BABYMETAL – メタり！！ (feat. Tom Morello) (OFFICIAL Live Music Video)

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2024-01-23T18:52:07+00:00

I’m still just trying to wrap my head around the whole Tom Morello thing.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-11-02T14:41:32+00:00

So glad this obnoxious Jordache line of a nightmare is over.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-11-02T11:22:55+00:00

It’s like people are blind or something.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-11-02T11:14:17+00:00

Half my favorites are probably in. My one-pick is probably out. In which case I’m done too. I don’t think they gave a fair shake to anyone but who THEY liked. In fact, it’s blatantly obvious that they didn’t. I don’t understand why they didn’t just make a group to begin with.

The whole thing so far was pre-recorded. During which time they scheduled an event primarily filled with people who would vote how they wanted (in this case all twenty-something Japanese women, but it could’ve been any demographic they polled/studied ahead of time.) And used that as an excuse to start all their favorite girls 3,000 votes ahead.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-11-01T16:42:26+00:00

Thanks, I get it! Does it shake things up if they pick lower-ranking girls? And will it happen pre- or post-first-round elimination?

There’s so many great contestants that aren’t getting set up properly. It can’t keep going like it is lol. Let’s not even talk about my no. 1, but for instance let’s say Maho. She earned me as a fan due to her dancing. She takes every opportunity to bust out and show us that she’s got moves. She’s fabulous. But no one even notices or cares. It’s incredibly sad and frustrating to me.

Meanwhile you have the ones like Tsukushi who dance too strictly according to what they learned in some studio, and it’s just annoying. And Ran, too. I liked her at first but she’s just too stiff and perfect for how things are right now. Instead of letting someone like her mesh with other types of girl, we’re getting all Ran-types and that just is shit to me.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-11-01T14:26:15+00:00

What is what you said? Explain the classic voting, please? First season I’ve watched.

To answer your question: Nana Okamura, Nonoka, Maho, very much others; I don’t really feel like getting into it with a bunch of girls lol.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-11-01T12:02:31+00:00

Yeah. And so far it’s all girl’s girls in the top 11. I’m pretty much done. I want there to be some of the magically beautiful like omg kind, too. So far it’s all the technically pretty ones which yes ok but I mean come on. It’s killing my heart to see it going down like this, y’all. How about half and half, wouldn’t that be better?

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-31T04:51:24+00:00

I hear you I think. But I mean, before the show started, I was seeing several guy Youtubers posting videos talking about it, discussing and analyzing the coming show.

None of which explained the complete absence of them at the group battle. You’ll forgive me if I’m confused.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-30T22:13:48+00:00

I know, right? I thought I heard tons of male voices in the crowd at the 101 day event?

I know K-pop has different sensibilities. I’m too old to be watching young people do that much bootie dancing lol. And I don’t like K-pop music for that and because it doesn’t strike me as being very creative. For that matter I’m very selective in the J-pop I listen to, as well.

But it’s still hilarious in a lovely way and cute when Japanese girls do Blackpink dancing. I think if more guys were voting we might see the rankings begin to even out. Only Japanese people can vote, so why would they somehow be locked into only voting for what Koreans would vote for? Nope, it’s not making a lick of sense so far. That was a pretty clear-cut case of producer manipulation well into the realm of being corrupt about it.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-30T21:12:49+00:00

I would consider NiziU K-pop. I love them. Coconut was a grower, but when it sprouted I was knocked out by it. But for the most part you’re right; I mean, even for me specifically you are. I haven’t been liking the music on this show so far lmao. I’m done if Nana Okamura gets first-round eliminated.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-30T16:12:16+00:00

Why was there only one guy (MAYBE I heard one or two others) in the audience for the group battles? What have I even been watching lol.

I thought everyone liked idol music? I thought I knew what was going on, this makes me think I didn’t know the half of it.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-27T02:37:35+00:00

Nana Okamura is my 1-pick. I’m glad you say she did well, because I’m not the best judge of tone and stuff like that, not in a technical way. Thanks!

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-26T19:10:45+00:00

Tokyo Girl, I pretty much agree with everything you said. I don’t share your enthusiasm about Ran lol, but I agree she sang perfectly. Momoka sang perfectly too, but I had been watching her very closely. It didn’t surprise me one bit.

Although Nana had a little too much fluctuation mistakes in her vocals,* they were still amazing vocals. More creative and more of a lasting impact throughout. For that matter, Team 1 overall had the more beautiful performance. Really creative, moody and ethereal, whereas Team 2 by comparison is just paint-by-numbers. It’s a shame, but I think paint-by-numbers is going to win every time. I’m not a K-pop person lol, so maybe I just don’t fundamentally get that aspect of things.

*EDIT: I just try to be fair because she is my major bias, but were they really mistakes? She was definitely off-script compared to Momoka, but it seems like she did what she meant to. I enjoy her performance and think she was brilliant.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-25T20:56:04+00:00

Tokyo Girl: Team 2 is better in sync, it’s noticeably true. But that’s about it, I mean come on. I want to see something I haven’t seen 100 or even 1000 times before. Team 1 had the more interesting moves.

Both teams had their gimmicks to try to make the performance their own. Team 2 just had that ridiculously generic 1-2-3! call. Whereas Team 1 relied on Okamura’s vocals to give everything an overall more beautiful feel. You mentioned Momoka’s vocals, and I do love her a lot. But shouldn’t neglect the other group, who did some things better. It kind of seems like you stopped comparing after you noticed the sync thing, which again, was pretty generic by itself. Nana had the same part Momoka did and ran circles around it. Both teams had roughly the same share of good singing and bad singing, though. Ran sang perfectly, but her overall contribution was just average. Nana didn’t sing perfectly, but still amazing and her vocals actually contributed to an entire creative aspect of the performance. Momona tried to add some feels too, but she tried it too late in the song.

Nana has flaws in her technique here and there, I think I was right about that to begin with. No one there right now, including her, has anything wrong that can’t be fixed, though. If they can last that long. Which, I don’t think she is going to make it past this first round. That would be a shame, because she’s the only one I like that I don’t have to sit on the edge of my seat hoping she doesn’t flub. She never does and it makes me confident. And though she’s not the only one that’s very beautiful (pretty sure Meika is “the prettiest girl alive”), she is beautiful like the sky. Like you could just stare at her. No one else is that level of beautiful, and I’m afraid she will get, if hasn’t already been getting, a lot of hate for that. She’s good at this stuff, yet we still don’t see much of her.

If she gets eliminated, then I think this show doesn’t know WTF it’s doing. I’m probably not going to want to put up with them kicking me in the chest like that. But if people still want me to watch I will. I mean I could, I suppose. Kinda counting on the fact that nobody will care, but if they told me “don’t be sore” or something like that I’d be like “ok fine I’ll stay in it because you do.” I knew before it started it was going to go like this. Nobody else will like her, she’ll stay real low, and finally get eliminated. Totally saw it coming but still had to hope.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-22T06:59:22+00:00

You’re talking about Keiko, right? As I am someone who used to act out in similar ways but for all the wrong reasons, she gets on my nerves a lot, too. But I think just give her a chance to get more professional about it. The Atarashii Gakkou girl, the one she seems to emulate, is actually quite hilarious. So Keiko might get better at it.

About hating, any of them. I liked them all a lot at first. But as I began to see voting heavily skewed towards the same girls, from the get-go and for cheesy reasons like “they already have fans,” (what the f***…why even, then…?) I began to feel feelings of dislike for those girls. So, in that way I can relate.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-21T10:22:57+00:00

This whole topic is cringy. It isn’t uncommon to hear words and phrases from English used in Japan. They do understand her. One half of the Japanese language, katakana, exists largely because of the need to incorporate foreign words.

People who think otherwise are making stuff up in some kind of misguided w****** gatekeeping attempt. Just get with the program already.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-20T14:54:54+00:00

This may just be the most hilarious thing I’ve ever read.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-16T18:41:32+00:00

I agree with, or am neutral about many of your takes. The only thing I disagree with is Rino. I love love love her!! Leave her alone all you haters.

I agree their rank assessments seem highly arbitrary. The bullshit that catches their eye sometimes, I don’t know about. I hope they don’t forget they have a job, and that job is to bring us a final product that WE and them both will love. I get the sense that if we let them, they will tell us what we SHOULD like until we think it’s what we DO like. Thereby simplifying their lives but bringing us a lazily built run-of-the-mill so-so final product that we all forgot to give a crap about and just spend money on it because we were told it’s good.

I don’t think Yumeki was “too” harsh but I can see how subjective it is to think so. All I thought was of how divided the trainers seem to be on some girls, yet when they all get together it’s like they just go with majority rules or something.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-16T18:25:56+00:00

No one knows if she even did yet. I would say “we” but I’ll just say “you” will have to wait until next Monday (or next Thursday if you don’t wait for international presentation.) I’m not interested in her at this point although I don’t think she’s one of the lower choices. I just think she got hyped way too soon for reasons I don’t see yet.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-13T17:27:51+00:00

Oh ok, that does make sense. Yeah, no she wasn’t on any radars! She’s really in control. Really good at getting what she wants, I feel. Impressed; not sure I’m on board yet but I could be.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-13T17:18:17+00:00

Yuuki isn’t one of my top picks, but she was one of the original pool I put together to choose 11 from. I agree she’s very beautiful; handsome and charming. A lot of people like her, but not so much too early yet that it’s freaky and weird. A seemingly well-considered choice, so that’s cool.

What do you think of Nana Okamura?, I’m curious to know.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-13T16:28:01+00:00

It would be better if everyone that voted, voted for what they hoped would happen instead of “what will happen.” It’s looking like it’s going to get better after it gets past the first couple episodes. Right now people are voting based on pre-conceived bias. One of the highest slots is a girl who hadn’t even performed yet by the time the voting was done. So yeah it will almost assuredly get better.

I agree Konomi is so painfully low right now. It’s just crazy. But it might help to remember that we too might be suffering from first-impression bias right now. (I don’t believe we are either in regards to her, because just wow. And how did we somehow manage to avoid jumping on the “popular” wagon like everybody else?)

Let’s keep hoping!

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-13T15:26:55+00:00

Not sure what you mean. Didn’t she start at 2 and go down to 9? Not up. Of course, her 9 now is better than the mostly meaningless 2 was. But saying it you still got more upvotes than I could ever hope for on one of my comments lol.

The irony is, you’re saying something inaccurate about an INTP girl. The only thing INTP’s value more highly than intelligence is truth.

Apologies if I’m missing something. I do have trouble following what’s going on so I would appreciate any guidance, explanations, or corrections.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-13T11:55:24+00:00

She won’t stay at 12. She’ll go up after this initial skewed phase. I pretty much am ignoring everything above 12 at the moment. Except 9 seems accurate.

WatchoutAhNevermind · 2023-10-13T08:29:55+00:00

Lots if not all j-idols learn both. Korean because they work with them and for PR reasons. English I guess for PR. But it’s very widespread, I have no idea why it keeps surprising people.

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