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Hey Wave! Thank you for checking my lyrics video ☺

I agree. A unique flavor of Band-Maid with a western rock vibe. A perfect blend. I hope radio stations in the US will broadcast it because Saiki and Miku sing very well in English. Very nice song. Thanks Wave.

this is Band-maid for US radio. i am impressed that they were able to fit that Kanami Solo™ into a radio friendly song

I was surprised and confused on first listen, on second listen I cried🥲 fantastic song💯🎶🎵

I love this song!! This song is super well composed and the lyrics are very meaningful (Miku always writes good and meaningful lyrics). Gotta say that Saiki’s English is getting so good. ❤ thank you Band-Maid for this amazing song. 😢 thank you Wave for the reaction too!

Miku's phenomenal lyric's writing on display again!

The solo is all Kanami, but that riff is Mike all the way through. As a long time fan of Incubus and now also long time fan of Band-Maid, this song feels like a perfect blend of both sounds. It's been a while since I was this satisfied with a collaboration song 💜

Great song and Kanami's solo is fire 🔥

It gives me a nostalgic feeling😌 The cover picture was produced by Saiki. Her order was "A drawing of two best friends taking a long journey in wilderness"😉

So nice to see them going back a little bit into ballade style. Love it ❤❤

I love everything form BM,i have no problem listening to. PO ❤❤❤❤

Loved it first listen, very catchy and a great solo...still sounds like band-maid song no doubt

Great song for driving in the sun! And very easy to listen to again and again. Very different mix than usual (that "nearly-sub" bass) - I wonder how it will sound on stage and if it's Miku who will play the very catchy arpeggio riff.

I like it. It has that same vibe as Daydreaming or Endless Story

YES THIS IS SECOND TIME I HEARD THIS SONG TODAY BUT THANK YOU ITS REALLY NICE ❤❤❤❤❤

I'm entertained by some of the comments. Remember when "Start Over" was their death knell, the sign they were getting bland and poppy? Even though the B side was "Screaming" and the next album had "Rinne"? It doesn't have to be busy to be good. Lean back and enjoy the groove. Listen carefully. There's more there than you think.

Love the song. Nice break from the dense, chaotic, heavy stuff that has dominated their recent work. Music is accredited to both Einziger and the band, not just Einziger. That solo really sounded like Kanami tho (but I don't know Einziger's music very well).

Its OK...........Enjoy your day ........

The best songs always take a few listens, they grow, this song grows 🤘🤘

Great to have a slower song for a change played by Band-Maid. It gives Saiki and the rest of the band, more time to shine as we know they can. For me- Best song for a couple of years.

Ride that W. A. V. E.~~ :D good choice on the intro-outros btw the chill-maids

Hi Wave 👋🏻 I'm still processing this awesome song! Enjoyed your take on this reaction video 👍🏻

A well designed Saiki´s showcase. It is a good song, I like it a lot. It's not their best ballad (in my opinion far from their masterpiece Anemone), but it's very well written, it has all the quality that Band Maid's goldsmith work and attention to detail offers (that bass...), and it probably seeks to cast nets on other ears. Curiously I miss the words in Japanese, who was going to say that...

Unverkennbar Band Maid! Aber der Song muss erst noch ein wenig sacken bei mir!❤

Love Akane's drums on this. This is the song I plan to play for introducing Band-Maid to the wife. I was going to do day dreaming but this is all English so get her hooked.

Love the raw live sound..but it's BAND-MAID and they don't do anything half a$$ what"s not to LOVE PO!!!!!🕊🍌🍻☕⚾

MISA MISA MISA!!!!!

Wave, Isn't a wonderful song? It is different from their high energy headbangers, but it really show they are really more than genre specific. Miku's lyrics being completely in English really show the work put into writing them. Saiki's and Miku's vocals were incredible. What more can say about Kanami, MISA, and Akane's other than PERFECT!!!!! I LOVE THIS. It need serious airplay on radio in the U.S.. Taylor Swift,look out! The Maids are coming!

I don’t get some people being so protective of the Maids here. As if Eizinger came in the studio and wrote everything the way he wanted it and the record company forced them to record it. They like this guy, and his music, and obviously liked his input in the creative process. I don’t think they’d have recorded a song they didn’t like. Remember, Saiki doesn’t hesitate to say a song is bad if she thinks it’s bad! It’s not my favorite song of theirs but it’s far from my least favorite too. To sum up: it’s Band Maid approved, so it’s a “true” Band Maid song, same as any other.

I cried first time I heard this.

With the english lyrics and Incubus ties, I wonder if this can actually get radio play in the US?

You can finally hear Miku singing in the background. It's about time. It could be a little louder, but I'll take what I can get. I like it. It's also nice that finally ... someone plugged in Misa's amp.

4:47 Yeah Wave, I felt it to!

This is so 90s Rock Vibe

As a classic rock/hard rock/old school metal guy, I prefer their harder stuff because their riffs are just so good, soft songs and ballads i really dont care for but i still haven't heard a "bad" Band-Maid song yet.

Great job aa usual, Wave.

You have to listen a couple times to get it❤

I love this song! Its a bit different, but still very much Band Maid. The smile plastered all over Wave's face says it all! 😊❤🥰🎶 Miku's lyrics and Saiki's voice melt my heart. 😊🥰

As with many Band-Maid songs, it would take a few listens to get the whole song. Have to admit I was hoping for some guest vocals or something from Einziger. Yeah, yeah, I know he's a guitarist, but still.... heh...

I love MISA's playing... and Akane's... and Kanami's... and the recording is good, too! Miku's lyrics are heartfelt. "I can't look into your eyes." Is Saiki her bestie? But Saiki masterfully delivers her lyrics, as always. BTW - The volume of lyrics and nuanced melodies she's committed to memory over the years is simply mind-blowing! Mikey did good at giving them his direction for the song, and probably helped with the English lyrics -- a good growth for Miku's craft. I don't understand why Kanami said she couldn't have come up with the main riff. Probably just her being super polite, as usual. I like the groove and feel of the song. I was waiting for, "I don't give a f**k" at the end. But maybe with these particular "Bestie" lyrics, that wouldn't be such a good idea. Even though at first listen it felt on par with Start Over It will undoubtedly do what every Band-Maid song does -- grow on you. Got to break through to the mainstream market with a few cuts, right? Hopefully Bestie helps with that! Thx, Band-Maid! And thanks, Wave!

We getting out of HATE? with this one

typical incubus sound 👏

Great tune! Love the hard rocking songs as much as anyone, but also love the melancholy type of stuff, too. Thanks for the video!

IT'S ALL IN ENGLISH I LOVE IT

The music is credited to Mike and Band Maid. To me it is more BM than Mike. Kanami's solo is fire 🔥

I think it's a big shame there is no MV. I expect there was no budget and they are very careful with up front costs. I suspect that "Memorable" which was similarly spontaneous had funding assistance from zemaitis. They used it in their publicity and it was basically full on product placement. Miku visited their HQ before the trip.

I like it more than "Magie". :p Hope to hear even more variety from Band-Maid in the future.

I hope this is not Ilegal hhe... JK, but anyway i have vibes 90/2000's Vibes for this new Song... & obviously its sweet... But Correct me if i'm wrong... Is this the first Song ever which the lyrics has totally full in english?

Great great song. Probably their best produced and mixed. Not compressed to hell like their other tracks,

It's okay, some of it I like some of it not so much (mainly the chorus, but that's pure personal preference). But I think it's been a good experiment and hopefully it helps them getting more fans.

Is this their first all English song?

Where'd the Innovative drumming go

The reason we love Band Maid because they dont sound like the west.and here they go make a average song

I liked the lyrics but the music, to me at least, does not sound like Band-Maid. It was well done but its the first song that I felt didn’t have that Band-Maid vibe (and I have all their CDs and videos). Daydreaming, another slower well-written song, had a strong Band-Maid vibe and speaks to the soul.

needs a little more Misa, but cool anyway

As a song I still enjoy it quite a lot, but as a Band-Maid song it kind of lacks the flavour, which is expected.

Kanami was locked out the studio to then letting her in for the solo and she went like this. Finally 🔥. If Band-Maid will be the one playing the song Band-Maid should have 80% control of the song ans not the other way around. I'm being a drama queen .... just hate when people come in and put their old boring spin. Imagine Mike messing with RUSH.... that's how I see it.

I'd be lying if I said I was wowed by it or want them to do more in this style. It's fine, but if it weren't for Saiki singing, and MISA being MISA, I would think it was a slightly above average Incubus song. For me, after 2 dozen listens now... I still find it entirely too restrained and western pop structure predictable. Saiki's voice is lovely, but not a lot of dynamic variety, and lack of dynamics I think sums up why I am not wowed.. because there are none. Even on their softest ballads, Band-Maid tend to be chock full of fills, crazy sub harmonies, and layers upon layers of stuff from our Mad Maid Mincho. It's exceedingly basic in a way that Memorable, About Us, Daydreaming, etc, are not. Even Before Yesterday or the Dragon Cries has more going on (though at least we are spared the terrible mix from the Dragon Cries here). Here, Akane feels like she's drumming in a straight jacket, with the most basic drumming since maybe Thrill. Miku feels MIA in most of the song, and even Kanami's riffs and noodling feels more basic than usual. Also got to love the usual "shame game" bullshit from the slobbering "super fans" in all the comments, who think everything Band Maid ever releases is a perfect 10. Not being in love with the song doesn't mean we hate the Maids, or think they have lost their way, or are anti collaboration. It's far from their first, even AFTER Mincho took over the main songwriting task. But believe it or not not every song appeals to every listener, and many of us are drawn to their music for different reasons. For me, it's the clever complexity that they fit into what seem to be even the slowest and softest of songs.. songs almost other bands would do the bare minimum musically on, and be fine. But part of what has long made Band Maid what they are is a refusal to write simple. I listen to other bands, like the Warning, whom I also love, for simple, but well written Rock. If I want heavier/faster, I listen to Lovebites. This... just doesn't scratch my personal Band Maid itch. Not the first song they've done that doesn't (still not a fan of Screaming, for instance), won't be the last. It's fine. It will be featured on the next tour cycle, and after that probably fade away from their sets, mostly. Which is true for 75% of their songs, even ones I personally enjoy a lot more than this. 6.5/10

First listen (no watching as I was doing other things). I don't like it much. It's in English, so I don't understand anything (at least in Japanese I can get a few words or expressions on first listen). And the music is like background; nothing is grasping me. I'll have to listen to this a few more times to see if I'll like it in the end or if it's one to ignore in the future.

Band-Maid playing this song is like putting a thoroughbred racehorse in a dog and pony show. Not a bad song, but not anywhere near their best. Not overwhelming. Not underwhelming. Just whelming. Barely.

Ask yourself. If this was the first song you heard by them, would you have given them another chance? I hate to say it but, I know my answer.

They needed the dude to help write this song? Best keep in-house I think.