BABYMETAL // CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

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shows featured - 10:
LEGEND 1999
LEGEND 1997
BUDOKAN RED NIGHT
BUDOKAN BLACK NIGHT
MAKUHARI MESSE 2014
YOKOHAMA 2015
MAKUHARI MESSE 2015
SSA 2015
WEMBLEY
TOKYO DOME RED NIGHT

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WEMBLEY
TOKYO DOME RED NIGHT

[MadsMcKay]

The vocalists are super cool but this intro where the rest of the band gets the spotlight for a hot minute was really awesome. Amazing musicians.

[colinmason]

I know the girls are the main draw of the band, but the players themselves are all amazing.

[sethwick]

Man everyone in this band is such a performance machine.

[workloadspd]

Pasting from a kind youtuber:

"For those that don't understand Japanese, this song is about "kakurenbo", the Japanese version of hide-and-seek. Except they are playing it with an Oni (a mythical creature that usually gets translated as *demon*). You hear the Oni say "mo ikai" (are you ready) and the girls reply "mada da yo" (not yet) which is kakurenbo's version "ready or not here I come". They are playfully teasing and toying with the Oni by running from it (represented by the signature dance) and saying "oni-san kochira" (this way Mr. Oni) and "te no naru ho e" (follow my clapping)."

[vinaymulukutla]

The guys in the band have some very serious musical chops. They look like schooled musicians and very seasoned professionals with phenomenal skill. This is why to me, Babymetal are no joke.

[oldmetalhead]

I'm so happy to live in a world where Babymetal exists.

[GiorgioPrezioso]

Rest in peace Mikio Fujioka (Ko- Gami), Guitar player of the band till 2018.

[LaceandArmour]

63 yo woman from the US. I can’t get enough of this song! The drummer and guitarists are phenomenal! ❤👍 Not to mention the girls! Cute as can be!

[UncleFexxer]

The first time I saw a vid of them I was like "WTF?" Now I'm hooked. The weird combination of Loligoth cuteness, pop-dance choreography and bonafide heavy metal music makes a weird logic all its own. It's like getting the shit kicked out of you by a leather-clad Hello Kitty.

[ColeyDuncan]

In all my 36 years, this is the most adorably brutal thing I've ever seen or heard. This is great!

[SeanPat]

It seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about BABYMETAL. Here is a little background.

About 10 years ago, the three girls were in a kind of specialty middle school called Sakura Gakuin. The two younger girls, Yui and Moa auditioned for the school because Sū, who was already a well-known performer, was there. SG was a school for young women who wanted to be performers. Sū was already an actor and the younger girls shared her enthusiasm. They are actors who sing and dance. When they perform they are not simply singing and dancing, but they are also acting out a story. For example, Gimmie Chocolate is part of a story in which the younger girls are corrupted by demons and eventually turned into wax figurines. The older girl outwitted the demons, rescued the other two and flew away in a heavy metal arc to a place of safety. The song is about the time they became fixated on chocolate, which was the first step in a sequence of temptations that led them to their doom. The song in this video is about three young girls that are playing a game of hide and seek with a demon. If any one of them lose that one will be carried off by the demon never to be seen again.

Anyhow, about 12 years ago, one of their teachers asked them about heavy-metal and they said they knew nothing about it. So they were given a project of inventing heavy-metal from some very basic ideas. It was just supposed to be a class project, but somebody made a cell phone video of their presentation and within a year they had fans all over the world.

Everything that BabyMetal does on stage flowed from that idea. The girls have written only one song, Song 4. The rest were written by others, the music was written by others. There is a lot of reference to an homage of heavy-metal Japanese music in BABYMETAL music. There’s also a lot of homage in reference to heavy-metal music from all over the world.

However, the girls are the ones who develop the dances. They have a choreographer who certainly played a big role but most of the input came from the girls themselves. When Su-metal, the taller one with the big mic, performs she is acting in a role as she sings the song. As a result she conveys a lot of emotion through her voice and I feel that is one of her main qualities. She has been singing in this way since 2007. The two younger ones mainly express themselves through dance.

These kids paid their duesThey have bee performing all over the world for over ten years. They went on their first world tour while the younger two were still in middle school! They have accomplished things that most people thought were impossible. They had the first Japanese-language hits in the US in decades. They’ve had a tremendous influence on the music industry. Right now because of the Covid situation they are not performing much. But they’re hoping to come back to the stage soon, because they are troupers.

[TrikoArtistUwU]

That pink glittery guitar paired with the metal aestetic it's AMAZING. Love the vibe

[lordsiomai]

The amount of energy in this performance could power New York City for a month

[RyanGaspar-mrxq]

That short base lead and drum solo was insane! Gave me chills😳

[actuallynotsteve]

No matter what you think about Babymetal overall, I feel like any music lover should just take a step back and look at this video and just describe what's happening in it.

There's an entire arena of people rocking the fuck out, a giant custom stage setup that's fox and occult themed, a live band of some of the best session guys in the business, and some cute Japanese girls saying Hi and making people want to rip the chairs out of the building.

It's so awesome I'm not even capable of explaining it with words.

[faisalayub]

They are keeping metal alive for newer generations and I respect that .This is not everyone’s cup of tea coz they can’t accept these 3 younglings are better and different then most of present metal bands. Kudos to the whole band

[DEVILDOG]

I've never heard of a band that sounds so comical and so fucking badass at the same time.

[peterchilds]

Never in a million years would I have think of mixing heavy metal with kids & I have to admit it's really cool

[Babym_metali]

I love how the band at the start itself gets a whole minute to themselves, awesome tbh😭😭🖤

[DaveMorgan]

This was my introduction to Babymetal. After several minutes of saying "What the f is this?", my next thoughts were "They're really cute." and "I think I like this." Now I'm a Babymetal fan for life.