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Jesus Christ. I posted this review to encourage people to fucking buy it because it's a good single worth buying. And if you like the band but aren't going to buy it, here's a heads up: the new release is good. It was like ten bucks at the zoisite online shop. They ship overseas. Everyone does have the same access. Are you seriously asserting that someone would write a review to brag about having ten dollars?

Tila Tequila's insane ass retweeted me once, so I can pretty much die happy

Definitely not a racial bias. Maybe a weaboo bias, though. In America at least, the concept of the anime nerd/weaboo/otaku has been a thing for almost 20 years now. People are aware of it. And I'm sure a lot of people, when you try to not only play them Japanese music but music by Japanese guys that look (to them) like they just left an anime convention, they're going to go "Oh, you're one of those weirdos that used to sing anime theme songs to themselves on the bus." Couple that with the fact that 99%+ of people, at least in the USA, would never seriously try to listen to music sung in a language they don't understand, and I think that pretty much explains the lack of interest. When I was younger I would try to turn people onto visual. The only people it ever stuck with were musicians who listened to bands for the guitars/performance aspect as much as for the songs themselves.

As many laughs I've got out of GAROOGAMESH guy, I've never actually listened to these dudes.

01. Oblivion Dust 02. Oblivion Dust 03. Oblivion Dust 04. Oblivion Dust 05. Oblivion Dust 06. Oblivion Dust 07. Oblivion Dust 08. Oblivion Dust 09. Oblivion Dust 10. Oblivion Dust

It's not just Japanese bands, some western artists have this policy and I LOVE it. When I saw Danzig last year, it was a strict policy of no cell phones or cameras whatsoever. Anyone who took their phone out of their pocket to text, browse, sneak a photo, etc, was thrown out of the gig without a refund. It was stated on the ticket, but after a few morons tried to sneak shots, anyone who didn't get the idea already got it. It gave the gig a COMPLETELY different feel and I enjoyed it. It added so much to the show; when the lights would cut out, when the spotlight would hit one band member, etc, there were no cell phones on all over the gig lighting it up and making you notice stuff going on elsewhere. I hope all major bands eventually adopt this practice.

Since there is no full-length album release in sight, I may as well review the single for those curious. The track is great! Quite a departure from the material on the "Switch" EP, "In Secret" is a reserved, mid tempo rocker; dark and very Kagerou-esque. It opens with a haunting harmonized guitar line that leads into a choppy riff. The verse has a great melody that is actually kind of enka-sounding, while Yuana, Kazu, and amon bang out the chords in unison . The chorus has those reaching, drawn out lines that Kagerou is remembered for, but Selm's voice is a lot fuller than Daisuke's was, and is really makes STEREO.C.K. so different from Kagerou, despite having both Yuana and Kazu in the band. And I absolutely love amon's tasteful drumming as well; he gets the job done without throwing in the slightest of ego-driven fills. I am in love with this track. Can't wait for the "Nos Black" single to go on sale to the public, and am more than ready for a full length!!

Kagerou was the last visual band I was 100%, all-in in love with for the longest time. Yuana and Kazu's music in STEREO.C.K. still very much has the aura of Kagerou at times (how could it not??) and I'm dying for them to hurry up and do a full length.

Covenant used to be a big deal.

Syndrome, kids. Syndrome. Why are there only live tracks on youtube? Kisaki fangirls must have dwindled.

So is Klaha like... working at a car dealership or what?

Well.... at least you've got it narrowed down.

Patrik has always seemed like a cool guy and I respect anyone out there doing the damn thing full on, especially over a long time. Do your damn thing dude! Saying that? I don't like this song, and I don't care for this stuff in general. I've never liked any of western visual kei stuff. I don't get it. When I would see heavily VK influenced bands on Myspace/Mp3.com/Soundclick back in the day, it confused and annoyed me. What need is there for an imitation when we have access to the real thing? If I was at SXSW and someone told me there was a Japanese guy in a bar playing authentic delta blues... I would walk on by. Why the hell would I want to see that? I can see real delta blues players. Same goes for Western VK. Why? Like, if you're going to take a VK influence and heavily mix it with other influences... there's certainly potential there. But going all in as a "We are a Visual Kei band from (not Japan)" kinda thing.... No way. Chris Hart (クリス・ハート) an American singer who made it big in Japan (had an Oricon #3 recently), actually started out as a wannabe-visual rocker under the name Nikita Rose (his band Eden Cell were actually really good!). He did the visual look, the clothes, the BC rich guitars, the Gackt-esque mannerisms... it was silly. BUT once he dropped all of that bullshit and decided to just be himself (an American guy who loves Japan and Japanese music), he made it big time because he wasn't imitating anymore; he was doing his own thing. That is where it's at, in my opinion. I'm not trying to talk down to or offend anyone, it's just a subject I'm really passionate about.

Inoran can't sing for shit, but this performance still absolutely gives me chills. Incorrectly dated, this was years after Luna Sea broke up and no one was playing LS material solo. First time I saw this... man... let's just say it got me feelin' a certain kind of way. The roar of the crowd when they realize it's "Gravity" ... not a dry eye in the place. It was something special.

I love how you have to buy the leftover merch they didn't sell during the tour as part of a bundle to get the CD. Pass!

Awful: Schwarz Stein (self explanatory) Abingdon Boys School (just rolls off the tongue poorly) GLAY (what the fuck) L'arc~en~Ciel (Pre'tenious~As~Fuck) B'z (horrible. just horrible.) Gackt La'Mule (lolz) Fake? (how am I supposed to google you assholes? especially in 2006!) GALLLLOOOOGAAMEEESSHHHH Awesome: Kuroyume New Sodmy Velvet Eden Oblivion Dust Kagerou Dead End Kuroyume Kuroyume Kuroyume Kuroyume

Mana, Kozi, and Yu~ki onstage together? As far fetched as it is.... Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion Please announce a reunion

OG visual fans FTW. Malice Mizer is still the one.

Very good points by Tetora and Candy Warhol. 10-15 years ago Jpop was really in fashion, now it's out and Kpop is in. Kpop's popularity in America evolved naturally and, as pointed out by others, it's just the Korean take on what's already going on in pop music. Also have to factor in racism and tumblr's favorite word: "appropriation" 3:20 "scary" and "bad" parts, huh? Yeah. ~.~ Anyway, Kpop in America is in fashion, but still the target audience is going to be any kind of East Asian-American girls. If Big Bang Theory or Rain or whomever (is Rain still a thing?) were going to have a concert in LA or NYC, it's going to be 80-90% Asian people, with nonasians being a "bonus" fans putting a few extra dollars in.

There's not enough interest or market for it. Remember Tofu records? It folded almost immediately. Things like Babymetal and Psy are novelty acts; they're exceptions, not the rule. There's no market for music performed in non-English languages in America unless you're, say, targeting the ethnic population of a foreign bands home country (like Mexican rock band Mana touring in America and playing the southwest and west coast). There aren't enough Japanese-Americans, let alone Japanese Americans that listen to visual kei, to bother spending the money to push that stuff over here. You'd lose your shirt, guaranteed. Anime con gigs work because you have every weaboo in an X-mile radius packed together already. It wouldn't be profitable to come to America and tour and hit the 5-10 major cities in the region playing to smaller crowds, but it IS profitable to play the con. The market is not there naturally, but in this circumstance there is an opportunity to make a quick buck. Rammstein had a global hit with Du Haust and still do really well when they come to America, but did that mean there was a market for German-language rock in America? Clearly there wasn't. The market itself has sorted all this out already: there were some visual kei fans and they purchased imports, someone like Tofu records thought there might be an opportunity to make some money, there wasn't enough interest and Tofu records folded, and fans are back to buying imports. Guys in Visual Kei bands know that if they want to make it in America they'd have to relocate here, learn to sing in English, and work their way up from the very bottom. Chance of success is virtually zero, so they're smart enough to stay in Tokyo where there is an interest in what they do.

Nanase Aikawa is forever bae. Bad girls for the fuckin' win.

Man, I was shocked during the AMA (don't know why) when Yoshiki revealed that Pata hadn't even finished tracking his guitars for the album yet. Which confirmed mine and many others' theory that the album was not finished and not going to come out in March regardless of Pata taking ill. During the AMA I asked Yoshiki when we were going to see Violet UK get released, considering I was waiting on it back in middle school and I'm fuckin 30 now. Didn't answer, of course.

I'd wager that the vast majority of people in the world are like this. I used to go out with a Vietnamese-American girl, and at Thanksgiving her mother told me that white people are fine, but no other race besides white or asian were allowed in the home. She and her relatives there all agreed that if President Obama wanted to come over for Thanksgiving, he'd have to eat in the garage because black people steal. Like, for real. In 2016..

My default attraction is to latina or african-american women. Naturally someone's race isn't the only factor or even the close to the main factor when seeking the right match for me, but if we're talking about attractions and, all things being equal, preferences, I would definitely prefer to date a woman who is of the aforementioned ethnicities. Theyre just sexier.