Words matter. These are the best Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.
Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren’t that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even meeting them, they were really nice to us.
We’ve noticed that even though we sing in Japanese, our fans study Japanese and sing along with us, and that people who like J-pop and people who like metal both enjoy our music just the same.
Our aim is to bring everyone together through BABYMETAL’s music.
Like Muse and Linkin Park, we are also striving to be the one and only to create a new genre called BABYMETAL. We hope to be as cool as them.
British fans are very warm-hearted.
We performed ‘Road of Resistance’ at O2 Academy Brixton in London for the first time in the fall of 2014. I still remember how the British audience sang this song with us although it was a world premiere. In other words, the song ‘Road of Resistance’ really propelled us to move forward.
Yuimetal has been someone very special to us.
We want to gather everyone together as one, transcending any barrier of language and culture.
Gabrielle Aplin is one of my favourites.
One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don’t know the Japanese words, they still sing along.
The American audience has always without fail shown us very real emotions. We always try to just be ourselves and show them who Babymetal are.
I learned to say ‘hello’ in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian – languages of the countries I’ve visited.
In the ‘Doki Doki Morning’ video, there were lots of parts where we weren’t dancing. It was just, you know, our faces. But fans thought up their own movements and dances for those parts, and they made lots of outfits, too.
I think that British fans’ support is making our heart stronger.
I always put my best into our live performances and most of all it is always important for us to keep true to what we do as BABYMETAL.
Seeing so many comments on our YouTube channel from people all over the world, even if they don’t understand Japanese, made me realize that music has worldwide appeal.
When people saw us for the first time they were just open-mouthed. Then they really got into it and started wearing Babymetal T-shirts.
We’re girls and we’re feminine so it naturally comes into the music but at the same time we intentionally put beauty and females and also Japanese culture J-pop into the music so it creates unique music.
In the beginning I thought that metal was something scary, but I learned how thoughtful and amazing metal is. I’m so honored to be a part of it.
We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.
It’s always fun to see fans getting into the rhythm, enjoying our performance, and seeing them sing along with us!
It didn’t really sink in for me when I first heard that we would be supporting RHCP. But when I heard people around us commenting on how incredible it is to be on tour with such a celebrated band, that’s when it finally sunk in and realised what a remarkable honour it is to tour with RHCP.
We don’t really know a lot about the Fox God, but we believe in him.
I am sure there are some people who say that we are not metal, but we want to create a new genre that will appeal to people of all ages, both boys and girls.
Babymetal’s music is kind of – no one else creates this kind of music. When Babymetal first started, we wanted to give the impression of like, ‘What the heck?!’
The only place to find out what Babymetal is about and what Babymetal aims to do, you have to come out to a show.
We’ve taken Japan’s ‘idol’ music genre of pretty girls singing and dancing and added ‘kawaii metal,’ which is totally new.
We’ve incorporated different sounds from different countries and genres, and we’ve explored widening the range of our music.
Our fans are made up of different groups of people: people who enjoy this Japanese idol scene, versus metal fans. The crowd is disorganised because everyone is reacting to the band in a different way.
Babymetal’s music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national boundaries. It was a huge revelation when we realized that our music has such power.
I have a sweet tooth, yeah.
I don’t expect for people to like the same things, so I don’t feel a need to force people to understand who we are.
Eating good food energizes me.
From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.
While we don’t always ‘get’ metal, we’re doing our very best.
Sometimes metal music tends to be very masculine, but because our version of metal is a fusion of dance and heavy metal, all the mixing will create a very different type of music and the female aspect of it will help to create more uniqueness to it.
When it comes to influences, we are influenced not just by Japanese and overseas metal acts, but J-pop acts too. One Japanese rock band we’re particularly fond of is Seikima-II. We were attracted by their brand of devil imagery and of course, their high-quality musicianship.
We feel it’s really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.
We came to be Babymetal after receiving a divine message from the Fox God.