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TITEL - METALI!! (feat. Tom Morello)

INTERPRET - BABYMETAL

ALBUM - METALI!!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know why, but the part around the 1 minute mark with the dancers breaking through the walls always cracks me up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tom Morello working with what's kinda a Japanese idol band feels weird, NGL ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Musically, Babymetal is basically their backing band (Kami Band) IMO, and they are obviously very good. The idol/dancing aspect is why I personally could never get into Babymetal, that's just not my thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do like their singing, but the idol stuff definitely leaves a bit of a weird taste. Idol industry is pretty bad in terms of how it treats the idols (though AFAIK the Japanese are slightly better about this than the Koreans).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, the whole idol business is pretty weird, and we won't speak of K-pop here. 😆

But Babymetal is not typical of the idol industry, so that's not my issue with them. It's just that I somehow can't really "connect" to music if its faces, the people on stage, are not the ones who actually play (and ideally also wrote) it. And idk, the dancing is just weird to me.