BabyMetal Rondo of Nightmare Live Reaction

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  • Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2024

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  • @Grington300
    @Grington300 2 года назад +24

    Great reaction and welcome to the BABYMETAL Galaxy. I'm assuming the songs that were blocked included 'Gimme Chocolate' since it was blocked (the official videos are prone to that unfortunately) and you mentioned the band in skeleton suits.
    They were known as Babybones and were not a real band. They were actors, dancers or staff members pretending to play, the instrumentals were on a backing track. Everybody knew what they were doing, there was no attempt at deception, they were just there for the show in the very early days since BABYMETAL started as a sub-unit of a Jpop group and were given no budget for a live band ... they even had to borrow clothes to make their own stage costumes at the start.
    The band you saw here are the Kami Band and they are among the very best session musicians to be found in Japan. Kami means god or spirit, so they are the gods of guitar, bass and drums summoned form the dead to support BABYMETAL in live performances for the Metal Resistance (BABYMETAL have their own lore and many of their concerts follow a loose story line). That is why they have the traditional white burial robes and corpse face paint.
    More recently the robes are black and masks have replaced the face paint.
    They were phased in gradually from October 2012 in anticipation of BABYMETAL separating from the parent Jpop group to become an independent band in their own right in 2013. playing a couple of festivals and the encores in some shows. Babybones made their last appearance at a big show at the Legend 1997 concert in December 2013 - they were on stage for the first 9 songs, the Kami Band came on to play live for the 5 encore songs.
    As session musicians they all have their own bands and projects, so they are not always available, so there are a few other musicians who will step in, but they have had the same hard core of about 6 musicians who have played the vast majority of shows ever since they became the full time support in March 2014. These are the ones you will see in most live performance videos:
    Guitars: Mikio Fujioka (RIP January 2018); Takayoshi Ohmura; Leda Cygnus; ISAO (it was Leda and Takayoshi in this video).
    Bass: BOH
    Drums: Hideki Aoyama
    For the 2019 US tour and the 2020 UK & Europe tour the Kami Band of the West (American musicians) supported BABYMETAL. They are Chris Kelly and CJ Masciantonio on guitars, Clint Tustin on bass and Anthony Barone on drums.
    BABYMETAL are Su-metal (lead vocals) - the whole concept was formed and developed around her vocal talents and stage presence even though she was only 12 when they formed in 2010. This was one of her four solo songs, the other two were getting a much needed break back stage.
    Yuimetal and Moametal are 18 months younger than Su and they are in charge of "scream and dance". In reality they provide backing vocals and harmonies, but their role is crucial to what makes BABYMETAL unique and special. Their choreo helps to interpret the meaning of the songs and lyrics, but it is also designed to lead the crowd and to get everybody hyped and involved. When they jump, pump their fists or make a certain move the audience follows their lead, they lead chants and call backs within songs and it is their parts the crowd will sing along with.
    Yui and Moa had 4 songs they would perform as a duo (known as Black BABYMETAL) without Su, so just as they got a break in her solos she could get a break when they performed those songs.
    Sadly Yui left the band in October 2018 after a 12 month absence for undisclosed health reasons. Su and Moa chose to continue as a duo and are supported in live shows by dancers in the third spot. From 2019 through 2021 there were 3 dancers, the Avengers Riho, Kano and Momoko. They did not sing.
    'Rondo of Nightmare' is possibly their darkest song lyrically. Su is caught in a recurring nightmare being chased through the dark by something she can't see until she hides in a well or a fountain, but it is still coming closer and, accepting there is no escape, she asks if she is to die will it to show itself to her.
    Performances from this concert (Budokan, Black Night) and Legend 1997 (in December 2013, it was Su's 16th birthday party) are usually safe from being blocked. Otherwise look for the Babymetal Reactor Resource channel, click the video titled 'Future Plans' and follow the guidance in the description to find good live performance videos rendered safe for reactions.

    • @jamesmcclung153
      @jamesmcclung153 2 года назад +1

      I just so happened to already have the Future Plans video from the Reactor Resource channel copied. Here it is.
      ruclips.net/video/q40VmTHSh4c/видео.html

  • @crimson0119
    @crimson0119 2 года назад +15

    Kamiband : We're gonna blow your minds with our awesome solos!
    Sumetal : Hold my matcha latte....
    Love watching the drummer Hideki in this, when the camera pan to him in the beginning, he looks like he's just casually drumming and not responsible for the machine like pounding in the background with the double kicks. Most singers might get intimidated having to follow the spectacular performance by the Kamiband, but 16yr old Su just gets up there, and shows you why Babymetal was built around her. To avoid getting blocked, you should try putting a watermark or something over the vid. That ususally does the trick.
    🤘🦊🤘

  • @road-runner
    @road-runner 2 года назад +5

    Nice one, thanks!
    Yes, it's crazy that Su was just 16 years old here. The way she sings, performs and owns the stage is epic. Well, to be fair, she had been doing this for a while back then.
    And this is even more crazy when you know that this was the second time they performed this song since it premiered live the previous night at the same stage and venue. She's called the Queen for a good reason :)

  • @rickwagner-
    @rickwagner- 2 года назад +12

    ⚡ / 🔥 😱 🔥
    This performance is my standard answer to anyone who says that BABYMETAL aren't really metal. : )
    It's already epic, and THEN Su rises up from beneath the stage.
    This song had it's world premiere the previous night at Budokan Red Night.
    The 'Mischief of the Metal Gods' instrumental often precedes 'Rondo of Nightmare', but not always.
    This was the Black Night at Budokan on March 2nd, 2014, with Leda Cygnus and Takayoshi Ohmura on guitars and Hideki Aoyama on drums.
    And of course BOH on bass. Not that many people play a six stringed bass to begin with, let alone tap one like that.
    Su sang three solo songs that night. She performed 'No Rain, No Rainbow', followed by 'Akatsuki' earlier in the set.
    Yui and Moa, the two younger members, performed two songs that night (as Black BABYMETAL) without Su.

  • @marcoskazu_
    @marcoskazu_ 2 года назад +1

    Babymetal is amazing! Please more Babymetal!

  • @emb5091
    @emb5091 2 года назад +6

    🤘🦊🤘

  • @cuttysark8017
    @cuttysark8017 2 года назад +7

    Here we get The Kami Band doing the "Mischiefs of the Metal Gods" intro with Aoyama Hideki (drums), BOH (6 string bass), Takayoshi Ohmura (7 string gold guitar), Leda Cygnus (blue guitar). They are dressed as spirits of the dead which is significant in BM lore, but let's concentrate on the music for now. RON is one of Su's solos that allow her to show her individual talent and give the other two girls, Moa and Yui, a chance to rest. They then return the favor when they perform as the duo Black Babymetal.
    This concert is Budokan Black Night in 2014 so Su was just 16 years old and I'm always amazed by her vocal control, but one part of this concert I don't like is the stage design. I think it was quite dangerous with the lift and different stage levels; both Moa and Yui had falls.
    RON is a very dark song where Su is chased by something she cannot escape. The repetitive nature of a "rondo" makes this even more frightening and that's explicitly said in the lyrics. I think that the changing time signatures and dissonance of the music are there to make us feel uncomfortable and keep us off balance. The final chorus is as unsettling as the time signatures and offers no happy resolution:
    It flickers slowly
    appearing and disappearing in my mind.
    A nightmare rondo is being repeated.
    The awakening light
    is gone far away out of my sight.
    I can do nothing but fall
    into the darkness.
    Some reviewers mention that the song ends very abruptly and that it's hard to settle into...the lyrics imply that there's no hope of waking, but that's often what you feel when you are in a nightmare and then you wake as suddenly as the song ends.

  • @steffenjachnow8176
    @steffenjachnow8176 2 года назад +17

    The "band" with the skeleton costumes, actually, was no real band. They were a troupe called "BABYBONES", which was engaged to mimic musicians as BABYMETAL wasn't able to afford real musicians for their live shows in their earlier days.

  • @includenull
    @includenull 2 года назад +11

    Whenever you see people in skeleton suits on stage those are known as the babybones and they just mime playing instruments, from 2014 they performed fully with a live band.
    That live band, known as the Kami Band, is made up of a few great session musisions who switch in and out when they are available for shows etc. The bassist, drummer, and one of the guitarists here consistently play a lot of shows however. There is also a "western" Kami Band made up of American musitious that they have used for western tours and shows.

  • @kevinhiggins7838
    @kevinhiggins7838 2 года назад +13

    Not sure what the other two were that got blocked, but I’ll suggest Ijime, Dame, Zettai from Sonispere 2014 (which sometimes gets blocked tbh). Or, since you mentioned it, iine, which means, basically, “so good” in Japanese… the official mv.

  • @jakemuller8626
    @jakemuller8626 2 года назад +12

    Welcome to the Foxhole and BabyMetal Galaxy 🦊🤘
    Nice to see you're doing your best and not being deterred by the annoying copyright block, I know is hard and hopefully this won't suffer the same fate your previous reactions, normally it doesn't.
    BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock group called Sakura Gakuin, they had 11 and 12 years old and become independent after 2013, they created their own genre called kawaii-metal (kawaii means cute), mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms, they are:
    *SuMetal* lead vocalist.
    *MoaMetal* scream and dance.
    *YuiMetal* scream and dance, former member since 2018.
    _Akumu No Rondo_ combines not only heaviness with dark waltz and dope time signatures changes but also delicate and fragile beautiness that makes you wants to grab your inception kit and go to rescue this 16 yo teenage queen from this nightmare.
    Temporarily title song was "Kill The Alice" so is like Alice but instead of Wonderland she's trapped in a nightmare trying to escape and avoid some evil entity.
    Rondo is a musical form in which you can hear a repetitive pattern, you can hear an example of this in the song "Blue Rondo a la Turk"
    The Kami Band doing their second magnificent intro of the night with their own set called "Mischiefs Of Metal Gods". They become regular after this special live at Budokan 2014 and leaving "baby-bones", from early shows and the one you saw before, behind, they weren't playing any instruments and only mimicking, shout-out to them for being part of the group and important role during early days thou.
    Many people forget this was the day (night) after the first live premiere of this song and she's dancing and performing like she already did a dozen of times before, like a pro. Also she's showing some fierceness here dancing on that high dangerous mini stage with no wire and that's how she keeps winning everyone's heart.
    But not everything was perfect here despite their impeccable performance and sound, and the day before the girls face that dangerous challenge on the stage, taking their own revenge after coming back in 2021 to celebrate their 10 years and leaving those ghosts behind, fortunately.
    Thanks for sharing this wonderful SuMetal solo and my favorite along with _"Akatsuki"_ Keep watching all their solos because all 4 of them are beautiful and of course the rest of the girls under a subgroup called "Black Babymetal" are enjoyable too, so don't miss out their other 4 songs too.
    We know Amuse is very hard to deal with copyright blocked issues, fortunately we got a way to go around with "Babymetal Reactor Resource" YT place, you'll get full original clips of their best live performance with watermarked logo safe to react, look for "Future Plans" vid, follow instructions and you'll get all of them, upload the one with the logo for us and you can watch without it, don't worry for us we already saw all of them. You'll find some watermarked clips in the channel also with the description and where to get the non-logo version.
    You can also put some heavy opacity and translucent effect to avoid those issues.
    However there are some safe clips to react like those from Legend 1997 or some of Budokan 2014 or previous to this year and Festivals that is out of reach from Amuse hands.
    By all means AVOID live compilations at least for first time watching, not saying all of them are bad but chances are you'll end up facing the bad ones bad edited, very confusing, switching costumes and distracting you from the performance and meaning of the song. Also avoid Glastonbury Festival performance, the sound is bad and the crowd isn't the usual fans.
    Here's some examples of safe to react live performances:
    - "Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!" live at Legend 1997 (2013) or Legend I (2012).
    - "Catch Me If You Can", you got live at Budokan 2014 with subtitles version at GuilhermeCait channel or live at MetroRock 2015 in Babymetal Reactor Resource channel under the title "CMIYC".
    - "Ijime Dame Zettai" live at Sonisphere Festival 2014 (careful with this, lately some informed about blocked)
    - "Karate" live at Download Festival 2016.
    - "Distortion" live at Download Festival 2018.
    There's no report to this day from anyone being blocked using BMRR watermarked logo so there you go.
    Thanks for sharing your thoughts on BabyMetal and hopefully see you next time. 🦊🤘

    • @jamesmcclung153
      @jamesmcclung153 2 года назад +1

      Reactor Resource channel you say? I just happened to have the link to the Future Plans video copied.🤘🦊🤘
      ruclips.net/video/q40VmTHSh4c/видео.html

  • @AxeSwipe2011
    @AxeSwipe2011 2 года назад +3

    To avoid the blocks, the Babymetal Reactors Resource channel on YT has most of the videos with a watermark logo already on for reactors to use and post. Another technique is to pause frequently. Well worth checking out.

  • @bradkornatowski3866
    @bradkornatowski3866 2 года назад +2

    If your stuff gets blocked. Just take your Old Bear logo and make it 90% transparent then place it over the video, make sure it is big enough to cover like 75% of the video. That will change it enough that they can't block it.

  • @autohmae
    @autohmae 2 года назад +1

    When Babymetal got started the girls were 11 and 12, it makes perfect sense they wouldn't really get metal at the time. And basically said: let's just give it a try and see what happens.
    But what the girls do love is to perform and thus they put all their effort into it. They really got a deeper understanding of metal seeing Metallica live in 2013 at a festival they both performed at.

  • @silly_programme5061
    @silly_programme5061 2 года назад +11

    Sorry to hear about the trouble you had with getting your first two BM reactions uploaded. Generally speaking, any video from their official channel that isn't a festival performance is pretty likely to get blocked, but luckily it's pretty easy to circumvent that by simply obscuring the video you watched in your reaction. You can use the blur effect that's built in to the youtube studio or put a translucent logo over it - anything that changes it enough that the copyright bots don't pick it up. Hopefully you can get the other two uploaded with that knowledge.
    As you discovered uploading this, there are also some older shows of theirs that don't get blocked, the best of which are Legend 1997 and this one, Budokan Black Night. If you want to check out some more of their stuff without worrying about copyright workarounds, I would suggest Headbanger from Legend 1997 or Kimi to Anime Ga Mitai from Budokan Black Night. Cheers!

  • @josephdoo
    @josephdoo 2 года назад

    😁😁😁🤘🤘🤘

  • @faceplantor5647
    @faceplantor5647 2 года назад +1

    Good one sir⚡️👊🏽 Sometimes it takes virtuoso Kami performance to summons the Queen..

  • @martinmetal7481
    @martinmetal7481 2 года назад +2

    You are right impressive for a 16 year old but Su only gets better with age and she is 24 now 😁🤘🦊🤘

  • @seregamolodets5286
    @seregamolodets5286 2 года назад

    🍅💀🍅
    🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼
    Epic

  • @y.suzuki320
    @y.suzuki320 2 года назад

    👍👍 next ~ wagakki band / asterism /

  • @cjkoehler
    @cjkoehler 2 года назад +3

    🤘🦊🤘

  • @Slytherkins
    @Slytherkins 2 года назад +1

    🤘🦊🤘