⚡ 💕 / 🕉 ☮ This song was intended to be a mix of Indian style with BABYMETAL's brand of metal. Before it was officially titled, this song was on their setlists as "Ind-Metal". "Shanti" means "Peace" in Sanskrit and related languages, and repeated three times, like the song title, refers to peace in body, speech, and mind. From the song: "Shanti Shanti, Prana of living beings Shanti Shanti, Chakra blooming life Shanti Shanti, Samsara of living beings Shanti Shanti, Karma, be in high spirits" It's great that Su has an opportunity for some vocal pyrotechnics on this one. And I'm sure they loved learning this choreography. Moa mentioned in an interview that the hand gestures were pretty challenging since the dance style is so different from what she's used to. The theme of 'Metal Galaxy', the third studio album, was to travel the galaxy picking up musical influences. Apparently there's at least one Bollywood planet out there, which sounds great to me.
Great reaction - and well done, as you thought this is their tribute to India and Indian music and dance. In the Metal Galaxy album they have explored some different musical styles from around the world and paid homage to those in a few of the songs. Shanti is a Sanskrit word (Sanskrit is a written Indian language) meaning peace. Repeated 3 times it means peace in body, mind and spirit (or in thought, word and deed). There is some sitar and traditional Indian drums (I can't remember what they're called) used here and the kaleidoscope visual effects are the sort of thing I would expect in an Indian video. I think the official music video editor got a bit too carried away with those at the expense of missing a lot of the excellent choreo. The live performances, where the kaleidoscope effects are limited to the big screen behind them, are better as you can watch what they are doing in the choreo. Moa has said that learning the hand movements in particular was difficult as they are quite different to anything she may have done with Japanese dance and the hand movements used in that. Once again Su-metal absolutely nails a completely different singing style at her first attempt. The third girl in the official video was the Avenger Kano. In the live compilation I'm not sure if I saw all 3 Avengers - the other two were Riho and Momoko.
🏹 🏹 🏹 You raised some great points about the "avengers", the supporting dancers for 2019-2021. According to MIKIKO, BABYMETAL's choreographer, it was essential that the avengers have the right "shared DNA" with the BABYMETAL members. Riho Sayashi is probably best known for her time in the Idol group Morning Musume, where she became their "Absolute Ace". Before joining that group, she was a student at Actor's School Hiroshima (ASH), where she overlapped with Suzuka Nakamoto for a few years. They would even compete for the lead in singing and dancing routines. (MIKIKO was an original staff member at ASH.) Kano Fujihira is a Sakura Gakuin graduate. Like Su and Moa before her, she was President of the group in her senior year. While Kano only appeared with BABYMETAL five times, she managed to be in three of the official music videos (including 'Shanti Shanti Shanti') and many concerts on DVD & Blu-ray. Momoko Okazaki is also a Sakura Gakuin graduate. She was the only member ever entrusted with developing a dance routine for the group, for which she created a "Super Dance Unit". Both Kano and Momoko are considered to be among the best dancers in Sakura Gakuin. Riho signed with the talent agency "Japan Music Entertainment" in September 2020 and has been pursuing a solo career as a singer and actress. Kano appears to be pretty busy in her new JPop group @onefive, as well as TV appearances on variety shows. The supporting dancer at the last 25 BABYMETAL appearances was Momoko, including all of the 2021 concerts at Nippon Budokan. After the final Budokan show, she was a contestant on the KPop Idol survival show Girls Planet 999, although her group didn't make it into the finals.
_Accha accha accha acchaaa_ 🦊🤘🔥 Wow jumping so fast to 3rd BM album, didn't expect it this, but is cool because you'll notice the evolution and more complex choreo in this. This journey to Metal Galaxy on their 3rd album got a lot of songs picking up rhythms from all over the world and combine with the unique sound of BM. Shanti Shanti Shanti got a Indian influence and elements, others songs got folk metal or latin rhythms, or Thai rap, so this journey is wild. The album concept is about to collide the Light And Darkness side and this song belongs to the Light side. I noticed many girls love this songs so probably their pop sound is more relatable, idk, for me sounds exotic and that's what it hook me up. As long as you enjoyed is all good, there's BM for everyone. ❤️ Since this was after YuiMetal left the third backup dancer here is called an _avenger_ there were three of them, in this song is Kano Fujihira, just remember none of them got official name revealed and not official members, they only dance, no sing. In the live comp is also Momoko Okazaki. You got it right once again about the difficult on dance this along with new partners, MoaMetal talked about this saying it was one of the hardest thing to match up and get in sync with every one of them, especially at Legend Metal Galaxy when all the avengers switch up in the same show (also taking it a break) while Moa performing the full set 🥵 But it was a great experience for her, YuiMetal was also known as the "angel of dance" (you'll see more at BM guide) and she was the most technical among them, Moa took this challenge after she left and focus on this dance aspect learning a lot from the experience with the avengers and backup dancers before them. Now that you mentioned the outfit, you can find a in-depth analysis on BM costume at "Andrew Hartley" ch. He talks along with two other experts about this, one of them was part of the design in some of those. As for the Doki Doki Morning MV I think is the right choice, there's a kawaii live version at Sakura Gakuin but is cut off so only do this for fun whenever you want, and other live version like live at Budokan 2014 and after with the Kami Band are with the girls already grown up and without the younger look of the official MV, but still kawaii as always UwU Keep enjoying BM songs and see you next time 🦊🤘❤️
"He talks along with two other experts about this, one of them was part of the design in some of those." Maggie is one of the people on the BABYMETAL Podcast. She's a costumer, and has often cosplayed in BABYMETAL outfits she reproduced. Prof. Aly Amidei is a tenured Associate Professor of Costume Design at UNC Charlotte. Neither one of these two costuming experts were involved in designing any official BABYMETAL outfits. BABYMETAL's costume designer since their major debut (in 2012) is Megumi Date.
Shanti Shanti Shanti is a great song, many Indian reactors have commented on how respectful the song is to Indian culture and religion. The official video of this doesn't really do the choreography justice, because during the dance breakdown, they put up a lot of kaleidoscope effects which blocked out the wonder dancing the girls did. Good thing you watched the live version too. 😁😁😁😁🤘🦊🤘
This song was first premiered outside Japan at Glastonbury Festival, in 2019. BABYMETAL went through a dreadful 2018, a difficult tour without YUI, the death of Mikio Fujioka , most of all they needed something that could surprise the world again, even though they already proved the point with PA PA YA!!, to me, that song was Shanti, shockingly fresh and totally unexpected, exactly the BM way! 🤘🦊⚡
I'd like to add that I completely agree on your analysis on the way they evolved their stage presence. That also has to to do with their 2018 tour, at the time MOA was flanked by two dancers/martial artists and she really had to push her dancing skills to a higher level, which she did. Even on their older songs, her movements were wider thus faster and fiercer than before, in line with the dark era mood. Then the Whole Metal Galaxy Tour was designed to bring the focus on the girls, in a way to both celebrate what they achieved so far and gave them back the confidence they partially had lost. 🤘🦊⚡
Excellent reaction again, thanks! Loved this format with the reaction to the MV and the live performance. Good job! And yes, Su-metal usually kills the performances as she is a total performer and I'd say even a "rare" performer. She always have pushed herself to the limits to get what she always wanted to do which is to sing. If she has to dance to get it, it's okay, she would dance harder that anyone else. And about the choreo, I'm not an expert on this topic, but it looks like she controls the choreo in the way that the movements of the triangle formation seem to pivot on her. I agree, all the Avengers (Riho, Kano and Momoko) did a great job. They are incredible pros! Special mention to Kano Fujihira (the Avenger on the official MV) being just 14 at the time. And sometimes we forget about her, but an important part of BABYMETAL's success is because of the hard work of Mikiko Mizuno, their choreographer. So, kudos to them all. Note that I never ever expected to be here discussing about choreos and backup dancers. 😁
thank you so glad you enjoy it :) and yes for sure su is the what the performance is based on as she is in the center and meant to guide the flow of the choreo and sing so choreo is there to enhance and feature that even more :) yes of course all the fill ins and the choreographer are to be thanked as without them baby metal wouldn't be where it is today
@@venicerealm By the way, It's totally okay to react to "Doki Doki Morning" official MV and then to some live performance. Ideally the one from Budokan Black Night concert in 2014 😃
Sumetal our Queen! Love Shanti Shanti, & it isn't even Metal! Also love the Indian influenced music & choreo! During the "breakdown" @ the 6:26 mark, I hear an Indian Tabla drum! SO COOL! A very surprising, refreshing, catchy, exotic tune! Count on Babymetal to come up with such a great variety of addicting songs! The Kaleidoscope background visuals are bloody awesome! Thanks for doing the mv & live versions back to back! Oh, & again Yui isn't Youuh! It's Youe (the same sound as the letter E). It is really a simple, easy, one word name to pronounce & say! Cheers!
For Doki Doki Morning, the MV is fine. Nothing wrong with it. For fun, you can add the BABYMETAL debut right after it. That is literally what it says. Only 93 seconds long it does not count as a full reaction. Search for "babymetal debut".
@@venicerealm You'll see the costumes they put together from borrowed clothes when you watch the Doki Doki Morning music video and either of those recommended debut/making of videos. Costumes which came after that, like their classic look of the red tutu and an armored-look top, were proper costumes.
Thank you for your reaction/insights ! Looking forward to see the art work, will be interesting Love this song, it's such an interesting experiment by Babymetal. The song was listed on the tour setlist as 'Ind-Metal' so if anyone is still wondering what the influence origin is, no need. This is probably the most (mature) kawaii song of the 3rd album. If you want to see the borrowed clothes Babymetal wore in the very early days (although they might be the same as in the MV, but this also shows a bit behind the scenes): making of doki doki morning (channel: akane saku) Don't know if this needs a reaction, but it's something you might want to hear anyway. A video exists of Su-metal singing this song live radio broadcast captured from an in-ear-monitor, RUclips video: BABYMETAL Shanti Shanti Shanti-Suzuka`s In Ear Monitor Sound HD 18:13 now... surprise surprise, Moametal got to be in charge of dance and they got to train 3 girls ('Avengers'). She said she had to do training to be in sync with all of them and it was all different, she is the one who adapts with the one who they are performing with at that moment. A fairly new and pretty popular band which combines Indian and Metal is: Bloodywood. They are great for reactions too (maybe for later?)
Yes there are heavy India influences in the music and dance,also I’m sure others have told you Yui is pronounced Yu-EE, Moa is pronounced Mo-ah and Su is Su
Yeah, Yui's name seems to be the hardest for Venice. -I'd describe it like you just take the first soft 'L' and the last 'S' sounds away from 'Lewis'- Edit. Now that I discovered that the pronunciation of the name Lewis in English was not what I expected 🤣 I have to revoke my bad example. I guess "U.E." may be a better one 🙄🦊🤘
It's funny because its about the most simple name in the world to pronounce but a lot of people struggle with it. It's even funnier that so many people thing Moa is Mah-oh.
Moa really shines here. Although its not her dance genre, it fits her style and onstage personality so well. She nailed the Indian flavor of the dance with her body motions and hand positions
Not a big fan of the official mv all that kaleidoscope patterns made it difficult to see but love the song . Seeing everything in the 2nd was awesome i would not describe the Su look you spotted" smug " BabyMetal probably do not know how to be smug there down to earth, modest and humble . I would describe it as Su looking satisfied with there performance or when she holds a high note for a long time at the end of a song a look of delight on her face . when she's really happy like at Sonisphere after IDZ or SSA after ROR Su has been known to punch the air and looking back as she leaves the stage doing a Kitsune sign waving it and smiling at the audince . Really happy but never smug 😁❤️🤘🦊🤘
I really like the format of you doing the official videos and then the live version in the same video The studio recordings are much nicer and cleaner, but the live version gives you an opportunity to see how they handle the songs naturally
👍 great job and I love knowing that you are going to do double reactions of BabyMetal each time I tune in. The MV got too carried away with the kaleidoscope effect (in my opinion) so I am glad that you also reacted to the compilation. Shanti Shanti Shanti shows how these girls will not be boxed into a single genre and with their fearlessness and talent can bring a fresh new look to anything. Until next time.
Nice reaction. Shanti Shanti Shanti is a great example of how their travels around the world influenced the 3rd album. Moa said the hand positions were the hardest thing to learn for the choreography. However, the impressive thing here is how Su shows off some new singing skills here. Her ability to hit the semi tones of the music scales used in this song are amazing. We all knew how talented Su is but her growth in skills IMO is one of the things that makes the 3rd album some of their best work. That and Moa's growth as an artist in general. They got her to sing a lot more on this album and Moa has said she focused a lot more on her dancing. Now with their mature Kawaii metal songs Babymetal starts to enter a new phase. Only the release of their fourth album will we know where it goes from here. Kitsune UPs
BabyMetal goes to Bollywood. The faces of reactors of Hindi culture just light up when they see this, they appreciate the care and authenticity BM brings to their performance. Loosely related to Bollywood, there is a vid of 2020's music vid, Kingslayer (BM's outstanding collaboration with Bring Me The Horizon), that is set to a completely "over the top" Bollywood musical production. The mash-up is very well done and quite funny. Lastly and not related to BM, Bollywood metal does exist. Bloodywood's Ari, Ari went viral a couple of years ago and the shock on reactor's faces is great fun. Something akin to people seeing Gimme Chocolate for the first time. Worth ck'ing out.
aaa yes i am glad i got my idea right which shows how the correctly and clearly got the reference and theme across :) as for the song gimme chocolate i did that one as my first song of the band
Su has such an incredible range of vocals. In this video Moa was 19-20, St was 20-21 and the Avenger, Kano was 14 years old. Kano only performed with Babymetal at Japan shows as she still had commitments to Sakura Gakuin and her other Idol Group @onefive. During a SG segment, Kano expressed her admiration for "Moa-sama" (-sama is an even higher honorific than -san) because she performed a BM song with 2 of the other girls in SG at an Idol festival and they were completely wiped out afterward from the intense choreography, where normally they would perform multiple songs. The "teacher" Mori-sensei gave her grief for giving Moa such an honorific. Lol. You should hear what he said about Suzuka the year after she left SG 😜
Looking forward to you watching one of the "Unhelpful Guides To BabyMetal". One of the things you will be introduced to is Sakura Gakuin (Japanese: 'Cherry Blossom Academy') that was a Japanese idol girl group formed in 2010 by the Amuse talent agency. It was the nexus of BabyMetal and there are scores of vids that will warm your heart, like "best friends" Yui and Moa at the ages of 11 and 12.
Shanti is definitely one of their songs that doesn't get enough reactions, so I was happy to see this! You were right that it's (intentionally) Indian-inspired, and that comes out both in the music and the dance. They brought in a lot of different cultural influences for the third album, both as a way to challenge themselves (Su had to learn several new styles of singing, including this one, and Moa and the Avengers of course had to learn different dance styles) and to keep things fresh. BM has always made it clear that they're not really interested in treading water stylistically speaking. If you do Doki Doki Morning, I would vote for the MV. It's one of the good ones, and it shows off just how young they were when they started. Plus, I don't really feel like there are any live performances of it that are head and shoulders above the rest, and also the ones that _are_ in my opinion the best unfortunately tend to get either partially or completely audio blocked. :(
As far as lighting, Babymetal pretty much sticks to 3 colors, Red for when the music gets really heavy, Blue for when it gets really light and white for in between. You will notice the background colors tend to go yellowish, similar to the color of Indian curry.
@@venicerealm As long as you have reacted to Babymetal Death (particularly the Legend 1997 version), any of the Guides are safe to watch. We just do not want those guides ruining the surprise. 😉
Personally I think whoever made the "official" Shanti Shanti video should be taken out and shot (ok - I'll settle for sacked) :) Who wants to look at kaliiedoscope effects when you want to see them dancing - although it's fine as a backdrop. Feels to me a lot of their newer songs however aren't so great with crowd participation - I do like it though :)
Compilation videos suck and I'm sure I've said that before. There are numerous ways around copyright infringement - I suggest that you investigate how other reacters manage to get around that problem. But it's your show and if you're willing to settle for half-assed then that's your business. 😢
Well at least she did react to the official MV first, i think BMRR got a watermarked logo version but since she does pause a lot it's way harder to editing that, watching the original clip while putting the logo clip for us. The live compilation isn't the best one but at least serves as a help to get through this odd and focus on the dance analysis. Plus she worked really hard to upload Akatsuki Unfinished Version so i think she deserves some indulgence. I do share with you live comps isn't the best way to experience BM songs for first time watching but like i said, she did watched the official MV first at least. Keep supporting BM and reactors who share the Fox God love 🦊🤘
@@jakemuller8626 I agree and I'll give kudos for watching the official MV first but any Babymetal compilation for any viewer is like eating prime rib that somebody else chewed. Those who make these comp vids are nothing less than pirates taking advantage of gullible viewers. And although BMRR is an option, I think their watermark is so "thick" and encompassing that it's hardly worth the effort to watch. In fact, I'm under the impression that, for as many times that she pauses and chats about the video, she shouldn't have any copyright problems at all. At least that's the conclusion I've come to watching other reacters. KITSUNE UP!!! 🤘🦊🤘
@@Filboid2000 Yeah I get what you said, but the watermarked logo is for us not for the reactor, and trying to react to a full clip without logo and pausing a lot has already been tested for some reactors, trust me, not working, when something is heavily blocked it won't pass, there are clips with heavy audio blocked, those are even worse. And not to mention she did experience by herself with the Akatsuki Unfinished Ver. x_x We can make some exceptions with valuable reactors like her 🙏 Thanks for understanding this 🦊🤘
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This song was intended to be a mix of Indian style with BABYMETAL's brand of metal.
Before it was officially titled, this song was on their setlists as "Ind-Metal".
"Shanti" means "Peace" in Sanskrit and related languages, and repeated three times, like the song title, refers to peace in body, speech, and mind.
From the song:
"Shanti Shanti, Prana of living beings
Shanti Shanti, Chakra blooming life
Shanti Shanti, Samsara of living beings
Shanti Shanti, Karma, be in high spirits"
It's great that Su has an opportunity for some vocal pyrotechnics on this one.
And I'm sure they loved learning this choreography.
Moa mentioned in an interview that the hand gestures were pretty challenging since the dance style is so different from what she's used to.
The theme of 'Metal Galaxy', the third studio album, was to travel the galaxy picking up musical influences.
Apparently there's at least one Bollywood planet out there, which sounds great to me.
Great reaction - and well done, as you thought this is their tribute to India and Indian music and dance. In the Metal Galaxy album they have explored some different musical styles from around the world and paid homage to those in a few of the songs.
Shanti is a Sanskrit word (Sanskrit is a written Indian language) meaning peace. Repeated 3 times it means peace in body, mind and spirit (or in thought, word and deed).
There is some sitar and traditional Indian drums (I can't remember what they're called) used here and the kaleidoscope visual effects are the sort of thing I would expect in an Indian video. I think the official music video editor got a bit too carried away with those at the expense of missing a lot of the excellent choreo.
The live performances, where the kaleidoscope effects are limited to the big screen behind them, are better as you can watch what they are doing in the choreo.
Moa has said that learning the hand movements in particular was difficult as they are quite different to anything she may have done with Japanese dance and the hand movements used in that.
Once again Su-metal absolutely nails a completely different singing style at her first attempt.
The third girl in the official video was the Avenger Kano. In the live compilation I'm not sure if I saw all 3 Avengers - the other two were Riho and Momoko.
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You raised some great points about the "avengers", the supporting dancers for 2019-2021.
According to MIKIKO, BABYMETAL's choreographer, it was essential that the avengers have the right "shared DNA" with the BABYMETAL members.
Riho Sayashi is probably best known for her time in the Idol group Morning Musume, where she became their "Absolute Ace".
Before joining that group, she was a student at Actor's School Hiroshima (ASH), where she overlapped with Suzuka Nakamoto for a few years.
They would even compete for the lead in singing and dancing routines.
(MIKIKO was an original staff member at ASH.)
Kano Fujihira is a Sakura Gakuin graduate.
Like Su and Moa before her, she was President of the group in her senior year.
While Kano only appeared with BABYMETAL five times, she managed to be in three of the official music videos (including 'Shanti Shanti Shanti') and many concerts on DVD & Blu-ray.
Momoko Okazaki is also a Sakura Gakuin graduate.
She was the only member ever entrusted with developing a dance routine for the group, for which she created a "Super Dance Unit".
Both Kano and Momoko are considered to be among the best dancers in Sakura Gakuin.
Riho signed with the talent agency "Japan Music Entertainment" in September 2020 and has been pursuing a solo career as a singer and actress.
Kano appears to be pretty busy in her new JPop group @onefive, as well as TV appearances on variety shows.
The supporting dancer at the last 25 BABYMETAL appearances was Momoko, including all of the 2021 concerts at Nippon Budokan.
After the final Budokan show, she was a contestant on the KPop Idol survival show Girls Planet 999, although her group didn't make it into the finals.
Who will appear on stage for the next live performance is anybody's guess. Just hope everybody involved with the band already knows.
wow thank you for sharing each of their stories :)
Oh! MAJINAI! 見て下さい、あの曲めっちゃ大好き! 可愛いすぎる!!! ♡
Night Night Burn, keep the international vibes going.
This is the classic example of a song that gets better with every listen. Very good reaction, as always!! 🤘🦊
yes i know what you mean :)
_Accha accha accha acchaaa_
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Wow jumping so fast to 3rd BM album, didn't expect it this, but is cool because you'll notice the evolution and more complex choreo in this.
This journey to Metal Galaxy on their 3rd album got a lot of songs picking up rhythms from all over the world and combine with the unique sound of BM.
Shanti Shanti Shanti got a Indian influence and elements, others songs got folk metal or latin rhythms, or Thai rap, so this journey is wild.
The album concept is about to collide the Light And Darkness side and this song belongs to the Light side. I noticed many girls love this songs so probably their pop sound is more relatable, idk, for me sounds exotic and that's what it hook me up. As long as you enjoyed is all good, there's BM for everyone. ❤️
Since this was after YuiMetal left the third backup dancer here is called an _avenger_ there were three of them, in this song is Kano Fujihira, just remember none of them got official name revealed and not official members, they only dance, no sing. In the live comp is also Momoko Okazaki.
You got it right once again about the difficult on dance this along with new partners, MoaMetal talked about this saying it was one of the hardest thing to match up and get in sync with every one of them, especially at Legend Metal Galaxy when all the avengers switch up in the same show (also taking it a break) while Moa performing the full set 🥵
But it was a great experience for her, YuiMetal was also known as the "angel of dance" (you'll see more at BM guide) and she was the most technical among them, Moa took this challenge after she left and focus on this dance aspect learning a lot from the experience with the avengers and backup dancers before them.
Now that you mentioned the outfit, you can find a in-depth analysis on BM costume at "Andrew Hartley" ch. He talks along with two other experts about this, one of them was part of the design in some of those.
As for the Doki Doki Morning MV I think is the right choice, there's a kawaii live version at Sakura Gakuin but is cut off so only do this for fun whenever you want, and other live version like live at Budokan 2014 and after with the Kami Band are with the girls already grown up and without the younger look of the official MV, but still kawaii as always UwU
Keep enjoying BM songs and see you next time 🦊🤘❤️
"He talks along with two other experts about this, one of them was part of the design in some of those."
Maggie is one of the people on the BABYMETAL Podcast. She's a costumer, and has often cosplayed in BABYMETAL outfits she reproduced.
Prof. Aly Amidei is a tenured Associate Professor of Costume Design at UNC Charlotte.
Neither one of these two costuming experts were involved in designing any official BABYMETAL outfits.
BABYMETAL's costume designer since their major debut (in 2012) is Megumi Date.
@@rickwagner- oh i see, i misunderstood she was involved on the costume design, thanks 🦊🤘
You got a bit of the Su goddess face. It can be a death glare that will stop your heart but lately it is much more a goddess look.
"Catch me if you can" live at Budokan Black Night next please!!!
Shanti Shanti Shanti is a great song, many Indian reactors have commented on how respectful the song is to Indian culture and religion. The official video of this doesn't really do the choreography justice, because during the dance breakdown, they put up a lot of kaleidoscope effects which blocked out the wonder dancing the girls did. Good thing you watched the live version too. 😁😁😁😁🤘🦊🤘
This song was first premiered outside Japan at Glastonbury Festival, in 2019. BABYMETAL went through a dreadful 2018, a difficult tour without YUI, the death of Mikio Fujioka , most of all they needed something that could surprise the world again, even though they already proved the point with PA PA YA!!, to me, that song was Shanti, shockingly fresh and totally unexpected, exactly the BM way! 🤘🦊⚡
I'd like to add that I completely agree on your analysis on the way they evolved their stage presence. That also has to to do with their 2018 tour, at the time MOA was flanked by two dancers/martial artists and she really had to push her dancing skills to a higher level, which she did. Even on their older songs, her movements were wider thus faster and fiercer than before, in line with the dark era mood. Then the Whole Metal Galaxy Tour was designed to bring the focus on the girls, in a way to both celebrate what they achieved so far and gave them back the confidence they partially had lost. 🤘🦊⚡
Excellent reaction again, thanks!
Loved this format with the reaction to the MV and the live performance. Good job!
And yes, Su-metal usually kills the performances as she is a total performer and I'd say even a "rare" performer. She always have pushed herself to the limits to get what she always wanted to do which is to sing. If she has to dance to get it, it's okay, she would dance harder that anyone else. And about the choreo, I'm not an expert on this topic, but it looks like she controls the choreo in the way that the movements of the triangle formation seem to pivot on her.
I agree, all the Avengers (Riho, Kano and Momoko) did a great job. They are incredible pros! Special mention to Kano Fujihira (the Avenger on the official MV) being just 14 at the time. And sometimes we forget about her, but an important part of BABYMETAL's success is because of the hard work of Mikiko Mizuno, their choreographer. So, kudos to them all.
Note that I never ever expected to be here discussing about choreos and backup dancers. 😁
thank you so glad you enjoy it :) and yes for sure su is the what the performance is based on as she is in the center and meant to guide the flow of the choreo and sing so choreo is there to enhance and feature that even more :) yes of course all the fill ins and the choreographer are to be thanked as without them baby metal wouldn't be where it is today
@@venicerealm By the way, It's totally okay to react to "Doki Doki Morning" official MV and then to some live performance. Ideally the one from Budokan Black Night concert in 2014 😃
I love this song and choreography. Just so beautiful! Thanks for sharing your reaction and thoughtful insights
Also their Live in Glastonbury Festival is good.
Do you like the kaleidoscope effect? Always more Babymetal forever! :) 🦊❤️🤘🔥👍
Any face that is not the face of a RULER is unfiting for our Queen
Edit: I love the idea of doing MV and then live for the same song.
yeah i liked that way of doing the reaction as well might keep it in the future as well :)
Great reaction! I always feel an innate nobility that cannot be faked from SU-METAL. That's why we call her Queen and Goddess.
Fantastic song.
Great reaction and you're right, the Avengers deserve all love and support aa well
thank you :)
Sumetal our Queen! Love Shanti Shanti, & it isn't even Metal! Also love the Indian influenced music & choreo! During the "breakdown" @ the 6:26 mark, I hear an Indian Tabla drum! SO COOL! A very surprising, refreshing, catchy, exotic tune! Count on Babymetal to come up with such a great variety of addicting songs! The Kaleidoscope background visuals are bloody awesome! Thanks for doing the mv & live versions back to back!
Oh, & again Yui isn't Youuh! It's Youe (the same sound as the letter E). It is really a simple, easy, one word name to pronounce & say!
Cheers!
For Doki Doki Morning, the MV is fine. Nothing wrong with it.
For fun, you can add the BABYMETAL debut right after it. That is literally what it says. Only 93 seconds long it does not count as a full reaction. Search for "babymetal debut".
I had also suggested something: making of doki doki morning (channel: akane saku). Only 51 seconds long.
cool thank you i will :)
@@venicerealm You'll see the costumes they put together from borrowed clothes when you watch the Doki Doki Morning music video and either of those recommended debut/making of videos. Costumes which came after that, like their classic look of the red tutu and an armored-look top, were proper costumes.
Thank you for your reaction/insights ! Looking forward to see the art work, will be interesting
Love this song, it's such an interesting experiment by Babymetal. The song was listed on the tour setlist as 'Ind-Metal' so if anyone is still wondering what the influence origin is, no need. This is probably the most (mature) kawaii song of the 3rd album.
If you want to see the borrowed clothes Babymetal wore in the very early days (although they might be the same as in the MV, but this also shows a bit behind the scenes): making of doki doki morning (channel: akane saku)
Don't know if this needs a reaction, but it's something you might want to hear anyway. A video exists of Su-metal singing this song live radio broadcast captured from an in-ear-monitor, RUclips video: BABYMETAL Shanti Shanti Shanti-Suzuka`s In Ear Monitor Sound HD
18:13 now... surprise surprise, Moametal got to be in charge of dance and they got to train 3 girls ('Avengers').
She said she had to do training to be in sync with all of them and it was all different, she is the one who adapts with the one who they are performing with at that moment.
A fairly new and pretty popular band which combines Indian and Metal is: Bloodywood. They are great for reactions too (maybe for later?)
Yes there are heavy India influences in the music and dance,also I’m sure others have told you
Yui is pronounced Yu-EE, Moa is pronounced Mo-ah and Su is Su
Yeah, Yui's name seems to be the hardest for Venice. -I'd describe it like you just take the first soft 'L' and the last 'S' sounds away from 'Lewis'-
Edit. Now that I discovered that the pronunciation of the name Lewis in English was not what I expected 🤣 I have to revoke my bad example. I guess "U.E." may be a better one 🙄🦊🤘
It's funny because its about the most simple name in the world to pronounce but a lot of people struggle with it. It's even funnier that so many people thing Moa is Mah-oh.
@@FastWa1ker "It rhymes with Huey, or chewy."
Moa really shines here. Although its not her dance genre, it fits her style and onstage personality so well. She nailed the Indian flavor of the dance with her body motions and hand positions
Not a big fan of the official mv all that kaleidoscope patterns made it difficult to see but love the song .
Seeing everything in the 2nd was awesome i would not describe the Su look you spotted" smug " BabyMetal probably do not know how to be smug there down to earth, modest and humble . I would describe it as Su looking satisfied with there performance or when she holds a high note for a long time at the end of a song a look of delight on her face . when she's really happy like at Sonisphere after IDZ or SSA after ROR Su has been known to punch the air and looking back as she leaves the stage doing a Kitsune sign waving it and smiling at the audince . Really happy but never smug 😁❤️🤘🦊🤘
Su voice is something else in live performance, sound much more powerful
I really like the format of you doing the official videos and then the live version in the same video
The studio recordings are much nicer and cleaner, but the live version gives you an opportunity to see how they handle the songs naturally
going in head first. Enjoy the Fox Hole
👍 great job and I love knowing that you are going to do double reactions of BabyMetal each time I tune in. The MV got too carried away with the kaleidoscope effect (in my opinion) so I am glad that you also reacted to the compilation. Shanti Shanti Shanti shows how these girls will not be boxed into a single genre and with their fearlessness and talent can bring a fresh new look to anything.
Until next time.
Nice reaction. Shanti Shanti Shanti is a great example of how their travels around the world influenced the 3rd album. Moa said the hand positions were the hardest thing to learn for the choreography. However, the impressive thing here is how Su shows off some new singing skills here. Her ability to hit the semi tones of the music scales used in this song are amazing. We all knew how talented Su is but her growth in skills IMO is one of the things that makes the 3rd album some of their best work. That and Moa's growth as an artist in general. They got her to sing a lot more on this album and Moa has said she focused a lot more on her dancing. Now with their mature Kawaii metal songs Babymetal starts to enter a new phase. Only the release of their fourth album will we know where it goes from here. Kitsune UPs
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Shanti x 3 !! !!
音楽を聴いて鳥肌が立つのも久しぶりだが本当に最高です😆
Pa Pa Ya (ft. F.Hero) 🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼
19:51 that few seconds from there, is one of the most majestic look Su ever gave on camera
yes so iconic :)
BabyMetal goes to Bollywood. The faces of reactors of Hindi culture just light up when they see this, they appreciate the care and authenticity BM brings to their performance.
Loosely related to Bollywood, there is a vid of 2020's music vid, Kingslayer (BM's outstanding collaboration with Bring Me The Horizon), that is set to a completely "over the top" Bollywood musical production. The mash-up is very well done and quite funny.
Lastly and not related to BM, Bollywood metal does exist. Bloodywood's Ari, Ari went viral a couple of years ago and the shock on reactor's faces is great fun. Something akin to people seeing Gimme Chocolate for the first time. Worth ck'ing out.
aaa yes i am glad i got my idea right which shows how the correctly and clearly got the reference and theme across :) as for the song gimme chocolate i did that one as my first song of the band
Su has such an incredible range of vocals. In this video Moa was 19-20, St was 20-21 and the Avenger, Kano was 14 years old. Kano only performed with Babymetal at Japan shows as she still had commitments to Sakura Gakuin and her other Idol Group @onefive.
During a SG segment, Kano expressed her admiration for "Moa-sama" (-sama is an even higher honorific than -san) because she performed a BM song with 2 of the other girls in SG at an Idol festival and they were completely wiped out afterward from the intense choreography, where normally they would perform multiple songs. The "teacher" Mori-sensei gave her grief for giving Moa such an honorific. Lol.
You should hear what he said about Suzuka the year after she left SG 😜
"After Nakamoto, the fool, left us." Translation probably not correct.
@@hugovictor5186 Ssshhhhh....No spoilers! 😜😄😜
Do Doki Doki Morning MV and then the 2021 Budokan performance. You will see the very beginning of their career and the very latest performance.
Looking forward to you watching one of the "Unhelpful Guides To BabyMetal". One of the things you will be introduced to is Sakura Gakuin (Japanese: 'Cherry Blossom Academy') that was a Japanese idol girl group formed in 2010 by the Amuse talent agency. It was the nexus of BabyMetal and there are scores of vids that will warm your heart, like "best friends" Yui and Moa at the ages of 11 and 12.
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Yes, this song has some clear indian influence, but more like Bollywood influence more than classical Indian, as some indian reactors suggested!
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Good idea on the Doki Doki Morning MV followed by a LIVE performance of the song.
Shanti is definitely one of their songs that doesn't get enough reactions, so I was happy to see this! You were right that it's (intentionally) Indian-inspired, and that comes out both in the music and the dance. They brought in a lot of different cultural influences for the third album, both as a way to challenge themselves (Su had to learn several new styles of singing, including this one, and Moa and the Avengers of course had to learn different dance styles) and to keep things fresh. BM has always made it clear that they're not really interested in treading water stylistically speaking.
If you do Doki Doki Morning, I would vote for the MV. It's one of the good ones, and it shows off just how young they were when they started. Plus, I don't really feel like there are any live performances of it that are head and shoulders above the rest, and also the ones that _are_ in my opinion the best unfortunately tend to get either partially or completely audio blocked. :(
As far as lighting, Babymetal pretty much sticks to 3 colors, Red for when the music gets really heavy, Blue for when it gets really light and white for in between.
You will notice the background colors tend to go yellowish, similar to the color of Indian curry.
Now actually they have green and gold/yellow too 😂
Since the 3rd album we got more colors. In the early performances we also saw green lasers.
@@autohmae true. It is hard to integrate other culture's styles without adding some color 😉
Time for a Guide To reaction I think
not yet as i have some songs in priority before that :)
@@venicerealm As long as you have reacted to Babymetal Death (particularly the Legend 1997 version), any of the Guides are safe to watch. We just do not want those guides ruining the surprise. 😉
Yes, both Doki performances please. MV first of course.
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Personally I think whoever made the "official" Shanti Shanti video should be taken out and shot (ok - I'll settle for sacked) :) Who wants to look at kaliiedoscope effects when you want to see them dancing - although it's fine as a backdrop. Feels to me a lot of their newer songs however aren't so great with crowd participation - I do like it though :)
Fyi, the pronounciation of Yui is "Yuuee" as "i" in "India" , her full name is Yui Mizuno "Youee Meezūnō" , Kitsune up! 🤘🦊
Compilation videos suck and I'm sure I've said that before. There are numerous ways around copyright infringement - I suggest that you investigate how other reacters manage to get around that problem. But it's your show and if you're willing to settle for half-assed then that's your business. 😢
Well at least she did react to the official MV first, i think BMRR got a watermarked logo version but since she does pause a lot it's way harder to editing that, watching the original clip while putting the logo clip for us. The live compilation isn't the best one but at least serves as a help to get through this odd and focus on the dance analysis.
Plus she worked really hard to upload Akatsuki Unfinished Version so i think she deserves some indulgence.
I do share with you live comps isn't the best way to experience BM songs for first time watching but like i said, she did watched the official MV first at least.
Keep supporting BM and reactors who share the Fox God love 🦊🤘
@@jakemuller8626 I agree and I'll give kudos for watching the official MV first but any Babymetal compilation for any viewer is like eating prime rib that somebody else chewed. Those who make these comp vids are nothing less than pirates taking advantage of gullible viewers. And although BMRR is an option, I think their watermark is so "thick" and encompassing that it's hardly worth the effort to watch. In fact, I'm under the impression that, for as many times that she pauses and chats about the video, she shouldn't have any copyright problems at all. At least that's the conclusion I've come to watching other reacters. KITSUNE UP!!! 🤘🦊🤘
@@Filboid2000 Yeah I get what you said, but the watermarked logo is for us not for the reactor, and trying to react to a full clip without logo and pausing a lot has already been tested for some reactors, trust me, not working, when something is heavily blocked it won't pass, there are clips with heavy audio blocked, those are even worse. And not to mention she did experience by herself with the Akatsuki Unfinished Ver. x_x
We can make some exceptions with valuable reactors like her 🙏
Thanks for understanding this 🦊🤘