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Inability to adapt to the 21st century
 
There are way too many bands that have yet to conform to the digital age. While things certainly have improved, there is still a shocking amount of music that isn't available for purchase digitally. Why? I have no idea. It's fucking stupid if you ask me.

That some fans seems to expect that a band should sound 100% perfection on their first release. It's ok to have high standards, but sometimes it is just as needed to wait a little and see how the band evolves, and see if the music is getting better. Same goes with some singers, there's a lot of singers who've sounded bad in the beginning but have turned around and sounds much better now. James Hetfield in Metallica (not VK but still), for an example. 
 
And I've also some issues with older VK fans (like myself lol) who treat new VK fans as crap for no reason at all. I mean, we've all been there in the beginning. And the VK genre itself is quite small and it need to grow and in order to do that new fans is needed.

The fact that i have to go thru ridiculous lengths to get them rarez.. it kills me
 
also these people:

To sum it up in as few words as possible:
 
Most of the fans.

Sharaku does both in GalapagosS. Jun (gotcharocka gu.) also played and sung at the same time in Spiv States.
Plastic Tree's vo. also plays guitar live.

Well, that "discovering a band that has disbanded or will disband shortly" is something we all can agree upon. Also, those extreme commercial tactics like "500 versions of one single" are a turn off.
 
But musically, what I hate the most are the vocalists desinterest to sing well. While you may say that there are a lot of crappy bands out there, still you'll find mostly crafty musicians that play really bad songs really well; but vocalist just don't care. Of course there are a lot of exceptions, but generally they just don't give a crap as long as they look good.
 
Once I read a comment in a blog about old vk that said something like they had singers without a broad range, but with a LOT of charisma in their singing. I kind of miss that.
 
I could be wrong though, I don't listen to those new bands formed in the last 6 years. Old cranky guy, I know.

• Live limited sold and indie store only.
• "I don't like, than they are bad".
• "_______ is copying gazette and/or dir en grey".

My most hated words and things in VK are definitely indefinite hiatus/disbandet, live-limited & Mejibray fandom

My main issue with the visual kei scene isn't really represented in the options here, and it's something you generally get more in touch with once you get to Japan and get to experience the scene.
Firstly, the fact that a large majority of visual kei musicians more or less openly admits they don't have any artistic or personal integrity, they don't care what they produce and they don't care that their sound is exactly like every other band out there, because they know that as long as the members are pretty enough there WILL be fans, and they WILL pay you money for "company" and "favors" so that you can survive comfortably and keep rehashing the same song for a couple of years until you feel like calling it quits and do something more worthwhile with your life, or more likely, go into full time hosting business now that you have a decent circle of clients already.
 
This sort of leads me into my second issue and it's the bangya culture. It's generally really vile, and the way the girls not only talk about the musicians but also each other is quite disgusting. If the bangyas decide that a member has done something they do not approve of, that doesn't live up to their perfect ideals that they hold them all to (because god knows the fangirls don't live up to any of them) they can easily start enough shit to cause a band to break up or force a member out of the band. The issues doesn't end there though, because the few foreign bangya that exists generally adapt to this mentality and lifestyle too. They openly shun other foreigners who dare attend the lives of "their" band and ruin their "specialness", they participate in this completely daft saizen system where a designated person basically decides who gets what spot at a concert so everyone can enjoy playing ten year olds doing the "you're not allowed to play with us"-games... And the obviousness of what really drives people to be fans of these bands become so apparent when they get to this level, and it's certainly not the music.
 
To be honest, in a lot of ways I never realized how bad this was until I got there and could see it all for myself, and that's despite a 13 year stint in the scene by now.

Repetitive crowd-hyping songs that are usually 2 mins long on CD, and like 10 mins long when played live, haha.
 
Can't think of anything else right now, but gonna get back to it later.

MH POLL OF THE WEEK #39: What are the things you HATE about Visual Kei?
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hello im a new member ^w^ my friend told me of this site so i decided to join it looks cool im from canada,i love visual kei bands and fashion i been into the genre and style for a few years now and idk what id do without it XD feel free to talk to me im a nice person ;-;  my favorite bands are listed on my profile but i will say some here too.  D,mejibray,the gazette,versailles,jupiter,lareine,dir en grey,malice mizer,moi dix mois,alice nine,lycaon,avelcain,kaya,miyavi,d=out,aicle,la mule,shazna,matenrou opera,deluhi and 100s others...im very shy but very friendly too i think lol. 

MH's Disappointments: Worst of 2015

Welcome to the ORZ spitroast where the only flavor is salty:
far east dizain lycaon disbanding and nearly breaking the forum DIM 2.0 didn't happen Femme Fatale's name was too accurate Yohio/Disreign did Gazette better than Gazette R.I.P. art kei (Moran, yazzmad, etc. disbanding)  mejibray's entire 2015 career Just Eiki... er.. Paradigm Paradox DECAYS' "secret mode" probably should have stayed a secret D's one-man venues keep getting smaller and smaller. By March, they'll be curb-side next to Maria Cross kisaki breaks another body part. fans ask for hospital records Another year, another one of Tenten's bands goes on hiatus... That one time Matenrou Opera tried and failed to rock body paint like Rihanna the best song released this year by nocturnal bloodlust was a cover of a taylor swift song Deathgaze breaking up and Tanuki's reaction was essentially "Just listen to Static-x" toe only being really good Haisuinonasa-induced blue balls ling tosite sigure's EP chouchou merged syrups. somehow being mind-numbingly marginal nestle x gackt collab announced next year DOAK happened How hard DuelJewel tried this year Kamelot released an album, which means a new Matenrou Opera album will soon follow DEVIL KITTY's mini-album calmando qual retired for duty Shiina Ringo thought using autotune was a good idea YUKI's PV for 'Sukitte Nandarou' looking like a trippy interpretation of BEYONCE's 'single ladies' and sounding even worse A.L.B.U.M.S -With Titles Like This- AKB48's "Halloween Night" was truly nightmare inducing the core of Jupiter broke apart this year. hizaki and teru promise to keep the music just as boring as before What were your disappointing moments of the year?

I think if Jui takes a vaca for a few months to rest his precious voice , it would be good but often breaks leads people to think the worst (esp with health problems) If Jui ever leaves/retires, I'm sure Jun and Toya will just disband. Gotcharocka just isn't the same without our 3 dorks D; I know people thought Anli Pollicino was going to disband,dunno why. Maybe they got their name mixed up with another.
I'm curious know about Avelcain  or worst - Golden Bomber (they're overworking the boys D8 )
I was shocked about Lycaon but finding out out Scrooge-chan (manager) I could understand. Femme Fatale blew my mind, though D:

I'm curious as to why GOTCHAROCKA is thought to disband soon. People thought the same for the beginning of last year but it seemed they had another successful year (a lot of their one-mans sell out and they seem to have a strong fan base) . In 2016 they have another tour and single announced. I guess people are worried over Jui again? Sometimes his voice sounds bad on certain days. I believe he over works himself too much.

This entire Dark Age movement has slain me! Frankly, I hadn't liked The GazettE's previous releases for the past 2-3 years but DOGMA really took my attention, Ugly didn't disappoint and I'm really looking forward to Undying!

This entire Dark Age movement has slain me! Frankly, I hadn't liked The GazettE's previous releases for the past 2-3 years but DOGMA really took my attention, Ugly didn't disappoint and I'm really looking forward to Undying!

What a way to welcome new members.
 
Anyway, looking forward to the new single. DOGMA & UGLY were two great releases.

It sounded pretty boring, and sounds uncannily similar to the Girugamesh song :/

That awesome moment when 9MUSES finally comes back with a nice song and MV to go along with it. This is a favorite already.

Took me a while but dammm i didnt know f(x) was going to slay so hard, like damm
 

jun is my bae <3 I just like that look he has of sweet insanity XD
honestly all 3 are cute. Toya is super serious, Jun is cray cray, Jui is sexy flirt

Finally an appropriate place where I can voice my very unpopular opinion about a band everyone seems to be in love with: MEJIBRAY
 
First of all, I want to say that I love MEJIBRAY's older releases (2014 and back), but ever since they got an upsurge in popularity, I really think that their music has began deteriorating.
 
Can I also mention the fact that so many of their songs sound the same? That they use the same tone, chord, etc. in so many of their songs that now it just makes me yawn? I think their songs this year were the worst (especially Eiki oh my god do not get me started on this garbage).
 
I can acknowledge that all of them have some talent (especially MIA, his guitar solos always slay me), but there are some notes that Tsuzuku "vomits" out that do not sound very pleasant at all (but his screams are amazing, really, but comparing him side to side with other renowned vocalists in the industry, he will fall flat).
 
And their looks are like...wtf now? I think they're trying way, way too hard to be edgy (although Koichi's current look is beautiful, he looks very good). I think most of their popularity comes from their looks, though. I cannot go a day without finding someone literally "melting" over Tsuzuku's appearance. (dude has some nice tats and a very nice makeup-less face but he isn't that hot).
 
It's come to the point now that I cringe every time I hear they're coming out with something new (they literally come out with things at rocket-fire speed. I think they need to settle and conjure up something really good), and their fans...holy crap, their fans. I avoid most of them like the plague. I admit Meji has brought a lot of newcomers into the jrock/visual kei fandom, but many of them....have little to no courtesy.
 
Anyway that's my two cents, with excessive use of parentheses.

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Lycaon, Nocturnal Bloodlust, Arlequin, Mejibray, GazettE, Dir en grey, Diaura, Dadaroma... Mostly heavier/less happy-sparkly bands.
And then Royz, my somewhat guilty pleasure, being the exception to that rule.