Music Teacher Reacts: マキシマム ザ ホルモン え・い・り・あ・ん

Kudos for watching to the very end. What happened to the PiP during the last part.
Winny was like a Japanese Napster. As the band stops playing, Daisuke-han decries Winny and says he absolutely cannot tolerate it (like Lars and Napster?). It sounds funny, because he speaks Osaka-ben, even though MTH are from Hachioji, Tokyo. Nao-san tells him to calm down, because nobody is using Winny anymore, and there are a lot of other things that should be stopped. He should stop yelling because everybody has left except for the one kid who is about to cry. Daisuke-han says he’s about to cry too!
I love Nao-san, who is the founder of MTH, as well as an awesome drummer. She plays a special role in two other videos on YouTube.

A bit of context. The reason the song switches styles and gets super poppy is because it was meant to make fun of bands who, as they get older, tend to switch styles to appear more radio-friendly and appeal to a larger demographic of people rather than stay loyal to who they are.

Towards the end of the song the band starts chanting “Stop Winny Upload” Winny was a music piracy site in Japan similar in vain to Napster over in the West. The whole joke is that at the very end of the song the frontman Daisuke starts shouting about how he’ll never forgive Winny for what they’ve done. Nao the drummer than responds telling him that Winny had been defunct for several years now and that he was screaming for no reason and scaring the kids away. The guitarist and songwriter Ryo would later go on to say that he wrote the “Winny” section in to have a catchy “STOP” phrase similar to “STOP nukes” or “STOP Conspiracy” but with something that was so utterly irrelevant. The video finally ends with Nao telling Daisuke not get so angry and that when he makes “That Face” he looks like his mom Mitsune (a picture of Mitsune flashes on screen which would become a running joke in their Music Video VAP) and Daisuke than responds with something along the lines of “You don’t have to bring my mother into this!”

DJ, thank you for the video and the reaction + information. It is, as always, much appreciated.

Could you please react to “Sancta Maria” by the Norwegian singer and national treasure Sissel Kyrkjebø? Her voice is phenomenal.

Great reaction, at least until you forgot to turn the video back on.😁 I’ll have to go watch their video anyways. It was so much fun. As random as Japanese commercials.

The “Winny Upload” thing is a joke about Metallica going after Napster (files sharing)… more on Wikipedia.
_Winny Upload (Japanese Napster) was already a thing of the past when Maximum the Hormone created this song._

“NO MUSIC NO RICE” (back of singer’s shorts) this band loves slipping stuff in everywhere.

Please check out Hanabie – We love sweets 🧁 They used to be a Maximum the Hormone cover band🤘

Other awesome Japanese bands to check out;
Band Maid
Nemophila

MAXIMUM THE HORMONE: Yoshu Fukushu, Chiisana Kimi No Te, Billy in Despair, Bu-ikikaesu!!, Koi no Megalover, Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura _(Live)_ , Koi no Sweet Kuso Meriken, Houchou Hasami Cutter Knife Dosu Kiri, Rock Bankurawase, Rokkinpo Goroshi, ………….

Think Power Rangers. This band is a megazord robot made up from Tool, Mastodon, System of a Down and Anime Intros. The fact that they don’t take themselves serious makes it work. They’re just such a good time.

Maximum is my favorite band of all time, you should definitely check out more of their music, their early stuff is heavy but more pop/funk metal influence and each album just gets better and better.

Could you possibly tell us what the song was about? Since you speak Japanese and can appreciate this on another level. You know this is most definitely not my type of music but I like learning from you. The different techniques used is interesting.

Could you possibly tell us what the song was about? Since you speak Japanese and can appreciate this on another level. You know this is most definitely not my type of music but I like learning from you. The different techniques used is interesting.

A bit of context. The reason the song switches styles and gets super poppy is because it was meant to make fun of bands who, as they get older, tend to switch styles to appear more radio-friendly and appeal to a larger demographic of people rather than stay loyal to who they are.

Towards the end of the song the band starts chanting “Stop Winny Upload” Winny was a music piracy site in Japan similar in vain to Napster over in the West. The whole joke is that at the very end of the song the frontman Daisuke starts shouting about how he’ll never forgive Winny for what they’ve done. Nao the drummer than responds telling him that Winny had been defunct for several years now and that he was screaming for no reason and scaring the kids away. The guitarist and songwriter Ryo would later go on to say that he wrote the “Winny” section in to have a catchy “STOP” phrase similar to “STOP nukes” or “STOP Conspiracy” but with something that was so utterly irrelevant. The video finally ends with Nao telling Daisuke not get so angry and that when he makes “That Face” he looks like his mom Mitsune (a picture of Mitsune flashes on screen which would become a running joke in their Music Video VAP) and Daisuke than responds with something along the lines of “You don’t have to bring my mother into this!”

I just came across your channel when this reaction popped up on my feed. From one reactor to another, you really need to react to more MTH. I would recommend Youshu Fukushu (not sure if I’m spelling that right), Koi No Sperma, Let’s Talk About Menkata Cottelee and What’s Up People. I’d never heard of MTH before I started my channel and now they’re one of my favorite bands.

I remember this being on a try not to headband challenge