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Music Elixir Presents: A Candid Chat with the Japanese Band, Second Lady
Ever wondered how possible Google search results could play a role in a band's name or how a fear of cicadas can impact a live performance? We sat down with the Japanese band, Second Lady, for a candid chat. We learned about the band's inception from an online forum to their unique approach to band naming.
As we get to know the members, we discuss musical tastes and backgrounds and are surprised by some of the music inspirations. We learn how they infused punk and ska influences into their catchy song DTB. And find out covers aren't just tribute for them, but a tool to push their musical boundaries and spark creativity.
As the conversation progresses, we get a peek into their upcoming concerts and plans to play in the US. We share laughs, astrology discussions, and learn about their love for their furry friends. Overflowing with gratitude and passion for music, Second Lady leaves us inspired. Their humble personalities and infectious energy are as much a part of their identity as their music. So, strap in and enjoy this exciting journey with Second Lady, a band that's creating a new wave in the music industry!
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OK ASIA
Hello, this is Tanik.
Speaker 2:And this is Sarah and you are listening to Music Elixir a podcast between two friends discussing their favorite Asian artists in music.
Speaker 1:Welcome everybody to another Music Elixir. Today is a very special episode. I always say special episode, but today is very special episode. And hey, I'm DJ Panic, for those who don't know, and right here I have.
Speaker 2:Sarah.
Speaker 1:Alright Sarah.
Speaker 2:Partnering crime.
Speaker 1:Yes, and mischievous too. So today is very special because during the past few weeks I noticed on Music Elixir and also on OK Asia that I have this band from Osaka following us. We were like no way. I said to Sarah, we need to get them, you know, in the in the podcast for an interview. We want to have a chat with the group because we did a, did dive actually on their discography and one of the songs that we liked a lot, that we actually chat on our past episode. So I will like the band to introduce themselves. So go ahead.
Speaker 3:Hello, we're second lady from Osaka, Japan, and I'm Elise Welcome. Who else do you have?
Speaker 2:So yes, we have. Elise and and you so far. Oh, okay, Yuki is here.
Speaker 1:She just have no.
Speaker 2:Hello, welcome, yes.
Speaker 1:Thank you, everybody.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you because I'm out. That's all I know.
Speaker 3:That's all you get out of me.
Speaker 1:Oh, so let's go ahead. Let's go ahead with the first question. You guys can have, you know, take a turn to the question if you like. You know chime in and also you can reply in Japanese as well. We like that. We like when everybody use their own language. So how did you meet? Where did you all interested in the same music or just driven by the desire to play music?
Speaker 3:So I'm the one that's been in the band the longest. I've been in the band since it started back in 2012. And I met the original members through a band member forum, like searching for band members forum, and then, after the other two left, I think. Next I met Yuki, also from a forum, so we didn't know each other before that. Like so many people in Osaka, it's kind of hard to actually find people because there's so many people, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yes, it does.
Speaker 3:So we met Yuki through the band board and then we met Yun also. I think, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We all met through like a board, like a whole, looking for a brand board, and we just came into the studio and because we have to play in the studio in Japan you can't play in your house too much so we went to the studio together and I think we probably last for most of the really play instruments. But I think if you can just hang out together, it's much easier to do bands together. Okay, yeah, let's just go, and that was maybe back in 2015? It's been a while.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Yeah, it's definitely true. You need to have a connection if you're going to be performing and working together, right? Anybody else going to add anything? I don't want to cut people off.
Speaker 3:Nina Hoka no nanka. Atta toki no nanka no hanashi aru atta toki. So so Saiso Bando to nanka doyate haite takke haite takke Oboitere Doyate haite. Oboitere Oboitere nai Doyate haite ka Oboitere Nani Boshu Boshu Member. Boshu de Mm Mitsukete. Mm Sokara Tobikonda yeah yeah, she found the band advertisement on a board and she jumped in. Awesome, very cool.
Speaker 2:Very cool. We wanted to know what is the origin of Japan name. How did you come up with Second Lady?
Speaker 3:So I know, I know Band name is Yurai Ah. So when the band first came together in 2012, I think Lady Gaga was really popular in Japan. So the original members were like, oh, we should have Lady in the name, we should be like Lady something. And I was like, no, that's a little bit too long to know. We don't want to take Lady Gaga's thing. So we'll put Lady last and we'll put something in front of Lady. And they're like, oh, what about First Lady? And I was like, no, no, we can't do that. That's the president's wife. We'll never come up into Google search. No one will ever find this. And they're like, oh, okay, that makes sense. I was like, oh, we can use Second Lady because no one cares about the vice president's wife, which is not true. I'm sure lots of people do care, but it is definitely easier to come up in the Google search, I think. So that's why we picked Second Lady.
Speaker 1:Right, that's awesome I know, because I was looking into like why Second Lady it sounds so militant too, because I think it was Germans. I'm not General's wife or something like that, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, I thought it might have something to do with the president, because I was like, instead of the First Lady, you're the Second Lady, right, the one that everybody overlooks, Exactly Okay we're going to use that. Because I thought the same thing. I was like well, I guess, if you're First Lady, no one yeah, no one would find you, because they just keep coming up with With whoever's the first video of the year, Currently Jill. Biden, right, right. You'd be like, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3:Jill Biden got a ban.
Speaker 1:No, we know that would be awesome, that would be pretty funny. It will be more popular that way, you know, yeah.
Speaker 3:For true.
Speaker 1:So was there a particular artist that made you decide to get into music, and what will you say to them if you got to meet them?
Speaker 3:Okay, so who was the artist that made you decide to get into music? Ah, that's what it was. I was watching music shows and I was like I'm just a guy. I was like I'm good. And the music started. Oh, so for Yuki. She said she was watching like a TV, a music TV show, and there was nothing but dudes on it. And she was like, oh, there should be more ladies. And so she decided to get into music. So what was YUN-chan like? He was like oh, that's a long one.
Speaker 3:Ah, that's a long one. He was like that's a long one. Yun-chan's voice is so long. Oh, even if you say that he's like, oh, that's a long one, well, he's like that's a long one. He's like that's a long one. Ah, I'm hearing it. Now it's off. I like the band, and after that I want to do a band called GDRK. Oh, gdrk is soft. Did you do a band that was more visual?
Speaker 1:Yes, I've been here for a long time.
Speaker 3:So for Yoon, she she's like a Glee. You guys know Glee, right. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, she really likes Glee and Visual K and that's why she decided to start playing music and until she came into our band, she mostly did girls' metal bands and Visual K music. She does a few different. She sometimes does support bands right, like metal. She does a lot of support bands, so sometimes she also does a support bass for metal bands, like if they can't find a bassist, she'll jump in and play for a show.
Speaker 1:We love bass players. Yes, awesome.
Speaker 3:He did it. He did it, he opened it. Thank you.
Speaker 2:And so, how about for you, elise?
Speaker 3:Oh, so why join the band? Because I had just come to Japan. It was my second year in Japan and I didn't have any friends. And I was like I want to make friends and I don't know how. And I was like, oh, maybe if I joined a band I could make friends. So I found the original members through the band board and we started doing stuff together that way and I did play in a band in the States In college. It was very short-lived because that's how most bands are, but yeah, I played guitar a lot through high school. Why did I start playing?
Speaker 2:Was there an artist that inspired you, or was it just you wanted to be part of the music scene?
Speaker 3:I think the artist with the biggest influence might have been the Japanese band Gogol Nanaichi Hachi Hachi. Do you know them? Oh no, they're a girl, mostly girls. The drummers, the guys, the bassists and the guitarists are two women and they did Japanese surf rock, kind of.
Speaker 1:Oh, awesome, now we gotta go check it out.
Speaker 2:Definitely A long time ago, I told you there was a band and I couldn't remember the name and it was mostly women and I was like they were sort of like Scott Punk. I wonder if that's who it is.
Speaker 1:Now we gotta check them out girl.
Speaker 3:I did a lot of tours in the States, in Mexico, south America and stuff. They did a lot of international tours before they sadly broke up.
Speaker 2:Okay, was it a large group.
Speaker 3:No, three people.
Speaker 2:Three people.
Speaker 3:Nope, maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
Speaker 2:Okay, but that's cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 3:You might be thinking of Oresca Band, that's a women's ska band.
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe that's who I'm thinking of. Oh yeah, Oresca Band.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe that's the one you're thinking of.
Speaker 2:Ah, we digress.
Speaker 3:For me it was Ogonana Ichihachi. Definitely check them out if you have time.
Speaker 2:Okay, definitely. Yes, we've noticed you play a lot of punk or punk themed sort of groups. Who are your favorite classic punk artists?
Speaker 3:Mina, no suki, no classic punk musicians, o daare. So you actually don't listen to that much punk. Maybe none at all, wow, so you actually don't listen to that much punk. Maybe none at all, wow. So you don't really listen to punk. She likes more visual K, but she also really likes Johnny's. But specifically oh my God, that's hysterica, she's a Johnny. She will go to some tours Only for ABCZ, that's what I heard.
Speaker 1:Sarah and I looked at each other and I'm like did? She said ABCZ from Johnny's. I'm surprised.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we both are eyes widened. We were like we're guests.
Speaker 3:We're guests, we're Navigrisa.
Speaker 1:We're just fan girling with her.
Speaker 2:I was going to say If you listen to past episodes of ours, almost all of them are Johnny's. I'm an R. She found I'm surprised.
Speaker 3:I was like, oh, like a rock radio, so she's surprised.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I'm in concert.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she likes Johnny too.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, yes, yes. How about Johnny's West?
Speaker 3:No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised this has turned from punk to Johnny's. What is going on? Okay, we got to stop that because it's okay.
Speaker 3:You know we should do a podcast just on Johnny's, and we'll have her in here.
Speaker 2:Yes, she could probably give you all the.
Speaker 3:That's so awesome. I love this. That's so it's.
Speaker 2:I was thinking, though, that that shows that music. You know, if you like music, you like all music.
Speaker 3:Right, so exactly, I know that John Rose Exactly.
Speaker 1:I always tell people I'm addicted to music. I'm a music addict, you know. I listen to anything, you know. Yeah, pretty much All right. Moving on to the next question, I love this so far From. So, from all your performances, which one is your most memorable, and why was it?
Speaker 3:I'm going to ask him about having everyone laughing at him.
Speaker 2:I'm going to ask him about having everyone laughing at him.
Speaker 3:I'm going to ask him about having everyone laughing at him. I'm going to ask him about having everyone laughing at him. I'm going to ask him about having everyone laughing at him. I'm going to ask him about having everyone laughing at him. I'm going to ask him about having everyone laughing at him. It was fun, it was fun, it was fun.
Speaker 1:It was fun.
Speaker 3:It was probably one of the most packed shows we did. It was right before Corona and there was a lot of, like, local friends and a lot of young people that, just you know, had never, I guess, gone to a fest before. So it was a very nice like atmosphere and everybody was just having a good time and it was. That was a good one. Awesome, I think it was the same Same. Yun-chan is the same.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Well, so on the flip side of that, what was the worst show you ever did and what made it so like terrible and inferior in your minds, Like why, did you feel it was so I?
Speaker 3:guess it was the reason she was up on the solo and one of the songs. She couldn't find the chords. I can't help you. That wasn't the worst. I think the worst is when we had to play. We used to play outside at the castle. Osaka Castle Park has a space for bands to play at.
Speaker 1:Right, I see that on Instagram. I seen that on your Instagram.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, you're playing there one summer and it was super hot, so everybody was super sweaty, like you were sweating on your instrument, like dripping, dripping sweat, but also there was cicada out.
Speaker 3:So those cicadas were like oh, my God so loud While we were playing, and Yuki is deathly afraid of cicada, so every time they flew near her she stopped playing to run away. I would be freaking out too. Sweating bugs, extreme heat it was like I started sweating so much. My contact started burning because all of the salt was getting into my eyes and like it was. After that we didn't do anymore summer outdoors. That was the last one.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow, yeah, that does sound kind of like a nightmare A little bit. Well, was the audience at least receptive to your music? Did you feel like it was a good energy with the crowd?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that, actually that space is really nice. A lot of bands start out playing in that particular area called Shido tin, which is basically castle under the sky, so you go for a little literal translation, basically like an outdoor bit, and I thought that I was doing a live show there. I think I've been to a famous show there. It's called Shiranq. Oh, it's a bit old, it's old. There's a band called Shiranq. You know Shiranq. They're a little bit like 90s, early mid 90s, but a lot of bands from this area kind of start playing there before they go major. So it's like a place where a lot of bands want to play.
Speaker 2:Okay, jumping off point yeah.
Speaker 1:So now, after the worst time that you have for a show. So that also lead us to this question how do you, if you've forgotten or stumbled upon lyrics and you're having bugs flying around and whatever, how do you recover? Keep your cool when that's happened? Did you just?
Speaker 3:freak out.
Speaker 1:What do you do?
Speaker 3:What do you do when you're wrong? I give up. I give up. That's right. That's all there is. I give up.
Speaker 2:I give up, that's right.
Speaker 3:So for Yuqi, yuqi said she gives up first and then she tries again. After she gives up, I guess there's one moment of just complete departure from whatever's going on in the current moment, and then she takes a deep breath and then she just tries again. For me, maybe, when something goes wrong, I usually laugh awkwardly and try to avoid making eye contact as I figure out what's going on, but for the most part I just try to keep playing like nothing's happened, especially if I'm like missing chords, if I forget words, I just make up words. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Make it sound like you're supposed to be in there. Okay, cool, Exactly Okay. And then I'll be like, did you guys?
Speaker 3:did anyone notice? And they're like no, no, I had no idea and I'm like okay, then it's working.
Speaker 2:Yes, just fake it till you make it right Exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Been there, done that oh yeah, we've done that many times on the podcast.
Speaker 2:I used to sing and that happened to me several times. Really, I'd mix up the whole thing. I was a mess, hot mess, that's why I don't do it anymore, For me.
Speaker 3:My lyrics is hard. Yeah, yeah, Even if you write them yourself, it's like wait. Did I write that though? Yeah, I mean, it happens to everybody you know, even Paul McCartney.
Speaker 1:Actually, paul McCartney forgot his lyrics one time. He was doing a big show and he forgot the lyrics for AJ.
Speaker 2:Really, and he's like he's playing the piano.
Speaker 1:He's like. You know what?
Speaker 3:I just forgot the next verse right in the middle of the concert and everybody started laughing and he's like everybody help me out. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:To date. What has been the biggest challenge for you guys as a band, for everybody all at once?
Speaker 3:Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band, band, band Band.
Speaker 2:Band, band Band.
Speaker 3:Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band Band, band Band Band Band Band, band Band Band Band, band Band. They were like well, you know, if you keep using them, you should like pay us because, like I made it and I was like I mean, but we don't get paid, it doesn't make this rest to pay you we're not getting paid and we're just throwing money away.
Speaker 3:So you getting? You decided they were like, well, we just won't use those songs anymore, we should just make a bunch of new songs. So that all started it's. The first song was DTV, and we made that when June was still in the band. That was like 2020, right when Corona hit maybe like in January, February of 2020, we made DTV. Then Corona hit. Everything stopped for a year. Joe and June I had to leave so they wouldn't have a drummer for like another six months. And then we finally got a drummer last year in March and we started making songs again because we finally had a drummer.
Speaker 3:So from last year until this year he left in like June, we made five songs. I think four songs We've been. That's been really hard, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Fight through all that, because I was going to say we interjecting something here. We did see other songs on, like your Instagram. You know little clips and videos and I was like where is all this music? Why can't we hear it Right? So now that explains it all, yeah.
Speaker 3:They are just they're on YouTube. Still he hasn't said anything about that, so I haven't gotten rid of it. I want like some record or like. I mean because I wrote the lyrics and the vocals, so it's like nah, a hundred percent his. So I'm hoping he'll just be like whatever.
Speaker 1:Right. We love your covers of other artists, such as Nirvana and Green Day and the Celine Dion, which actually was a newfound glory that I saw from your Instagram. How do you learn from playing music from other artists?
Speaker 3:It's all. Oh, come on. Don't know, don't know, not a good, no, Not a good, not a good, not a good, no Good. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You do like the architects, I do. It's only then that.
Speaker 3:I have the feeling that I'm sitting here in my ex haciendo LразhME Festival. I think it's because of the song. It's a high-pitched voice In particular, like when we did the off-spring cover. That was a really interesting opportunity to see how fast we can play, because I think the staring at the sun, I think the BPM what was the BPM? 880 people, I think so, Right, you know. So off-spring, yeah, off-spring. Staring at the sun is about 182 BPM, Right, and I think our songs are about 140, maybe 160 at the fastest. So that was a really good chance to be like okay, so we can play this fast if we really want to, but do we really want to? And like okay that's so fun.
Speaker 3:But also every time we play that song it's like everyone's panting and trying to breathe. I think that's the nice thing about cover songs is like you can feel where you haven't quite yet grown enough. That makes sense.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:Yuki was saying that also playing covers gives her a lot of ideas when it comes to creating a lot of the music, because she's mostly the person that comes up with the music part Like the guitar chords are going to be, and she's the one that comes up with that. So she uses a lot of our time with covers to come up with that stuff.
Speaker 1:That's cool.
Speaker 2:You obviously know we loved your song DTB because we talked about it in one of our episodes and we had our own theories about what it was all about, but we wanted to ask you guys, what was the inspiration for that song?
Speaker 3:DTB's inspiration was what? What was it? Dtb, dtb's inspiration, dtb, dtb what kid this is? You found the inspiration. The story abouteland, right? Yeah, it was about the little hintenake no-transcript For DTB. We made that when the last drummer was still here.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I want to say it was around the time that the interrupters were touring in Japan and I think the drummer, junna, she really loves like punk and Scott Like that's her, like life's blood, she loves that genre. So me and Junna were like we should totally do a ska song. We didn't have, we'd never done a ska song before. And so me and Junna came up with the chords and the basic drum melody in like a couple hours. Like we just sat down she was playing on her iPad and just playing the moon electric on her iPad. We came up with the guitar riff and then for the lyrics I had no idea what to sing about, but it sounded really like unshiny and like bright and uptempoli. So I was like, oh, maybe it's like a summer song, like a song about enjoying summer life, I don't know.
Speaker 3:And then that kind of helped develop the way we wrote the other three songs that are made with acronyms, so DTP, and then there's MNO, asm and KYN. They're all acronyms for different locations in Japan, not necessarily cities, sometimes they're just area names. We started with DTP, which is Dothonburi, which is a famous bridge in Osaka and it's like where a lot of people would just hang out and have a good time, to get drunk party all night. We all have that embarrassing train ride home during first train where we're like I'm still drunk, please don't make eye contact with me. That's what that song is kind of about that same kind of energy of just having a good time.
Speaker 1:Also. Also that's what we thought, that it was just like a night. You know, the night after that Domburi night. You know, everybody all like oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And also for your first ska endeavor. You guys, that was awesome. I love that song Because I didn't know whether to Running man or Mosh I was just like, wow, this is awesome, I was getting girl.
Speaker 1:I'm like Ewww, ewww. Every morning they have that song in my head Like yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nice, I was so happy to have that song.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy.
Speaker 3:It's a great song Yay.
Speaker 1:Yay, what is the best advice you've been given and what advice will you get to other musicians? You know, like if, let's say, you had a senpai who said to you, oh, if you try this, blah, blah, blah, and then what would you then give to future musicians?
Speaker 3:Okay, senpai kara no ongoku katsu do ni taisu no adobaisu naka ii. Adobaisu wa nan desu ka Yaku ni jibun ga kouhai ni adobaisu shiyoto usu kara donna. Adobaisu ageru no Bandosu koto de Sososos Muuu Adobaisu Bando no senpai kara no adobaisu wa nani Nani, nani, tano shime to iwaren Tane no ga Soso tanoshimeta Sora ne Yuu-chan wa. Oh, you're talking about Doko ii. Doko ii, iko oto senba. Doko ii. Yuu-chan started moving. We're like what? Answer the question? You can't even answer the question.
Speaker 3:She's doing it with her own hands, her senpai, which we also We've heard of a lot of our shows now. He always says that we should just have fun with whatever you're doing. Awesome, just make sure you're having fun, awesome. Diyun-chan wa nani. Nani Yuu-chan said her senpai is the only one Her senpai gave her with the stop moving on stage. Okay, you don't have to stop moving. Yuu-chan, yuu-chan, goitemo ii zou.
Speaker 1:No, definitely keep moving, exactly.
Speaker 3:That will get the crowd going. Awa mine, no kohai ni no advice wa Kohai adobai shuu, kohai ii kuru to shara Sousou Nandarou na Adobai shuu wa nai Aru yaro. I'm sure you should have known that. I was just like oh, ah, ah, hmm, hmm, nani na, hmm, oh, okay, so for Yuu-chan she ain't got nothing. So she said, um, she wished that she had when she was like in high school. She wished she had like joined the high school band or some kind of music club in high school that maybe she would have a bit more of that, I guess, kind of bass skill set now. So if she knew, if she was talking to like people in their teens, she would say definitely join like a school band and play band in school while you can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get those basics first, Get those basics Definitely.
Speaker 3:So boy Yuu-chan got something to say Hmm, yeah, oh, that's what I thought, oh, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1:That's what I thought I do.
Speaker 3:Hmm, that's it. Yeah, for me, if I had to give advice to somebody that want to play music, just do it. Maybe Don't be afraid of not being, especially because of like social media. Now, I always see, like all these amazing guitars, I'm like, oh man, I'm so, so bad at guitar, why do I even bother? But I don't think playing in a band the point isn't necessarily to be good at guitar, right, it's kind of a whole experience that just happens to also include guitars and drums and basses and vocals. So like, even if you're not the best, most amazing guitar player, you can't play like crazy train or you can't do a solo from a Pantera song, like okay, like, play the music that you like to play and if you have fun playing that music, then very likely the people watching you will also have fun, right, and I think that's pretty much about it.
Speaker 2:Excellent. Now we're going to go on to sort of more like the personal level stuff here. Just a couple of things. So we're both a little crazy with our astrology. We love finding out what people's zodiac signs and all of that is. We were wondering do you regularly check horoscopes or follow any spiritual trends of your own that you guys you know sort of share and say, oh no, today's not an auspicious day, right?
Speaker 1:Or like oh, today's not my lucky color. I need to wear another color, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure. So what's your favorite color? I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it. I feel like I'm left in my heart. Oh, I see, I don't have anything to do with it. I feel like it's better to do something bad. If it's something bad, I'll do it again. I feel like I'm going to die.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for Yuki, she's like, no, I don't believe in any of that, but she thinks maybe, like her parents kind of do, but she personally doesn't. But Yune, like yeah, she reads the horoscope every day, which I didn't even know. I was like, yeah, I've been reading the horoscope and like if it's a good horoscope, but I don't think anything of it, but if it's a bad one, then I really get worried about like what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:That's how we are, too Yune is like us, I mean, she likes Johnny's.
Speaker 3:I'm like, what's the reason? I'm like, okay, I'm going to read the one I don't want to. Yeah, I read it only once. I read it once and I think it's good. She was saying it would be nice if she could only worry about the good horoscopes, but she worries about that one. I don't read horoscopes, but I do love talking about horoscopes with people like I. Follow with that idea count it's rising. They make all the funny memes about like horoscopes.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, those are fun.
Speaker 3:I love reading those. I love having people try to guess my sign. Can you guess my sign, virgo? What am I?
Speaker 1:giving. Oh, she's laughing. Are you a Virgo? I have a Virgo moon.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:She knows about the moon faces.
Speaker 3:My son's sign is Scorpio. Oh okay, but a lot of people say I'm not very a Scorpio, like which is true. I'm not a super Scorpio, I'm a very nice person.
Speaker 2:My mom's a Scorpio and she's a wonderful person, so I believe you.
Speaker 1:You are definitely my best friend in high school Actually, through all through school was the Scorpio and she always had my back. She was like the best.
Speaker 2:We probably gel, because we are both Pisces, right, so water signs definitely get along.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you did the astrology one. Okay, so now, one day we will visit Osaka. So if we were to you know, if we were to visit Osaka and you are a tour guide, where will you take us?
Speaker 3:US啊, cause a newxim. I had a little pasta, jeangled him and I was okay, you keep this, she'll take you to Osaka Castle.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Ok, yes, I love history, so that would be great.
Speaker 3:Yes, you down. You said she would take you to Shinsaikai. Do you guys know Shinsaikai? It's in South Osaka, so there's the Dotonbori Bridge. If you go south, there's an area called Shinsaikai. It's in Kaku and it has a tower called Tsutengkaku. So you know Tokyo Tower, right? Yes, Beautiful.
Speaker 2:And gorgeous.
Speaker 3:It's so lovely that I want to have like the ugly step brother that was born first to everyone forgot about. Like that's Tsutengkaku. It's like short and gray and really like post industrial kind of like. It's not attractive, but also like people love it, like they think it's the best ever.
Speaker 1:You cannot tell Architecture. I mean, sarah and I, we like architecture. There was actually one building in Japan that it was built in the 80s, the capsule on the hotel, the capsule building. Well, the thing behind this architecture was that there was this square. The building was kind of squarish, with like round windows and now it's being demolished. But I mean, everybody was like sad about it because it was like a historic building or something like that.
Speaker 2:Well, it was. It was unique and it had character. It was something different for the area that it was in but you know.
Speaker 1:No, that wasn't. I think the building was in Tokyo.
Speaker 2:But see, we will tend to get together and watch. There's a program here through our public service television called Journeys in Japan and they they visit all over Japan and I think we may have seen that we have a tower. Yes on one of the episodes, because whenever we see an episode about Osaka we're like we got to go there.
Speaker 1:No, I told you, I've been telling. Sarah is like you know, when we go to Japan we're going to be staying, at least, and weak, in Osaka because, it's a town that we seem to vibe from things that we have seen, that we were going to be feeling most at home that in Tokyo.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, absolutely. Oh, that's a whole vibe. Everyone here is really strange. They're not always nice, but like that's like people, right. Like sometimes you meet really nice people, sometimes you meet crazy people, right. So Osaka has a nice balance of like real Japan and also like touristy Japan, where Tokyo is like very touristy, like very nice, everywhere is very clean, very presentable Osaka. Now you might see an old man like sleeping on the street. It's fine, right.
Speaker 2:Well, we like it. We like it real. So, yeah, so we're going to start wrapping it up. Our final sort of question for for each of you is could you just let us know what one thing you're grateful for today?
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, we're going to wrap it up soon, but at the end of the day, please say one thing you're grateful for today. Thank you, that's right. Today's, today's, today's, that's right.
Speaker 2:Today's.
Speaker 3:Today's, today's, today's, today's, today's, today's, today's, today's, today's. It's actually Japanese. You'd westh dude. Wow, my Ilma hair didn't make notification, you know. Always it is an awesome design, it's very bright, just to be photos. Llama, that's smells for the Top 13 million. So for this, our beautiful photo, we're going to take a picture side Beyond.
Speaker 1:Don't hold it.
Speaker 3:You in town what I'm grateful to my cat that's always hanging out next to me.
Speaker 2:Awesome. I've got two cats, so I can appreciate what you're saying. Yes, we love the fur babies. Yes, we do. Well, we just want to say thank you so much. Show you my face now and then I'll let you know. Thank you, arigato gozaimasu. It was wonderful to chat with you and hopefully we can do this again sometime, maybe in person. We'll bring all our gear, all our gear over to you and do it up again.
Speaker 3:Yes, we'll do it on Dotonbori. We'll just sit out on the street, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1:If we can do it on Dotonbori, that would be amazing. So thank you everybody. Thank you, arigato gozaimasu.
Speaker 3:Arigato.
Speaker 1:Thank you for giving us the time of that, and now, definitely we do, should have a second one, and before we go, give us a quick. If you're having any shows going on right now, let you know. Tell your people now out there so other ones can. And where can everybody follow you? Yeah, well, we'll share all of your details in the show notes, but do you have any concerts coming up?
Speaker 3:So the next show that we're going to have is not until August. We have two shows at the end of August. One's in Nagoya and the other one will be in Osaka, and then we're still on the lookout for more shows toward the end of the year. Hopefully we'll be able to play in the States sometime soon. That's like the goal. The goal is to play in the States one day.
Speaker 1:So when that? Happens everybody come through. We'll help you out with that. We'll try to help you out with that Definitely.
Speaker 2:We don't have a whole lot of connections, but we'll, no, we'll do. Yeah, it'll work on it.
Speaker 1:Yes, okay, yes, thank you everybody.
Speaker 3:Awesome, arigato, arigato, arigato, you'll have a great time. Bye, bye, thank you. Bye, bye, bye, bye, johnny.
Speaker 2:Bye. Do we want to?
Speaker 3:do our little post interview chat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, so that was Elise, yoon and Yuki from Second Lady.
Speaker 1:I was like, hey, I'm trying to kill you. I know, girl, I'm over here still like fangirling because they were so much fun.
Speaker 2:See, that was just as chaotic as you and I always are. I know we were.
Speaker 1:So we had a gut feeling like this is going to be like having a chat with just friends. You know, hanging out with friends, and it turned out to be that way Like hello the Johnny part, what that was.
Speaker 2:So out of the blue right I'm respected, so from left field, I, because we both did, we did. The eyebrows went up. Oh my goodness, did we just hear ABCZ? I know.
Speaker 1:I'm like yeah, exactly Like I know that. I'm like is that like another band? Was there like a band in the nineties or eighties from like that? We didn't know about Right.
Speaker 2:I was like is there another group?
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Or did we just both hear something wrong? But because you perked up, I was like I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1:I did hear that, I know I did hear it right. I felt like oh my God, yes.
Speaker 2:That was historic. Well, and they really cracked up when we were like Kasey jump Yamada. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:See, this is what we said. It's like you know, you're vying with music and the ladies are so much like us. It was amazing it was what I was.
Speaker 2:I was actually surprised to hear that that was their first ska song. Yes, doing DTB. They did such an awesome job with that. It was incredible. You know you learn something new every day about artists you like and about the music you're listening to, and that's just insane to me.
Speaker 1:Right and they're very humble because, like we don't know how to do ska and we don't know, I'm like I love that song. It just felt like you guys know about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it seemed like.
Speaker 1:You know how to handle the tempo and how it just beats the sound and wow, that's how, that's how good they are. That's how good they are, and though they feel like we're not that good, you know.
Speaker 2:But they are. This was just such a fun because it was still very much like chatting with friends, like, okay, yeah, our buds just formed a band and we're going to talk to them about like, oh, this is so exciting.
Speaker 1:Exactly yeah, the girls are very, you know, they're very humble, they're they're funny yeah, just, we were just talking to friends, definitely.
Speaker 2:Hopefully next time, because I think we should definitely have a next time. Hopefully the drummer will join. Yes, they were saying it's. They just got a brand new drummer and the drummer's a little shy about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he wasn't going to shine, you know, chime in because it's like I just, you know, became part of the man I don't want to work like no be in there, because we just saw the tweet that they, you know, announced a new drummer for the group and I was so excited to hear like hey, you're part of the band you know like welcome or something. So next time hopefully you know, get them in there.
Speaker 1:So they talked about that they're creating new music. So definitely, when they come out with new music, I'm going to reach out and be like hey, you need to come back. Let's talk about your new songs and whatnot. You know, I'm hoping that this new drummer stays with the group. I see them going far because of the way they are and the music that they act. That just the songs that they have out, the three originals that they have right now on Spotify that you can find DTBB, my favorite, I have already have said how many times I say that I love that song.
Speaker 2:Jeez, Right, but if you check out their Instagram yes, check out older posts Elise was saying you know they have issues because not all of the members who worked on those original songs are still with the group, so but you can still hear a little snippets from them. They're amazing songs and that goes to show the talent that they surrounded themselves with, Right. So definitely looking forward to some news new original music.
Speaker 1:They have passion to make music and they enjoy doing. You know making, creating music and that's a band. You want to follow, somebody that do enjoy creating music and definitely second lady. Have that passion and fun.
Speaker 3:Love, love, love them. Yes.
Speaker 1:Bring them out, and then I may come, definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, oh, the good point, because Boston, atlanta I mean not Atlanta Atlantic City, a few different places. And obviously LA and.
Speaker 1:West Coast, whatever. Yeah, we don't care about the West Coast.
Speaker 2:New York. Well, no, it's not that we don't care, it's just we can't get to those as easily I know.
Speaker 1:We're salty, we're salty.
Speaker 2:Okay, definitely check out their, their Twitter, their Instagram, check out their music on Spotify.
Speaker 1:All information will be in our show notes so you can link them over there and support the ladies.
Speaker 2:Second ladies yeah, yes, and well, the drummers are gentlemen.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, second ladies, second ladies, it's cool, all right, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing. Thank you everybody for listening to this episode of Music Elixir. Please rate, review the podcast the episode, share, share, share, yes, share. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:Give us five stars, five stars. And even a little blurb of a review like thanks, great job, you know anything that'll help sort of boost it. Give us some that'll make whatever platform Exactly Push our agenda out there. Music Elixir world domination.
Speaker 1:Okay, sure, we'll do that.
Speaker 2:We can, we can. Oh yes, of course, we're worldwide already. Exactly All right, thank you everybody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, until next time. Bye, bye, yeah.