This is part of what I call the "Smile" trilogy. The first song being Smile, the "B-side" to their song Bubble. The music was written by Kentaro Akutsu who wrote their breakout song "Thrill" but with lyrics by Miku. The second song is "About US" a love song to their fans during the lockdowns written by the Ladies themselves. When it was performed live for the first time during their on-line concert to replace their canceled Budokan concert, Saiki gave a brief speech before the song started, that had many of us getting attacked by dust. Then the song itself brought out the onion ninjas and made many us have allergy attacks as well. Then we have "Memorable". It was almost 3 years since the Ladies had last toured the US, and they were concerned they had lost their momentum. Even though being told they were selling out their shows, they didn't believe what they were being told, they thought their management was lying to them or playing a joke on them. They came over and performed at Aftershock, then they got on their tour bus, (A first for them, as they normally would either fly or rent a couple vans to tour in) and drove to their first show of their 2022 US Tour. Seattle. It was at Seattle, that the Ladies got confirmation of just how much their fans love them and how much we missed them. As they walked out on stage, according to several people who were at the show, they were shocked. And Saiki as she came out, was said to have looked like someone had hit her with a bat, her eyes were so wide. The crowd response, and the emotions coming off them fed the Ladies energy as the performed their show. And as they went to their next concert, the response there was the same. And the next show, with the fans sending gifts for MISA's birthday, having several hundred custom printed towels handed out to the audience celebrating MISA's birthday. All these things hit the Ladies in their hearts. And Kanami had an idea for a new song. This next part is hearsay so I have no way of confirming it, but the sounds at the beginning before the guitar part starts was the sound that Kanami heard while back stage at the Los Angeles show. Hearing music and the audience talking. Supposedly, she actually recorded it on her phone as she before their introduction music started playing. Again that is hearsay and I have no way to confirm it. But from the L.A. show Kanami started writing the vocal melody line. If you have a chance to watch the Behind the scenes documentary from their TGT Concert DVD-BD, Kanami discusses and sings the vocal melody. She later sang and played it to Saiki and Saiki told Kanami to finish the song, then Saiki and Miku wrote the lyrics together. The lyrics are about looking out into the audience while being up on stage, and seeing the smiles of their "Masters and Princesses" And how much that means to them, the Ladies of Band-Maid, and how much they love us as their fans, and how much they feel our love of them as performers. The Ladies finished the song after they returned home to Japan, and worked it up, and performed it live for the first time at their January 9th concert at the Tokyo Gardens Theater, which was later released as a DVD/BD with the BTS Documentary. But just a month after their concert at TGT, they were back in the US as the opening band for the "Last Rock Stars" a Japanese supergroup, for 3 shows. Two in New York and one in Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, the outside desert portion of this video were recorded, just outside of Lancaster California, the performance portions were taken from the very first live performance at the TGT. So know you know the story behind the song. It is a love song from the Ladies of the band, to their fans, telling us how we lift them up, and how they love being able to perform for us. As I wrote at the very beginning, this is the 3 song of the trilogy, and all of them are about how much the Ladies love us their fans. And for that, we love them back. And Akane the drummer is playing a "Star Bubinga" 5 piece drum kit in her custom Red/Gold colors. Miku's guitar she used in the desert was not her usual acoustic guitar, that is the one she plays in the concert footage, and yes it does have a heart shaped sound hole. Her guitar is custom made to her specifications, but the only changes from the regular acoustic from Zemaitis is changing the inlay materials and a custom piezo bridge pickup with a piezo transducer also installed to the soundboard under the bridge. You can buy one that looks almost exactly like her regular acoustic, if you have $3,700.00. The custom piezo setup will cost you an additional $450.00. And the sound you were asking about was the kick drum and MISA the bassist playing the "B" string on her bass. coupled with her distortion/fuzz pedal. And the song Sense was written for the 3rd season of the anime "Log Horizon: Destruction Of The Round Table" Seriously, ANY song by the Ladies of Band-Maid will be a good song. Even their first mini-album "Maid in Japan", which is more pop oriented, is good.

It was the debut of this song, so fans had never heard of this beautiful ballad before this.The audiences were quiet because they were stunned and teared to hear this song at the venue. I can tell you this for sure because I was one of 8000 fans at the venue that night!

The audience in the video heard the song for the first time at the concert. Fans know all the songs, but this is the first song they've heard, Japanese people will listen to everything in silence.

Recorded in Deer Valley CA and live from Tokyo Garden Theater Jan 23. Also, crowd was in Japan and they were still under COVID restrictions

They do have more music like this. About Us, Daydreaming...there are other ballads.

👍 They rock. 🖖 ❤

Okay, you're clearly a maidiac Welcome to the pigeon hole. It's gonna be a fun ride, but put a shirt on. This is the second time.