Saiki steals the show! BAND-MAID - Don’t You Tell ME (live) | REACTION 

Kanami does occasionally go off to Mincho Land, population: 2. I say two because Saiki lives in Kanami's head rent free. 💙

It's glorious to see the Maids really blooming as performers. This 10th anniversary concert was truly next level with amazing production, new outfits, massive crowd and top-notch performance. You're right: Saiki was smashing it that night - pitch-perfect, and really owning the occasion. (She even did a solo piano song arrangement.)

Akane's drums TOTALLY made the Solo/Interlude. In the background but there.

The entire concert was fantastic. SAIKI was on fire from the first song to the last. She even did a solo performance of one song, accompanying herself on piano. If you listen to enough of BAND-MAID’s more recent work, you will recognize that they have been embracing Prog for a while, already.

Great reaction Mark. This was one of the songs from their 33 song 3.5+ hours set at Yokohama arena on November 2023, the finale concert of their 10th anniversary tour. The ladies were fabulous for the whole concert and Saiki was just on fire and so engaging with the audience, really enjoying herself. In the early days a lot of people nicknamed her the Ice Queen, but I think that was totally mistaken, she was just not very confident and shy. However all their constant touring in Japan,Europe and USA etc has given her vast experience and she is now very comfortable ast being a fantastic frontwoman. You are correct as well in that her vocals keep getting better, they are now more powerful (they would have to be to last for such a long concert), and I have noticed she now introduces some grit and rasp into her voice when required. Kanami is such an unassuming sweetheart until she straps on a guitar, and she will either be away in a world of her own when soloing or have a smile on her face. The converstion between her and Misa was soooo goood.

This particular concert, MISA’s bass tone was so perfect that it ought to be studied and patented. And Saiki? This show was obviously incredibly important to her. She had to have done massive preparation to be able to sing like this for the entire show. Never winded. Never missed a note. Power when she wanted, emotional when she chose. As great as she is, this was the best she’s ever sounded, in my opinion.

I really want a live album. The energy in her voice can't be replicated in a recording booth. Having 1000s of cheering fans is the only way.

The bass sounds so good through the entire song. I'm not always a huge fan of Saiki's vocals but there are some songs like their punk rock songs she kills it on and this is one of them. And as always Kanami doing Kanami stuff.

You want prog rock? Closest they've gone to crossing that line is Giovanni. Masterpiece of a song.

The most proggy Track Band-Maid has , is Onset Live ... at least in my humble Opinion. Akanes Drumming was the Glue for the Showpiece and I am very happy you noticed that.

Great commentary as always! Aren't you glad that you decided to take another look at Band-Maid's "Don't You Tell Me" ,this time in concert? Never underestimate the mighty maids in a live performance! They always bring it to the house.

On Miku---remember, she's the primary lyricist, too. I liked her very unusual geometric metaphors, towards the end!

Upvoted as soon as you mentioned the science and rigour of the emo scale. Kanami: "in a wee world all of her own" ... it was ever thus. Kanami lives off in Music Land, the happiest land of them all. From there she drops brilliant riffs and songs onto the other band members, who scrub them up into full performances. Kanami appears herself in performances through a magical vision from Music Land. That is why we love Kanami.

And yeah, Mincho is in Mincholand.

Really great reaction! I've seen hundreds of Band-Maid reactions and yours really stands out. There's so much detail in every performance and when a reactor dives into the detail, then I know I'm in safe hands. New sub here.

Miku's intro on Influencer at the same show demonstrates perfectly how far she has come as a Guitarist. Also The Princess vs. The Assassin duel on Hate? was every bit as epic.

Saiki is Superstar 🔥🤘❤️ Magical song Magical live Magical band 🤘🔥❤️

Hey Mark - Quote from Kanami's recent fan letter 'A-chan's drum arrangements are more powerful, and Misa-chan is making emo emo bass lines as usual!' - I think Mincho is trolling you 😁

Every Band-Maid performance is unique. No worries.

Kanami was definitely trolling you ..The actual translation of the title is " Don't You Pause Me" Saiki just pronounces it with a Scottish brogue ! 😉😆

*BAND MAID* doing the things that are soo *Band Maid* 🤘😀🤘

Great analysis of the duel. Many reactors miss what Akane is doing so great ear in noricing her role. Saiki does a lot of crowd exhortation nowadays. A good video for this is Play Live. Fantastic crowd interaction and a really fun tune. I don't think you have done it yet.

I'm working on a time machine that will let me go back and attend that concert in person. For now I''m settling for the DVD.

Peak Band Maid...fantastivc track. Thanks Mark for your efforts with the EMO scale....not many reviewers have your dedication to generating proper data and analysis!!

You completely forgot to pause the 8 other solos ;) hehe

I actually wish all reviewers would do the MV and the live version.

I agree about the pop punk/emo category. BUT, that's only vocally in my opinion. Instrumentally, they are a Progressive band at heart.

For the algorithm!

Saiki was on fire through this whole show. It's as if she flipped a switch unlocking her full potential as a front woman. And this song is actually a step back in their history. They used the same arrangement and extended instrumental break on their 2018 tour. Sort of a added love letter to their fans.

Thanks for another (pause) great reaction. You're correct about Saiki, her vocals have definitely improved over the years along with her stage presence. I love the extra passion she seems to give with every new performance as her confidence grows. Even when you compare older photo's of her to today, she looks more confident. I'd like to think that the 12000+ of us that were there helped with the entire experience. I will admit, when she walked down that runway I didn't notice (not sure about anyone else) Micho & MISA moving up the risers behind Akane until the solo started. Talk about demanding your attention by just walking and singing. IMHO if not for the fact that (poor) Kobato wasn't featured more, it would be their best live performance video to date. I still think Domination live is the best just for the fact that all 5 had their 5-10 seconds of fame. Cheers!

As the Maids said at this huge, 17,000 seat Yokohama concert, it's "Chapter Two" for Band-Maid. What does that mean -- a new direction in music on their upcoming summer album... new battle gear... different stage show or venues... more collabs (The Warning, Lovebites, individual musician appearances?)... member and band projects like scoring movies, aniMaids, soloing projects like Cluppo... someone getting married or 👶🐣?? Pretty exciting stuff! Thx, Mark! [JUST COMPLETED] BAND-MAID 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR SPIN OFF -- SOLD OUT!! Extra show of selected songs that were not performed at the 10th anniversary tour final at Yokohama Arena. VENUE：KT ZEPP YOKOHAMA DATE: February 22, 2024

LOL!!! That sly smirk just before pausing the solo. Excellent!!!

Saiki has improved her vocals a lot, techniques have appeared, transitions from the main voice to the head voice, even a little growl

Saiki's stage presence has been forged over a decade of playing live and in some pretty dodgy venues, she no longer walks onto the stage she struts and her vocals oh my, my, my , fcken spectacular, then you add her mind blowing rock and roll sisters into the mix and it becomes almost illegal just how bloody marvellous it all is. Love your science btw 😂😂 What a fcken band Po 👍🍻

Pausing during *THIS* solo should result in the death penalty.

Marmabusi you crack me up in the best way . Great job

Wait..... you actually expected Band-Maid to completely replicate their studio version on stage, without any changes and improvements? Come on, you're not new to Band-Maid! 😛

I highly suggest looking up "Band-Maid Moratorium live Zepp Tokyo."

Prog? You've seen Xanadu live...can you picture the maids with 3 double-neck guitars, loads more drums/triggers...Saiki with a Keytar? Oh yeah...15 minute epic piece. Im waiting for Kanami's masterpiece 👍👍

We're living in Kanami's world and I'm ok with that.

That whole second verse wasn't kinda Pop/Punk....it was EMO.😂

Listen closely to the solo section. Our Miku is playing little guitar stings starting during Kanami's second solo period. Heavy effects on Miku's guitar for the stings. You can see they have a light on her in some of the wide shots.

If it’s cool enough to look at I’ll definitely consider getting a piece of merch.

So glad they released this! There used to be a live version with Misa v Kanami battle that got taken down. Until now, the only way to watch it was through reactions.

素晴らしいですね Translation: It's magnificent. =)

I find myself lost for words, because I literally have no snarky, playful or tongue in cheek comments to make. Yeah - this song totally f'ing rocks.

Prog rock you say....sounds like someone needs to review Band Maid's 'Unseen World' album.

Great!! 👍 Mark...I think your science is String Theory...as in you stringin ya reaction vid out for another minute 😁

Love this reaction. hahaha And, yes, I'd buy a Kanami shirt from ya if it ever comes to fruition. PEACE.

Yes, this was very "Pink Floyd".

I like to use my f*cking BAND-MAID scale. And it was beyond the scale limits. Probably the Outer Limits. lol. Peace 3.29

Girding my loins for the multiple solo pauses.

The duel was something they've done in the past, but they brought it back for this 10th anniversary concert which delighted the fans. Saiki really brought her A+ game to this show. I felt like she had a few nerves with the first few songs, a couple of pitch problems but after that her and the entire band settled in and played an amazing show. Definitely worth watching.

This isn't even the best LIVE version of this song. That would be the Zepp Tokyo LIVE version that was taken down ahead of a DVD release. Now you can only find it on the Chinese site Bilibili. It's the 9th song in. This one's a bit more technical but that was was more dramatic. They sort of brought it back for the Lollapalooza show, but it was over shadowed by the one in 'Hate?'. There another little Call & Response "Battle" in the Studio Coast version of 'Take Me Higher'. It's pretty good as well, but that too was taken down ahead of the DVD release and is only on Bilibili..

Some parts of the Unseen World album are downright prog rock , and I think it's where they are at their best .

Well I've already seen the MV I suppose I'll watch the Live. "God Damn!!!"

You might consider changing the channel name to "Mark-a-pausi" .🤔 I think you've earned it...😆🎸

You blew your solo pause too early.🤣 EDIT: lol even you're happy you're trolling failed. They always keep you on your toes.

You been doing their early stuff on stream? unfortunately I'm in my pit when you're on (in uk but up at 4). Anyway, would love to see your take on Arcadia Girl.

I agree, Saiki was in top form and the other maids not far behind.

Band-Maid does go a bit prog sometimes. Some people think of them as "sneaky prog" - they're not making their music obviously weird and technical, but there's a lot going on below the surface. Giovanni, Wonderland, Balance, and Black Hole are probably their proggiest songs. Why Why Why will take you on a journey, although none of its parts are individually strange (aside from Akane being on a rampage). I'm sure there are some contenders I've forgotten.

The US tours brought Saiki's whole stage performance to a new level both vocally and in stage presence- which she already had, but this is even greater.

A two-hour rock opera about a young girl from Kumamoto who transforms into a small pigeon and goes to Shibuya to conquer the world (with the help of a sweet princess, a half-human (and half-gorilla), a ninja-assassin, and an ice queen) would be acceptable. They seem to be allergic to any songs approaching five minutes, but most of Rush's giant epics are made up of two or three minute pieces so they definitely _can_ do it. Kanami probably drinks too much coffee to ever write the Band-Maid equivalent of "Echoes."

You should be on the telly mate, it would be so much better than most of the bollox that's on there now. Wit, entertainment and good music, you can't really go wrong.

I would not say Saiki steals the show. Sure, her singing was very good in this performance. But, for me Kanami stole it when she just chilled and played some slow wonderful musik at the beginning of the solo section, and then, after MISAS first delicious base solo part, took it up one notch with lots of echo/chorus/whatever and got it up to Pink Floyd level. Then I did drop my jaw in my knee. And then during the Kanami/MISA battle she played something "complicated" and smiled at MISA and MISA replicated it. Heaven!

Science is important, but history is also an important element when talking about bands as social movements. When you chose the STUDIO version of "Don't you tell me," was your choice a coincidence, or was it someone who recommended it to you? If that choice was due to someone's recommendation, the "Don't you tell me" that someone recommended is definitely not the STUDIO version, but the live version from 2018'ZeppTokyo. Many MAIDIACKS think so. The structure of "Don't you tell me", which was performed there in 2018', is the same as this MV, which includes guitar and bass solos. For BAND-MAID, the ``10th anniversary concert'' held at Yokohama Arena, where this music video was recorded, had a completely different meaning from a concert aimed at profiting from the attendance of a tour. Gather as many fans as possible who have supported us up until now, Looking back on the band's history, they played carefully selected songs from over 100 songs, and BAND-MAID would like to thank the band's fans for their passionate support. It was a concert that was almost like a "festival" with that meaning in mind. That's why BAND-MAID performed a 3 hour and 40 minute live performance that would be unthinkable for a normal solo concert. Therefore, "Don't you tell me" was also performed in the 2018 arrangement, which has rarely been done recently. The band's 10th anniversary concert at Yokohama Arena was streamed live to the entire world, but you probably didn't watch it. You were physically "analyzing" the role of guitar solos in music videos to promote sales. However, I didn't think there was any value in something that ignored "history." You don't even mention the scales Kanami uses in her solos or the composition techniques, which are extremely simple for Kanami, and you pretend that your own impressions are science and even present strange graphs,and you talk about the wonders of SAIKI that everyone must have felt. This "Dont you tell me" was composed by Kanami. She leads the band's practices and acts as bandmaster during live performances. You probably have at least some experience playing an ensemble at school or elsewhere. An ensemble always needs a leader. That's Kanami. She composed almost all of the songs after "Alone". Come on, I'll tell you. The music must exist before it can be played. It's been a while since I've seen someone bring up "science" to increase the authority of their own React, and I was "impressed" by how ridiculous it seemed. By the way, I'm not a maidiacks.

I think you mean ELMO 😅

Science-based reaction. Sounds very nuclear to me. Step back!

Band-Maid always had touch of prog since they started to write their own songs. It's just getting more obvious these days. Regarding Saiki's vocal, she sounds too clean in studio recording, that's why I don't listen to CD that often but convert the live video into audio format and listen to it everyday. 😁 On stage Saiki doesn't care minor imperfections, she unleashes her inner rock goddess with full of attitude and growls as she gets excited 😂 but with some sass.

Does your EMO scale go to 20?

You should listen to YOLO！

Have you seen Miku as here alter ego Clupo?

The solo pauses aren't really an issue since you almost always go back to the start anyway. Refrain from doing that if you really want to annoy people. 🤣

I think you should probably name the various areas of your scale, so that we actually have proper scientific terms for what category a given song falls into. Other than that, I do believe the math checks out! (users added this context: this commenter doesn't know the first thing about math)

I would say at least half of all Band Maid songs have parts for audience response. They are a fantastic live band. More importantly, I really want to know where this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-32DS3o2T4VE.htmlsi=-eI1Cv_WAmUVxBfM falls on the emo scale.

I would only be pissed about the solo pauses if you didn't go back to the start.

Instead of “MarkAbusivePauseDuringKanami’sSolos” you should make “Emo Scale” t-shirts 🤓

Very cool Mark. And yes, science is hard. And your emo scale just made it harder. WTF is going on!!😅

As brilliant as this is, some might say the "Zepp Tokyo 2018" version is even better!

At this point, I just have to assume that, collectively, the UK has greatly suffered Stockholm Syndrome at the hands of Emo.😝 I say this cuz every time you say 'that's Emo,' you're just stating the things that Emo stole from Pop-Rock and Pop-Punk in the mid-2000's.

Thought you was gonna cry at one point ( 8:56 ) then again..... maybe not. As to your EMO chart, a definition of EMO is a style of rock music influenced by punk rock and featuring introspective and emotionally fraught lyrics. Not so sure BAND-MAID's lyrics are what could be considered as introspective and emotionally fraught, quite the opposite in fact.

The difference between live and studio is striking. I understand your rationale for prioritizing studio versions over live versions. However, in the case of Band-Maid I think it results in a flawed perspective. Their studio tracks give you a perspective on the label, producers, engineers - everyone except the musicians. If you want to know who Band-Maid is and what they are about as a band, live is the only way to get an accurate picture. For me, a lot of their studio tracks have become unlistenable after hearing them live. Warning! is an exception. There are a few others, but not many. Yes, they are improving always, but the difference you hear between studio and live versions of this track are not about them maturing. They actually did a (slightly) better live version of this track in 2017/18. Its behind the Band-Maid Prime paywall. Their production team does them no favors by sanitizing their studio recordings.

Nah. Don't do the merch. The gag was funny at the beginning but I'm sure you know how it is when a joke gets used over and over again.

I've taken to pausing during your intros. Turnabout! 🥸 Did you go to a wedding or something, all coifed and fancy like? ;)