Please watch at LEAST the first MV, Thrill, so we can get it to 20 million views before the Ladies November 20th 10 Year Anniversary Finale Concert at the Yokohama Arena.
Plus some more good music from the Ladies of Band-Maid to inspire you, and to show you JUST how good they actually are.
Listen carefully to the intro to this song. It is NOT on the album, but it is one of 4 different intros the Ladies of Band Maid have used for this song. Now LISTEN to the very end of this song, and then hit play on the next video. You hear the final notes ringing out, then in just a few seconds, just long enough for the Ladies to go to their pedal boards and set them for the next song, then they LAUNCH into it.
The breakdown before the guitar solo is simply one of the best things I've ever seen.
The amount of smiles, shows just how much fun they are having on stage, performing for their "Masters and Princesses". And the drum solo is also VERY GOOD. This is the very first song I heard from Band Maid, and I was dumbstruck when I heard it. Next is the song that has made me their fan for LIFE.
The other live videos I posted above are from their "World Domination Tour" concert finale at Line Cube Shibuya in February of 2020, just before the virus shut down the planet. This one is from their March 2018 concert at Zepp Tokyo. And THIS is the song that made me their fan for life.
This is from one of their "Online" concerts, they performed during the lockdowns. And it shows just how diverse their sound actually is.
Another from their "Online" concerts. They performed 5 of these concerts for their fans. And they had viewers from 63 countries during the live stream, and I think every country in the world watched the saved streams later.
For Christmas 2021, the Ladies recorded a small acoustic concert for their fans, where they totally rearranged their songs for acoustic. they didn't just swap electric guitars for acoustic guitars, they rewrote and rearranged the songs to BE acoustic songs. This and the next one are from that concert.
There are live full electric versions of this song taken from one of their "Online" concerts and also from their February 2023 concert at the Tokyo Gardens Theater. And both are excellent. And show just how much care went into rearranging the song for acoustic.
Again, this song is from an "online" concert. But it was written and recorded during the lockdowns, as a way for the Ladies of Band Maid to tell their fans, that they know how hard everything was, and how they too felt that way. Yet they were still there for us, and they loved us their fans, and they loved performing for us. This is one of 5 songs by the Ladies that always make my eyes water.
The opening track of the Ladies first release since the lockdowns ended and they could tour again, to meet and perform for their "Masters and Princesses". It wasn't the first MV release from the EP they released, but it is the first track on the EP.
THIS is the first MV released for their EP "Unleash!". Did you notice the song title has 5 exclamation points? that is one exclamation point for each band member. And this is the Ladies declararation of being let off the track, to tour and continue their quest for World Domination.
The second MV from their EP, and it was written sort of like a Diss Track, to all those social media influencers and how fake they actually are.
2022, the Ladies of Band Maid, toured Japan and the US. Attending Music Festivals and performing concerts across the US. However, we found out later, that they Ladies were very trepedatious about what kind of recpetion they would recieve in the Us. As it had been almost 3 years since they had been able to tour. they were being told that their shows were selling out, but they didn't quite believe it. It was after their performance at the Aftershock Festival, they went up to Seattle for the open show of their US tour. The Ladies were nervous about how the audience would be. I've spoken to several people who were at that show, and they said the same thing, the Ladies looked shocked as they came out on stage at the start of the show, but Saiki, the Lead singer as she came out, it looked like someone had hit her with a club. Her eyes were open very wide. One person said it looked like she was trying not to cry. They then went to the next show, and the response the recieved was the same, PLUS the bass player, MISA, her birthday was approaching. And us Fans got involved.
This was for her Japan birthday. And the next night, well.
We had her American birthday. And we weren't done yet. But that comes later.
All of this made the Ladies realize, just how much they as a band, as artists, and as people, just how much THEY meant to us. And they felt the same way about us. Like their song I posted above. But Kanami, the lead guitarist and primary composer for the Ladies, had a melody and an idea. It took root after that show in L.A. and she started writing a song. A song that would be written throughout their tour and be finished once they got back to Japan, but first we had MORE to show them how much they mean to us.
Miku, the founder of Band Maid, the Co-Lead singer and rhythm guitarist, had HER birthday in Dallas, and we fans couldn't let her birthday be forgotten.
All of this showed to the Ladies JUST how important they are to us. And that song I mentioned above? The one Kanami had started writing? They finished it and debuted it at their February 2023 Tour Finale. And it is something that makes my eyes water everytime.
The LAdies have released several Live videos from that concert, I am only going to post one of them though. one of my favorite songs by the Ladies, although ALL of their songs are my fovorite, some are more favored than others.
And I will finish tis with their latest MV to be released, but NOT their latest song. The Ladies have debuted 3 new songs on the Japanese leg of their 2023 tour, so I hope for a new album to be released by them before Christmas, although it may be after the new year.
Shambles was written by the Ladies for the closing title of the 2nd season the Netflix Anime "Kengan Ashura". And as you can see in the MV, the song itself is on fire.
Please listen to/watch the Ladies videos. I hope that you will enjoy their music as much as I do. And please help get "Thrill" to 20 million views before November 20th.
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