Music Appreciation

LiberalArkie

(18,184 posts) Mon May 5, 2025, 01:26 PM May 5

Here is a review of one of my favorite rock groups..ONE OK ROCK

The singer Taka is something else. I am amazed at the drums in this song. Seems to have so many different drum beats at the same time

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Here is a review of one of my favorite rock groups..ONE OK ROCK (Original Post) LiberalArkie May 5 OP

The original video they're talking about, linked to in the YouTube description, was taken down. highplainsdem May 5 #1

hmm... Looks almost the same though. I wonder if it was taken off for remixing. They .have been doing that recently. LiberalArkie May 5 #2

Same performance, apparently, but different URLs - I compared the links. highplainsdem May 5 #4

What did you think of them? LiberalArkie May 5 #3

They're good! Sorry I got so busy finding a replacement for the concert video that I forgot to highplainsdem May 5 #5

I think they have been together for 20 years. A lot of history and to me they have a video/audio concert LiberalArkie May 5 #6

Yes, since 2005. I did some quick googling, saw that lead singer Taka was in the boy band NEWS highplainsdem May 5 #7

It does not bother me that much when a very proficient singer will use it a bit, what rips me a new one is when LiberalArkie May 5 #8

I agree it's much, much worse when it's used for what amounts to fraud. And Taka and his band are very highplainsdem May 5 #9

highplainsdem

(55,915 posts)

1. The original video they're talking about, linked to in the YouTube description, was taken down.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Mon May 5, 2025, 02:19 PM

May 5

Here's another:

LiberalArkie

(18,184 posts)

2. hmm... Looks almost the same though. I wonder if it was taken off for remixing. They .have been doing that recently.

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #1)

Mon May 5, 2025, 02:27 PM

May 5

Ahh, not a ONE OK ROCK video.. A clone..
Some of their newer songs have so much spatial information it is uncanny.

I have them on my walking playlist and as I was out walking I kept hearing a dog barking every so often. I would take my AirPods out, and no dog. Put then back in and the dog was right behind me. I look and nothing there. Not in my right ear, not in my left ear, not in front of me, but directly behind me.

highplainsdem

(55,915 posts)

4. Same performance, apparently, but different URLs - I compared the links.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #2)

Mon May 5, 2025, 02:33 PM

May 5

Weird about you hearing a dog barking. This song and performance?

LiberalArkie

(18,184 posts)

3. What did you think of them?

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #1)

Mon May 5, 2025, 02:28 PM

May 5

highplainsdem

(55,915 posts)

5. They're good! Sorry I got so busy finding a replacement for the concert video that I forgot to

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #3)

Mon May 5, 2025, 02:34 PM

May 5

mention that.

LiberalArkie

(18,184 posts)

6. I think they have been together for 20 years. A lot of history and to me they have a video/audio concert

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #5)

Mon May 5, 2025, 02:41 PM

May 5

production team that are hard to beat. The concerts when they traveled with a live sympathy was something to behold. Just so many moving parts to get everything correct.

Thanks for finding it.. I did not check to make sure the link in the original was good..

highplainsdem

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7. Yes, since 2005. I did some quick googling, saw that lead singer Taka was in the boy band NEWS

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #6)

Mon May 5, 2025, 03:53 PM

May 5

before that, when he was in his mid-teens. (He's 37 now.)

I did see one page saying they have made some use of autotune, but limited use, and there were no details there about specific songs/albums.

You can hear him using autotune just a bit here (it can be used live), from 12:06 to 12:20 in the reaction video. I wish he wouldn't use it at all because his voice is so good and I would have preferred not to hear that mechanical sound, but younger music fans are used to the sound and it seems normal enough to them.

Fairly short interview I found (no year on the article but he's talking about their 2023 tour):
https://www.squareonemagazine.co.uk/interviews/a-conversation-with-one-ok-rock

LiberalArkie

(18,184 posts)

8. It does not bother me that much when a very proficient singer will use it a bit, what rips me a new one is when

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #7)

Mon May 5, 2025, 05:29 PM

May 5

someone who can not carry a tune in a bucket (me) uses it and people talk about what a great voice.

This would be in 2023 as that was when the Luxory Disease tour was.

highplainsdem

(55,915 posts)

9. I agree it's much, much worse when it's used for what amounts to fraud. And Taka and his band are very