We're, all of us, superfans of Babymetal, yes?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Here’s what I wrote in the SDMAS thread a few months back:

@Snowboarder_Bo

Babymetal is so weird and manufactured that the metal community is having a hard time dealing with it, except as a humorous novelty act. Frankly, I’m not sure that most of the world is ready for the kind of suppressed pedophilia that passes for a lot of Jpop, and putting it in the metal context is a bold marketing move but little else. The song itself isn’t terrible but the chorus gets old before the 2nd time thru and musically the producer/songwriter has pulled out all the tricks just for this one 5 minute song: siren guitar, loud/soft dynamic, blastbeats, etc. It’s the only way to keep anyone interested I guess: keep throwing stuff at them. As a novelty act, for me, this wears thin about as fast as Steel Panther.

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