Great reaction! And great version, I was introduced to BABYMETAL by someone, showing me this performance. After 1.5 minutes I jumped into the Foxhole, head first 😄"the crowd jumping up, haha!" 🤣 The crowd does it to this day, it´s their choreography😉 This song will never leave me ´til the end of my life, I absolutely love it, and I love all the different versions that are out there. The whole concert this performance was part of was a banger in its own right, and it was in 2013(!)...

Great reaction - at the risk of repeating everything you were already told ... I'm going to do it anyway. First thing - Yui and Moa pulling up their pigtails ... the lyrics mention "With the legendary black long hair disordered around and gorgeously..." I think when they first heard the song Yui and Moa did this and their choreographer included it in the choreo. 'Headbanger' is about a girl going to her first concert on her 15th birthday, but 15 is significant in Japan as compulsory education also ends, so the girl is realising life will never be the same. She is having to grow up, she will no longer be considered just a child and her first 15 years passed so quickly, so she etching this special night into her heart so she will never forget. There are other versions of 'Headbanger' from special occasions as well. The Legend D concert in December 2012 for Su-metal's own 15th birthday and this same Legend 1997 concert in December 2013 celebrating Su-metal's 16th birthday both started with a dance remix version ('Headbanger - Night of 15 Re-Mix'). At concerts on or near their own 15th birthdays in 2014 Yui (in Paris) and Moa (in Cologne) took over lead vocals for 'Headbanger' half way through when Su handed them the mic and stand - she took their place in the choreo. Only fancam videos exist for those performances. The same thing happened in 2019 at the Legend M concert celebrating Moametal's 20th birthday (20 is (or was) the official age of majority in Japan). Moa once again took over lead vocals after Su handed her the mic and stand - and the lyrics were changed to "...this special night of my 20th...". Most recently in March this year at the Legend MM concerts celebrating Momometal's 21st birthday we got her version on the day before her 21st (she was not an official member the year before so she did it to mark the last day when she was still 20).

There are others who know the full story better than me but nobodies said anything so far. In a nutshell this is about a 15 year old girl who sneaks off to her first metal concert. Goes right up to the barrier and rocks out to the point of exhaustion (hence those droopy arms hanging down). Two neat things. This show took place the day after Su's 16th birthday. And because the girls were so young Mikiko- a highly esteemed Japanese choreographer came up with the now iconic side to side head bang motion. It was created as being safer for the young necks involved.

A classic Babymetal song 🤘🦊🤘

👍👍An awesome performance. You have 4 more to experience. HeadBanger MV, MoaBanger, MomoBanger, YuiBanger. They are all special. MOMO does some growls now. 🦊🦊🦊🦊 🖖❤

_Hedoban hedoban!_ _Ban ban ban ban_ 🦊🤘🛐 Welcome back to the Foxhole. Happy birthday to YuiMetal, our forever tomato princess.🍅❤ Thanks for the shout-out and coming back with this suggestion. A lot of the whole meaning behind this special live show will be revealed when watching "Babymetal Death" so just wait for it. This song was part of the World Tour 2023/2024, everyone love this song and were having a blast with the girls headbanging real hard in the middle section instead of the usual bowing down on their knees or having fun with the cryo smoke gun. They did it recently at Warsaw in Poland playing for the first time as a headlining show and fans went wild. Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!! is one of BM fans favorite and got special meaning too. Song is about a 15 years old girl celebrating her birthday going to her first live concert, probably metal, while having melancholy for leaving her childhood behind. Isn't about any of our girls but they embraced this song like it was made for them, you'll find many special versions of this, even when they celebrate their 20th Birthday. 15 is an important coming of age for Japanese girls, 20 is another important date. You'll find many more special versions celebrating their birthday, such recently last March when the new official member MomoMetal did it at Legend MM, Yokohama Arena celebrating her "20 Night", we called it "MomoBanger", and the day after her "21 Night" with another different song. This was at Legend 1997 (that's the title of this live concert referring to SuMetal birthyear) in 2013 celebrating SuMetal 16th Birthday, and the whole concert was special, if you want to know the rest of the songs finishing this, those are: - "Akatsuki" Unfinished Version, a beautiful SuMetal solo version with only a piano behind, the original song is a power/speed metal balad - "Babymetal Death", be ready for this insane ending, Legend 1997 was an special live concert, and along with Legend 1999 celebrating Yui and MoaMetal birthday are tied together to represent the commitment of these girls with this group, a new rebirth. The live concert and also this song got plenty of tributes to the greatest metal bands, like Metallica and X-Japan, specially Yoshiki, the gong at the end is one of those, you'll find more and plenty of this to add to their lore. The statue behind is SuMetal resemblance and is a tribute to Metallica's Lady Justice. The official MV is also creepy for some fans, I guess the organ gave that effect, you'll also see the neckbrace there for the first time which is a tribute to Yoshiki from X-Japan. Another thing that you don't see so much here in their live performance is, when YuiMetal and MoaMetal are having fun with cryo or smoke gun, the choreography on this part is with them down on their knees and doing the "dogeza hedoban" which is like bowing down back and forth summoning the metal spirit represented by the neckbrace while SuMetal is standing with the mic rise up and her relentless death stare, that's another moment we called -NotACult- The Kami Band here are insane set of elite musicians who were send to help with the metal sound, "kami" means roughly "god", they're wearing burial white robes and corpse face paint to represent those spiritual entities. They rotate so probably you won't see some of them in all live concerts (especially the guitarrists). They are: - Míkio Fujioka, god of guitar, a beloved member, sadly he passed away in 2018. (R.I.P.), he's the one doing that sick solo. - Leda Cygnus, god of guitar, he's the only Kami Band member who's credited as a session musician when recording some albums tracks. - BOH, god of bass, he's the bald one and not only got amazing talent but her fun way to enjoy reminds me Flea from RHCP. You can see at the end (when SuMetal is crawling upstairs) his head got written "Happy Birthday". - Hideki Aoyama,, god of drums, he comes from a family of expert drummers, and his father is very famous in Japan music scene. During recent World Tour 2023/2024 they got another complete different set of musicians, we called them Western Kami Band, they've been playing with them since 2019, so the Kami Band musicians aren't official members and the girls are the only front women of this group. Next suggestion: - Karate official MV or live at Download Festival 2016. See you next time.🦊🤘🔥

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1:39 - OH NO!! 🫣 You’re are now exhibiting the incurable side effects of Babymetal. You’ve transitioned your head-banging from front-to-back to side-to-side. There’s no more going back…. You are now forever stuck in the Fox Hole! 😂🤘🦊

This is the best version imo. Down the fox hole you go.

😅 Headbanger absolutely Not! I would called it [ Shake your but! ] Of way many times of a perfect 🥰 performance skills abilities! Thank 😊 you Babymetal for your greatest achievement!👏 I would fast forward that it to the very best part of very grand performance skills! An end it as soon it starts up again! I still laughing 😅 moment about this situation! 😅hahahahaha Have a very impressive 👏 beautiful 😍 day.