さて
図らずも今回のライブ映像、
衝撃の余り最後まで目が離せず、恥ずかしながらも告白しますが、つい感涙してしまいました。
その当時、若干15~6歳の3名の少女(でしょう!)パフォーマーの悲壮感すら漂うひたむきさと、
それをバックで支える凄腕・中年ミュージシャンたちの心意気が動画の節々に記録されていて、
その気合が欧州中から集まった総勢6万人余のメタル・ファンにもしっかり届いたようなのです。
サウンドの方はヘビメタの割には軽快で歌とのマッチングも微妙ですが、衝撃的デビューです。
よって、業界・企画臭的音楽より個人発生的音楽を好む筆者としては極めて例外で、冒頭にて以外としました。
とは言え、当動画を初観賞したその日の夜は何度も繰り返し再生し、深夜に至るまで見入ってしまいました。
「ひたむきな一生懸命さ」がこの動画の最大の肝で、それは国境を超えた万国共通の価値観だと痛感しました。
最後に大観衆が人差指と小指を立てる影絵のキツネは彼女らの象徴で、完全に受け入れられ支持された証しです。
" We are !" " Baby Metal !!!!!! ",
感動のコール・アンド・レスポンス。更に群衆がアンコールを連呼します。
" We want more ! , We want more !, We want more !・・・"
" One more song !, one more song ! one more song・・・・"
「早春賦」作詞:吉丸一昌、作曲:中田章(大正2年、1913年)、歌:倍賞千恵子
" Soushyunfu ( Japanese Old Song )", Singing by Chieko Baishow,
( 筆者注:動画にブロックが施されているので、画面内 線上「YouTubeで見る」をクリックの上、ご鑑賞ください。)
エブリーシング・バット・ザ・ガール、「オックスフォード・ストリート」
Everything But The Girl ( Tracy Thorn, Ben Watt ) ,
" Oxford Street " ,from their Album " Idlewild "(1987)
Lyrics (歌詞)
When I was ten, I thought my brother was God
He'd lie in bed and turn out the light with a fishing rod
I learned the names of all his football team
And I still remembered them when I was nineteen, yeah Strange the things deal that I remember still
Shouts from the playground when I was home and ill
My sister taught me all that she learned there
When we grew up, we said, we'd share a flat somewhere
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street
Where I grow up, there were no factories
There was a school and shops and some fields and trees
And rows of houses one by one appeared
I was born in one and lived there for eighteen years
Then when I was nineteen, I thought the Humbler would be
The gateway from my little world into the real world
But there is no real world
We live side by side and sometimes collide
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street
It was a little world, I grew up in a little world
There is no real world
We live side by side and sometimes collide, yeah
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エブリーシング・バット・ザ・ガール、「テイク・ミー」
Everything But The Girl , " Take Me " from "The Language Of Life "(1990)
"Take Me"
Don't go, don't go, don't go.
Baby, baby, baby, I'm lonely can't you see.
Baby, baby, baby come give your love to me.
Cause I'm just a prisoner, don't set me free.
Before you turn around, take one look at me.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time
Before you go.
Baby, baby, baby, chained and bound, can't you see.
Baby, baby, baby, chained and bound, can't you see.
Cause I'm just a prisoner, don't set me free.
Before you turn around, take one look at me.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time
Before you go.