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Someone who knows better about kpop imitating black culture should tackle this but yeah, it's a thing. Thankfully a thing that my Shinee boys don't do. Hopefully? 
 
I live in south east asia so kpop is unavoidable for me. I can only speak for myself, but what I noticed around me was that the people who first got into kpop weren't into jpop.
 
They were 'mainstream normies' so to speak, so 2000s kpop being more accessible from the start meant that they had much greater exposure to kpop than jpop in the first place. My general impression back then was that kpop was seen as 'fresher',  'more polished' than jpop which has been around for a few years already. So there was the general public getting into kpop + jpop/vk/etc fans getting into kpop but little to no fans gained for jpop/vk. So that was that. Though it was obvious that kpop was taking trend cues from japanese music, like how early dbsk had visual kei hairstyles lol. But they quickly found a style that simply appealed more to the foreign public than jpop/vk did imo. I mean, they had government backing, so....
 
What I dislike about kpop is how they pigeonhole members, like oh guy 1 is the singer, guy 2 is rap and so on. It's weird how they introduce themselves explicitly like that. Of course they have their own strengths but why do that?
 
I don't know about 2010 kpop but I think the surviving groups and artists from 2000s kpop are still quite good and are beginning to have their own musical input.
 
I specifically like songs (partially) written and composed by Donghae of Suju for some reason:
 
Also key's solo albums are prime kpop goodness. 
 
Odd eye best kpop album of the decade tbh, bts can't compare
 
 
 

Mamireta >
 
 
 
So PUNCH RECORDS are doing shows with a live audience...? :s 

I love this second MV 🥰❤️.

I love this second MV 🥰❤️.

theyre gonna be coming out with a new single soon called "Corona made my Mitsu poor"

Miku will  perform tomorow.
 
 

It has been announced by guitarist Yu that keyboardist/backing vocalist Luminor, formerly of German band Cinema Bizarre from 2005-2008, has passed away on April 12. He was one of the founding members of the band, and he had later departed due to health issues. 
 
 
Luminor's passing was first brought up last week, without official confirmation, so understandably it was thought to be a rumor - even by his former bandmates, like Strify and Yu who had put up official statements due to the barrage of comments on their social media. It doesn't help that the fanbase - even 10 years on after their disbandment which is fucking sad btw - likes to spread rumors and speculate the cause of death, which I won't get into further. 
 
As everyone else stanned Seremedy or Tokio Hotel back in the day, Cinema Bizarre was a band that was close to my heart as they were one of my faves back in middle school. I can never forget Luminor's uniquely smooth deep voice that blended well with Strify's, and he made Cinema Bizarre for me imo; they were never the same after he left. As someone who wanted to believe it was all a hoax, the fact that this is actually true just fucking sucks. May he rest in peace.
 

 

There's this vtuber sitcom called Watanuki-san chi that airs on TV Tokyo. Last week's episode had Golden Bomber's drummer Kenji Darvish as a guest appearance playing himself and at the end they sing Memeshikute.

Joe Hill mentions Hide's passing in his novel Heart Shaped Box which was published in 2007. I was 17 at the time which might be one of the reasons he became my fav non-queer horror novelist. 

I guess this is not totally unexpected but still it was surprising/fun to spot in this context: the Strictly Dumpling guy just put up a video on his channel where he went to a bunch of ramen joints in Sapporo, and one of the places is decorated with signatures/messages from bands who ate there. 未完成アリス (Mikansei Alice) is the only VK band I could spot... well it was hard to miss, lol.
 

if one really thinks about it, politicians are in fact quite like musicians of visualkei:
- it's all about the looks & public performance
- their instruments are the states of the country they govern
- sometimes they go on indefinite hiatus
- no matter how many scandals they get involved in, there will always be stans ready & waiting for them to make a comeback
- multi-type albums & singles

Found some ass-old ones on my old hard drive 

 

I went through my random shit folder and came across some memes and other dumb edits I've made, and figured some of them could be shared here too. Fairly long post incoming haha
 
 

oc donut steal

IF I SAW THIS THEN YOU HAVE TO TOO

I think this is supposed to be MUCC's drummer. Either way - whichever Jrocker it is he's lookin  so cool the picture got flagged as inappropriate by tumblr lmao

Kenzi with a sickly looking Yuuga and a very different Yayoi from a Deadly Sanctuary revival in 2007.

Cursed photo of Orochi when it originally formed when Ryu was studying in Australia.

Now, cursed images are a hobby of mine. I collect them as best I can, and my favourite kind are without a doubt, cursed VK images. I even made a compilation video of all the ones I collected:
There's just so many! So I figured, how about you? I was inspired to make a topic for cursed VK images after all the lovely posts we had back in the random thoughts thread. Do you have some cursed images in your stockpile to share? If so, I'd love to see them!
I'll start off with the one I posted in the random thoughts thread a few days ago, as it's so cursed that I'm sad that it missed the video

I also found some more of this cursed pairing just now!


^Now that's spicy

I have bought the edition that brings the dvd in concert

This video are really nice 😊.
Maybe I buy the Limited B or regular ... So I don't know 😣.