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>>12616449
>don't expect the babymetal hype to last among the masses

It's already died down among the masses. Gimme Chocolate used to get 1 million views a week when it first came out and was featured on the Bros React video or whatever that was called and now it's been stuck at 16 million for a month at least.

I think we've already boiled down the curious onlookers into a niche fanbase, on the other hand they didn't REALLY hit the mainstream. They played a few of Lady Gaga's shows but received absolutely no mainstream radio airtime, nothing on MTV, and never performed on Letterman or Cocan or SNL or anything like that. Hopefully their next album/single will bring them to that next level.

I won't hold my breath though, like you said it'll probably 2016 at the earliest. Hopefully they manage to release live Blu-Rays between now and then and keep on touring.

>>12459056
>>Before the heavy metal club was created by the management, none of the three heavy metal club members knew what heavy metal was.[4]
>I like Babymetal and all but honestly that is just terrible.

How exactly is that terrible?

Babymetal was created 4 years ago, meaning that the girls were barely 11/13 years old.

I don't know about you, but I barely knew about metal myself around that age (around the mid-late 90s). I was into Green Day and Blink 182 and Weezer for Christ's sake. I accidentally came across a Slayer cassette tape around that time and even then I wasn't an instant fan of it.

Maybe if you grew up right in the middle of the Limp Bizkit/Slipknot/Korn nu-metal explosion then you were likely exposed to it, or if you grew up in their glam metal explosion of the 80s or even the original metal from the 70s, but my point is that nobody is born knowing what metal is unless your parents are burnt-out Sabbath-heads, everyone has to find out about it at one point or another and 11-13 years old isn't exactly too late.