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Imagine how tired we are. Imagine how tired we are of it.

I honestly do prefer the making-of video for this over the final PV, it's on twitter:
 
 
 

I always enjoy Kamijo singing in English regardless of the song.
 
Versailles - Love will be born again
 
Initially, I had no idea Ruki was singing mostly in English for this one, but I still loved it. That bass in the beginning is great and I'm a sucker for jazzy-esque songs.
 
the GazettE - Silly God Disco
 

As you get older you change and so do the things you like. Once upon a time I used to watch harem/ecchi anime and listen to the gazette after. Now there’s one of those things I wouldn’t touch if my life depended on it. So I think it’s only normal for people to let go of something they got into as teenagers. I also think that being unwillingly to explore other music will make you go off vk faster.
 
In my later teen years I went off vk completely for about a year or two, I was just too busy to be involved with the scene, even after I came back to it I still had a year where I went in a deep search to expand my musical horizons. Now things have levelled off and I can move between western music, pop, Kpop, Vkei and everything in between. Another factor that makes people drop off: this scene requires time investment and the older you get the harder it is to make that investment. As your favourite bands die, the only way to keep interest going is by discovering new things in the scene, be it older bands you didn’t know or newer bands. Don’t forget, nowadays the average teen’s attention span is less than a goldfish’s so they’ll move to the next thing that makes them horny without a second thought and considering kpop merch is not only cheaper, but constantly being pumped out and more readily available than vk chekkis will ever be I can’t blame people for not sticking with vk for long. Kpop community is more active and widespread which does a lot to stimulate the senses.
 
What keeps me coming back to vkei is the angst and artistic side of it all. You just can’t find it anywhere else, even if it is fake lol. I don’t know if I’ll ever let go of it completely, like Dispo said I’m in it for the long haul.
 
 

I'll suggest one of the many contributing factors for a high turnover rate is because VK is quite a 'gimmick' genre/subculture and generally gimmicks will only keep people entertained for so long, genre's like the new phase of emo music with groups like MCR and glam/hair metal had their time in the sun and spawned huge subcultures but died out as people grew up and got tired of it and I'd consider both of those as gimmick genre's where if you stripped back the clothing and tone of the groups, it wouldn't have had as much excitement around it. I think as people grow older things like the clothing and look of a band don't matter as much but they were certainly one of the elements that drew me in when I was younger and probably what draws in people nowadays.
 
As well as people tiring of the gimmick of VK, I imagine people move over to K-pop because it's easier to find communities and like-minded people both online and in reality, I live in a very small city and work in a slightly larger town, I've maybe met three people that liked Dir En Grey but I've meant countless people that like BTS, Shinee, NCT etc.

Depends on why you were drawn to certain bands in the first place. I was into indie rock, alt rock, and death/black metal before I was a vk fan, so that coloured my taste in bands (nagoya kei + DEG), once [most] of those bands became inactive, I went back to the indie and alt rock I liked before. I'm sure if someone got into the scene with DIV or some cute oshare shit, that Kpop wouldn't be too far off from that sound. Kinda depends on ideology too--if you're an oshare fan BUT you're a weeb--you'll stay into that; whereas if you were into vk for the cute boys, kpop is the next logical step lol.

As a manga nerd I know a lot of references but time flies and my favorite -thing- is Hakuei'ish main character from "Ludwig kakumei", hehehe.
 


 

THE BLACK COMET CLUB BAND 4th full album "LA VIE EN ROSE" has been released at 2020/05/17.
 

 

 
TrackList:
1. El Rosa
2. Mexican Standoff
3. Plan B
4. Guess Death
5. 無人島ロック
6. 車道
7. How High?
8. Red Sun
9. All Right
10. Magnolia
11. Born To Be Bone
12. La Vie En Rose
13. 明日になれば
14. Hasta La Vista
15. Elminator
 
 

The people who were calling that the next fad to replace the Metalcore trend in VK would be KPOP and soundcloud music were right. Guess that makes 8P-SB true pioneers, lol.
 
I know I am ranting and whining a lot about it that it's insufferable, but still… I am very bothered by the direction VK has taken in the last ten years. I know rock music has lost it's mainstream  popularity and kids these days aren't rebelling by listening to edgy guitar based music, but by jamming to Billie Eilish and Lil Peep and whoever they are. But I feel VK's identitiy is so strongly tied to rock, even the stuff that was quite electronic (like Schwarz Stein) reflected it through its songwriting and -structure. That kinda changed with the advent of first western Metalcore copycats (which imo deprived VK of its unique blend of sound of post-punk and Heavy Metal) and then the introduction of annoying dance and electronic beats and shitty "synths".
 
Now we reached the point where stuff like is so far removed from what VK was.  Can't say if it's good or bad, it's evolving after all and that can't be stopped… but I am worried that VK, which is already meaningless and super niche in japan, will just completely dissolve and assimilate into this big pot of "hip" pop and  microgenre stuff. Not sure if I make sense, it's a bit tricky to express what irks me.

This sounds like a song used for a commercial for an online university.

Yeah but fuck the police. Everywhere.
 

Finally, after many years... :'D
 

Anyways, I'm not really excited for this release at all. That's probably to be expected lol. 

who's the original artist though

no one buy this, please and thank you

'Dive' by ILULIY/Lulileela. I love the bass licks.
 
 

please stay at home forever

''inThe time it took you to make this post we disbanded''

INTJ—The Architect!
86% Introverted, 14% Extraverted
78% Intuitive, 22% Observant
58% Thinking, 42% Feeling
65% Judging, 35% Prospecting
42% Assertive, 58% Turbulent
 
Enneagram type is Type 8 - The Protector.
"As a Type Eight, you tend to be self-confident, powerful, and assertive. You generally enjoy engaging in debates and making difficult decisions."

Nighttime so I can be all clean while winding down!(￣▽￣)

well they will disband on August 12th 😅
 
well its a hard time for bands now.... since they cannot play any lives.
 
 
 

"Hi, we're inThe."
"In the what?"
"Just inThe."
"Just in the WHAT???"
 
Thank you, I'll be here all weekend.

I can't think of a band that released two albums before a single. Pretty interesting way of releasing stuff that seemed to work pretty well for them.