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

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**Created:** [January 20, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-of-us-superfans-of-babymetal-yes/710397 "2015-01-20T18:17:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-of-us-superfans-of-babymetal-yes/710397/24 "2015-01-21T02:36:28Z")

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

> [@The SDMB Music Appreciation Society](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-music-appreciation-society/679539/116):
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> **Babymeta** l 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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