Who/what should I listen/react to next?

Band-Maid are the standard bearers of their genre. Always love giving them a listen!

Are you serious!? She is seriously doing my favorite band of all time! 😆🙌

Saiki's best hard rock vocal performance ever.

The constant changing up (from verse to verse the instrumental parts are never the same) is one of their trademarks. Most of their songs do this, so you can listen to a song a zillion times and still find them cool and interesting. This band is special, and their songwriting is on the top of the list of the many reasons why. Thanks for reacting to my favorite band, and one of my favorite songs - doesn't it want to make you just yell "WAAAAHHHOOOO!!!!" ?? Doesn't it??

Skittle squad reporting.....BAND-MAID!!! 😝 😝 🤘🤘🤘

My ABSOLUTE favorite! The more I listen to it, the better it gets. I listen to this on repeat for months now.

That was fun to watch,have never seen or heard BandMaid before,good choice. Maggie,you brought me a big smile. Thank you!!

I like this song more and more every time I hear it. They are some very talented ladies. As are YOU Maggie! Thanks for another fun reaction. See you for the lives this week! 😆

Good Manners? Good God!! Stank Face music? Oh, yeah! Thanks lead guitarist Kanami for your compositions, and 2nd guitarist Miku for your lyrics, and everyone else for everything else. Like the unique, awesome outro, every Band-Maid song has a touch of class because the Maids have class. A remarkable, important band in so many aspects! "aw, aw, aw, aw, aw, aw, awesome!" Thanks Maggie!

Best Hard-Rock Band in the world. Period.

Thank you great reaction. More Band maid please.

😛😛Thanks to your introduction Miss Renee. Band Maid is in heavy listening rotation when I need a power metal fix, which is daily!🤘🤘🤘 Great to see this reaction again. Looking forward to your next upload and livestream. Congratulations on hitting the 130K mark, not long till 150K I am sure!👍👏👏👏👏😎

One of favorite reactors reacting to my favorite band? Yes!

BAND-MAID (Formed in 2013) This is what happens when all the right pieces fall into place. Miku (PO) comes up with the idea of a hard rock band in maid outfits after working in a maid cafe and looks for a lead guitarist and finds Kanami on KZfaq, and then ask her to join the band and it doesn’t have any other members. Kanami joins and knows a drummer that she has worked with in the past on session work Akane and she ask her to join the band. Akane joins and knows a bassist that she was in a band with in school they went to the same music school and did session work together, MISA and ask her to join the band. MISA joins and the three girls and one small pigeon (Miku) start their journey but Miku doesn’t think her voice is what the band needs. The band holds open auditions and they find Saiki and she is asked to join the band but they don’t tell her they will be dressing as maids. At this point Miku steps down from vocals and picks up the guitar (The Rickenbacker) never playing a guitar before and takes on rhythm guitar in the band. She starts with an E bar cord and look at her now 8 years later. If you remove any one of these woman from the band it will not work. They work as a team, Akane helps with the staging, Kanami writes the music, Miku writes the lyrics, MISA and Saiki give their input to help with the impact of the songs. This is a true band they don’t fight they work together for the welfare of the band, no glory hogging everyone get their chance to shine. If it wasn't for the pandemic BAND-MAID would have gone worldwide in 2020.

Interesting to hear your views as an opera singer. My first love is opera but I discovered Band Maid a year ago and they reignited my interest in rock. Listen to them every day and I think they are a truly outstanding group off musicians and just a joy to see and hear. Kanami is a treasure,

Love the confidence by all the girls but especially love seeing Miku really taking her vocals to the next level in this song, Po! :D

Great reaction! There are 100+ Band-Maid' songs to go - keep'em coming please. It's Band-Maid' World Domination: never dull, never boring, always creative, always eclectic, superb graceful rock'n'roll.

these girls make incredible clips, but the live, unbelievable, absurd quality standard, talent and hard work.

We are here to rock!..Thanks Maggie,.love your variety

"our rock never dies ever, forever"

You said it Maggie! They're awesome! Girl Power!

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!" - Miku Kobato BTW, love the Sopranos pose by Miku & Co. Miku Soprano......

Incredible song by an incredible band! Love it. Great reaction.

Good reaction, another Awesome song from BAND-MAID. I like the power these women put into their performances, sound, and switching it up the way they do. I also like their pose in the video shows attitude, zipper eyed and stretched tongue.

Another great reaction Maggie! Loved the slow mo of the jump and eye roll🙄. It halerouis.🤣😂😝😝

Saiki's Voice when singing Manners OMG, back to remember me 80-90 Rock vocals

I really love Band-Maid, I am such a big fan of their music. They are so talented, they amaze me every time with new things. Maybe as an opera singer you wish to hear more vocal stuff from Band-Maid, I would suggest the songs Wonderland (Official Live Video), Daydreaming (Official Video) and their recent song About Us (Official Live Video). The last one was originally meant as a special song for their fans (masters&mistresses) to wish them good health and stay strong during this time.

u are a singer so i recomend wonderland, day dreaming or about us from them, saiki vocal on that song is the best............

Thank you for a delightful video! Band Maid is so much fun to watch and I love this song. If you like another very recent Band Maid song, "Warning!" is very hard driving and has some great vocals from both Saiki and Miku (I think you can read the sub titles too :) They are all such talented musicians, write such amazing lyrics with complex music woven around it. No simple rhymes for Band Maid. I look forward to the next time they grace the channel.

Woke up to this

Great Maggie - good band and excellent reaction.

Maid clothes are aimed at the gap between appearance and hard rock, not by sexual expression. In addition to her seven albums and numerous music videos since her debut in 2013, she has more than 10,000 fan cams and reaction videos on KZfaq. The more you listen to the songs from the past and the latest album, the more you want to deepen their abilities and charms. It is called the "pigeon hole".　Please listen to the live music video on their website. From there, the adventure to various songs begins. Past songs are also the best hard rock.

This was the kind of bluesy song I was hoping to get from Band Maid; it really suits Saiki's voice.

I am a fan - a year ago heard Thrill then DICE and loved them ever since. RINNE is heaviest, Daydreaming most beautiful, and my fav is BLOOMING. They have over 80 songs and no bad ones. BM4evr.

Great job. Thank you. Yes, you are right, girl power. These ladies are without any doubt the best hard rock band in the world today.

About Us is song u should see. Vocals , beautiful ! Band Maid rule !

🤘🤘❤🤘🤘 MISA MISA MISA!!!!! 🤘🤘 Love when you have Band Maid on!!! 🤗❤✌

Welcome to the world (aka: Rabbit Hole) of Band Maid! You will become a MAIDIAC! Resistance is Futile! You will learn soon enough that these ladies ROCK! They are a very talented group. They are all well trained in various instruments. There is not a bad song from BAND MAID REAL EXISTENCE - PUZZLE - FREEZER - PLAY - BLOOMING - DICE - DRAGON CRIES - All great songs!

😝 Great song and reaction, I loved the firsts seconds lol , you just jumped from your chair!!! Amazing band, girl power... yeah sure... 😝

One of my favorite bands...great vid.

Hi Maggie, your reactions are fun and awesome. I'd love to see their live videos next time. Because BAND-MAID is "live band.".

Have you heard their live performance of "Wonderland"? You might like that as well.

They usually do 2-5 shifts per song. Depending on what the song calls for obviously. That's REALLY hard to do and have the song make sense and not sound discombobulated.

Miku can scream at me anytime she wants 😍😍😍

Great song from Band-Maid! Warning, Afterlife and About Us are other recent releases from these amazing ladies!

Fun reaction video Maggie thanks for doing it. "Manners" is very pentatonic but I liked it, good rock and roll. Wouldn't mind hearing more music by them! (Do I really want to know about the skittle squad?)

Welcome to the Fellowship of Maidiacs, from a classically trained vocalist, turned blues/rock singer who went to HS across the street from Juilliard.

You're 100% on saying they're feeling this song. The live version is just as good!

Love them

They are fantastic musicians, and the vocals are great too.

"Our rock never dies, ever. Forever!" - 'nuff said!...long live rock...long live Band-Maid! 🤘🤘🤘

fast pace? this is the slowest song in their new album...LOL...

Their recent stuff has captions on it by the way

Thanks for the great video, Band Maid is a special group of women who found a way to forge their own identity in the brutal world of Japanese music (....actually music in general) and thrive in it. Would love to see what you think of some more of their recent songs like About Us and After Life.

Been telling you this in so many words for a while

Since you're an opera singer, you might like Wonderland or Daydreaming song from Band Maid!

👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗

Also Domiation live 2020 will show the measure of their girl power .

You wanna hear more girl power? Lovebites is another all female band from Japan, and they play heavy/power/trash metal. Miyako, one of the guitarists is also classically trained pianist, so she love to combine classical music (Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff) with metal. There are some songs with that fusion: Swan song - live (intro is Revolutionary etude by Chopin, and you can her some quotes in guitar solo), Empty daydream - live (Rachmaninoff Moment Musicaux Op. 16 No. 4 in e Minor), Winds of Transylvania (Beethoven, some qoutes and his famous D-T progression), and newest song from last EP Dystopia Symphony (Moonlight sonata 3th movement). Also, I think you would enjoy in vocals, Asami have very powerfull voice, in the style of some symphonic bands like Nightwish, or even some call her female Bruce Dickinson.

Love your reactions to Band-Maid’s Manners! Rock/Metal bands are loud orchestras next to Metallica and SF Symphony rocking together. Hope Band-Maid US tours. They’ve been around over 7 yrs.

First time I've heard Manners. Really liked that song.

As a trained opera singer I think you would REALLY like "About Us" by Band-Maid.

Haiii Maggie, next check out LOVEBITES, all Japanese female Heavy Metal Band live at Zepp Diver City Tokyo 2020 songs Raise Some Hell, Break The Wall, Holy War, and their latest MV Glory To The World(Best lyric ever), Wind Of Transylvania... :)

I went back and saw your previous Band Maid reactions. You should soooo post your Domination "Live" reaction. We Band Maid fans love seeing a reacters first introduction to Band Maid. 9/10first reactions are like yours. As for what to react to next?:?:?:? Blooming, Warning, Daydreaming, Thrill (their 1st MV).... Seriously, anything from their KZfaq page is cool. As for "copywrite", so long as it is from their YT page, it's all good. You will get requests for other songs that aren't on their YT page.... then you'll have to "link and sync".

Hey Maggie Renee'-saw you do a reaction of another artist and thought hmmm, I wonder if she's done any reactions of otherworldly. brilliant Band-Maid...That was a yes! Since you're a singer I knew you were going to love "Manners", I'm a Maidiac coming up on three years and these ladies are exceptional in everything they do! Girl Power indeed-they've got plenty of swagger on this one don't they? Kanami has really impressed many of us vet guitarists and Misa Misa, the bassist, is one of the best. Her thunderous radiant tone is to die for! Hand in glove with Akane the superb drummer, they are a potent rhythm section aren't they? Miku is quite the rhythm guitarist and Saiki completes the mindblowing package on vocals. Yes, as you said In sync and together. that is what they are all about, Not only are they some of the hardest working women in rock but they are all extremely kind and quite funny. I'm not sure if you've reacted to "Daydreaming" yet or "Wonderland"--I think either would be enjoyable for you. Or "Blooming"...ha ha! Glad that you love the band too!

They are so much better live... They had a show 2/14/2020, part of the World Domination Tour.. Checkout some of those live, "Play", "Freedom", "Domination".. any or all of them...

I respectfully disagree with my fellow Maidiacs saying the video hands are a reference to the album cover. I believe it is the other way around. Here's why. To really "get" the part with the hands, first search and watch a couple of time-lapse videos of plant growth. THEN come back and notice the watering can followed by the hands. The hands symbolize their growth. Miku planted the seeds. Implied. Kanami watered them. Look at the lady with the watering can. Notice the apron, the whole outfit, how she moves... that's absolutely Kanami. And they grew. This sequence is not some meaningless random shit a techie threw in just to do it. This is very deliberate art the band members created and all of them participated. The hands are not CG, and not a multiplied compilation from one model. They all put on identical red nail polish and as a team, moved mimicking a plant growing. This was mentioned in interview, it is not a guess, they all did it as a team. Miku planted. Kanami watered. They grew. This whole video is loaded with symbolism. At the end, fading echo like ah ah ah ah in an empty house because they have moved on to the unseen world. The Unseen World. In other words - "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"

Band-Maid is great! Don't know if you still have it, sounds like your first reaction to BM was a patreon live stream, but if you have the tape laying around feel free to post it to KZfaq 😁

Ok you love Band-Maid. You are so awesome. :)

Band Maid 👐

Read the lyrics. This song is part autobiographical, part pledge and promise to the fans and themselves. They are better live.

Thanks for great reaction! Its hard to pick a favorite because their new album is just amazing, but this song is up there for me, such a nice groovy song and it's a great change of pace on an album that is faster and heavier than ever! Now that you did Band Maid im gonna suggest my other favorite band, LOVEBITES - Edge of the World Live 2020, very different from BM. Both bands are amazing!

Love this song so much, that opening riff hypes us up! Different is amazing too!

MISA MISA MISA!

If your shooketh after that onset, that's nothing compared to My Michelle by Guns n' Roses. "Ooh, that's creepy!" That's literally the album cover (perhaps my least favorite album cover they've done, but it works for an album written and recorded during the pandemic). If you like them constantly changing it up like this, check out Giovanni, off of the same album, called Unseen World. It's their proggiest song yet, seriously. They have a new live video out from their online concert last month, of a song written for the fans called "About Us". It's the softest song they've done, and you can feel the emotion. (a bit of a backstory: They were supposed to perform at Nippon Budokan last month, which would've been their first live show with fans since last February, but when it was canceled, they decided to do what they'd already done three times prior, and play, but livestream it online. It's from this performance that the video for "About Us" is from.) Also, I don't think you've reacted to their live video for Wonderland, and if you haven't, please do so. It's Saiki's vocal showcase.

Misa, the barefoot assassin

Great goodness...what an OPENING!! 😂😬🤪

Hey Maggie. KZfaq recommended your video and wow. Really amazing band right? You said you had covered them before? I couldnt find them though. If you added some insight from your professional training and expereince to how they harmonize and make the vocal choices they perform in different sections, that would be very cool to hear. Hope to see more to the Maids on your channel. I'll subscribe so I dont miss them hopefully ;)

Those ladies can really rock....I like them better than Lovebites....

Japanese GIRLS BAND is 30 years ago HARD Rock, SHOW-YA, POP Rock,princess princess. It started with Japan is, The best in the world It has become a country with many GIRLS BANDs. Now, HARD Metal GIRLS BAND 10 groups are famous.

Good Morning Beautiful Smiling Eyes!!!

Very surprised to see this here since you primarily focus on vocals. I'm in love with Misa the bass player. She will not wear a traditional maid outfit, so she has a stylized goth costume. Her playing is amazing. Everyone in this band is a fantastic musician and as you noticed really play off of each others strengths.

More BAND-MAID.

It appears you haven't reacted to Spiritbox yet. Given how much you loved this and Jinjer, you're gonna love Spiritbox too. "The Mara Effect pts 1-3" live studio session is a 16 min masterpiece. Shorter, but still great songs--Rule of Nines, Blessed Be, Constance (bring your tissues for that video).

would love to see your reaction to About Us by Band Maid.. its a love letter they wrote to fans in preparation for there first live performance since covid. wich was ment to be at Budokan festivival wich i beleive is a perform by invitation only event in japan it was cancelled however so they performed for 2 1/2 hours on a live stream including this song and a heartfelt speech by the lead singer who despite being a force on stage and able to command crowds it generally quiet and leaves most of the talking to Miku. despite it being a song that is in no way like their normal music fans went and still do crazy over it. i would love as would all madiacs to hear you vocal analysis of the song. thanks sorry for the paragraph :D

I love Maggie ¡¡¡

check out a japanese all female metal band called Marys Blood a track called Death Queens March (live at Blitz) pure metal theatre and Eye (lead vocalist) duets with an opera singer sorry dont know the opera singers name but i think you would enjoy it thx

Hello Maggie! You said in the beginning that you had Band-Maid on your channel a couple times already. That got me wondering - I've seen your "Jinjer" (Pisces) one some time ago, so your face wasn't unfamiliar ;) - but I couldn't remember a "Band-Maid" one... I went and checked your channel XD Correct me if I'm wrong - you had "Domination" (live) and the Herman Li audition on your streams... and that's it, right? Or did I missed one? I'm basing it on these three you heard. On "Domination" you mentioned that it's more like punk-rock elements to you, something like Avril Lavigne and Paramore... Well - yes! The wikipedia page lists them as "heavy metal" - but they really aren't. You can hear metal elements here and there - but they don't consider themself as metal-band and also don't want to go that route. The very first Band-Maid album is simply pop-punk! Very poppy! It was good, but didn't have the success and they tried something harder - the very first MV they released was "Thrill". It's basically classic hard-rock, very US-typical, I would say. Wasn't really a fan of the song back then - but the next MV got me hooked, and I'm following this band since 2014. Since then - it's all just uphill! Their progress is astonishing :D They never completely left the punk roots however, it's still there in the newer songs also Up until the single "Alone" they didn't released their own songs (rejected by the label), but Miku (the 2nd singer with the red flower; founder) provided some lyrics on the earlier songs (credited or co-credited). "Alone" was the first completely own single they released - and since then they have taken more and more over control. The vast majority of songs is composed by Kanami (lead guitar), lyrics by Miku. But all of them are involved equally. They even produce themselves nowadays. Since 2013 - 3 mini-albums (well, basically LPs but shorter, but more than EPs XD) and 4 full studio albums. And it's a touring live band! They basically played yearly somewhere between 60 - 100 shows per year (mostly in Japan ofc). 2020 was very bad in that regard - the show where "Domination" live was from (Feb.14 2020) was their last full-audience show before the lockdown. Later in 2020 they played 3 online live shows and recorded a new album. The album came out in Jan. 2021 (as you mentioned in this video) and they followed it with a live online show (with their longest set list till now) in February. Band-Maid tour outside of Japan since 2016. Not a lot of gigs and not in front of a big audience, but hey, the band is not that well known sadly. They aren't on "Babymetal" or "One Ok Rock" level. Yet. One thing that's unusual for them - ca 70% of Band-Maids fanbase is NOT from Japan! That's a very (!) high percentage for a japanese band, made for japanese audience. A lot of japanese bands are unknown outside the borders, and most of them don't really care as the domestic market is HUGE (2nd biggest in the world, after US - but way smaller country+population). "Babymetal" opened the gates kinda. You tried to read into lyrics on "Domination"... yeah, well. Translations are "googlish". Japanese is hard to translate properly. Miku writes a lot of metaphors and such... English - try to understand what's being said Eastern European language - try to understand what's being said and what might have been said Japanese - try to understand what's being said, what might have been said... and also what wasn't said at all XD Anyway They are my favorite band! Oh, and - yes girl power and such! The "gap" between the maid uniforms and the music they play is by design. The "second gap" - between their music and their offstage mannerisms is an even bigger one ! You only have seen a little glimpse of it after the jam with Herman Li. The whole interview/stream Herman did with them was pure gold. It's definitely one of the *girliest* girl bands! for suggestions... hmm look at their youtube page. It's all good. All very different, all "Band-Maid". For vocals maybe "Daydreaming" and "Wonderland" (Saiki shines on lead voc) Hmm, someone in your chat mentioned "anime"... "Glory" was used in an anime... But "Different" (dec.20) is an opening for the anime "Log Horizon". (in japan you really want an anime opening - that helps A LOT)

ありがとう！ 日本から！ (^_^)

great!

I love them. For everything they are standing for. I thank the Rock-God for them every day. But maybe you wan to react to Nemophila " Dissension". It' s a newer All Girls Rock Band and they are great. Built by Saki, the best guitar player on this planet, from different other bands. Their music is a little more metal than Bandmaid, but also amazing.

I forgot to say it. POP, HARD, METAL The same level of all genres GIRLS BAND alone There will be 30 to 50 groups.

Great reaction, you should check out some Unleash the Archers, the singer Brittney Slayz has an amazing voice then backed up by some amazing muscians, Awakening is a good place to start or Tonight we ride shows off her amazing range

I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING. HOW MUCH DID THEY PAY YOU ? Patrick

If you love all girl rock bands from Japan please check out Nemophila (pronounced: nee-mah-fee-la), Gacharic Spin, Scandal (the one from Japan), Lovebites, Trident, Mary’s Blood, Fate Gear, Aldious and the list goes on, because right now Japan is overflowing with so much talent.

PLSS React to their other Songs. 🥰🥰

Your reaction is the best. 😆👍😆👍😆👍

Band-Maid and BABYMATAL is the best thing that has happned to Rock/Metal in decades!!!!! Pleas check out suzuka nakamoto/BABYMETAL!!

😋 I think it was him lol working and watching u ma'am lol