Once again my respect for Su has been taken to new heights. Of course I knew that she is good, but this still came as a surprise. I agree about her enunciation, I have never heard another Japanese artist that sounds that clear. For a Japanese learner, her Japanese is much better to understand than most people's. And when watching this, it becomes clear that that's not by chance, she obviously puts a lot of effort and care into the movements and shaping of her mouth. She is a real pro.
As a Japanese learner myself, I agree completely. I suppose that her clear pronunciation is also due to her professional entertainment training from a young age on. Her well distinguishable "u" sounds, dipthongs and full mora of e.g. "n" syllables remind me a bit of German "stage pronunciation" of, e.g., and over-emphasised rolling "r" so it can me more clearly heard in the back rows of a theatre. Also, I might be completely imagining it and have just fallen for Su's heavenly voice. Also, Moa's harmonies are lovely. And that's hard to do too with such precision and clarity.
I just can't get enough of this Piano version and we didn't even have the live version coming soon right after album release, they also announced Asian and Australian live tour and later they will go to US Festival like Blue Ridge and Louder Than Life, hopefully you'll get the chance to see them live. Thanks for sharing this beautiful song and keep smiling.🦊🤘🌈
Nice reaction, thanks! This is an extremely beautiful version with piano and strings arrangements by Kota Hatamiya aka HATAMIYAMETAL and Takehiro Mamiya aka Yuyoyuppe aka YUPPEMETAL who is also the composer of the original version. I believe it's fair to give kudos to them. So glad you noticed their incredible costumes (my favorite by far) and their perfect hair styling. Well it's easier to keep your hair perfect when you are not headbanging all the time. 🤣In my opinion, these kind of little things says a lot about their attention to the detail. About the Sony vs. Amuse thing... Sony, or more properly, RAL / Sony Music Entertainment is their North American market distributor. I can't find a closer connection but Amuse states that they have worked with several Japanese entertainment companies in the past. This is the beauty of the modern on-line marketing. 😁 Until next time!
Another connection, although it may have nothing to do with Babymetal appearing on The First Take, is that Toy's Factory, Babymetal's label in Japan, switched from VAP to Sony Music Solutions for distribution in 2021.
Great reaction. This is a beautiful version of what was already a beautiful song. You can watch again with the English lyrics in the closed captions if you want to get even more emotional. Keep your eyes open, apparently The First Take usually records two songs with the artists who appear - we can only hope BABYMETAL recorded two songs as well.🙏🦊
Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。(UK people is lucky. Sabaton tour featuring BABYMETAL as a special guest will start from Leeds on April 14 then London, Cardiff and Glasgow.) These female artists depict various images by singing and project them into the listeners' brain. The waves by those images come and go and make me move emotionally. Thank you BABYMETAL. And thank you Koba for your serendipity. Some 13 years ago, you certainly discovered something amazing and sacred for us. Speaking of the three figures in white hood adding some background vocals, they are certainly homage to BM's girlhood with original three girls. I assume, however, they are the same girls who performed Doki Doki Morning as clone BABYMETAL in Makuhari last January. The combination of their heights reminded me of them dancing face-to-face with Su, Moa and Momoko.
Monocrome Piano version is a triumph!! A masterpiece in which I never expected to be done so well & with such conviction. Su-Metal & Moa have once again suprised me here. With yet another outstanding & this time acoustic performance!! Four days left until the new album releases. Rock on Ladies!! 🤘🦊💕
Babymetal trained this like any other live show do they (this performance is very similar to a live show). And they train like crazy. It's spot on. The amazing pronunciation, it's not because of the Japanese language, is all Su-metal, she works with feeling and amazing precision. Something else which gives this an other layer of amazing: Did you notice how when they walked in how you could hear their clothes ? But did you hear them take any breathes like many other artists on this channel ? No ? This means: amazing breath control was involved to perform this song. Many artists have done 2 songs on this channel, I hope we get an other Babymetal one.
I think Kobametal fully knew what he was doing, sending in Su and Moa to draw a line the sand, and show them what an emotional performance is. Babymetal needs to put out an unplugged album...Even in this simple environment, Su is still the perfect performer, with her expression and gestures... Akatsuki Unfinished is still my tear jerker from Su, but this is running a close second in terms of emotional performances....sorry No Rain No Rainbow from Legend S XX... I've seen some of the other First Takes, and I think Su just set a whole new bar thats gonna be hard to surpass 🥲🥲🥲🤘🦊🤘
I just found about this version just a few days ago as I was listening to their playlist on Spotify and it's one of the last songs on the list. My first thought was, "PLEASE let there be a video performance of this!". It's an incredible performance. I'm a 56 year old metalhead. This band has given me so much that I didn't know I needed.
Thanks for this reaction, you were amazed by the hair ? I do have an explanation for it: Babymetal performed while also being in Sakura Gakuin (which is school themed, all the staff have teacher in their title), they were still kids, they would often have a 'diary entry' as a blog post, here is an excerpt from 2012: Good morningafternoonight. It's Moa. It is a sleeping-out series. You know the place! Yes!! Osaka and Nagoya (for Babymeta) !! We went to Osaka a day before, 7th. I have been there 30 times over for my lessons once a month, and for USJ! So I am a veteran enough to escort everyone to Doutonbori and Shinsaibashi. Yay. ...So Yui and Moa stayed in the same room for our day-one night and Su-chan and our teacher in another room. Yui and Moa first took a bath together, our Babymeta hair were so fixed with wax. We managed to wash our hair while we played with our hair by combing with rinse paste to soften our hair (lol). While we played in the bath Su-chan seemed to come to our room, but we didn't notice her. Sorry, Su-chan. Finally Su-chan decided to sleep in our room because Su-chan loves Moa more than our teacher (lol),
@@DashyXDAndDadReacts I hope it doesn't ruin some kind of illusion now you know the secret. Or maybe help you understand they really were just kids in Babymetal's early days as you can probably see from her writing style.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Koba-Metal and Amuse reached out to the First Take and asked for a slot for Babymetal. It really is a channel with a lot of class and it's great promo for the new album.
Agree with what everyone else is saying about this recording. It is stellar, and Su and Moa are tallented on amazing levels. But not much is made of how Su _moves_ in this performance. She is just so giving it everything, and in tune with everything.
Moa didn't attend the prestigious Actors School of Hiroshima but she is an Idol from the group Sakura Gakuin, same as Su. Check out some of their songs to hear Moa. I recommend the MV of Sakura Gakuin-Animal Rhythm.
BABYMETAL's hometown of SU is Hiroshima. So if you can imagine what you're singing about from the English translation, I don't think you can laugh. Use your imagination. They are sung as metaphors.
I can’t remember where I was reading it, but people were commenting that Su herself said it wasn’t about the A-bomb. I don’t know where to go to find a quote from her about it
Two points: First you should have seen it with the subtitles of the lyrics for a better understanding. Without understanding what is being said it becomes less interesting and just a comment about how good the voice is or the light. Second, the three girls are a graphic prop for true fans referring back to the first videos they shot and an emotional reference to Yui Mizuno and how much they miss her. Shortly after this video they confirmed that Momoko Okazaki will be the new member of the group permanently, since Yui's departure in 2017.
Since you really liked this stripped down version of Monochrome, are you aware that they already did it for 2 more songs before? - "Akatsuki Unfinished" live at Legend 1997 show in 2013 - "The One - Staiway to living Legends" official MV
Great reaction. As stated a few times in your comments, you'll need to check out Moabanger so you can hear Moa go full out. As for the robed figures, there are a few theories working their way around the block. One theory holds that the robed figures are a nod to the Old Babymetal when Yui was still in the group. There is support for this because of the height differences. 2 of the figures are close to the same height, while the third one on the far right is almost a full head taller, much like Su was during the Yui years. Since both Moa and Su have stated that Yui will forever be a part of Babymetal, there is reason to believe that the 3 robed figures is to show Yui respect. Another theory holds that the 3 robed figures represents the future of Babymetal as it is expected that on April 1st Babymetal will be announcing a new member who will join up with Su and Moa. Many believe this new person will be Momokometal. However, as it hasn't been announced yet, the 3 figures are all robed up so you cannot see who they are, to keep the suspense. Finally there is a third theory floating around. This one I don't quite know I fully understand as yet since I didn't see the concert, but in the concert I HEARD there was a "second" Babymetal group that was mirroring Babymetal, or something along those lines. With this Babymetal album being from an "alternate" or Mirror metalverse it COULD be the 3 robed figures are there to symbolize Babymetal from a different metalverse. Lastly, maybe it's a combination of all of the above! In any event, those are the main theories I've heard mentioned.
Please pay more attention to the lyrics. Sue is from Hiroshima and this song is about the atomic bomb dropped on her hometown on August 6, 1945. This song isn’t something that Japanese can enjoy listening while laughing.
@@crosswinner4149 we’re very interested. You haven’t seen our Babymetal playlist check it out 🙌 because we mentioned monochrome already in the other reaction 🖤 we didn’t want to repeat ourselves 🫂
Back in the day I use to change their diapers, lol. Lovebites - Stand and Deliver - a great son off their new album (czcams.com/video/4ImGA7cPyrs/video.html) Lovebites - Swan Song [+Chopin Intro] (Five of a Kind, 21/02/2020) if you like piano, a great piano opening and closing (czcams.com/video/WBhtqgiXEA4/video.html)
Once again my respect for Su has been taken to new heights. Of course I knew that she is good, but this still came as a surprise. I agree about her enunciation, I have never heard another Japanese artist that sounds that clear. For a Japanese learner, her Japanese is much better to understand than most people's. And when watching this, it becomes clear that that's not by chance, she obviously puts a lot of effort and care into the movements and shaping of her mouth. She is a real pro.
Deffo!
As a Japanese learner myself, I agree completely. I suppose that her clear pronunciation is also due to her professional entertainment training from a young age on. Her well distinguishable "u" sounds, dipthongs and full mora of e.g. "n" syllables remind me a bit of German "stage pronunciation" of, e.g., and over-emphasised rolling "r" so it can me more clearly heard in the back rows of a theatre. Also, I might be completely imagining it and have just fallen for Su's heavenly voice.
Also, Moa's harmonies are lovely. And that's hard to do too with such precision and clarity.
I just can't get enough of this Piano version and we didn't even have the live version coming soon right after album release, they also announced Asian and Australian live tour and later they will go to US Festival like Blue Ridge and Louder Than Life, hopefully you'll get the chance to see them live.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful song and keep smiling.🦊🤘🌈
Agreed thankies
Nice reaction, thanks!
This is an extremely beautiful version with piano and strings arrangements by Kota Hatamiya aka HATAMIYAMETAL and Takehiro Mamiya aka Yuyoyuppe aka YUPPEMETAL who is also the composer of the original version. I believe it's fair to give kudos to them.
So glad you noticed their incredible costumes (my favorite by far) and their perfect hair styling. Well it's easier to keep your hair perfect when you are not headbanging all the time. 🤣In my opinion, these kind of little things says a lot about their attention to the detail.
About the Sony vs. Amuse thing... Sony, or more properly, RAL / Sony Music Entertainment is their North American market distributor. I can't find a closer connection but Amuse states that they have worked with several Japanese entertainment companies in the past. This is the beauty of the modern on-line marketing. 😁
Until next time!
Another connection, although it may have nothing to do with Babymetal appearing on The First Take, is that Toy's Factory, Babymetal's label in Japan, switched from VAP to Sony Music Solutions for distribution in 2021.
Whoop
Thanks folks - enjoyed your reaction!
I think they HAVE to release an acoustic album now!
Deffo!
Great reaction. This is a beautiful version of what was already a beautiful song. You can watch again with the English lyrics in the closed captions if you want to get even more emotional.
Keep your eyes open, apparently The First Take usually records two songs with the artists who appear - we can only hope BABYMETAL recorded two songs as well.🙏🦊
will do! thankies so much
Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。(UK people is lucky. Sabaton tour featuring BABYMETAL as a special guest will start from Leeds on April 14 then London, Cardiff and Glasgow.)
These female artists depict various images by singing and project them into the listeners' brain. The waves by those images come and go and make me move emotionally. Thank you BABYMETAL. And thank you Koba for your serendipity. Some 13 years ago, you certainly discovered something amazing and sacred for us.
Speaking of the three figures in white hood adding some background vocals, they are certainly homage to BM's girlhood with original three girls. I assume, however, they are the same girls who performed Doki Doki Morning as clone BABYMETAL in Makuhari last January. The combination of their heights reminded me of them dancing face-to-face with Su, Moa and Momoko.
Whoop
Nice reaction. su-metal's singing voice is a gift from heaven.
deffo
Monocrome Piano version is a triumph!! A masterpiece in which I never expected to be done so well & with such conviction. Su-Metal & Moa have once again suprised me here.
With yet another outstanding & this time acoustic performance!! Four days left until the new album releases. Rock on Ladies!! 🤘🦊💕
Definitely 🔥
Babymetal trained this like any other live show do they (this performance is very similar to a live show). And they train like crazy. It's spot on.
The amazing pronunciation, it's not because of the Japanese language, is all Su-metal, she works with feeling and amazing precision.
Something else which gives this an other layer of amazing:
Did you notice how when they walked in how you could hear their clothes ? But did you hear them take any breathes like many other artists on this channel ?
No ? This means: amazing breath control was involved to perform this song.
Many artists have done 2 songs on this channel, I hope we get an other Babymetal one.
Stunning
Your wish is fulfilled. There's another song😊
I think Kobametal fully knew what he was doing, sending in Su and Moa to draw a line the sand, and show them what an emotional performance is. Babymetal needs to put out an unplugged album...Even in this simple environment, Su is still the perfect performer, with her expression and gestures... Akatsuki Unfinished is still my tear jerker from Su, but this is running a close second in terms of emotional performances....sorry No Rain No Rainbow from Legend S XX... I've seen some of the other First Takes, and I think Su just set a whole new bar thats gonna be hard to surpass 🥲🥲🥲🤘🦊🤘
Agreed 🖤🙌🖤
Have you not heard MoaBanger yet? Moa can sing really well. Her voice is pure joy. Su sounded absolutely amazing in this and not surprised at all. 🤘🦊🤘
Added!
@@DashyXDAndDadReacts its a must see. I believe it gets blocked mercilessly so if yo can, find it on the reactor resource channel.🤘🦊🤘
@@mikepowers9486 Thankies 🥰
I just found about this version just a few days ago as I was listening to their playlist on Spotify and it's one of the last songs on the list. My first thought was, "PLEASE let there be a video performance of this!". It's an incredible performance. I'm a 56 year old metalhead. This band has given me so much that I didn't know I needed.
Awesome 🤩 whoop 🙌
Love this, so beautiful, and the piano makes it sound quite Ghibliesque. Even more hyped to be seeing them next month!
Glad you like it!
Thanks for this reaction, you were amazed by the hair ? I do have an explanation for it:
Babymetal performed while also being in Sakura Gakuin (which is school themed, all the staff have teacher in their title), they were still kids, they would often have a 'diary entry' as a blog post, here is an excerpt from 2012:
Good morningafternoonight. It's Moa.
It is a sleeping-out series.
You know the place! Yes!! Osaka and Nagoya (for Babymeta) !!
We went to Osaka a day before, 7th. I have been there 30 times over for my lessons once a month, and for USJ! So I am a veteran enough to escort everyone to Doutonbori and Shinsaibashi. Yay.
...So Yui and Moa stayed in the same room for our day-one night and Su-chan and our teacher in another room.
Yui and Moa first took a bath together, our Babymeta hair were so fixed with wax. We managed to wash our hair while we played with our hair by combing with rinse paste to soften our hair (lol).
While we played in the bath Su-chan seemed to come to our room, but we didn't notice her. Sorry, Su-chan. Finally Su-chan decided to sleep in our room because Su-chan loves Moa more than our teacher (lol),
Thankies for watching with us!
@@DashyXDAndDadReacts I hope it doesn't ruin some kind of illusion now you know the secret. Or maybe help you understand they really were just kids in Babymetal's early days as you can probably see from her writing style.
@@autohmae indeed 🖤🤩🖤
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Koba-Metal and Amuse reached out to the First Take and asked for a slot for Babymetal. It really is a channel with a lot of class and it's great promo for the new album.
Whoop 🙌🖤
Moa sings Headbanger for her birthday!!! Pleas react to that one, its incredible.
will do thankies!
Great reaction! 🤘🦊🤘
You rock!
🤘🦊♪
Agree with what everyone else is saying about this recording. It is stellar, and Su and Moa are tallented on amazing levels.
But not much is made of how Su _moves_ in this performance.
She is just so giving it everything, and in tune with everything.
Definitely 🥰🖤
Moa didn't attend the prestigious Actors School of Hiroshima but she is an Idol from the group Sakura Gakuin, same as Su. Check out some of their songs to hear Moa. I recommend the MV of Sakura Gakuin-Animal Rhythm.
Whoop 🙌
What's the piece of art in the background?
it's a tree
If you haven't yet you should REALLY check out the "Moabanger" version of Headbanger, you get to hear Moa take over the song from Su and go full out.
Whoop
Could the 3 hooded figures represent or actually be Su, Moa and Yui? Only The Fox God knows 🦊🤘
🍅🍅🍅🍅
Whoop
If you want to hear Moa sing, watch 'Moa-banger', if you haven't already.. it is brilliant.. :)
It is! We’ve done it 🙌
Folks Su is 25, she has been singing on stage, professionally since she was 6 yo.
Whoop 🙌
いい親子だね。モーターヘッドのTシャツがまたいいね。
Whoop 🙌
BABYMETAL's hometown of SU is Hiroshima. So if you can imagine what you're singing about from the English translation, I don't think you can laugh. Use your imagination.
They are sung as metaphors.
Hi Lucifer , we’re laughing at each-other as we’re a strong family bond between dad and daughter . Please keep your comments respectful. Thanks 🙏
I can’t remember where I was reading it, but people were commenting that Su herself said it wasn’t about the A-bomb. I don’t know where to go to find a quote from her about it
🍅💀🍅
🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼
" Just smile " x 100 !! !!
Two points: First you should have seen it with the subtitles of the lyrics for a better understanding. Without understanding what is being said it becomes less interesting and just a comment about how good the voice is or the light. Second, the three girls are a graphic prop for true fans referring back to the first videos they shot and an emotional reference to Yui Mizuno and how much they miss her. Shortly after this video they confirmed that Momoko Okazaki will be the new member of the group permanently, since Yui's departure in 2017.
Whoop thanks
STAY METAL! 🦊🖤🔥🖤
Since you really liked this stripped down version of Monochrome, are you aware that they already did it for 2 more songs before?
- "Akatsuki Unfinished" live at Legend 1997 show in 2013
- "The One - Staiway to living Legends" official MV
thankies
Nice reaction - this one stunned me
Same here!🖤
👍 👍
Live your British English. Su is amazing, live her voice.
Thankies 🤗🔥🤗
🤘🦊🤘
Great reaction. As stated a few times in your comments, you'll need to check out Moabanger so you can hear Moa go full out. As for the robed figures, there are a few theories working their way around the block. One theory holds that the robed figures are a nod to the Old Babymetal when Yui was still in the group. There is support for this because of the height differences. 2 of the figures are close to the same height, while the third one on the far right is almost a full head taller, much like Su was during the Yui years. Since both Moa and Su have stated that Yui will forever be a part of Babymetal, there is reason to believe that the 3 robed figures is to show Yui respect.
Another theory holds that the 3 robed figures represents the future of Babymetal as it is expected that on April 1st Babymetal will be announcing a new member who will join up with Su and Moa. Many believe this new person will be Momokometal. However, as it hasn't been announced yet, the 3 figures are all robed up so you cannot see who they are, to keep the suspense. Finally there is a third theory floating around. This one I don't quite know I fully understand as yet since I didn't see the concert, but in the concert I HEARD there was a "second" Babymetal group that was mirroring Babymetal, or something along those lines. With this Babymetal album being from an "alternate" or Mirror metalverse it COULD be the 3 robed figures are there to symbolize Babymetal from a different metalverse. Lastly, maybe it's a combination of all of the above! In any event, those are the main theories I've heard mentioned.
Love this 😜🥰
Great reaction to a great song.
Thanks 🙏
Thank you for listening to Japanese songs.
ありがとうございます😊
Take this opportunity to listen to more BABYMETAL
thank you
New subscriber just found you!
Welcome! To the family 🖤
🦊🦊🦊
IF you want to hear Moa sing..check out the 'Moa-Banger' version of 'Headbanger' czcams.com/video/MToMx6RCW-M/video.html
Thankies , we've seen this now
@@DashyXDAndDadReacts No problem. Glad you enjoyed it!
Please pay more attention to the lyrics. Sue is from Hiroshima and this song is about the atomic bomb dropped on her hometown on August 6, 1945. This song isn’t something that Japanese can enjoy listening while laughing.
Love the Music
I know that you're not laughing at the message of the song. You're just not interested in the message Sue put in this song.
@@crosswinner4149 we’re very interested. You haven’t seen our Babymetal playlist check it out 🙌 because we mentioned monochrome already in the other reaction 🖤 we didn’t want to repeat ourselves 🫂
Looking at the camera too consciously.
Focus more on the song.
love the song 🎵🖤 we have two screens so we’re watching su and Moa very carefully 🫂
Back in the day I use to change their diapers, lol.
Lovebites - Stand and Deliver - a great son off their new album (czcams.com/video/4ImGA7cPyrs/video.html)
Lovebites - Swan Song [+Chopin Intro] (Five of a Kind, 21/02/2020) if you like piano, a great piano opening and closing (czcams.com/video/WBhtqgiXEA4/video.html)