LOVEBITES "Edge of the World" // Audio Engineer & Musician Reacts

[@fikryhasan5225]

My favorite ever ballad song from LOVEBITES, along with A Frozen Serenade. Simply epic and majestic, and Asami's voice is otherworldly here. Thanks for the reaction, Jeremy 🔥🤘🏼🐺🤘🏼🔥

[@sadaka201]

Haruna spins the star with the drum stick, sometimes...

[@dg3258]

Bands write songs, Lovebites writes masterpieces. Bands today aren't performing like this, imho. Miyako shows her emotion through her guitar playing. The most headbanging you'll see from her is Shadowmaker live '21 or Wacken '18. And maybe Above the Black Sea live Wacken '18. Haruna spins the stars to start the Shadowmaker MV. Mostly there for looks and was her signature look in her former band Destrose, Miho and her left and formed Lovebites. 🤘

[@otobokegaijin6218]

This show Feb. 2020 was made into an album ""Five of a Kind". They had just released the album "Electric Pentagram" and were touring. I saw them on that tour. Third time overall I saw them. There's a keyboardist named Mao Yamamoto who's written/arranged a number of LB's songs including this one and I saw him at an instrumental gig with Saki of Nemophila not long ago. And some years ago I saw Saki's old band Mary's Blood performing with Haruna's (and Saki's) old band Destrose. I guess that completes some sort of circle.

[@otobokegaijin6218]

Saw Destrose with Mao's band Light Bringer. There's the circle.

[@faintsmile88]

Simply Majestic, beautiful 🐺

[@johndreessen7335]

Good reaction. My favorite band. One of the big “E” songs. Edge of the world”, “Epilogue” and “empty daydream”. The starcymbals are nor real cymbals but just for show. They only spin. Miyako is the genius of the band and does not much smiling during concerts. But she smiles a lot on her own KZbin channel “Miyako Official Channel”. Lots of nice videos there to watch. Thanks for this reaction. Subscribed. 🐺🤘

[@sondebueu]

The cymbals stars are only for show. Haruna make spin them sometime at start or in the middle of a song.. or another of the members spins them. (mostly Miho or Asami)

[@joergschrader1611]

Good reaction again! the stars on harunas Drumkit are not for sound, sometimes she spins dem, just for fun. They are made of old parts of her Drumkit she destroid! (I think there is much material in stock over the years.)

[@whirled_peace]

LOVEBITES - Edge Of The World lyrics: Why do we learn to hate, deceive and lie, hurt each other？ Why does it never end？ The sorrow keeps on repeating Wailing, come downpours of the rain Will it end？ No one ever knows Wondering, what only time can tell What is at the end of life？ Why do we only see our own desires？ Greed is endless Why is there authority when there is no justice in their rulings Struggling like feeble, helpless fools Will it end？ No one ever knows Wandering, not knowing where to go Carrying the breath of life SOLO: miyako Standing at… The Edge of the World SOLO: midori / both / midori As long as you're still alive, remember - don't fear standing up, don't ever give it up Until the day you meet your end, it's not over - let your soul shine inside of your heart SOLO: midori As long as you're still alive, remember - keep your dignity, stay true to who you are Until the day you meet your end, it's not over - let your heart love and always be loved SOLO: midori How you live will always live on As your way of life, forever How you live will always live on As your way of life, forever How you live will always live on As your way of life, forever SOLO: both ----- lyrics: asami music: Mao arrangement: LOVEBITES (miho, haruna, midori, miyako, asami) Album: Awakening From Abyss 10/25/2017

[@davidornberg]

In the short trailer for the new DVD/Blu-ray Lovebites releases in August, "Knocking at Heaven's Gate, Miyako seems to be more animated on the scene. So we have to wait and see ! 🙂

[@kielanuar213]

Yes, masterpiece, epic. Really meaningfull lyrics. This band has a clean attitude. Respect, & salute.

[@bury0777]

Stars are for show, she sometimes spins one of them with a tip of a stick, she does it very rarely during a show, but there is a shot of her doing it in the beginning of most of their music videos. In particular, Glory to the World, Shadowmaker ( my favourite ) and Judgement Day feature it.

[@rainerzufall42]

Asami loves to spin the stars around as well! ;-)

[@CDMS_pt]

Masterpiece.

[@MrEd-qg8td]

The music video for Shadowmaker as was said previously she spins one of the stars at the beginning.

[@robertandre778]

she spins them , it's for show , stars are Haruna things ;)

[@sadaka201]

Another Masterpiece!

[@45usphk]

Nice reaction 🤘 Miyako can headbang at times infact you might get to see her bust out a smile. Lol But the more I think of it, this might be her stage face. Midori is the extrovert, and Miyako is the introvert. The Ying and Yang They balance out. But if you see her in interviews and vlogs she smiles and laughs all the time.

[@mmcpa]

Haruna's cymbals are for show. She spins them at the beginning of some songs. I could care less about understanding her when she's singing. Pet peeve regarding Asami's vocals (not directed at you, in general because I hear it a lot): Why don't people use that complaint for Babymetal (as an example). I don't understand a word they say, yet the lack of understanding never gets brought up. Just because Asami sings in English doesn't mean you'll understand every word. I know many metal vocalists, male and female, and English, where I don't understand everything I'm hearing. One of the most famous K-Pop bands ever, Blackpink, mixes Korean and English, and no one complains. I just feel that sometimes Asami takes a little too much "criticism" (or just commenting) about understanding her. That's what reading lyrics is for, and as you alluded to, vocals are an instrument first - as long as it sounds good. I enjoy your honest reactions.

[@bury0777]

Because when BM does a song in English, the English is perfect, Mayu from Nemophila has pleasant English pronounciation too, despite not speaking English, she most likely had someone coach her on pronounciation of English lines until she got them right and Asami should do that too.

[@mmcpa]

@@bury0777 Don't agree with your analogy. Because this person is "perfect", everyone should be? Tell that to American singers you can't understand. They should get the same grief then. And there's plenty of them.

[@bury0777]

We are all here because we still enjoy Lovebites despite this shortcoming, so clearly she didn't had to be perfect for us to enjoy Lovebites. But they choose to sing in English for an international appeal and put so much work into their beautiful music, that it's kind of weird to not spent few hours for each song with an English coach to get the pronunciation correct, I think it'd be well worth the effort. She notoriously miss, or sings wrong syllables and with faster songs it's hard to understand most of the lyrics. I've seen few new to Lovebites reactors who listened to a whole song and missed it was in English.

[@alekhidell]

There is more than one reason why Asami’s vocals can be difficult to follow. Her syntax is not that of a native English speaker. She uses words in a way that a native English person would never consider. The vast majority of her “difficult to understand” lyrics are because the words she uses don’t follow the “accepted” flow. Therefore you can’t second guess them. Not only that, and I don’t know why it’s the case (but neither do I care) Lovebites lyrics have a lot of WPM… words per minute. Add in the heavy accent and she can be difficult to follow. But having listened to music of all types for half a century I can assure you that bands who have English speaking singers often have lines that for years I thought I heard clearly, only to learn that one or two key words are not what I thought. The bottom line is that Lovebites are happy that Asami is their vocalist. Miyako is on record twice as saying that she had misgivings about playing in a metal band, but it was Asami’s vocals that made her think that she just had to write music for her. Anyone who has any issues at all with Asami’s performance is missing the point entirely.

[@GarageYears]

I think there’s one Band-Maid song that is all in English… and there’s plenty where the 😂English that is there is hard to understand. Do I care? Nope. Not AT ALL. I give Asami huge props for singing in a foreign language. I don’t need perfect English - this is music… art… her expression and emotion flows, and that’s all that matters.

[@user-hw1cf2fi6r]

みやこさんはそこに立っているだけで存在感が出るように演出しています。

[@musikbyjh]

ミヤコさんは素晴らしい仕事をします！

[@MissLoonasSpeech]

Miyako smiles and laughs a lot in the clips on her own channel. You also see her headbanging e.g. in Lovebites' performance of Shadowmaker at Wacken 2018. Some other fun moments with Miyako are a special scene in the live performance of Spellbound, one at the end of the solo-section of the live performance of We the United from 2020 and the hug close to the end of the live performance of Holy War from 2021. Anyone who claims that Miyko never smiles simply hasn't watched enough of Lovebites' live performances and never checked out any of their backstage footage or Miyako's own channel.

[@rainerzufall42]

Bernard again! Best patreon ever! ;-)

[@BryanPedersen-vd6gy]

The most headbanging I’ve ever seen Miyako do was during the Hammer of Wrath

[@skoob-kq7ms]

A Gilmouresque solo from Miyako. She has played the guitar for only fifteen years, Gilmour for sixty-six years (started learning at 11yo and is now 77yo). How good will she be in another forty-five years' or so time ? She will be up there in the top five ever greatest guitarists.

[@user-ei4ou1sl7c]

🤘

[@marting.h.9417]

This is another masterpiece by amazing Lovebites; an uplifting song with a powerful message. I just love Asami’s vocals. As a non native English speaker, I don’t have any problem with Asami’s English pronunciation. It looks like a dead end: some complain that they don’t understand when non English speakers do a great effort to sing in this language and others complain when singers sing in a language other than English. This seems arrogant to me.

[@musikbyjh]

I totally agree with you. I commend people who can sing in multiple languages! I myself have performed a rap song I wrote all in German, live in Zurich, so I know what it’s like performing in a 2nd language. I have no problem at all with any mispronunciation. In my experience, people can’t even pronounce words in their own language correctly sometimes. Lol.

[@Patrick_H.]

Another Great Reaction Jeremy. I'm glad you are starting to discover the non-Thrash side of these incredibly talented ladies. The Star cymbals have been Haruna's 'trademark' as a drummer since she was 20 years old in the band Destrose (with Miho). She never hits them, but the one in front of the kit SPINS, and she often spins it, especially at the beginning of songs. Asami often spins it during songs too, and I've also seen Miho spin it. I suggest you take a step into the present, and React to Judgement Day, the Title Track of their new album they released in February - with the New Bassist, 20yo phenom Fami. Judgment Day kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2TYeJ2mYrVqeqs Miyako has also released a solo EP (her first) where she re-imagines some classic Metal and Rock songs as Classical Piano pieces. Eagle Fly Free (Helloween) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5mWc3-IqJWLqJY I'm really enjoying your Journey with Lovebites. 🤘🐺🤘

[@dcola123]

Miyako, to me, is like John Entwistle of The Who, the music speaks for itself, no need to run around the stage. I once saw BB King in concert, he sat on a chair and made his guitar sing! Trust me there was plenty of emoition in that concert. I enjoy that they all have different parsonalities on stage, keeps it interesting. Peace.

[@zabriabubakar5982]

Gary Moore soul enter into Miyako's body..... One reactor said about Japanese Bands, they do what the Western Band did not do in the bands...

[@ericdarlington2332]

🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 F#@% YEAH ! i have heard this at least 50 times and still F@#% yeah is all i can say

[@indra-qw1bz]

2:58 after that crazy high note from asami... Her style was like "badass note enough huh ? come on, show me what you've got ?" 😄 Lovebites is perfect because in this band there is no one man show..and they package metal in incredible different way.. All these ladies are genius, they're not from this planet.. (i guess) Hail LOVEBITES 🤘

[@noelle3551]

Miyako facial expression or lack of it is akin to two other guitarists I have seen live, John Entwistle of the who and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, especially Iommi when I watched him trying to see if he even twitched 😅!!

[@BayneUpton]

She spins the stars !!!

[@davidhersrud5139]

The front star she uses it to spin usually at the beginning of a song., and the 2 side ones ASAMI and MIHO will usually spin those... Great reaction again... 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺💪🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@TheCyberMantis]

As I was trying to learn some of the Japanese language, someone told me English has letters that form sounds that the Japanese language doesn't have. Examples are: "TH", "L", "R", and "V". So when Japanese people see these letters, they don't really know what to do with them. The Japanese language doesn't have these sounds. I sometimes hear them pronounce an "R" as a "D". Also: when you spell Japanese words and names with English letters, sometimes they will pronounce the "U", and sometimes they don't. I once heard Asami say Haruna's name, and it sounded like she said "HAD-NA", when we always say: "HAROONAH". If anyone knows more about this, please feel free to add your thoughts. I am always eager to learn more. I would never expect a Japanese person to speak perfect English. Can we speak perfect Japanese? Of course not. The goal is to understand each other. When it comes to Lovebites and the wolfpack... we understand each other perfectly.

[@CaffeineNightOwl]

👍

[@1970Phoenix]

It is of course possible to learn a second language and master it to be as fluent as a native speaker. But this is extremely difficult, especially when you have to learn new sounds. I personally like Asami's imperfect enunciation, as it adds a very distinctive flavour to her singing. I couldn't even imagine LOVEBITES with a different singer.

[@TheCyberMantis]

@@1970Phoenix Funny thing is, I know too many Americans who can't speak, read, or write English properly. So why criticize others.

[@CaffeineNightOwl]

@@TheCyberMantis true, mantis. and only a few reactors (and all from the same country) critisize mispronounciations in their reaction videos without being able to speak or sing in a second language or at least in proper english. to be fair: almost all reactors respect the difficulty to sing in another language and don´t constantly nag about the imperfect enuciation.

[@otobokegaijin6218]

In Japanese "Haruna" is pronounced with the pitch-accent on the "ha". The "u" is often devoiced between two consonants but it and the associated consonant always count as a mora (syllable) and as a metrical beat in poetry, where it's usually clearly enunciated. The "r" in Japanese is basically an alveolar (back of the upper teeth ridge) tap and so as you say it might sometimes sound more like a "d" to English-speakers. Maybe in Asami's case her heavy vibrato distorts the vowel sounds and makes it more difficult to understand her at times. Su (BM), Saiki (B-M), Mayu (Nemo) sing with less vibrato (Su with very little if any) and even then it can be hard to understand their English lyrics. But then there are native English-speaking vocalists who are nearly incomprehensible in their own language.

[@gordonnottsfinest180]

Slowly but surely Asami 'the one and only voice' is starting to infect you, especially effective when you see how she controls the crowd. This was the 2nd to last song in a 2 hour long set and leads directly to We the united which is killer. The stars are decorative and sometimes you'll see Haruna spin them, ironically Asami and Miho spin one of them in We the united, depending on the show you watch, I'd suggest the the 5 of a kind same as this. 🤘🥁🎤🎹🎸🐺. Enjoy your journey. Shadowmaker to see Haruna star spin on start

[@invalides6021]

Miyako doesn't move much, but she's perfect just the way she is. She probably moves the most in the 2021 concert in the Shadowmaker song, even though she's about 4-5 months pregnant. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ6kfIWffJ1sh8U

[@tonygriffin_]

...and thus endeth the lesson on how a ballad should be.

[@pinoypower69]

🤘🏽LOVEBITES RULES🤘🏽

[@markmathewssgbcpenaltyboxs6389]

Love the beauty of this song.

[@CrumblexEloi]

In this song you can see a spinning star on the left after 3 minutes, but most importantly, Miyako and Haruna are finally laughing :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6PEfqmJlpuEipY

[@Roy19861]

Always get a bit overwhelmed with emotions when miyako plays her solo I get the same feeling with midori when she plays her solo in a frozen serenade.

[@davidtormaschy9988]

Can't remember if you reacted to Shadowmaker, but in that song, all 4 gals head bang and Miyako is more involved in that song.

[@ericdarlington2332]

yes Miyako does show emotion every single time she channels it all through that guitar dude ! off stage she is all smiles has a great sense of humor and gets very excited about star wars and exotic pets she owns check ot some of her stuff on her own channel "Miyako metal tv" to see the real her she is even trying to learn better English for all of us who do not speak Japanese

[@musikbyjh]

She’s a Star Wars fan!?! Ok she’s my favorite now. Haha. I mean, I LOVE Midori…but the more LB I do, the more that I enjoy Miyako the most. And I’ve seen a few of her videos actually! Where she was doing some travel vlogging. She did some parasailing. It was so fun to watch her NOT be on stage. She just seems so humble and chill. Hopefully one day we’ll get to meet her!

[@ericdarlington2332]

@@musikbyjh in some of her older posts she shows her home studio star wars collectables randomly all over the place and she named one of her dogs Wampa after the ice monster in empire strikes ack lol

[@musikbyjh]

@@ericdarlington2332 oh man…yeah, she’s my new favorite. I’m def a Star Wars nerd. Lol.

[@ericdarlington2332]

@@musikbyjh me too dude she is an amazing human i have seen so many try to say she is emotionless but that's just her classical training you do not see a lot of concert pianists or violinists headbanging and jumping around in front of the orchestra lol

[@musikbyjh]

@@ericdarlington2332 yeah, you don’t see a lot. Not sure if you know who Tina Guo is…but she’s a phenomenal cellist who I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. You most likely have heard her work, unless you haven’t watched any movies or TV in the last decade. She is Hans Zimmer’s main cellist…and she is WILD on stage. Definitely worth checking out!

[@lito6242]

Another masterpiece from Lovebites… this is one of my favorites from them… I also would like to recommend a new band called Asterism… a three piece metal band from Japan with lots of talent… I would like to recommend a song called Dawn live 2019

[@1970Phoenix]

This song showcases Asami's voice.

[@AFLOVEable]

I definitively love that professional and ladylike posture of Miyako. All out dedication to her music with an absolutely confident aura. Btw and ot, that TV-background for the videos - I owned that model, It's actually a German TV from Grundig from the 80's and one of a few devices to capture the TV-signals of the American Forces Network in Europe.

[@musikbyjh]

WHOA - great little info nugget on my TV, thank you!!! I was born in Germany in 1980, and although moved back when just a baby, maybe that old tv set seemed familiar in some way?!

[@AFLOVEable]

@@musikbyjh Born in one of the garrisons? K-Town/Ramstein or Wiesbaden/Heidelberg?

[@musikbyjh]

@@AFLOVEable I was born in Bitburg. Like the beer. 🤘🏽😎🤘🏽

[@JFrancoDrums]

Really cool, slightly progressive vibe song!! Beautiful beginning!! Miyako does go a little crazier rarely tho!! 😄They are def not the typical metal band, in many aspects and i think that is also part of their charm!! The star cymbals Haruna has are just cosmetic, it's something that has been with her even before Lovebites existed. She doesn't hit them as if she was playing a normal cymbal, what she does is spinning them for fun (the one in front of her) The other star cymbals in the back are also sometimes spun by the other members like Miho or Asami!! 🤘

[@1970Phoenix]

Haruna doesn't "play" the star cymbals. They are 100% for show. However, Haruna sometimes hits/pushes them with a drum stick simply to spin them. Also, sometimes Asami will walk up to the drumkit and spin a star cymbal.

[@alekhidell]

Nice, balanced reaction. Now I’m off to watch your reaction to Asami’s finest performance.

[@musikbyjh]

Thank you, Alek!!! ✌🏽

[@enol8603]

Those lyrics......

[@LongStroke01]

Pre 2020 Miyako moved more than Midori. Something changed around 2020. The concert that they had a few weeks ago (where they all wore black), Miyako was back to moving and headbanging again..

[@stephanwolfhunter]

The star symbols are not standard symbols, they are pinwheels. She reaches over and spins them with a stick. Or Asami spins them. Miho was known to play with them, too. They have been Haruna's trade mark since she started drumming; there is not another drummer anywhere that has them.

[@evilvolts]

Miyako rocks on Raise Some Hell and also a bit on Hammer of Wrath

[@musikbyjh]

I think I've done these two and have no doubt Miyako destroyed it!

[@evilvolts]

@@musikbyjh shweew also head banged a bit at the beginning

[@1970Phoenix]

Protip: You can drag the closed captions box anywhere on screen. I'd suggest you drag it a little bit higher so the 'Old TV' frame you use doesn't cut off some of the lyrics.

[@musikbyjh]

Whaaaat?! I had no idea! Thank you for that tip! 🤘🏽😎🤘🏽

[@a_un]

LOVEBITES (Asami) insist on writing lyrics in English because they believe English rhymes best suit their sound. Consider the same lyrics written in Japanese and English. Even if the meaning of the lyrics is the same, when combined with the song... Musically, they are not the same. They actively choose to use English (=English rhymes) to complete their sounds. (Asami has stated this several times) As another example... BAND-MAID is based on Japanese and sings with lyrics that incorporate English phrases here and there. (Although there are songs like “influencer” that actively incorporate English) BAND-MAID is a band that uses Japanese (= Japanese rhyme) very well. I think that's one of the things that makes their sound so appealing and unique. If they sang with full English translations, the MAND-MAID sound might end up being something else (or mediocre). I don't think the choice of language for writing lyrics is a simple matter of whether the meaning is easy to hear or whether the accent is right. ---------- from Nippon *It is a sentence using Google translation. I hope I conveyed my intentions correctly.