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I did a cover of キミヨサラバ on youtube. I look really sad in the video, but that's just because I'm uncomfortable lol 👀 
 

A few years ago, I think it was before anyone really knew who he was, Yohio appeared on a Norwegian talk show and  started talking about Mana.

A few years ago, I think it was before anyone really knew who he was, Yohio appeared on a Norwegian talk show and  started talking about Mana.

A few years ago, I think it was before anyone really knew who he was, Yohio appeared on a Norwegian talk show and  started talking about Mana.

A few years ago, I think it was before anyone really knew who he was, Yohio appeared on a Norwegian talk show and  started talking about Mana.

I did a cover of キミヨサラバ on youtube. I look really sad in the video, but that's just because I'm uncomfortable lol 👀 
 

I drink 2-3 cups of black coffee every morning. For some reason I loved coffee even as a child, so my mom used to give it to me in my own tiny mug. So I've been a coffee drinker since I could barely walk lol. In recent years I've also come to like tea a lot, mostly green. I love the bitter taste. So now I have coffee in the morning and tea in the evening. 

I did a cover of キミヨサラバ on youtube. I look really sad in the video, but that's just because I'm uncomfortable lol 👀 
 

Here’s a little preview of a vocal cover I’ve been working on for The Gazette’s song ‘Sono koe wa moroku’! The instrumental is by Ron Williams! (I’ll link it below!)
 
 

I honestly don't really know anymore.
The first bands I heard about were Nightmare and the GazettE. My sister was a fan of them both and showed them to me. I just thought it was OK. But when she showed me LM.C I just fell in love. I had never heard anything like it, and their old music videos are so cute haha. After discovering LM.C I got more interested in the genre, so I started to check out other bands as well. I got really into Versailles, the GazettE, Pierrot  and a bunch of other bands, and vk just became a big part of my life. I was 10 years old at the time, and I'm 22 now, so I kinda feel like there's no way out haha. As I got older, my taste in music has changed a lot, but vk is still one of the most important parts of my life. It just kinda feels like "home", in a way? Also, being a musician myself, I feel like there's always this weird pressure to listen to only the coolest and most technical music, so it feels really good to just put on some weird-ass japanese punk 🙃

There's a lot of money involved in the production of k-pop so that it sounds good or whatever, but the artists suck lol. Most of them are actually really bad singers, but they fix it in post. So yeah, I don't think it necessarily sounds bad, but it's definitely overrated. 

I think the name is too focused in the japanese market, if they want to grow overseas they should do like kizu and become "アアアア"

ああああmazing news!

He is spreading hope around the world with a celebrity collab. tbh as a will.i.am fan this song is actually pretty good
 
 
 

If you can easily get the music in a legal way, then I don't really see the point of downloading it illegally. It will only hurt the musicians. 

Hi! I've know about this forum for a while, but never been active so I thought I'd make a post ^^ I've been into VK since around 2008, but none of my friends from that time are into VK anymore and my autistic ass finds it really hard to talk to new people so yeah.. My favorite bands are LM.C and PIERROT, and I'm obsessed with shitty kote kei 😬 

Yeah, this is the one famous pic. Although it's taken inside a store kyo still looks very surprised. The bangyas at tanuki mainly hated on his girl for being a kuso gaijin uwu

It's penis music lol. Okay, I'm not here to talk shit about pop music, especially not Kpop. There's more artistic merit to it than some give it, and many perfectly sane Kpop fans get unfairly lumped in with the Stans. 
 
But man, I used to be really neutral and happy towards Kpop back when I first got into VK, y'know, being like "Hey guys, let's all get along and talk music and have fun 🤗" but then some of them got into my DMs and completely disrespected my music taste, insisted that "It's all Asian, it's the same, so you should love BTS too or something's wrong with you weeb" and I even got into a fight with one because she said some super ignorant things about--not VK or the band--but just metal music in general (didn't help that she attacked Insanity Injection whom I really like but she said "this isn't music, it's people screaming into the mic" and so I just reversed the logic with "[Kpop] is not music, it's meaningless noise created for brainless consoomers"). All of this shit wasn't even on Twitter, it was on fucking anime Instagram posts and random or VK Youtube videos. And nothing, not even saying "I don't like western pop" or "I'm not fond of Jpop myself" calms them down. I've been called racist against Asians because I don't like Kpop--never mind the fact that I'm on this forum so that says something about what I think about Asian people--I'M FROM ASIA. I don't even pass for white more than like 25% of the time... Honestly, it just makes me more and more irate as the years go by, because I was so open minded about it and willing to be friendly and actually listen to their damn band recommendations. At this rate I'll be an unironic Anti before I'm legally old enough to pour my own drinks. 
 
That background is needed to understand my current stance. I did genuinely try to get into Kpop; I started with BTS like they all tell you to and I listened to about 5 different releases of theirs.
 
 I was far from impressed. They sounded behind the times. Not in a charming way, but in a way that made me feel... Uncomfortable? I recognized the electronica-infused choruses and hip-hop inspired verses from Western pop music and even some elements from 2010s fads like tropical house production [God I hated that fad] and asked myself "Why is this any better than the white people stuff?" I don't think it is. I think it's on par, personally. I think this stems from an issue Kpop fans have. They can't just call a mediocre album a mediocre album, or even acknowledge a bad song/album because of hype. It's all got to be amazing, flawless, like the second coming of Christ. Honestly, even bands I consider to be absolutely amazing have some songs I don't hype because they're a step in wrong direction or have questionable production choices, but when I say "Yeah, this album is pretty great, but stay away from track X Y Z, they're not the best" the person receiving my recommendation often finds it funny and listens anyway, and then we can have a laugh about how weird it was for a VK band to do Ska or for the vocalist to think that now's the time to try opera vocals for the first time in his life. Sometimes I even completely shit on a band I love because they're an acquired taste or have an endearing charm and originality that lacks any and all technical savoir-faire. 
 
 
Personally, I don't understand how anyone from any counterculture/alternative music group (wassup punks and Goths) could be really into something mainstream at the same time, I thought we gathered around this stuff because it was alternative and had messages in it that differ from the mainstream.  Sure, you could remark on all the Oshare bands that aren't particularly deep or meaningful to say that VK in general is artistically bankrupt but it also wouldn't be fair if I pretended that this whole scene is just deliciously layered social/political commentary like Diru or idiosyncratic cultural experimentalism like Guruguru Eigakan.  On the mainstream aspect, I mean, the mainstream kind of defines the space that creates a counterculture. It's not what they are. Well I mean, what's not mainstream is the they, and mainstream is the us. I think this sense of othering VK bands and fans experience is central to the culture's structure, as something that exists as a byproduct of failed standard conformation. 
 
 I don't know how some VK fans can up and leave for Kpop so quick. Maybe they just liked the Oshare stuff, I guess, but I can't believe they would leave behind all the great post-punk, experimental, speed metal, alt-rock, etc. groups behind when Kpop doesn't offer anything similar. When I listen to pop music, I long for that missing guitar solo, or lack of Jpop chords (if it's Western pop music). Also the PVs are completely different--least from what I see. Every Kpop group I've seen is good at dancing. Hella good. And I've been doing dance for 8 years of my life, I know good technique and stage presence when I see it. When I say that, you might be shocked to know that I still prefer VK PVs where the bandomen just stare at the camera and sulk, or dance around while playing guitar or something. There's been masterful executions of this simple formula, like in cali≠gari's 歪んだ鏡 which legit gave me nightmares of Hage Shuuji staring into my soul.  Might be a false positive because that song dredges some mental trauma other than his face but my point still stands. There's also a lot of PVs that don't have killer dance moves but have a lot of creative spirit to them, like BUCK-TICK's EMPTY GIRL or literally anything Malice Mizer filmed, and that's the stuff I like the most. I've lost interest in big-budget MVs, and prefer a smaller scale spectacle.

If you can easily get the music in a legal way, then I don't really see the point of downloading it illegally. It will only hurt the musicians. 

If you can easily get the music in a legal way, then I don't really see the point of downloading it illegally. It will only hurt the musicians. 

I guess I should do an intro huh lol 
 
I'm Reida and I've been a fan of VK for awhile now. My #1 favorite band is the GazettE but I also follow RANDS and another band. I got into VK thanks to MUCC and D'espairsRay and have been going downhill ever since. I go to lives whenever possible and I make GazettE furi videos lmao I don't follow much new VK anymore. I just stick to 2-3 bands since a lot of newer bands (besides RANDS) don't really catch my interest anymore, plus, money.
 
Idk what else to say. I've known about this place for a long time, but never joined until now so that I could offer a shopping service for overseas 蘭図 (RANDS) fans. I'm really only active on Twitter and Instagram now a days.... and not using my typical username lol

Hello everyone, like most here i know the site since a while before finally making an Account. 
 
I suppose i belong to the grannies as i started with vk back in 06. 
I had a break from activly following up the scene for 7 years and like a so many i had run of to Kpop 😅. 
But i the end i decided to go back to the roots.  My favourite bands are all disbanded, Phantasmagoria (because of kisaki it feels bad to list them but eitherway), the studs and déspairs ray. 
 
Nowadays i follow up mainly on mucc and dir en grey. I also started catching up on other groups but till now nothing from the new ones. 
 
Besides that i love to listen to exile tribe and their related groups (its jpop). 

Hi! I've know about this forum for a while, but never been active so I thought I'd make a post ^^ I've been into VK since around 2008, but none of my friends from that time are into VK anymore and my autistic ass finds it really hard to talk to new people so yeah.. My favorite bands are LM.C and PIERROT, and I'm obsessed with shitty kote kei 😬