2023-08-18 |
48 |
BABYMETAL |
"METALI!! - feat. Tom Morello" |
single |
The iron footbridge that sneaks us from our Airbnb into Camden Market's East Yard is my new favorite. |
2023-05-12 |
99 |
BABYMETAL |
"Monochrome - Piano Version - From THE FIRST TAKE" |
single |
or from one of the other beginnings they might have begun, because we still might. |
2023-03-24 |
5 |
BABYMETAL |
"Mirror Mirror" |
THE OTHER ONE |
out of context as a critical philistine. |
2023-02-24 |
58 |
BABYMETAL |
"Light and Darkness" |
Light and Darkness +3 |
which of course it doesn't know about because it didn't exist |
2023-01-20 |
1 |
BABYMETAL |
"METAL KINGDOM" |
METAL KINGDOM +2 |
The contrived identities we assume are layers we wrap around |
2022-11-18 |
13 |
BABYMETAL |
"Monochrome" |
Monochrome +1 |
The light has no colors of its own, |
2022-10-21 |
1 |
BABYMETAL |
"Divine Attack - Shingeki -" |
single |
It's fairly undeniably true that BABYMETAL is a terrible name, a permanent commitment to an initial gimmickry that has long since become just another magnificent variation on kinetic joy, |
2020-10-09 |
17 |
BABYMETAL |
"BxMxC" |
single |
We rise out of the sea, |
2019-10-11 |
1 |
BABYMETAL |
"Arkadia" |
METAL GALAXY |
We can be glorious. |
2019-09-27 |
10 |
BABYMETAL |
"Shanti Shanti Shanti" |
Shanti Shanti Shanti / Elevator Girl (English Version) / PA PA YA!! / Starlight 4 |
like we are a flashmob wherever we go. |
2019-06-28 |
35 |
BABYMETAL |
"PA PA YA!!" |
PA PA YA!! / Elevator Girl / Starlight / Distortion 4 |
Trump is a hero imagined by people who don't understand adversity or opportunity. |
2019-05-10 |
1 |
BABYMETAL |
"Elevator Girl" |
Elevator Girl / Starlight / Distortion 3 |
I believe, and this is at once a profound hope and a debilitating fear, that we haven't done very much as a species that is qualitatively superior to having the gimmick impulse to combine chirpily buoyant J-Pop vocals with crunchy hyperarena metal arrangements and then executing this potentially throwaway concept with the maximum possible earnest human commitment. |
2018-10-19 |
17 |
BABYMETAL |
"Starlight" |
single |
It is human to panic in the instants when darkness falls, |
2018-05-11 |
51 |
BABYMETAL |
"Distortion" |
single |
or first, |
2016-04-01 |
24 |
BABYMETAL |
"Road of Resistance" |
METAL RESISTANCE |
J-pop-metal continues to be one of the greatest stupid ideas of the decade. |
2016-02-26 |
39 |
BABYMETAL |
"KARATE" |
single |
If you were waiting for BABYMETAL to get 15% less cutesy, it's your time now. |