Elevator Girl (song)

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"Elevator Girl"
Elevator Girl.jpg
Single by Babymetal
from the album Metal Galaxy
Language
  • English
  • Japanese (original version only)
ReleasedMay 10, 2019 (2019-05-10)
Genre
Length2:44
Label
Composer(s) Ryu-metal
Lyricist(s)
  • Ryu-metal
  • Joemetal (English version only)
Producer(s) Kobametal
Babymetal singles chronology
"Starlight"
(2018)		"Elevator Girl"
(2019)		"Pa Pa Ya!!"
(2019)
Music video
"Elevator Girl" (English ver.) on YouTube

"Elevator Girl" is a song by Japanese heavy metal band Babymetal. It was first released as a digital single on May 10, 2019 worldwide by Babymetal Records, and the third single released for the band's third album Metal Galaxy . An English version of the song had a release on August 16, 2019, sent to active rock radio with a music video.

Contents

Background and release

"Elevator Girl" was first performed on the Babymetal World Tour 2018, on May 8, 2018. [1] [2] On April 23, 2019, the song was announced for release as a digital single worldwide on May 10, 2019, [3] in conjunction with the reveal of several shows to be performed later in the year. [4] [5]

According to Su-metal, "Elevator Girl" symbolizes the band's evolution of kawaii and metal fusion as the band members mature into adults, [6] and is planned to appear in the band's next album, Metal Galaxy. [7] The song shows the "mature" side of Babymetal, as quoted. [8]

Composition

"Elevator Girl" gets inspiration from drum and bass, containing elements of the genre in the intro, and transitioning into a heavier sound. With lyrics such as “No matter what you say, or what you do / You’re going d-d-d-d-d-down”, [9] the song is sung mainly in English. The song is composed of "riffy undertones" and "cutesy vocal harmonies" in a major key, [10] and, as described by Joe Divite of Loudwire, switches between "fast beats with delicate, minimalist piano bits" and "crunching metallic distortion that embraces the frantic nature of the electronic elements". [11]

Reception

Axl Rosenberg of MetalSucks described "Elevator Girl" as "unusual", calling the song "the first-ever metal song about a mentally unstable elevator operator", but noting the song doesn't "[lack] any of the elements which made us fans in the first place", even after the departure of Yuimetal. [12]

"Elevator Girl" peaked on the Oricon Digital Singles daily chart on May 10, 2019, at number two, with digital sales of 6,284 units. [13] The song peaked on the weekly chart on May 20, 2019 at number 13, with first-week sales of 8,414 equivalent units. [14] "Elevator Girl" debuted at number 42 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 on May 20, 2019, with 1,069 equivalent units in the first week, [15] later peaking at number 38 the following week. [16] The song also peaked at number four on the Billboard World Digital Songs chart on the week of May 25, 2019. [17]

Music video

The music video for "Elevator Girl" was released on August 16, 2019. [18] In the video, members Su-metal and Moametal, along with support dancer Kano Fujihira, [18] can be seen dancing to the song on a raised and illuminated platform, dressed in dazzling costumes. [19] It was released ahead of the band's 2019 US headline tour, which would begin in September. [20]

Track listing

Digital download [21]

UK Digital EP [22]

  1. "Elevator Girl" – 2:44
  2. "Starlight" – 3:37
  3. "Distortion" – 3:05

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Japan ( Billboard ) [16] 38
Japan Digital Singles (Oricon) [14] 13
US World Digital Songs (Billboard) [17] 4

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
JapanMay 10, 2019
  • Digital download
  • streaming
 [21]
Europe
  • Amuse, Inc.
  • earMusic
 [23]
Various
 [24]
United StatesAugust 16, 2019 Active rock (English version) [25]

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