This is a compilation of various performances which is why the costumes change. BM are the three girls, Su, Moa and Yui and the backing band are the Kami Band and they are dressed as spirits in funeral robes. BM are all about energy and emotion and I love the way you bought into the excitement of this song. "Catch Me If You Can" is about a Japanese playground game where the tagger is called the "oni-san" and asks if the kids are ready and Yui and Moa answer "no not yet" and BM's dance mimics running away. Oni are Japanese ogres or trolls that are sometimes used to scare young children into being good. Another interesting cultural reference in the lyrics is to it being dangerous "to go out in red shoes" which I think refers to a Japanese children's poem where a young girl wearing red shoes is taken away from her parents by foreigners. It was written in the early 20th century and probably expresses fear of the outsider and strangers. So there's lots of contrast in the music from the heavy intro to the more pop oriented chorus and also in the lyrics going from a game of tag to the kidnapping of a small child. BM love contrast. Next reaction should be "Headbanger - Legend 1997" or a Su solo like "Akatsuki - Budokan Black Night"
Good reaction. The instrumentalists are called the Kami Band (they are all male). Kami means god or spirit, so they are the gods of guitar, bass and drums summoned from the dead to support BABYMETAL in all live shows. That is why they wear the traditional white burial robes and corpse face paint. More recently the robes are black and they wear masks instead of face paint. 'Catch Me If You Can' is the best metal song about playing a game that's a sort of cross between tag, blind man's bluff and hide & seek I've ever heard. It is the perfect mix of the two extremes with the brutal instrumentals and the sweet vocals - and the game they are playing, they're playing with an Oni (a sort of Japanese ogre popular in regional festivals and used specifically to frighten children). The growling vocals (they are on a backing track) are the Oni asking things like "Are you ready?" and the best response has to be "Maada da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance. This was a compilation video with clips from many different concerts stitched together (not very well), which was why the lighting, the stages and the costumes kept on changing. The audio was taken from the performance at the Budokan, Black Night in 2014. The video for that performance without all the confusing jumping from one stage to another and changes of costume is on RU-vid if you want to watch it (no need for another reaction on that of course). You have many more BABYMETAL songs to hear yet ...
Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。 In BABYMETAL concerts, the performers on stage need a lot of energy and they require it to the audience. Last year, my smart watch indicated more than 600Kcal consumption after a show in Budokan 😄 (even without mosh pit in the all-seater arena). BM works well as workout. What cardio capacities these 3 dainty girls had ! In an interview, Moa said she and Su were continuing hard physical training like first-class athletes even in the inactive COVID period . That is why they could perform flawlessly 90-minutes almost non-stop shows in 10 BABYMETAL Budokan concerts last year.
I think you are overplaying this a bit. If you put any of their concerts on MUTE and just watch them move around stage, it's not any more physically demanding than high school cheerleaders training. It's really the well-organized set-up that makes them look like something bigger than they are, which is just 3 girls. Also, my interest in this group went down the drain when they lost Yui Mizuno and became adults. The "baby" aspect of BABYMETAL Is gone and it just doesn't look as good.
⚡ 💀 💕 / 🏃♀👹 This cute song is about playing a game that is kind of like hide-and-go-seek, with some tag and blind-man's bluff mixed in. Pursued by an "Oni"" which is a kind of Japanese Ogre or Demon. If not a real monster, than at least someone pretending to be one in order to terrify children. : ) If much of their charm is in the blending of the cute and the brutal, this song is a great example. They performed this song quite a bit in 2017, but not since. Like Grington300 300 mentioned, all of the musicians you saw were men, including the bald guy (BOH) who plays the bass guitar. : )
The lyrics to most BABYMETAL songs are pretty dumb. It's a lot of childish and juvenile content. People really don't listen to this group for the "meaning". The vast majority of fans don't speak Japanese and don't care.
Sadly you face one of the worst live compilation out there, but is all my fault I didn't leave a recommendation like i use to do. Next time Ijime Dame Zettai live at Sonisphere Festival 2014, official live MV, careful with copyright blocked. And btw I saw on your playlist "BABYMENTAL" lol fix that.😅 Anyway keep having fun with BM songs 🦊🤘
