They'll probably be replaced by Vocaloids.

Soon, every singer will be replaced by Vocaloids.

Very soon.

I'm glad you asked! The answer is actually quit interesting. You see, BABYMETAL is shaping up to be a long-term unit. All three singers are from Sakura Gakuin, a punkrock-flavoured idol band with a "young and cute gimmick". In Sakura Gakuin, like all idol bands, members who age out of the group either retire or go on to have solo careers (much like girl bands here in the US). Nakamoto Suzuka, BABYMETAL's lead singer, aged out of Sakura Gakuin a few years ago, and BABYMETAL is now her main project. Yui and Moa are both nearing graduation, and it seems likely that they'll follow Su and go full BABY, too.

So in other words, this band *is* what happens when the singers age at all! This is their money ticket that will see them through college and grad-school.

Think of them as the symphonic deathmetal version of PUFFY, a cutesy J-rock band which has been around for almost twenty years.

Think of them as brightly coloured fishing lures, dangling at the end of a thread vanishing into the space above.

Black and red coloured. Brightly coloured only during the hiphop breakdown in Iine.

This girl and I were watching Until the Light Takes Us (I knew what it was about but never bothered with watching it) and I made her a "brutal" metal mix. After a while, Amon Amarath and Dark Tranquility get boring and even to a Norwegian like myself, start to sound the same. The babymetal track I put on was her favorite.

Which track was it?

I think it was called Akasuki. I don't speak Japanese so I might be wrong. Basically I was trying to lighten the mood with a little Nightwish and Babymetal to cleanse the pallet of Peste Noire and Ars Diavioli and then turned to Turbonegro and then back to your more typical Sinergy, Children of Bodom and such. :)

Akatsuki! Yeah, that's one of my favorite tracks, too; the riff sounds like something straight from Nightwish's "Wishmaster" album! I'm particularly fond of the keyboards on that one, very Jens Johanssony. All of their tracks are great, though! They've had a very consistent output so far, and their material works on many levels; there's a little something for everyone, which could be a recipe for disaster, only it all feels very sincere and organic, not gimmicky or compromised.

I don't know if you follow ex-Cacophony/Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman at all, but he had something of a career meltdown about a decade ago. Before he retreated to Japan to become a resident weeaboo-entertainer, he said he wanted to swear off metal and start playing what he called "bubblegum with balls". His attempt (an almost completely forgotten project called Red Dye #2) was humiliatingly awful, of course, but I'd like to think that Babymetal has finally realized Friedman's dream.

Does your galpal like any other Japanese stuff? As I was arguing at Caminante earlier, J-pop's going through something of a renaissance right now; making completely earnest and uncompromising indie-music crossover bands seems to be the a "thing" these days. It's getting to the point where whatever your favorite style of music, there's at least one J-pop version of it.

Babymetal is hands down the best, of course, but you might also enjoy Oomori Seiko (quirky hipster-rock), Rhymeberry (old-school Happy Rap), or Tokyo Girls Style (artsy-chic jazz funk).

Oomori: http://youtu.be/Q_X4MBaeaik
Rhymeberry: http://youtu.be/GxWE8A1Dr-Y
TGS: http://youtu.be/XCzdW-z1ZSU

I'm not sure. She used to date the frontman from a very popular pitchfork-approved band so I've got my work cut out for me I guess. They're more shoegazey which is sort of her style (I'm tempted to say the name but I shouldn't) but it was kind of a cool litmus test for me. I also gave her the mix unlabeled, just an upside-down cross, so it went from Ghost Love Score straight into that one. I think overall she's more into this:

http://youtu.be/HRGEHF_vLHw

and this:

http://youtu.be/JORXHaDMDHU

and Satomi Matsuzaki and Toko Yasuda aren't j-rock and never were as far as I know, but I think she likes a nice Japanese female voice, and Deerhoof in particular's juxtaposition of pop and noise kinda turns her on I think. I dunno. I do like those bands too. Back when I was in middle school I was touring Japan and wanted a tape to bring home so I bought a Chage and Aska tape because I knew it wasn't something I could get back home. And that was the polar opposite of my other tape, Gwar's Hell-O, but I liked the juxtaposition.. anyway I'm rambling now. Thanks for the links!

I think IZ was being facetious.

well I think you're prolix and contrarian! See? I can make up words too!

In all honesty my post up there would've fit in better on the last BABYMETAL video submitted here, or I could've just given this vid another day or so to accrue more of the same crop of petulant nay-sayers. Oh well, consider it a preemptive strike. Those always work out well!

I was just referencing Penelope Spheeris' documentary trilogy Decline of Western Civilization, which, when they first came out, may have culture-shocked a bunch of people who had never heard of punk rock, metal or gutterpunk depending on which one. Personally all of the bands in the first one are my personal favorites, second one.. eh.. third one, well I knew a bunch of gutterpunks but the music wasn't really my scene either. Babymetal fascinates me because like it or not, they're really good at what they do, and while to many it might be like two things that don't go together, like beer and tomato juice, but do it enough and you might find that you like it.

Anyway, you could make the same statement every time a Juggalo video is posted here about American society, and while I don't care for ICP, I have no problem seeing people doing what they enjoy .