50% Off Music Production Course With Code LSE - quickstartmusi... Original Video: • 米津玄師 Kenshi Yonezu - K... In this video, we're reacting to KICKBACK by 米津玄師 Kenshi Yonezu LongestSoloEver is a music producer, songwriter, and teacher.
J-music sounding jazzy is pretty standard but what I’d like to point out is how Kick Back has some spanish/latin elements to it (thats why the famous Salsa remix goes so well -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5mfDzBeeBSI.html ) and kenshi yonezu actually has a few songs with similar elements (Suna no Wakusei feat. Hatsune miku, Decollete)
Kenshi is also the master of maximalism in general!! His newer music has been more streamlined (while still feeling maximal in the sounds he uses) but his older stuff mostly kinda sounded like this I feel like kick back was him sorta bringing back that vibe and leaning into the crazy chaos.
This is by far the best Kickback reaction I have seen so far, I am amazed by your music theory skills and how well you can explain it and its also very impressive how well you can play guitar/bass. I enjoy your analysis videos and would love to see more J-Pop content!
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wwWDirZMdps.htmlsi=g6jRuUP7oGuTBsFy this one is my top but these two are very close. I love when musicians actually take to time to recreate what they are trying to explain cause I just don’t get it a lot of the time.
I know NOTHING about music, but I know a lot about Kenshi and I love watching knowledgeable people react to his music. As silly as it sounds, it feels validating?? to have someone appreciate his music in such a technical way. I'd love to know what you think of more of his songs. Especially some of the lesser known ones, like b-sides. He's unbelievably talented imo
Actually this song is featured by Daiki Tsuneta from king gnu. He plays base here but he's the guitarist and composer of his own band. He is also a producer of the band called millenium parade.
I may not have a lot of music expertise but watching someone as passionate about their craft as you analyze a song I like is always a treat. Hope you're having a fab summer 🤩😁
I just want to say thank you for actually analysing the music in your videos. Too often I see people calling themselves a Music Producer, Composer or whatever only to react without giving actually interesting input about the music. Great videos dude
THIS is what a react vid should be. I really love when you or other musician break down these music. Even though I myself have really weak background on music theory but hearing these kind of in-depth analysis make me understand what's happening behind these songs and appreciate the songs more than I could ever do on myself alone. Really good vid! Keep up on these contents, and I'll be waiting for your Kickback cover sooner or later!
not just two nickles with kenshi yonezu and ayase, the overlap between vocal synth producers going into mainstream music is pretty big! in chainsaw man's endings alone there's also eve , kanaria, and syudou, who all do vocaloid still as well. producer lyricist/utaite combo giga-p and reol have also both done anime, along with deco*27 and surii (off the top of my head) so its kind of more like if you get popular doing vocaloid you have a good chance to break into the industry i guess?
anime songs just love changing keys all over the place for seemingly no reason lol. my mom is a music teacher/vocalist and she is always blown away when I show her these crazy intros or endings because she's like "HOW TF DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING KEYS AND MAKING IT WORK?!" so your comments were similar, I totally get it. It's jarring at first for sure.
Thank you for great music analysis! It helps enjoying 'Kick Back' much deeper. I think you'll also enjoy the song "Reverse Dream" and "Ichizu" by KingGnu. The composer, Mr. Tsuneda, was asked by Mr. Yonezu to participate in composing for KickBack, and also appeaing in this MV. These songs are not openings, but were used as inserted and ending song in the anime film "Jujutsu Kaisen 0". Although not widely known in America and Europe yet, Mr. Tsuneda is a singer-songwriter of KingGnu with unique talent recognized by Mr. Yonezu. Please be sure to enjoy them.
Wanna give abit of history on the love of jazzy stuff in Japan. People can just cmiiw. Basically, Americans imported alot of things in Japan after the war. This includes jazz cause it was the most popular music at that time. Then jp people tried to mix and match jazz with their traditional music. It continued for some time until the Beatles concert in the 60s changed alot of things within the music creatives in Japan. The already existing music they have (jazzy progression with the traditional music) combined with the rock music of the beatles gave the standard structure for what an anime rock song now sounds like. If people also followed the history of the other music genres in japan, you'll find alot of their history traces back to the late 60s early 70s. Its like the concert became a turning point for the music people to do their own thing. From city pop, jmetal, standard anisongs, even idol songs. Btw please feel free to correct me as this was just off the top of my head and i need to put it out.
yeah so basically, Vocaloids producers are the crazy guys of music. There's so much happening at the same time, so many differents instruments and lines. The arrangement is crazy
I will never recommend enough "How to eat life" by Eve, if you have not listen to it yet. There are no crazy key changes but the writing is just really good
I love what you do with your reactions, whipping out instruments out of nowhere and absolutely going crazy while giving in-depth analysis of the musical vocabulary happening. It's amazing to not only see your music theory skills live (and amazing aural skills), but also see how much fun you have with unearthing the narrative behind the production. I really enjoy watching your reactions, thank you so much!
I ADORE the way you explain music. I may not be the best with chords but completely get and comprehend the ideas you present to me. Its really useful to both new and progressed musicians. Edit: that scream at the bridge was way too accurate lmao
I am not yet good enough to recognise keys by ear, but thanks to your commentary I was able to perceive many interesting elements that I didn't notice before!
Your way of explaining music theory is very playful and fun to follow. I wish we could make a videogame that would link to a music instrument to learn about music theory while having fun. Like some kind of FNF (yes, you can't ever hope to escape it) but that would be played with instruments with lesson around it ?
Bro I loved this analysis, and I have a wholeass playlist of jpop/jrock music that I love. I'd really recommend either Mephisto or Mysterious by Queen Bee, and also Dogland by People 1 was my favourite Chainsaw Man ending, the time/key/genre shifts in it are insane and just so jubilant. Would also recommend Daten by Creepy Nuts if you want something unashamedly jazzy and fun
Best anime song/intro in anime. I love the song. I love the rock/jazz fusion. I also like Lost In Paradise in the outro of the first season of Jujutsu Kaisen. Its a hiphop/disco/jazz song.
It was so interesting for your expertic opinion to me. As it was already other comments, japanese popular music sometimes include a little jazz code quite a while ago. Possibly we japanese use to those unique code too much, and it may be difficult for us to find that ourself listeing song preferably has jazz elements. Among the resent anime hit tunes, I consider that "MIXED NUTS" composed by "Official HIGE DANdism" is cosisted arranged jazz mood. And, regardless of doing musics analysised or nothing, for having many interested features, this song is simply so fun to listhen. I'd love to suggest your listning it, if you mind it!
You should most definitely review Kyoumen no Nami the opening them for Land of the Lustrous. There’s just so much happening in the song. And check out Ado a really awesome JPop singer.
"Exterminate" sung by Nana Mizuki. It is the opening theme of of Senki Zessho Symphogear GX (season 3 of the series). The entire anime is CHOCK FULL of phenomenal music. Each character has their own genre for their battle music. Celtic, J-Rock, hard rock, orchestral rock, techno rock, symphonic rock, and techno/darkwave. There's also J-pop insert songs, and honestly amazing opening and ending songs. Iirc the entire second season happened because the CD sales of these character songs made so much money. Which led to a total of five seasons, each with a bigger budget and crazier stakes.
I think an amazing anime soundtrack you should review is for Bocchi the Rock. Whether you know about it or not, I always love seeing what you say about music.
I'd love if you reacted to the Oshi No Ko outro song, Mephisto by QUEEN BEE I want to know exactly why the piano in the chorus scratches my brain just right
I feel like Solo would have a field day listening to Drift from Guilty Gear Strive, it's genre after genre change. Actually most of the Guilty Gear series does some crazy stuff in it's ost.
This video is so interesting and fun! Thank you so much! I really hope that if you can react to "cry baby" by Official Hige Dandism, which is also an Anime opening and huge hit in Japan. I love that music so much but can not understant why the song is so unique musically, so I would appreciate it if you could explain what's going on.
Hi, I’m Japanese. Enjoyed your video!! I highly recommend Japanese composer “tsunku （つんく）”. (Bridge part of KICK BACK was from his song “そうだ！ We’re ALIVE”, as you may know.) If you like key changes like YOASOBI, you will love his song “happy summer wedding (ハッピーサマーウェディング）”. It’s kind of old song and not that complicated as YOASOBI, but still mind blowing and you can feel J-POP vibe, which is mix everything but it goes well.
someone may have commented this but Daiki Tsuneta (who was in the production, also leader of band King Gnu) has a short video of him covering this with the bass
I know I’m two months late to this lmao, but I usually don’t like watching people teaching some…mechanics? I guess you could say? Of guitars or anything really, but seeing you stop the song and then show what’s (most likely) happening is really fun to me! ^v^
Could you please react to King Gnu - Hakujitsu? The guitarist from King Gnu is Daiki Tsuneta who is also co-producering Kick Back and also in charge with Guitar and Bass in that song! He's the main composer and lyricist in King Gnu, i think you might like them :)
Nice to see another based hd600 enjoyer. In terms of jrock id love to see deep dives into Asian Kung-fu Generation. Waltz in Codebook, Blue-train, eternal glider, and A town in blue are incredible.
When it comes to how it plays wrong notes sometimes ( 8:00 ) I feel like that’s works so well with like the offputting world in chainsaw man. Things are wrong but you are distracted by what you have now
You covered rumbling, but have you ventured into SiM's discography? They are so cool. I specifically started diving when I heard "EXiSTENCE" as the theme from Shingeki No Bahamut. Also, electronic artists like Camellia, USAO, t+pazolite, etc. absolutely obliterate genre boundaries... Like Camellia's 'Full Flavour' style.
I've been watching your videos recently and they're such a nice watch, especially since I've recently started learning the bass. If you haven't already I think you should react to some JoJo openings such as Bloody Stream or Fighting Gold, both by Coda. JoJo openings are regarded as some of the best anime openings to some people and there's even memes that tell you to never skip the openings.
For more Japanese music recs, one music group I'd like to recommend is FAKE TYPE! I like their style and whenever you hear the intro, even if it's a different song, somehow, it's very signature of them making it fun to recognize (if that makes sense lol) FAKE LAND is the song I rec ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-maHs9Ogzojo.htmlsi=GxAwBTdY2oaVJoo4
Thank you for this amazing analysis of the song, as always! (this helped me check if the chords I transcribed from the chorus of this were correct ) You're probably already familiar with it, but you should check out Bocchi the Rock's OP. Such a (kind of generic) but amazing J-Rock song :)
Since you like some anime music I’d live your thoughts on Fuyu No Hanashi from the anime Given. It’s actually an anime bout musicians, and the song is performed in story ( that said the opening rips as well)
I would love some Bocchi the Rock analysis 🥺 (It’s a comedy anime about highs school girls staring a band and the music is heavily inspired by jrock legend Asia Kung Fu Generation which the original author of the series loves)
I noticed the 'bars' on your bass (I don't know what they are called but the bar that separates notes) are slanted. How does that differ from straight ones?
oooo i kinda wanna see that cover finished, cause what ive heard of it goes so hard, if you want to ofc also you should totally react to 99 by mob choir (the mob psycho 100 opening), its a banger theme for a banger show
i really want dean to listen to "the details in the devil" by jt music. it is such an incredible electro swing track about batdr and i cannot stop listening to it
If you want some good bass in J-rock, check out Gacharic Spin--Mindset is a good place to start. If you want pure chaos of genre-blending metal, rock, punk, funk, J-pop etc., check out Maximum the Hormone. The did the end song for Chainsaw man episode 3. My favorite J-rock band is Band Maid. Also feature excellent bass and drums, and overall deceptively technical playing. They are an awesome live band, so look for some of their live videos. A final recommendation is Sokoninaru. Check out their video Tenohira De Odoru.
yo. Could you look into "My war" from attack on titan. I do have a playlist of all the anime openings and closings. Of songs that I either like or somehow impacted me. "My war" never went on that list becuase it gives me legit chills. But I can honestly say that it's in my top ten best anime openings.
you should do the english vertion of idol. it has slight differences. this video is amazing aswell :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RkjSfZ30GM4.html
If you want maximalist music of the vocaloid variety I recommend listening to tsumiki. I really want someone with a professional understanding of music to react to his songs. Please react to Ungray Days 🙇
I LOVE asian music. Jpop, anime music, Kpop. For a musician it is fresh. I am not used to hearing music like this. American pop does not do that for you.
Why do you think so many rock bands are still active in Japan? Jazz music is also very popular. I believe it is because the Japanese people are a people who cherish and love good things, both old and new! And we Japanese trust and like America and Americans the most, so maybe we like music too 🎵 I really enjoy your commentary while playing your instrument, thank you🌱🌱
