Ratatata
"Ratatata" is a song by Japanese kawaii metal band Babymetal and German electronicore band Electric Callboy. It was released as a standalone single on May 23, 2024, and was later included on Babymetal's album Metal Forth, which was released on August 8, 2025.
Background
On May 16, 2024, a teaser video announced the two bands had collaborated on a single called "Ratatata", to be released on May 23. They played the song live together for the first time during Babymetal's Fox Fest in Saitama on May 25. The bands later collaborated on a mobile game that featured the song on its soundtrack.Following the song's release, Babymetal revealed in interviews the collaboration happened because they wanted to create a song similar to Electric Callboy's track "We Got the Moves", as they enjoyed the audience participation that was an important component of the song during live shows; struggling to write a new song in this vein, they contacted Electric Callboy directly for advice, which instead led to the two bands collaborating on the song that became "Ratatata".
Music video
The music video for the song was directed and produced by Schillobros, a film production company founded by Electric Callboy's rhythm guitarist Pascal Schillo, and was released alongside the single on May 23, 2024. As of April 2025, it has over 40 million views on YouTube.In popular culture
The song served as the main theme for the 2024 WWE pay-per-view Bash in Berlin, and was featured on the soundtrack of the video game WWE 2K25 the following year.Reception
Speaking for Consequence, Jon Hadusek described the two bands as "two of the most prominent practitioners of 'dance metal'" and that the song "lives up to its billing tech-y metal riffs are infused into a pulsing EDM beat, over which Babymetal and Electric Callboy share vocal dutiesthe former handling the higher melodies and the latter providing the gutturals and metalcore vox".Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.Babymetal
- Suzuka Nakamoto – lead vocals, engineering
- Moa Kikuchi – background vocals, engineering
- Momoko Okazaki – background vocals, engineering
- Kevin Ratajczak – vocals, keyboards, composition, lyrics, engineering, programming, production
- Nico Sallach – vocals, composition, lyrics, production, engineering
- Daniel Haniß – lead guitar, composition, lyrics, production, engineering, mixing
- Pascal Schillo – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, composition, lyrics, production, engineering
- Daniel Klossek – bass, backing vocals, engineering
- David-Karl Friedrich – drums, engineering
- Kobametal – production
- MK-metal – lyrics
- Norimetal – composition
- Christoph Wieczorek – mastering
- Manuel Renner – additional production
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