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Status Updates posted by spockitty
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gotta thank the corona for amai bouryoku guys actually showing their faces on social media for once~
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one good thing coming out of having to wear a face mask everywhere is that cashiers stopped asking me for ID when I buy alcohol~
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This is the best and the worst thing I've seen today
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ayyy would you look at that, I've ascended to the yellow. hope it means I can now legally make yall listen to SARIGIA or else what's the point
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is there a second meaning to おちんちん or they really be talking about dicks on their twitcast two days in a row?
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was reminded yesterday that I saw Gackt in like, 2011, in my own country no less. dunno how I could've forgotten this momentous day, but I'm glad it's come back to me. the absolute peak of my life, s2g.
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how do you people buy just one song from an album? T-T I can't physically make myself do that, it'd drive me nuts. and if I were to buy the whole thing digitally, I might as well just buy the CD ya know~
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hmm this made me lol, just cuz growing up with crappy downloading methods meant that I was content with having the one song I heard, without looking into it and realizing it was from an entire album.
now you have the option and awareness to get the whole album cuz that’s the online web’s job and people still will just get the one song lol.
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lol my initial experience is pretty much the same, but I do remember as soon as I was able to dig information about the releases' contents, I was spending hours collecting each song from the darkest corners of the internet to make it complete. it's a deep rooted issue of mine is what I'm saying X'D
see! I'm at a turning point basically, the only digital stuff I own, is releases that were only ever released digitally.
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today I took it a step further and accidentally closed the whole browser in the middle of writing a post =.=/ what will it be next? unplugging the PC I s2g
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I wonder, how does royalty distribution work in an industry where band members change bands every five minutes~
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I'm pretty sure they're paid on a per-song basis (one of Gackt's former ghostwriters spilled this), if paid for composing etc at all;
iirc some of them are basically salaried employees, but I can't remember if this applies to all bands, or starting at a certain popularity once their label signs them full-time.
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vk/japanese entertainment is different from western music (in the west, record producers are paid once their songs are sold to someone + they might get a cut from each live performance, each licensing deal i.e. advertizing or movie tie-ins, etc, depending on their contract);
japanese entertainment has a talent agency that owns the band/artist and it sells the artist to a record label, and from there, it gets less clear for me because some artists are open about working for non-vk activities and getting paid for those, with others it's rly quiet (they might not get any composing money at all, settling for an office job style salary that covers everything they record and pitch to the label, regardless if that stuff ends up released under their name or sold further.)
Gackt (a self-proclaimed self-made/self-raised chanteuse and composer) paid his support musicians around $5k for composing his singles at his peak, iirc.
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I hit cancel on a post I've been working on for the past 3 hours... that was some 5 seconds of horror and disbelief. thank fuck for the restore option omg~
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fck Miyoshi followed me back on twitter five seconds before I was about to rant how he really doesn't need 3 twitter accounts with 3 songs to his name =.=/
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signed up for Japanese classes, starting in two weeks! \^^/
ayy it's been so long~
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Hehe thank you! I'm super excited ^^ if maybe a bit worried, cause I've always studied Japanese in English and these classes will presumably be in Polish, so I expect some brain gimnastics at the beginning there~
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monkeybanana4 reacted to this
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ok so Dammitland's maa added me to a list on twitter. what is the purpose of those?
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I was supposed to use twitter only to keep up with vk bands and now it's consumed my life, send help
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uh why the white border around the profile pic >.>
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haha, I'M SORRY but also, let's unite in misery. totally ruins my ~aesthetic™~
I didn't notice before cause I had a white background >.>
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SubThatSong reacted to this
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da fuck are these ゑ , ゐ lol
(I do know now I'm just surprised somehow it's the first time I see those)
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1. hiragana "we" (historical kana)Obsolete term
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2. We (kana)ゑ, in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana. It is presumed that ゑ represented . It is thought that, after ゑ and え came to denote the same pronunciation as イェ in the Kamakura period, they came to be pronounced as the modern エ [e e]; there is also the view that the pronunciation difference between the two kana remained until the Taishō period.
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1. hiragana "wi" (historical kana)Obsolete term
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2. Wi (kana)ゐ, in and that ゐ and い indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the Kamakura period and the Taishō period when they both came to be pronounced [i i]. Along with the kana for we, (ゑ in hiragana, ヱ in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946, and replaced with い and イ. It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia and foreign words, the katakana form ウィ (U-) is preferred.
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Finally gave DIMLIM's Kidoairaku a listen and it's.... an experience. The acapella tracks sound like improv theatre recordings. Had I heard it with no context I'd be in a serious state of WTF. The first CD tho 👌