LiSA - homura / THE FIRST TAKE | Singer Reacts |

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LiSA - homura / THE FIRST TAKE
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[@poxi2036]

"Lucky" you that you dont know the context of this song. Cant listen to it without crying. Set your heart ablaze!

[@igorkollar6674]

Rengoku-san 😢

[@user-le8mb5bx8o]

Rip Rengoku 😢

[@Pde24]

Rengoku san

[@erika1991-qk3if]

心を燃やせ

[@weepo2651]

Well we speaking the anime context or her personal life context of the song

[@morningstarxiv342]

As many have said, Lisa is a grandmaster level singer with years of experience. Yeah, she's just that good. The emotion was real. The world and her found out her husband was cheating on her with groupies around this time. She was singing to someone.

[@kjelljohanbraten7408]

We do not speak about stupid, we pretend it does not exist.

[@silvisblackthorn4741]

Yeah she’s so good. I didn’t realize how much I liked her until I realized all of my top favorite anime openings were sang by her lol

[@DennisVlaanderen]

Ex audio-tech here, the thing she has her hand on is a personal monitor mixing station. It allows performers to mix a select pre-selection of audio channels sent from the audio board so that the engineer doesn't have to constantly adjust on the fly, but rather the artist has full control of volume themselves. It's quite common in studio takes to use them, you don't see them on stage all that often since they take up quite a bit of space. Usually the drummer and key-stations have them though. The rest either using a phone-app to control it or uses gestures to instruct an engineer on side-stage to adjust their monitoring levels.

[@Short_Round1999]

The amount of times this woman has made me cry still astounds me. She’s such an amazing artist. I hope you dive deeper into her discography

[@fatalrailgun9972]

No other performer ever gives me goosebumps like LiSA her voice is one of the best out there.

[@ericsaari2901]

LiSA is amazing. You're right that it was very clear and precise. She's a perfectionist. Everything is perfectly crafted and enunciated. That said, her superpower is that she sings with all of her emotion, and it comes out in her songs, and it is fascinating to see that perfectionism come up against her desire to sign with emotion and give it her all, because a couple of times towards the end, her voice cracked a little as she was almost overcome by emotion, which made the performance, so, so much better. She talks about it in the end, where she said she gave it her all, like she would at a show. She's not kidding. There's a video out there of her completely losing it and collapsing in tears during a concert at the end of a song, but to her credit, she made it through the song, despite the fact that you could tell she was completely overcome in the last verse. Another video, same song, she almost loses it, but doesn't. What a beautiful soul to be able to sing and be that vulnerable.

[@fenixsaya4ever]

Lisa is amazing i love her and i feel so proud is one Idol awesone ❤

[@donlarsen5685]

I've noticed that sometimes listening to a song in a foreign language results in concentrating on the emotion intended as you can't really get that from the lyric even with subtitles as you don't know what syllable the emotion is directed at. This singer was able to convey her feelings quite well.......loved the little speech about what the song meant and did to her, and her ability to evoke emotion, I was tempted to call her the "Japanese Ren" (or "yen" beat you to it) Interesting choice to use a side shot of her singing rather than the traditional front face view.. Wonder if that was the choice because the language e would be foreign to many or most viewers. Regardless, if you won't say it, I will say this about the performance;://kzbin.info/www/bejne/epqpYpyqqrSHhLc

[@sunshaker01]

There are many great Japanese singers and bands in all different types and styles. Some that are notable are Wagakki Band (traditional Japanese music mixed with rock, award wining singer/poet asked for help keeping Traditional Japanese music alive this was the result), Band-Maid (Hard Rock juxtaposed with maid outfits, excellent singer/musicians), Lovebites (Power Metal with Thrash, clean vocals, excellent singer, excellent musicians), and Nemophila (Generic Metal/Metalcore, clean and harsh vocals, excellent singer, excellent musicians), and Babymetal (JPop crossed with Metal, excellent singer).

[@Short_Round1999]

Can’t forget Hanabie, which is like straight metalcore, harsh vocals, cleans and rap. And then there’s a whole sub genre in Japan that’s called, “metal idol” which is “normal” idols dancing to heavy metal while singing and also has harsh vocals

[@Exostin]

Ado, Tsukuyomi, Minami are great too!

[@stuartcollins82]

+1 for Wagakki band. It confused me, as one of their most reacted to tracks is called Homura.

[@spanailos]

Please do more Lisa, she is an awesome artist. Would love to see more reactions to her. She also has other songs on the "First Take" channel.

[@richardo8620]

The look of anticipation on your face at the start was priceless. Another genuine reaction.

[@ruKUSS_.117]

I started to get into her stuff because of Sword Art Online's Intro and ever since she really tops her previous songs like year by year.

[@backinX]

Just found your channel today and you have great taste in music. You have a very honest reaction keep it up.

[@tonybatz4290]

vibed with that so much. unmatchable energy. 😵

[@henry6782]

LiSAaaaaaaaaa.... we need moreeee

[@billyturner1784]

I didn't know LiSA before so thank you for bringing her to my attention! I subscribed to your channel just two days ago but it's totally worth it!

[@rayactions]

Neither did I! Haha thank you!

[@iCyberDev]

Check out LiSA's Gurenge as well then :)

[@J5ODK]

​@@iCyberDevGurenge on TFT is a really good one tho ngl

[@flugelhornoldman1362]

Thanks from Japan 有難う💛。LiSA looks sad and emotional in this song. If you see - LiSA x Uru Saikai, you will find LiSA's cheerful and bright side in collaboration with another excellent female singer, Uru. You can find it in the same channel "The First Take". (FYI. LiSA's friend BABYMETAL has recently uploaded a beautiful ballad in this The First Take channel - Monochrome - piano version. That is also amazing with different style than LiSA's. Please try.)

[@GrahamBartlett]

So the 'What she has her hand on" is a small audio mixer for her earphones so she can change how loud she is or the Piano (looks like the AVIOM system)

[@michaelhall4222]

a beautiful song. Takes me back to some of the Macros plus music.

[@mikan709]

I didn't know people from outside Japan reacted to this song, thank you! For the context, Lisa is married to a famous voice actor and has a kid. There was a cheating scandal on her husband who was caught visiting his fans house multiple times but LiSA chose to stay together forgiving her husband. Her getting emotional at the end is because of the lyrics that resonated a lot with her amidst this scandal.

[@CaffeineNightOwl]

a perfect example, of how music connects even without understanding the words.

[@hadesblackplays]

i love how every person that comes across Lisa on THE FIRST TAKE just fall in love with her., your awe is what everybody felt the first time listening to her

[@MasterAries7]

Howdy Rachel, anytime i see a reactor doing anything from First Take i recommend they look up the First Take for "Shout Baby" its something.

[@RadeticDaniel]

What you've mentioned around 6 minutes in your video is that the lyrics are "in first person" as a narrating character of a book instead of "third person" as a removed storyteller narrating it. This concept is more commonly thought of in videos and videogames, but it applies to any narrative device, such as poems and song lyrics too =) For literature i've only seen the usages above as narrating charater and abstract/removed narrator, but works the same

[@PitifulMage]

Love the rayaction! Please check out BABYMETAL first take performance

[@NanomachineExE]

The clear precision is characteristic of her language however she wields it well.

[@RollingWheelTV]

LiSA is the best!

[@user-cc4tv5fv4x]

Watching you reactions was heart warming. Really good video. Try looking into Lucy Thomas. She is the best singer in the world today. Her rendition of Hallelujah is the best I've heard and The Prayer is epic. You won't be disappointed I promise. Your good at this keep going.

[@tutor92]

you understand this artist more than most of us even if you don't know our language.

[@avidadechris5362]

Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa react de LiSA-sama nyaaaaa amo ela, nossssa que lindo*---*

[@KnT_Noriiko]

Watch her first take of "Gurenge" as well, goosebumps the entire time

[@gham5586]

You need to check out Lovebites, “Edge of the World “, live, with lyrics, 2020, another J-Metal band, that sings in English, all female band!! They are next level 🔥🤘!!

[@RichardJRobinsonII]

Love her voice! You may also may enjoy the Korean girl group Kiss. And their song Because I Am a Girl.

[@TheDanielbvb]

Anime Fans loves she Thank you for the reaction!

[@mclark347]

She does enunciate nearly all of the sounds. But there are a few moments where she very intentionally plays with the syllable weight. In Japanese, a syllable is further broken down into units called "morae." Most syllables also have only one mora, but syllables that end with "n" or have two vowels also have a second mora, and are slightly longer. She sometimes chooses to condense n-final syllables to reduce their weight, or exaggerate vowel sequences and separate them into two entire syllables.

[@mak4467]

kawaiiですね 日本の歌にリアクションありがとうございます😊

[@Wonderful-cr9lv]

Don't miss Gurenge on The first take from LiSA.

[@marcoskazu_]

❤

[@marcoskazu_]

Please, react to Lisa Akeboshi in First Take :D

[@ilsrzz135]

Lisa is amazing, she always puts so SO much emotion into her songs

[@timbrawdy2249]

You gotta do her song from Demon Slayer!! It was the entrance song for the Olympics in Japan this last that happened! Incredible song!

[@Hans-Yolo]

This song is from Demon Slayer too ;)

[@Dasamuka13]

Beautiful reaction 😘😁please react IL SOGNO isyana Saraswati feat DEAD SQUAD u will shock

[@Kylecifer_]

You should look into Yuuri - Betelgeuse as well from The First Take channel. Great reaction btw!

[@Hans-Yolo]

You should watch more of the "first take" videos, the ones with masayuki suzuki are pretty good

[@jin0410m]

Hello from Japan. Please react Mari Hamada and Misia . Hevimeta queen and R&B queen in Japan.

[@Sfendo63]

I think you were trying to say that "her articulation sounds very precise even if it is in a non familiar language"

[@voluspa1954]

LiSA is a goddess

[@LeksDee]

I would love to see a reaction of the japanese version of weight of the world from the game nier automata (Weight of the World Kowaretasekainouta - Marina Kawano). One of the most emotional performances i know

[@humangirf1554]

Mornin

[@szolanek]

Thanks for introducing this artist. ELSE .... What you do is sorcery. You just started and reached a level, what takes for pro reactors 6-8 months hard work. I wonder. You came to my recommended as well. However, con grat! I would suggest to enable CC, for nyet alle leute comprend pas, que tu hablas!

[@genestarwind733]

If yoy know the anime this for.. Its a super sad song it hurts remembering the moments of the sad parts of the anime

[@jocargito]

React to Watch the world burn - Falling in reverse.

[@sdlaxplayer]

Thanks for bringing several Japanese artists. You may be interested in Wagakki Band 's live - "Bring Me To Life " with Amy Lee of EVANESCENCE.

[@user-3dndui1skj]

This song is as beautiful as you 😊

[@juanmaldonado5288]

Can you react to lisa gurnge And yes first take is like NPR music desk Also love the hair

[@reginaphalange8636]

wow you're gorgeous, girl!!

[@alexduraev]

Rachel, if you are a singer, I am pretty sure you'd fancy "Spider Queen's Call" by Saphath, this is gonna be a great scary tale for you:)

[@chuuei1729]

THE FIRST TAKE is a fantastic channel were you find artists from all kind of japanese music. If you want to watch more from that channel i would recommend to give "Babymetal - Monochrome" a chance. It's a rather new video on the channel and Babymetal's singer Su is one of the best singers of her generation with a crazy good voice and singing technique.

[@azharijumatullah4218]

Please react another song from Lisa.. Gurunge.. MV video and first take.. That different feel

[@robbymadani27]

Ai Higuchi - Akuma no Ko (The First Take) 🔥

[@rodneyruiz1091]

React to slayer. Please!!!!! No regrets

[@divinedemon9076]

5:40 interesting that you say that because iirc she wrote this as she was going through a divorce because her husband was cheating, though it was written as a requiem for an anime character

[@LS-wn5cd]

Check out Carpenters - "Rainy Days and Mondays"

[@neil1774]

Tasty! 😢

[@Irhawtkeke]

Please react to Lorna Shore - Pain Remains trilogy :)

[@hapawes1]

She had been going through a divorce after finding out about her husband cheating on her. Im pretty sure thats who she is speaking to in the song. Upon second listen it hits harder.

[@tiffanyalberti2029]

Please react to Jinxx Monsoon Song: Ladies In Drag

[@karasong7701]

I remember listening to this, knowing that it's a soundtrack for the saddest part of the anime, Demon Slayer (which I read first in the manga). How she sang was so on point with the emotions in that part.

[@Monrapido99]

Hi new subscriber here! Can you please consider reacting to ATARASHII GAKKO! "Otonablue" The First Take performance. I'm pretty sure you're gonna love it❤️❤️ Thank you so much.

[@user-lu6rc3ue3w]

The First Takeでは、星街すいせいさんの｢Stellar Stellar｣も話題になっていてオススメですよ kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3LWg6ekl6mmY5I

[@nobunon0112]

日本語の発音が単音節で言葉をつなげて発音しないので音が聴きやすいのかとおもいます。

[@user-vq7qb2hx1e]

曲の途中で止めるなんてありえない💦

[@sebastianmedina323]

if you reacted to homura you can't not react to gurenge ;)

[@potencjalnypracownik2966]

Other one is much better.