BABYMETAL - Budokan Red Night 2014 (Watch Along)
Added 2025-03-30 18:33:04 +0000 UTCSuch an amazing upgrade having the Kami Band for the entire show! Very cool to see!
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I remember this interview, where Kobametal talks about lighting: Q : Does Perfume's trail back then become a reference after you had relations with Idol? Koba : Yes, maybe. But I don't know well because I didn't brought up myself from scratch in Idol industry. I was asked the same question before, I may be able to say I'm not what I am now if I were a 100% Idol industry man. I'm a man from band culture... I have completely different way of thinking. There are a lot to learn from Idol industry way of thinking, but I have decided to go my way to extreme, about production and all. As to lighting method, I insist "It's rather better not to care about their faces" like that (laugh). I often have talks with lighting staff as "Is another lighting better to make their faces look better because they're Idol?" "No, this is it!" and so on (laugh). Q : There are those "conflicts" at all (laugh). Koba : When I was told, "Too much back lights so audience can see only their silhouette. How is it?" I replied, "Rather go extreme. Please don't use any faint colors," and "Need red, blue and white only!" Like that. Q : You have produced their live acts as anything but those of Idol, from the beginning. Koba : I think so. Our early days were a series of battles of bands. So I had pre-meetings with lighting staff of live houses and asked "Please do this for that moment," and so on. We could just afford our own staff after Rokumeikan act. That time I asked our lighting for one who had career at LOUD PARK festival. I once went to a live and was impressed the coolness of its lighting. So I visited the person in charge at the end of the live, introduced myself with my business card. It's like a direct negotiation as "May I ask your favor now?" Later we had meetings and he agreed at last. That's what it went. Q : Only from this case, I felt going extreme is important very much. Koba : I feel that way, too. Not to say having more and more options to do are better. But I think there were a lot of precedence of Metal-infused Idol songs in the past. Something with Shred guitar in a solo part. It's better to say Anison (Anime song) rather than Metal indeed... Metal and Anime have affinity in a sense. So I think there might have been some songs of that kind, accepted by these type of people. But no one would have gone this extreme with Idol songs before. To be honest the early source of Doki Doki Morning demo had been way more Pop-oriented Metal-like one. I thought it was nothing new from previous songs of others. So my usual case is to make a deep dive into production, to give directions in detail, and sometimes to build up songs with mashup, even sometimes to tell that the guitar "Might be dropped tuning more" like that. Spending days like this, I give songs a shape little by little. So it takes so much time to release just one song.
autohmae
2025-05-20 12:12:27 +0000 UTCOh man! Glad they were able to end the show somewhat smoothly minus those mistakes!
Jaron Geil
2025-04-14 13:14:20 +0000 UTCExcellent watch-along, thank you. I think it was Gimme Chocolate where you thought you heard backing track bolstering Su (other than the 'parapapa, too too late' parts that are always all backing track), I think you were actually hearing Yui and Moa singing with Su. You've already been told why Yui went missing (during the call and response you can hear both Yui and Moa egging the crowd on - then suddenly no Yui, just Moa). At the start of the IDZ sprint Moa, who I think had danced extra hard at the end of Headbanger to compensate for Yui's absence and used up some of the energy she was needing for IDZ and to finish the show, went sprawling and so nearly slid head first off the stage as well (I've seen a very blurry fan fam). She hurt her ankle or knee and if you look at her face she is clearly either in pain or upset at it not all going perfectly.
Grington300 300
2025-03-31 21:53:13 +0000 UTC
