitsune is great as always 😁🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼
absolutely amazing 😍🤩
Megitsune will go down as among the greatest non English heavy metal songs of all time, right up there with Rammstein's or Sepultura's classic bangers.
this song hooked me. :) they just keep growing better.
Check out Doki doki morning and iine :)
From the outside, it just looks like any normal shrine with a sizeable stone torii gate but just a short walk beyond that is the main filming location for the ‘ Megitsune ‘ (2013) music video.The Noh Hall is used for various traditional performing arts, festivals and a Babymetal video!
The three girls and the band perform the song on stage with the modern impression of bonsai pictured on the wooden panel behind them. This part of the shrine complex is not open every day so please be aware of that should you wish to see it in all its glory. Sunday seems to be the best bet for when it is open for public viewing.
This is one of the “Ten Shrines Of Tokyo‘ which are considered the most important as they were selected in 1868 by Emperor Meiji after he had moved to Edo and renamed it Tokyo. The beautiful red torii gates also featured in ‘Tokyo Pop‘ (1988) and they are proof that you really don’t need to go to Kyoto to see such an image!
It is perfect that your pronunciation of the song title. This song, Gimme Choco!, and Road of Resistance or something are now classic songs of BABYMETAL. BM played them at the recent NEX_Fest in Makuhari, Chiba (Tokyo), Japan too and I was there but I almost died from moshing and couldn't listen to it properly, lol. BM'll be touring EU & UK soon. Thank you from Japan!
Hello. I saw it in Seattle recently. I would love to see it in Japan. I have been studying Japanese. The crowd was most excited for Metari. I shouted when the intro to Headbanger started and a guy in front turned around and gave me a high 5.
@@Jordan-Ramses Did you see them in Seattle? That's great. I saw B×M×C, Brand New Day and MAYA in Makuhari, and I was moved. I saw them in the general area, almost in the front row, and I was almost crushed to death!
Good luck with your Japanese language studies! I'll do my best in English.
@minamihideki7123 your English is great. I've been studying Japanese for 6 months. I'm halfway through the Duolingo Japanese. Yeah I saw Babymetal in Seattle. I saw Band-Maid last year in Seattle. I like American/English language stuff too. What English entertainment do you like?
@@Jordan-Ramses Thank you for my poor English.😀
I wonder what I like about English stuff...
As for music, the majority of my generation in Japan discovered Western music when we were teenagers and almost got into it, but I had moved away from Western music since after that. Nevertheless, after I grew up and had the financial means to do so, I collected at least one album by some major Western rock artists. I hardly listen to hip-hop or anything like that. So I had listened to Japanese jazz fusion for a long time. In movies, I like Clint Eastwood, and Woody Allen or so. In TV drama, I liked the early ER series.
As for Band Maid, it had a live on 2th September at the live bar, Club Junk Box in Nagano city, near my hometown, but it was no announcement about tickets going on sale anytime soon, and when I found out, they went on sale and were sold out immediately, (tears). But I did see Ningen Isu live the other day at the same place. It was great.
Great reaction! Have liked BabyMetal for long time. They lead me to other Japanese bands one of them being Nemophila which does a fun cover of this. Another cool live BabyMetal song to check out is Ijime, Dame, Zettai live at Sonisphere 2014. It was there first big concert outside of Japan. It was there big breakout into the international metal scene. Supposedly they were going to appear on a smaller stage but got switch to main stage. People were there to see METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER and more and up comes BabyMetal. By the end of the show they had the crowd cheering for more and they were the surprise talk of the festival. Very cool anti bullying song and the solo section is sick! You will dig it.
babymetals mask is the fox god and the wolf pack is lovebites
One of the most perfect songs ever. 🤘🦊🤘
This song is a masterpiece!
Pretty amazing it eh? Incredible talent and an amazingly great group. Crazy thing is they just keep getting better.
Very cool!!!
To see them young, “Doki Doki Morning” and “Iine”, original music videos, show the beginning of the project. It's great to see how the production managed to create a light song, with 11, 12 year old girls singing and mixing very well done metal elements.
I saw that you reacted to other bands from Japan (I follow Nemophila, Band Maid, Unlucky Morpheus, Lovebites and Wagakki Band).
Nemophila has some videos playing covers, as you may have already noticed. One of these covers is precisely Nemophila playing this song that you reacted to here (Megitsune - Babymetal). Worth checking out!
Enjoy Babymetal! 🦊🤘🦊
Thank you for your great reaction🦊🤘
It gave me joy and excitement❤️🔥
The Fox God is Babymetal's patron deity and so you'll see lots of foxes in Babymetal's imagery. The Megitsune lyrics draw parallels with the traits of foxes in Japanese myths and the traditional way Japanese women (and maybe all women) have to behave in patriarchal societies. If I had to choose one song to sum up BM's soul it would be Megitsune.
BM's path to today has not been entirely straight; the third album wasn't Kobayashi's best work and it took them a long time to recover from Yui leaving and the death of their lead guitarist, Mikio Fujioka. Actually, the Kami Band hasn't really recovered because their integration into the performances has changed and they now wear masks, which I will always dislike. But they are back touring with a new member, Momoko, and the latest album, The One, has some great songs on it.
Megitsune, or vixen, is an early Babymetal song released in 2013, so Su will be 15 in the video and Moa and Yui are 13,
and it is one of BM's female empowerment songs. The temple and the Japanese instruments sets a very traditional tone, but right from the start old Japanese values are challenged as Yui and Moa pull on Su's obi (sash) to release her from her kimono so she can do the high leg lift dance. That dance contrasts with the traditional restrained dance in the break down. That break down is a very old song called "Sakura, Sakura" and is about the cherry blossom, but BM even subvert that and Su sing's "kitsune, kitsune" (fox, fox). This is also a call back to their parent idol group which is Sakura Gakuin or Cherry Blossom Academy.
In Japan the fox is seen as a clever shape shifter and the lyrics liken women to female foxes in the way they have to change themselves to please others or to hide their true feelings. In the dance BM mime wearing a mask and also putting on make up as another way to hide themselves. But the strength of women is emphasized and the expression of this peaks when Su shouts:
"Otome wa nametara ikan zeyo" and draws a knife from her microphone.
The phrase is translated as "Maidens shouldn’t be underestimated" (credit Du-metal), although that is a polite interpretation. It's also used in a famous Japanese gangster film called Onimasa and is translated there as " don't you sh*t with me". Some of BM's lyrics can be quite shocking to Japanese audiences and native speakers say that gets lost on non-Japanese speakers who have to experience Babymetal's lyrics through the distorting lens of translation.
Can imagine the reaction of every Babymetal fan when you said the Wolf sign 😱😱😱😂
Yes!! So pronounced Megitsune correctly! One of my fave Babymetal songs!!!
Guess what!! Did you know Nemophila covered Megitsune too?? Guitarist, Saki-san is a big Babymetal fan so Nemophila decided to cover it!
My hope is that Babymetal & Nemophila go on tour together where they can perform this song. Imagine Babymetal doing this with Nemophila as the band!!
Please react to Nemophila's cover of MEGITSUNE!!!
Trust me! That one is at the top of the list to do next. Thank you so much for watching and your support! 🤘 ❤️🔥🎸
Awesome! Yeah Ive been falling down this J-Metal rabbit hole since the beginning of this year. I was so lucky to see Nemophila and then Hanabie. when they were in NYC for their respective tours. I'm getting into Babymetal now and will have to check other bands like Lovebites and BandMaid.
So happy that these bands are pushing metal to the next level!!
Thank you so much for your reactions and helping the world know about these awesome bands!!
Oh yeah Nemophila and Hanabie sound so awesome live!!! Crazy energy and awesome crowds! Def see them if they come to your area!
@@isauma3 You will not be disappointed with either lovebites or Band-maid! They're both awesome! Thank you for watching and your support! 🤘 🎸🔥🖤
Two things - if you want and can, react to live version of this song. Its entirely different beast with the audience engaged.
Also a side note: I've been trying to engage other youtuber to react to a song and hope you could be the first one - Skyfire - Dimension Unseen - it's one of the most melodic death metals I've ever heard. Its a song by Sweeding group dating back in 1995 (still active) and the song is from 2001. It has one hell of a solo in the middle.
You nailed the pronunciation. Their new song, Metali, and its' video especially, is like a modern follow-up to Megitsune. Both are very fun! I got to see them at Louder Than Life festival in September, where they had a condensed set due to time constraints. They had been playing these two songs back to back, but cut Megitsune in favor of the newer song, which made sense, but GOD I would have loved to hear them both!
Yes, I think you are right. Also Pardon Me (Osaki ni Shitsureishimasu) by Hanabie is like a sequel to Megitsune too.
2 minutes in, you: "God damnit... they were already going this hard 10 years ago?"
Me: *grins and sits back waiting for the breakdown*
Megitsune (eng below)
Sore! Sore!
Sore Sore Sore Sore!
Sore! Sore!
Sore Sore Sore Sore!
Omekashi kitsune-san
Chiki chiki washoi!
Chiki chiki washoi!
Tsuinte nabikase te
Kira kira washoi!
Kira kira washoi!
Hajike te doron shi te
Kura kura washoi!
Kura kura washoi!
Iza yuki shichihenge
Go go go gogo go gogo!
Sore! Sore!
Sore Sore Sore Sore!
Sore! Sore!
Sore Sore Sore Sore!
Inishie no oteme tachi yo
Kari some no yume ni odoru
Iku sen no toki o koe te
Ima o ikiru
Ah...
So yoi tso demo onna
Wa joyu yo
Kitsune ja nai!
Kitsune ja nai!
Otome wa megitsune!
Ah...
Yamatonadeshiko onna
Wa kawaru no
Kao de waratte
Kokoro denaite
Soyo nette
Namida wa misei nai yo
Kitsune kitsune
Watashi wa megitsune
Onna wa joyu yo
Sore! Sore!
Sore Sore Sore Sore!
Sore! Sore!
Sore Sore Sore Sore!
Inishie no otome tachi yo
Kari some no yuime ni odoru
Ikusen no toki okoe te
Koko ni ikiru
Ah...
So yoi tso demo onna
Wa joyu yo
Kitsune ja nai!
Kitsune ja nai!
Otome wa...
Nametara ikanzeyo
Ah...
Yamatonadeshiko onno
Wa kawaru no
Zutto itsumo kie nai yo ni
Hanabi o ageru no
Ah...
Saite chiru noga onna no
Sadame yo
Kaode waratte
Kokoro denaite
Junjo otome na megitsune yo
[eng]________________
Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go!
Dressed-up Miss Fox
[Check it! Cheer up! Check it! Cheer up!]
waves her twin ponytails in the air.
[Fluttering! Cheer up! Fluttering! Cheer up!]
She pops and vanishes.
[Whirling! Cheer up! Whirling! Cheer up!]
Let her show her various aspects!
[Kon kon kon ko, kon kon ko kon!]
Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go!
Ancient maidens,
you dance in the transient dream.
Getting over thousands years,
you live today.
Ah. It’s right. Always women are actresses.
We’re not foxes, not deceiving,
but maiden-like female foxes.
Ah, girls are becoming more like an ideal woman.
Smiling at face, crying at heart,
saying “It’s right”, we never show our tears.
A fox, a fox, I’m a female fox.
Women are actresses.
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! - Go! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Go!
Ancient maidens,
you sing in the transient dream.
Getting over thousands years,
you live inside us.
Ah. It’s right. Always women are actresses.
We’re not foxes, not deceiving.
Maidens…
… shouldn’t be underestimated.
Ah, girls are becoming more like an ideal woman.
Continuously, to keep blazing,
we shoot up the fireworks.
Ah, blooming and falling is the fate for a woman.
Smiling at face, crying at heart,
we’re pure-hearted maiden-like female foxes.
Ah…
When they play this live and everyone on the floor, including the pit, jumps with them ... The building shakes . It's insane. Moa and Yui look like they are 10 years old in this video. They definitely had fun making it.
They always look their age. They look young because they are.
Great react again Kitsune! The number 5 in my top 10. Simply and absolutely amazing!! You need watch this song live! See you!!
Pronounced correctly! Well done!
Arguably one of the best songs and music videos done by BABYMETAL, it was recorded in 2013. I suggest you react to BABYMETAL's first two music videos: "Doki Doki Morning" and "Iine!" (pronounced "E-nay") both done in 2011 when Su-metal was 13 and both Yuimetal and Moametal were 12. I know I suggested this before but, hey, you can't remember everything, right? Perhaps take notes?
Keep rockin’ BABYMETAL!!!
KITSUNE UP!!! 🤘🦊🤘
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘this first time i saw /heard this group was the "Headbanger" legend show vid i had no clue what to think of them now however after seeing them live in NYC and following them for about two years have become one of my favorite bands i looked through your vid list and i have a suggestion for you "Gacharic Spin" another all girl group from Japan that absolutely defies any genre label they mix metal ,hard rock, funk, jazz and jpop sometimes all in one song i recommend you start with the song "Mindset" do the official vid first then if you want do the live version just to see that frak yes they can do that live
🔥🦊🔥
Some Japanese bands, old and new. Take your pick: BAND-MAID [All their songs... really!], LOVEBITES [Break the Wall, Raise some Hell, and all the other songs], BABYMETAL [All their songs, because they are all different], MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [Yoshu Fukushu], DEXCORE [Earthworm], CROSSFAITH [Catastrophe], SiM [Killing Me], NINGEN ISU [Heartless Scat], UNLUCKY MORPHEUS [Black Pentagram], YOUSEI TEIKOKU [Astral Dogma, Patriot Anthem (Live)] and their other band: DenKare [Detonator], COLDRAIN [Die Tomorrow], CRYSTAL LAKE [The Circle], GIVEN BY THE FLAMES [Ronove], LONESOME_BLUE [Face the Fear], ANGRY FROG REBIRTH [2Step Syndrome], SILENTLY SHOOTING TRAITORS [Manipulate], ALDIOUS [Dominator], TRiDENT [Ambivalent, Spoopy], BRIDEAR [Light in the Dark], CINQ ELEMENT [Destiny], MARY'S BLOOD [Marionette], GRAUPEL [Bereavement], DOLL$BOXX [Take my Chance], SOKONINARU [Tenohira De Odoru], HELLO SLEEPWALKERS [Flying Saucer], TELECiDE [Tied up Memories], NEKO [Ghost on a Record], MARDELAS [G-Metal], MERGINGMOON [Greyen], ROTTENGRAFFTY [Hallelujah], JILUKA [Mephisto, Overkill], BROKEN BY THE SCREAM [Emotion Cross-Counter], FATE GEAR [Unbreakable Wings], LYNCH [Devil], GACHARIC SPIN [Mindset], DIR EN GREY [Ningen wo Kaburu], X JAPAN [Kurenai], DAZZLE VISION [Second], DEVILOOF [Torture], JUPITER [My Enemy], NOKUTO [Life of Desire], GALNERYUS [Angel of Salvation], SAISEIGA [Ride On], BLOOD STAIN CHILD [Del-Sol], NEMOPHILA [Rise, Hypnosis], DADAROMA [Lucid Dream], JILUKA [Overkill, Lluvia, or Venom], HANABIE [We Love Sweets, Be the GAL], ZEILE [Deathside], A CROWD OF REBELLION [Re:Create of the Re:d], PALEDUSK [Area PD], POLKADOT STINGRAY [any song], MUTANT MONSTERS [Abnormal], BLACKLAB [Insanity], ASTERISM [Fiction, Rising Moon, Unravel, or Church], NOISEMAKER [Hunter or Prey], BiSH [The Night When Stars Twinkle], SCANDAL [A.M.D.K.J.], DEEP GIRL [I kill], Mrs. GREEN APPLE [Inferno], BRATS [Doudatte Yokatta], THE ORAL CIGARETTES [Frenzy Hey Kids!!], GIRUGAMESH [Drain], LiLiHoLi [From Darkness to Light], THE DEVIL’S KILLING MERRY-GO-ROUND [Diabolos], OTOBOKE BEAVER [Don't Light My Fire, Love is Short], and many many more...
Holy 💩! This list! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thank you so much for doing this! Knowledge 💣 for sure! 🤣🫡💯🙏🤘🎸
Это песня, в которой говорится о силе и мужестве женщин, а метафорой служит традиционная фигура кицунэ в лисьей маске. Песня призывает женщин быть самими собой и быть сильными, несмотря на любые трудности, с которыми они могут столкнуться. В тексте песни также подчеркивается, что в жизни женщин есть радость, даже когда они сталкиваются с трудными решениями и моментами грусти. Уникальная и жизнерадостная мелодия отражает радостный акт преодоления границ и возвышения над трудностями, когда рассказчик говорит женщинам сиять и показать миру, на что они способны. К концу песни рассказчик призывает женщин быть самими собой и принять свою подлинную сущность, повторяя припев: "Kitsune janai! Kitsune ja nai! Otome na Megitsune!" ("Ты не кицунэ, ты не кицунэ! Ты дева Мегицунэ!")
You think in this they look so young? Wait until you see Doki Doki Morning music video when Yui and Moa still can pass as toddlers 😁
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Sore ! Sore ! Sore ! SoreSoreSoreSore!! !!!
I am 75 years old so I can imagine how their grandfathers feel seeing them grow.
Kitsune is like a magical Fox that can shape shift, so megitsune is a play off that transformation from a girl into a young woman
i heard this song back in late 2013 and been hooked ever since. to think they were 15 and 13 years old here. now you have to do this song live. just remember Babymetal was formed when Su was 12 and Moa and Yui were 11. their first video was Doki Doki Morning. in that video they used borrowed clothes. they even taught the fake band to dance and move. Amuse thought it was an experiment so no budget for the video. and now look at them now with their shows in Japan. again i will make a suggestion for reacting to the Guide to Babymetal by Cryptic Misery, the 45 minute version. it will help you with the history of Babymetal and how it came about. well worth the reaction.
Nemophila covered Megitsune and added the parts it needed - Mayu actually does the screaming and growling and it’s chilling.
On your journey down this rabbit hole you still haven’t found the first successful band - Aldious. Start with Megalomaniac live to get a sense of where all of this comes from.
Great reaction mate :)))
The fox mask is representing the kitsune. Kitsune is the Japanese word for fox. Foxes are well known around the world as cunning tricksters, but Kitsune (Japanese for fox) are a little different. Kitsune are spiritual beings that can shapeshift into either male or female forms and possess superior intelligence. Part of the Japanese folklore pictured in the video (orange Tori gates) are Fushimi Inari which are guarded by the Inari fox statues at the gates. 🦊🦊🦊
If haven't already you need to see the nemophila cover of this song
Nemophila did cover this megitsune song , it just awesome ! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!
Babymetal is crazy, but in a good way.
Hold on tight bro...😈
Someone probably already explained its basically a female empowerment song if I can call it that.
The Fox 🦊symbol is the foxgod. As someone already said check out their comment below for more details.
I imported myself a Noh-Theatre Fox mask because they look sick and wanted a traditionally handmade one.
Great that you enjoy this song its one of my favorites 🤘🦊🤘 #notacult
All hail the fox God.
Megitsune means female foxes.
She pulls out a knife and says... Don't underestimate maidens... (female foxes.)
Came here for YUI ❤❤❤ 4:15
yes yes yes
Great reaction, check out babymetal - Catch me if you can live Budokan Black Night🤘🦊🤘
The song is about a woman who transforms into a fox goddess, and how she can change her appearance to fit in with the times but still stay true to her inner self. The lyrics emphasize the idea that women are like actresses, always putting on a show and hiding their true feelings, but ultimately they have the strength to endure and overcome their challenges. The chorus reminds us that women are always changing, just like the fox goddess, and that they should never be underestimated.
This may be the best summary I've seen of it that doesn't become long winded and starts inserting random western ideologies into it. 😆
You should react to Megitsune live!
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Reaction Live 🤟🦊🤟
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NEXT SONG ----> *DEATH*
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This song’s themes focus on women’s tendencies to hide their true intentions and emotions in order to be perceived as “ideal women”, making comparisons to actresses and, more notably, foxes
I would recommend Megitsune live. You can get it off my playlist of 2023 live performances.
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Bro, if you can get around to it please do Motteke Sailor Fuku when they were still in Sakura Gakuin and even younger than this! I promise you will love it 😊
It's a great song from Baby metal.. Do more of them and watch their progress..
Also check out your new favorite bands cover of this.. Nemophila/Megitsune cover it's awesome..
I think it was because he saw the cover of Nemophila
@@tttrip He hasn't seen it yet, that is why I suggested it..
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You should jump into their live stuffs now.
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As good as this MV is (and it is) the LIVE performances (such as Budokan 2021 or Legend 1997 concert) needs to be seen when you can.
Nemophila did a cover of this song also, it is a great cover
I did see that. And you better believe that reaction is gonna have me throwing chairs! Haha. 🤣🤘🎸🔥
@@TRMReacts62812 This is where my journey started in Japanese music. I know you enjoy Nemophila and need to check out that cover. Saki is a big supporter of Babymetal.
Nemophila do an awesome cover of this
Fellow, let me ask you something... Are you seeing anyone really playing? To me this is a comercial package and not a product made by musicians...
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