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A easy example about how the looks don't necessarily reflect the person of a visual kei artist is the usage of the hakenkreuz by the earliests bands. We don’t see as much nowadays, but the SS caps always appears, sooner or later. Of course that there was some classic japanese punk nationalism in some bands here and there, but core of V系 was about shocking after all. So, the imaginary of the nazism is aesthetic, therefore should be used. As @薔薇の末裔 pointed out, understanding Kabuki is a good way to understand this theatrical musical scene. Kabuki in its first days was a female theater, a more accessible branch of Noh. But it was just too sexy for that confucian society. “A woman's place is in the kitchen”, said the Shogun (or it was my dad last night?). And then, the boys took the place of the woman, doing woman roles. But the boys turned out into fuckboys. “Notto disu shitto agen”, said the Shogun. And then, old man were doing woman roles. “Hmm”, long and deeply said the Shogun. Keep in mind that everyone was killing everyone in the past sengoku century, so the Shoguns could not fuck around (ha). “Ok, ok, And so what?”. Well, since being really sexy was not an option, the onnagata dudes started doing their own shit to emulate the woman sexyness. First come the fancy wig, then they started showing some little skin and so on. Little by little there was no more “man” or “woman”, but onnagata. A woman that no other woman could be. At that point, Kabuki without man doing female roles is not Kabuki. Visual kei without man doing female roles is not visual kei? I don’t think so, exist†trace showed their shit and we digged it hard. But I would say that is highly expected to see a man doing female roles in the visual rock scene. D’s “Ouka saki some ni keri” is my pick for today. The contrast of Asagi manly vocals with his woman clothing is a perfectly example of why we love it the way it is. They do it with passion (or for money), and we love them for it, not because their sexual preference. The whole pv setting is a love letter for their culture. And it is just one example, there is so many other bands with pvs with that scenary (and probably there is a “something-kei” for it too). The pompous and bold Glam Rock found it’s home in the japanese costumes and evolved into the coolest thing. To be deeper into to sexuallity stuff we could talk about how Japan society potentially repress the sexual preference of their people in order to have things working “in the right way” and how the west really needs to “talk about it” and not let the individuals be themselves without pushing some agenda into your fuckin throat so it’s fuckin hard to understand these japs using lipsticks just because they like it, but that stress me too much so fuck it.

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Maybe in 2 days they let us see the 1 minute preview and, with luck, we got the full MV the day after before release.

They sold out the limited donate-a-bag-of-animal-food-and-pay-the-half-of-the-price ticket. Still selling the normal one (which you still can pay the half if you are student) and the M&G. Anyway, some days ago someone from the organizers told that the tickets were "selling well" in general. In total, there was 300 tickets on sale. Let's see.

Love Gabu's chaotic energy.

I don`t blame him, Rainbow Six is a pretty cool game.

First time hearing. I'm impressed. sayonara byebye

I liked it. The good and ol' anime vibes

The good thing about Visual Kei is that it is always around. A little different now and then, ever changing but never losing the glamour. Arlequin is still rocking a lot btw. Love these guys.

Half of the campaign and 63%. Our boy posted one of the songs to show the stuff. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/madmans-esprit-blu-ray-live-video-new-single Almost had a seizure watching this btw

Waiting for the PV with the Psico shower scene.

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ALL ABORD INTO THE MANA'S SHOPPING BASKET

He is talking about the emoji reaction that you did in the bottom right of his first comment, but with some Issei style of approach. lmao

Ah yes, 60's alien antennas are the shit indeed.

Can't wait. INNOCENCE was really good.

I find early deg often too confusing. I would even say that the visual diru works really better for me in a audio-visual way. Myaku is a song that I dig the MV a lot, but without the right mood I would skip it easily in the song player. Macabre is another song that makes me think that if I had a bigger understanding of the language, the album (and maybe the whole era) would feel less deranged. Like in a classic japanese theather experience, the guitars making strange noises followed by some drumming in the middle of the song would only make sense if you know the history behind it beforehand. Of course the band never stopped in sounding chaotic, but now they are chaotic in a more ordened way, making it easier to digest. The last 3 releases are highly enjoyable albums. I could listen DSS, Arche and TIW for ages without skiping a song, but they lack of really remarkable tracks. Thats why I put TMoaB higher. Even if sometimes it is a tiring experience, Namamekashiki, Ryoujoku no Ame, The Pledge and Conceived Sorrow made it for me. Uroboros, Vulgar and WtD are things that I will protect with my life. 01. Uroboros 01. Vulgar 03. Withering to Death 04. The Marrow of a Bone 05. Dum Spiro Spero 05. Arche 07. The Insulated World 08. Gauze 09. Kisou 10. Macabre

Pois é, nada como sair do aeroporto e ir direto para o trabalho, haha pf me mata Pelo menos o local é na frente do metrô, o que facilita as coisas.

He looks like in pain, but in slow motion.

Comprei também, só esperando liberarem os goods agora.

Remember: "What the hell is this?" is a reasonable tought.

We always had the jornals scanning stuff and the blogs with daily updates, but at some point there was a "trading rare lives in p2p" thing going on that sucked. Btw, glad I did not sucked any cock for these hot Matina stuff, because a lot of them are on youtube right now.

O show tem uma hotpage agora: www.dimlimnobrasil.com 29 de Março, domingo e 300 ingressos. É um olho no feed do Facebook pra comprar os ingressos e outro no site da TAM pra comprar a passagem.