★★★★★
Sound: So, what Babymetal does essentially is takes the Japanese J-Pop aesthetic of kawaii, which basically means "cuteness," and adds it to extreme metal, which of course only makes sense. What you get from that great leap of innovation is basically three Japanese girls dancing and singing in high pitched voices in front of an extremely heavy metal band while throwing horns...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2014-03-07
★★★★★
Being a Japanese idol could be a pretty unfulfilling job sometimes, I'd imagine. While many get their careers handed to them because of the Japanese talent agencies' insistence on giving pop stars their starts at quite a young age, much of the process then ends up feeling really manufactured and plastic. It's not as much about the stars as it is about the hefty cashgrabs the talent scouts producers are making from them...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-07-18
★★★★★
Being a Japanese idol would be a pretty unfulfilling job, I'd imagine. While many get their careers handed to them because of the Japanese talent agencies' insistence on giving pop stars their starts at quite a young age, much of the process then ends up feeling really manufactured and plastic. It's not as much about the stars as it is about the hefty cashgrabs the talent scouts producers are making from them...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-07-11