History Music / BIGMAMA

* LongTitle: ''Kimi ga Mata Burausu no Botan o Todomeru Made'' is quite a mouthful, as is "Sore wa Kitto Tenshi ga Nagaku Tsutomaranai Riyuu".

Nothing to do with [[Film/BigMommasHouse the movie character]] [[NamesTheSame of a similar name]].

* DwindlingParty: In "#DIV/0!"; the "Divided by x!" countdown represents the number of remaining people among whom the treasure discovered at the beginning of the song can be divided, which goes down one by one as they off each other. [[SpoilerTitle As the name implies]], [[KillEmAll nobody survives]] -- not even the last one standing.

* RefrainFromAssuming: No matter how many times "Roll It Over" says "And yet, it moves,"[[note]]Sixteen, as noted above[[/note]] that's not what the song is called.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: All over the place.
** From 1's such as the [[TastesLikeDiabetes incredibly sweet]] "Saigo no Hitokuchi" (about the speaker giving his date the last bite of cake and letter her pick the movie so he can see her enjoy them) and "Jeffrey Campbell no Skate Shoes de" ([[AllWomenLoveShoes giving a girl shoes]] for her birthday)...
** To the borderline 9's "Koukyoukyoku 'Shinsekai'" (a kid [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gets his throat slit and has a mocking message carved into his chest]] when he was trying to save himself from drowning) and "Swan Song" (romanticizes a lovers' suicide pact), poetic though they are in execution.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually hover from 3 to 4; their penchant for fast tempos drives them up, but their classical elements keep them from going much higher.
** They can cover a much wider range, though; "Invis" is easily a 1, with a haunting instrumentation of only keyboards and strings, but "Ta ga Tame no Requiem" and "Valkyrie no Hikou" are easily 6's, breaking into SymphonicMetal territory.

* FracturedFairyTale: The theme of the "Weekly Fairy Tale" single:
** "Keisandakai Cinderella"[[labelnote:en:]]"Calculating Cinderella"[[/labelnote]] is about an ambitious Cinderella who pushes everything to end up in her favor, wearing the glass slipper even though it makes her foot bleed and cooking and eating her own pumpkin carriage. The prince winds up being impressed with her nerve.
** In "Nidonesuru Nemureru Mori no Bijou"[[labelnote:en:]]"Sleeping Beauty Goes Back to Sleep"[[/labelnote]] Sleeping Beauty gets annoyed that someone woke her up, peeks at him through half-closed eyes, decides he's not her type, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin goes back to sleep]].

* GratuitousEnglish: '''Frequently.''' Their lyrics often nonchalantly flip back and forth between Japanese and borderline-intelligible English, going well beyond the occasional word and including whole English phrases and choruses.

-->''Tomorrow does not always come''
-->''Word is not so certainly''
-->''I don't know, I don't know, I don't know''
---> '''"we have no doubt"'''

Originally formed to play cover songs at school festivals, BIGMAMA signed to RX-Records (under the independent record company UK.Project) in 2006 and released their debut EP ''short films''. After a quick lineup change in which Hideto Yasui and Mao Higashide joined the group, they released their first album ''Love and Leave'', and steadily gained notoriety from then. By the release of (and with the help of) the "Secret to Lucy" single in 2011, they had become one of UK.Project's biggest artists.

--> ''I'll offer myself to be your only ally" [[labelnote:jp:]]僕が全部味方にしてあげるから ("Boku ga zenbu mikata ni shite ageru kara")[[/labelnote]]''

* RockMeAmadeus: The entire point of the ''Roclassick'' EP's; they've done this ''fourteen times''. (More details on the trope page.)

* EvolvingMusic: The lyrics to the first verse of "MUTOPIA" change in live versions, depending on where it's played.

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to Right: Mao Higashide, Hideto Yasui, Masato Kanai, Hiroya Kakinuma, Ib Riad[[labelnote:*]]former drummer[[/labelnote]]]]

* UnusualEuphemism: The lyrics of "MISSION 481" refer to the speaker's genitalia as a "lethal weapon."

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to Right: Mao Higashide, Hideto Yasui, Masato Kanai, Hiroya Kakinuma, Ib Riad]]

BIGMAMA are a Japanese AlternativeRock band from Tokyo formed in the early 2000's, consisting of Masato Kanai (vocals, guitar), Hiroya Kakinuma (guitar, vocals), Mao Higashide (strings, keyboard), Hideto Yasui (bass), and Ib Riad (drums). Their defining characteristic is the inclusion of a violin and [[BaroquePop increasingly ambitious string/orchestral arrangements]] throughout their career, and they're best known in Japan for their EP trilogy ''Roclassick'', in which they [[RockMeAmadeus sample well-known classical pieces]].

* LongRunnerLineUp: Yasui and Higashide were the last to join the lineup in 2007, and they've remained the same since. This is considered the band's true lineup, to the point that the band celebrated [[MilestoneCelebration their tenth anniversary]] with regards to this lineup, rather than the anniversary of their recording career.

BIGMAMA are a Japanese AlternativeRock band from Tokyo formed in the early 2000's, consisting of Masato Kanai (vocals, guitar), Hiroya Kakinuma (guitar, vocals), Mao Higashide (strings, keyboard), Hideto Yasui (bass), and Ib Riad (drums). Their defining characteristic is the inclusion of a violin and [[BaroquePop increasingly ambitious string/orchestral arrangements]] throughout their career.

** They can cover a much wider range, though; "Invis" is easily a 1, with a haunting instrumentation of only keyboards and strings, but "Ta ga Tame no Requiem" ia easily a 6, breaking into SymphonicMetal territory.