“I make albums so people can play it and you actually hear it. You know, driving your car, you hear another car playing it. You know, go to the barbershop, you hear them playing it. You know, turn the radio on, and you hear them playing it. It’s called great music. It’s called albums that you actually hear the songs. Not no mysterious shit that you never hear it.” -Fake Type
I would enjoy all electroswing a little bit more if they bothered to actually put in a swung pattern on the hi hats- you know, swing? The name of the genre?
you forget that the lowest-common denominator electro swing producer doesn't know what a tuplet is because you can't make them using the fl step sequencer.
Couldn’t finish the demondice discog vid because of how overwhelming it was, music like this has to be an operation to terrorize neurodivergent people i stg
@@IceJJFishArchive if by terrorize you mean being my several year long hyperfixation yes! i frankly like the chaos and the fake type hate train is not something i would like to take off 😁 have a mediocre day
when i think electro swing, i think sample-based music where they take an vintage song, put some punchier drums on it, a synth bass, and that's about it either the genre has REALLY changed when i wasn't looking, or i'm thinking of a different thing.
People have been experimenting. For example Caravan Palace uses live horns, and mixes it with other genres. And then you have fake type, who um, barely is electro swing because their music DOESNT HAVE SWING TO IT
if you didnt know listening to this bands entire discography perfectly recreates being trapped in nutty putty cave in 27 hours based on how claustrophobic this band is
Back when Brad made the video about listening to the entire Demondice discography lots of instrumentals on one of her albums reminded me of Fake Type and their music. It’s interesting to see Brad reviewing this album now. Quite poetic
You can't convince me this wouldn't fit as a Fanboy & Chum Chum album, now you can't unhear it. If they made a song about that purple sizzurp they drank then it would be indistinguishable.
You’re so real for that Mr. Stetson If anyone’s actually interested I’d love to add Bloody Mary by KANKAN to this. Fantastic song imo. FAKE TYPE can do great work
I'm sort of a FAKE TYPE fan but i have definitely grown out of their music. I still like a couple of their newer songs but ur compliant on the annoying-overused instruments is hella vaild. That's probably why I prefer their older songs. The energy is a bit lower and the flow (imo) is nicer.
@@CocoaMoloko I think a good example of that is Fake Types "At Atelier" It has the high energy (not too much) without the over the top vocals. It has a nice flow and I honestly love that song lol. (Also it's cute the message)
i could not agree harder, their earlier songs, even the more chaotic ones are fun and have better direction. Newer songs literally all sound the same and are the musical equivalent of jangling keys in front of a baby’s face
@@a_dumbuser at atelier was great, reminded me of la primavera, hell, it even referenced a line of la primavera directly, which made me smile. But after that song, they simply went back to this very annoying sound that i don't enjoy, fake box and fake book were good, but this.. god..
This album’s sound is what it feels like to go to a city hosting a loud ass music festival that goes on all night and trying to sleep at a hotel nearby
honestly ive never been a fan of FAKE TYPE, but i do love tophamhat-kyo. i believe with the series of princess♂songs the lyrics make a lot more sense, and in general it’s just more musical
those and that one rustage song played a minor part in my survival in 7th grade (the worst year i ever had to go through) Now I'm a metalhead, specifically prog Where did I go right?!
I'm gonna share my own thoughts as a fan of fake type's music since late 2017 - early 2018. Honestly, my personal gripe with their recent music is that it's repetitive and obnoxiously loud. What they've been releasing recently feels like one huge song instead of separate tracks. I get that "japanese electro swing" is their brand and repetition won't hurt them once in awhile, but constantly reusing song structures feels lazy. Loud instruments/vocals have been a problem ever since they signed up with universal music japan. (iirc fake type's older songs were significantly quieter) I hope that the obnoxious production won't be much of a problem in the future, because it's very distracting and it gives me a headache. I was really excited about fake swing 2 because I liked their previous albums a lot, but this album was kind of disappointing compared to their previous works in my opinion, I really hope that their next album will be better than this.
I wonder if every single time they were producing each track they were like "YOOO!! WHAT IF IT DID A KEY CHANGE???" as if it was a brand new revelation each time.
One good song that sort of fits the bill of “faster-paced elecrobeat type japanese music” way better than this is One Off Mind by VAN DE SHOP. Miyashita Yuu and Isubokuro have done good vocal covers of it. Which is interesting, because their vocals give the song entirely opposite vibes, where miyashita’s vocals give the lyrics a bitter and theactrical tone and isubokuro’s makes the lyrics sound more dizzying and emotional (at least to my ears).
God yeah I love that song. I haven't kept up with Van de Shop's recent music, but I love both Happy Shape and One Off Mind for the same reason. I wouldn't call them narrative as in story-telling, but the themes are strong, and the "vibe"/genre matches it well. So I think that's why the electroswing-ish doesn't feel tacky in One Off Mind. I wish I knew a good word for it, but I always find comments (in jp) talking about how those songs have a strong "world sense/impression." I hate what's lost in translation because what they mean is exactly true. It's then cool to see how covers can slightly change the perspective of such sense depending on how they sing...
why karen, why, you just had two decent albums(Alkatraz, Shut Up Get Happy) in a row and now you do this to me, after the absolute crisp production on KGA, we all watched you grow so much from the DDEP to the early stages of mori, but why this?
if youre going to do a keychange for EVERY track, at least have the album play in order in a way that each change leads into the next track's key, or SOMETHING with it
Nightmare parade works because it's not constantly blaring on your ears, it takes breaks, it allows you to breathe, same with most of their early songs. Like, they even almost went back to their roots with at atelier, which i really enjoyed, but then they went back to their recent sound.
Perhaps I’m just really bad at hearing lyrics, but I originally thought the chorus of the Toon Bangers was also in Japanese, and Paruko was giving a translated version, but after listening to it a couple of times in the VOD I think it’s surprisingly all in English, it’s just said very fast. Like for instance at 4:21 you can hear the end of the “Toon Bangers” line, after that at 4:22 it’s the “real to anime” line, and at 5:33 you can hear the end of the chorus “go broke, it’s ‘bout time!”.
6:45 When i said that the song Toon Bangers sounded like an untalented Electro Swing Maximum The Hormone, it was because the tempo of the song Toon Bangers reminded me of the flow switch around the 2 minute mark in the song "Yoshu Fukushu" by Maximum The Harmone. So when i was listening to the song Toon Bangers, i instantly thought "wow, this is just an untalented Electro Swing version of Maximum The Hormone", lmao
Listen as a fake type fan I'll be the first to admit that every single one of their songs sound the same. It's to the point where I actively listen to their music and STILL can't keep any of the songs straight.
I feel like some Japanese dude just wrote the few English words he knew as lyrics then shoved as many instruments as he could in a song then turned it into this album. This is prob a big hit in Asia maybe idk
For a moment i thought this was probably an intriguing album by the cover and brad was probably being too harsh but then i clicked in and saw demondice and realised any cool cover for an album loses value if demondice is associated
I think the problem is that it's so absolutely maximillist and overblown that there's no bounce to it, which is what swing is all about. There needs to be more space for a rhythm to take charge. It doesn't help that the vocalist raps so fast that there's no flow or rhythm to his performance either. It's just a fucking barrage.
Reminds me of when I was obsessed with tophamhat-kyo my freshman year of high school, now most of his music just sounds like this to me and it makes me a little sad
i had to listen to a louie zong album within the first 8 minutes of this to calm down and not be anxious while doing work btw. this is genuinely chinese water torture for overstimulated easily autistics
You know when humans feed carnivores in natural reserves by attaching a big piece of meat to a jeep and driving it around? This music is how I imagine being that antelope leg feels like.
Tfw you finally make it up the stairs to heaven and you see Jesus Jesus Japanesus, causing you to fall down the stairs straight to Hell out of fear, and in Hell they play FAKE SWING 2 on every station
Wow... this is something else. This gives me a new appreciation for minimalist hip hop and ambient music. As someone also on the spectrum, just listening to this for a few minutes is too much for my ears to handle. This can't be music
i used to listen to a lot of vocaloid music back in the early 2010s and there's no way this producer wasn't a part of that scene. i'm almost positive the rapper was, unless there are somehow two japanese rappers named after topham hatt out there. the beats just scream "i made this for hatsune miku" though. the overproduction, the somewhat repetitive nature, the goddamn key changes in every song that annoyed the hell out of me even back when i was really into this stuff... it just feels like my past is coming back to haunt me, and it brought a friend, and that friend is demondice.
I mean... Who are the members of FAKE TYPE again? If Dyes Iwasaki is there then he's made a vocaloid song or two if I remember correctly. Not vocaloid but KAFU is even used in one of these tracks so... Same crowd maybe? Part of me wonders if this is a NND thing specifically. I haven't heard many, but the few NND rappers I've heard sound similar to TopHatHam Kyo... In the sense of yelling their lyrics.
Going through this album really helped me understand why I never was able to get into Fake Type ever since i heard them in my pre teens. It's just too much going and all the sounds are so sharp and jumbled. I listened to some songs only because I'd hear them so much i needed to tire it out of my brain. Also I forget nqrse works with them sometimes. nqrse has made some pleasant music and I wonder why he works with them because of it...
I respect Brad and Paruko's opinion, but as a Japanese person, I personally feel strange about this album being considered one of the worst albums of the year. For me, this album is enjoyable in terms of wordplay by TOPHAMHAT-KYO. This is a linguistic part of the album, so I can see why you might not understand it. I agree that the production on this album is awful and the performances are irritating. But for me, this album is not a big mess. I found wordplay to be fun to listen to, and there were not so many lyrics that I felt were that cringe ("Yosomono" is certainly a little bit cringe, even for me). In that respect, I genuinely felt that I could understand what they were trying to do with this album. It's certainly not good, but from a Japanese point of view, it's not that bad. This is just my opinion. My English is poor, sorry if this is hard to read.
I think this just shows that even music that a lot of people do not seem to like appeals to someone somewhere. For me, I think the rapid key changes and how they used electronic sound felt like my head was being bombarded lol. Being able to understand the lyrics might help me enjoy it more honestly
It has to be a culture barrier. I’ve never really heard music that if played in a social setting I’d ask to turn off until this lol. It’s actively giving me a headache no hate of course just interesting to me lol
This is essentially Cosplay TikTok/Theatre (but never really been in theatre) Kid type of music. I can close my eyes & I can clearly see the make-up transition into Freddy Fazbear while lipsyncing. 😭
i really really think you should listen to their albums before fake swing. With Fake Swing 1 and 2 they fell from their roots after having Princess take off like it did and got pretty repetitive. Fake Type was originally way different. Some songs to hear this that I'd recommend are ツキ (tsuki), urban caravan, la primavera, and tokyo hedo roman. There's honestly even some good ones on Fake Swing 1 like No Proof.
When you sped up Honky Tonky Night I felt like I was getting crushed. One of the worst listening experiences of my life. Ty for the video and stream though love you appreciate you
idk if you know this but fake type is pretty well recieved in japan. Eiichiro Oda, the creator of one piece, mentioned fake type as being his top artist a few times. He also credits demondice's design of the character Princress to be the inspiration for Uta, the main character in the movie. This is also why fake type has a song in the movie, sung by Ado, a huge popstar who just became the first female solo act to ever preform at Japan's national stadium. Tophamhat-kyo, the vocalist for fake type, actually wrote her new song, Show, which she sung at said concert
It says actually nothing about you, I used to be such a music elitist. And realized literally all of it is garbage. Don’t let what people like effect you
This music genuinely hurts for me to listen to. It makes my head hurts worse because of it. It feels so insecure. Like artistic scribbling anything they can think of in fear the viewers will be bored
Fake type x Demondice is probably the most horrifying mix of artists I have ever seen. Im going to cry that sounds HORRENDOUS so far what even was that?!?!?!?
@@gokuharagonta we also cant show him enstars project sekai or any other stuff like it. i would love to see him roast it but i would recieve serious heartburn
Also, i personally really enjoy Ado's music, to me it feels like there's actual effort being put into their songs. But this album is just unbelievably annoying
Ado is a great singer, that's for sure, her voice range is absolutely impressive, i love how when she goes low she becomes very raspy and aggressive, really gives impact to her "angrier" songs like tot musica or useewa
@zeke_arts3125 NAHH THIS. one of my favorite things that she did in terms of vocal range was the april fools day joke where she made a 4 member idol group all voiced by her. it's absolutely insane
@@kordeliiius9821 still, can't deny her immense talent and potential, she's not the worst vocalist ever like paruko said imo, but she's also not the best vocalist ever, she's really good.
I don't know much about FAKE TYPE. I like some of the stuff the members have done individually. Dyes Iwasaki did some tracks for the game Mad Rat Dead and I remember liking most of the songs on that soundtrack. TopHatHam Kyo even rapped lyrics for the main theme song of that game, which they added to the game later... FAKE TYPE on the other hand... I can't think of a single track I actually like from them. I thought it was all in my head that a good number of the songs sound the same (and a bit "too much") but... Apparently not.
What frustrates me about this album is that many of the elements FAKE TYPE uses in their music can be done well if they’re balanced, or dare I say, toned down. Whether it’s the blend of traditional and electronic instruments, or the range of character voices. Hell, even FAKE TYPE themselves achieved this when they produced “Nue” for Raon. The instrumentals were the same kinda deal, but they weren’t overwhelming (plus Raon is a genuinely good singer who can perform a range of fun voices). Kinda wild to see “Nue” right next to “Fleeting Lullaby” on their discography page
I tried comparing this to Caravan Palace’s “Robot” () and even though I think it’s one of their weaker works, I had to write this comment before being able to stomach the rest of this video. So the whiplash was prevalent enough to make me take a break.
