BabyMetal "Gimme Chocolate": copyright edit. AJ Hartley analysis reaction #6.1
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- The first version of this got flagged for copyright so I've pulled the footage of the performance on the Daily Show. Not ideal, but there it is. I recommend you watching that footage in a different window so you can see what I'm talking about. It's here:https: // • BABYMETAL - Gimme Choc...
Though this was the 1st BM song I encountered, I didn't think I had anything to say about it. Turns out, I did :) If you're not persuaded, that's ok. Hope you find something about it entertaining or interesting anyway. And, of course, check out the video that started it all: • BABYMETAL - ギミチョコ！！- G... 
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The 'Legend 1997' clip is about the safest BABYMETAL thing to react to.
Bummer there were issues with the Colbert Show footage.
But thanks for reposting. This is turning into a great resource to point new fans to.
Here's my original comment:
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Always love to see Hideki singing along during the songs. : )
And even though I'm a big Takayoshi Ohmura fan, I'm glad we got some many shots of the late great Mikio Fujioka.
Duane Metal ('Learning Japanese with BABYMETAL') believes that "Zukkyun" and "Dokkyun" are onomatopoeias for the sound of shooting, which makes sense considering the choreography.
Du-Enki (du-metal.blogspot.com) says that "Zu(k)kyun" and "Do(k)kyun" are "used to express the state of one's heart shot by something (e.g. the arrow of love)."
I think you struck a great balance in your interpretation about "WEIGHT".
So folks go way overboard.
Check out Su's expression (and her answer, "No.") when the interviewer for REVOLVER suggests the song is about eating disorders.
ruclips.net/video/B2FMHwmK9-s/видео.htmlm28s (timestamped)
I appreciate you for re-uploading this 有難うございます💛。 Every fan understands what you are doing here helps the fandom expand worldwide.
BABYMETAL songs have multiple implications which allows multiple and comingled interpretations. That is one of their charms.
Thanks for getting this up again and such a shame it got flagged so you had to cut the footage. Rest assured everybody watching really appreciates all your efforts to get these videos out to us and I hope you're not deterred from continuing as every one of your analyses has been fascinating.
"...but kinda yeah" and your expression just made my day. I also agree this performance is perfection. With the small set we can clearly see a group of world class musicians having a blast.
excellent content professor, To Be or Not to Be... a fan of Babymetal is not even a question, but a riddle wrapped in a conundrum , only a scallywag would choose the latter. love your channel Andrew-Metal.
Thank you again, professor! Your reading of the cultural context is very interesting to listen to.
I already knew about the Valentine’s Day custom of female-to-male gifts of chocolate and males reciprocating a month later with gifts of chocolate to the females. Learned that while watching videos posted by Duane-Metal, whom you’ve referenced a few times. But you provided some other facts that I didn’t know. For example, the history of how chocolate found its way to Japan, which happened more recently than I had realized. Also, the discussion about how added body weight (possibly the result from eating a lot of chocolate) and how that is viewed now as opposed to how the subject might have been viewed in the past before western influences.
As far as skipping over the song while listening to a BM set, I don’t think I could do that. Of course, you’ve been listening to Babymetal a lot longer than I have - I only discovered them in March of this year. But I find that every BM song offers something unique and, so far, I haven’t grown tired of listening to any particular song. In fact, after watching your analysis, I went back and re-watched the video from the Colbert show, which I’ve seen many times, just to concentrate on the girls’ expressions to see if it looked like they were nervous or just enjoying themselves. IMO, it looked like they were performing the song perfectly and having a lot of fun doing it.
Before clicking here, I thought that this was the most straightforward of BM songs, and my expectations were therefore rather modest. What was there left to explain? Foolish me! I got educated on postwar Japan and its cultural development and shown how the song fits into that. It's good to see that girl empowerment; a theme in many Babymetal songs, is also present here in some way.
As always, professor, thank you for the time and work you are putting into these videos, so we can fall more in love with BM every day by broadening our understanding of their art,
Over-complicating things is kind of what I do... ;)
@@AndrewHartley We Germans have a reputation for doing the same in engineering 🙂
And that is also something I'm here for. You show me the fringes of meaning and I can decide how far I'll follow you.
BTW: I've organised your song explanations, the Kitsune video and the two parts of the BM costume history into a playlist for easier access during my studies and maybe as a means to direct other fans to the work you do here 1) Please let me know if you disagree with anything in the description box. 2) There seems to be some inconsistency in the episode numbers. Two of them show up on more than one episode. I personally don't mind but thought I should tell you.
What an absolute hassle... so sorry you have to go through all of this when you are simply doing fans ánd Babymetal a great service with your videos.
Chances are high it is on CBS this time indeed but Amuse inc has been notorious as well when it comes to videos showing performances from concert DVD/Bluray releases and in some cases even for official MV's if shown in full without interuptions.
The way some reactiontubers circumvented that was to have people open a second window where they watched the clip in question while the reactor had the audio muted and video blurred... Which of course doesn't work for the videos you make.
An option would be to upload the full video you made to Vimeo or Dailymotion and post the video with the song blurred and muted on RUclips with a link to the other platform,....
If people leave the YT video running o mute while watching the ther video you'd still have the views (if that's even the reason why you do this,.... doubt it ;) )but that would equally be a hassle I think..
I sincerely hope this will not deter you from trying to get your delightful exposés on Babymetal songs out to us but I cán imagine you getting tired of this.
Great that the video is up again! (And I'm glad I saved the original uncut version on my computer :)
I have just Enjoyed Babymetal and learnt a lot about Japan's history
"The word was "pungent"."
I had to pause for a few minutes and get a drink and settle myself down again after that.
So it seems i'm getting more and more delayed on your videos, just watched sixth.
First I hadn't realized until your video, but I agree there is again an implicit message against that chocolate valentine thing. I think calling it feminism are pretty big words for what Babymetal does, but I see a constant theme on their songs of subtly saying "hey, respect us girls more". Here in Catalonia we have a tradition in St.George's day (23 april, for Cervantes and Shakespeare as you must know), where in couples the woman gives a book to his beloved and the man gives her a rose. That's also pretty unfair and degrading to a point if you think about it.
Your recollection of your times in Japan made me remember a lot to the time I spent in China some years ago when I was there studying. This probably doesn't interest to anyone but well. Bars and western looking bars and clubs were booming with a lot of western music around, they were even putting Beatles a lot (yep, in 2012-13). The students were all really interested in western movies and everything, some guy always telling me that his favorite movies were also Tarantino's for example.
On Mikio, I made the decision of never get sad when I see performing, just grateful.
So thank you again for your video, I'll try to catch up for more recent ones.
Thanks! Sorry for the delay in responding. Just saw your comment.
Hello. I am not good at listening to English, so I tried my best to listen to the video, but I might not to be able to understand half of your story. But knowing that, I will write rambling things. Please forgive me.
I have read something about Gimme Chocolate lyrics in the blogs written by enthusiastic Japanese fans. Even in it, It has said that the lyrics do not make any sense. But I think the lyrics are well elaborated. I think they sing the cute emotions of girls, and I think it is fun to be able to imagine various scenes.
I think you introduced David Bowie in the sense that it was a meeting between the West and Japan (Asia). "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" is my favorite movie. Bowie, Tom Conti, Sakamoto, and Takeshi Kitano, the most influential person in my life, are very cool in the movie. My immature interpretation is that World War II (Pacific War) was a clash of imperialism each other. The leading Western imperialist nations have crushed Japan, the late imperialist nation of Asia, which tried to catch up with Western nations, as cheeky. There also might have been a sense of discrimination. However, I think the theme of this movie is the cultural conflict between the West and Japan. Yet another theme is homosexuality that transcends culture and race.
Anyway, Japan lost this battle, a lot of culture flowed in from the United States, and postwar Japan has began. I do not talk about the good or bad of the fact, here. "Give me chocolate" is that iconic phrase at that time of Japan. It might be a humiliating words for the generation who experienced the war. However, 76 years after the war, now the number of generations who do not know about the war has increased in Japan, including myself. Chocolate was available in Japan before the war, but it was still a luxury item and became popular after the war. Chocolate is now a favorite of all people, not to mention girls. That is why I think they can sing like this.
I think Valentine's Day is a typical example of Japan's longing for the West. Ignoring the original meaning based on Christianity, We took in only the looking cool parts, and it became a day for lovers. Although he is not Mr. Colbert, Takeshi Kitano, whom I love and respect, once said as an ironical joke that Valentine's Day and Christmas Eve in Japan are the busiest days in the hotels. He said look at the hotel reception in the next morning, A lustrous woman and a stupid man with drawn in his cheeks are drooling there. Excuse me. At the place where we are talking about BABYMETAL, I said perverted thing.
By the way, your mother-in-law (Giri) is Japanese?. So have you ever received chocolate-in-law (Giri) from her?, lol.
Thank you for the efforts of Sensei. Please let me comment in the next your videos again. And thank you again from Japan.
Thanks. Yes, I love Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. A wonderful film. The theme song by Ryuichi Sakamoto with David Sylvian on vocals is one of my all time favorites. And yes, my wife is Japanese American and her parents are both Japanese. I consult with my mother in law on lyrics sometimes, but she is a bit baffled by BabyMetal :)
Thank you :)
What actualy first sparked my interest in going down the fox hole through gimme choco (also my first contact to Babymetal) was the guitar solo. First because i´d never seen a shreding guitar solo with young girls playing around with the public, cheering and smiling. But mostly because of the final notes of the solo, which clearly resemble Pantera´s Dimebag Darrel trademark screaming guitar, and whom as Mikio died just too soon and tragically. Well, also the guitar riffs are very similar to Judas Priest´s Painkiller, which is great. From there on I was certain it wasn´t just an image driven gimmicky act, but a full and honest hommage to heavy metal music history underneath, with a japanese twist
Yes, good points about the guitar work. Thanks!
Happy white day! (Happen to be listening to this today, 3/14
It's my understanding that you should return a gift to all you recieved chocolate from. At least if you're polite.
Ha! Indeed.
Hi professor
I just like to said thanks and congrats on this videos they very interesting and fund
I will love for you to react to this song
META TARO AT TOKIO DOME
I THINK IT WILL BE AMAZING TO LEARN ABOUT