Ratatata

2024 single by Babymetal and Electric Callboy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Ratatata" (stylized in all caps) 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.

Language
  • English
  • Japanese
ReleasedMay 23, 2024 (2024-05-23)
Length3:36
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"Ratatata"
Single by Babymetal and Electric Callboy
from the album Metal Forth
Language
  • English
  • Japanese
ReleasedMay 23, 2024 (2024-05-23)
GenreDance metal
Length3:36
Label
Composers
  • Norimetal
  • Daniel Haniß
  • Kevin Ratajczak
  • Nico Sallach
  • Pascal Schillo
Producers
  • Kobametal
  • Daniel Haniß
  • Kevin Ratajczak
  • Nico Sallach
  • Pascal Schillo
Babymetal singles chronology
"Metali!!"
(2023)
"Ratatata"
(2024)
"From Me to U"
(2025)
Electric Callboy singles chronology
"Hurrikan"
(2022)
"Ratatata"
(2024)
"Elevator Operator"
(2025)
Music video
"Ratatata" on YouTube
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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.[1][2][3][4] They played the song live together for the first time during Babymetal's Fox Fest in Saitama on May 25.[5] The bands later collaborated on a mobile game that featured the song on its soundtrack.[6]

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.[7] As of April 2025, it has over 40 million views on YouTube.[8]

The song served as the main theme for the 2024 WWE pay-per-view Bash in Berlin,[9] 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".[10]

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.[11]

Charts

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