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Thanks for sharing! But I can't do anything with that. If someone can romanize the album lyrics for me and post them here, that would be phenomenal.

If they're going to do more ballads: at least make them as good as Kono Sekai ni Mihana Saretemo. End of story.

Well, we are talking about music we would listen to if we never heard Japanese music. I don't particularly see a problem. Just sayin...

I agree with 99% of this.

Brief review from me to start things off, I'll go into more detail later, but for now: It's a very nice album, without too many if any really low points and I don't think there are any songs I would deem "completely unlistenable." I'm thinking, for me, the lowest point might be... Nagusami no Sora and the highest point is Shinzou. Overall I'll give it an 8/10 for the first listen, with potential to get better. My main concern is: Will I remember any of these sogns 6 hours from now?

@kir and shimbo-dono: I don't know what it is about gay men but we do love the divas I literally like just about all of them except Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera. I LOVE CHER. Haha... and Ke$ha. I think she's a filthy filthy mess, but her music is fun.

This. :$

As soon as I saw you wrote that, I thought that too. teehee! But I don't argue stupid shit like that. You're team HAGuilera, I'm team GodGa, and that's just fine Also, I had no idea you were a fellow homosexual.

WHARGARBL. I HATE CHRISTINA AGUILERA. But I digrees, I would much rather Miz Spears over her any day of the year. I also just want to say I love gagaloo's voice and the way it's synthed and stuff, Idk, I know a lot of people don't like her, her haters don't bother me as much as Madonna's haters bother me. Madonna is my personal lord and savior. Annnnyway, Gaga has a song called Speechess and the song goes like that and I was just using it as a joke because of your gaga bashing, haha was not being serious.

EXTREMELY well said. Also @SUBLIMINAL haha yes I'm a he and it's cool! No harm no foul. The only reason why I'm embarrassed about MCR is because everyone in my general area looks at MCR like... Idk... kidmetal or something hahaha. Like only 12 year old scene/emo posers would listen to it but I actually like the music because i like the music, not because I'm scene and it's mandatory or some shit. And I assume you mean MCR is less embarrassing than Madonna, Gaga, Katy, and Miley correct? I get a lot of shit because of Miley, but I'm not embarrassed just because I'm just a huge fan. I can at least see where the ridicule comes from. Madonna, Katy, and Gaga: There is no shame whatsoever. Yo, Madonna is fucking boss. Katy Perry and Lady Gagonmacock can go eat shit. Not even my shit becuz I would not expend the effort for them to lavish in my otherwordly shit.Seriously though, I don't understand this whole big shit over Gaga. She is not unique. Her music is in no way original or good, except that you can dance to most of it. Her lyrics mean nothing and she's become a gimmick. Her music is catchy, but that is becuz she recycles the same beats that have been recycled from the fucking 80s. The hooks that she sings have been written and sung by SOOOOO many artists before, and despite the fact that she isn't a terrible singer with a horrible voice, she rarely ever uses her voice to the effect that she could. If she hadn't started wearing those terrible outfits, she would not have become famous. And even then, she hardly designs any of those outfits. People design it for her. So how does that make her original? She is everything I have against pop music, THE FACT THAT LADY GAGA DOES NOT EXIST OUTSIDE HER MUSIC. She is not a human, not in the way that people can relate to each other. To the general public that consumes whatever crap is played on the radio or on the TV, she is entertainment. Even when she tries to have messages or make a statement, they are always done within a music video, a novelty that is consumed by the masses and is soon an afterthought because her statements are just their to bring about controversy. She is thing that churns out music and controversy outta her ass that can be gobbled up. No one cares about her and no one cares about what she says or what she stands for. And that is the epitome of pop music. This is the very reason why Lady Gaga is the quintessential pop artist, and also the very reason why Madonna is, and forever will be, the Queen of Pop. Because despite the Gagster making her living as a novelty, Madonna is the artist that makes the trends, the trends that are rehashed by artists like Gaga who become novelties. In short, Madonna is the Queen of Pop because her calculated moves and music create the novelty pop acts that have been manufactured since she came out in the 80s. tl;dr - Gaga is a worse and rehashed version of Madonna. She will never out controversial Madonna and her music will never be as trend-setting as the music that Madonna has put out. Lady Gaga is a low-quality carbon copy of everything Madonna has done, except wear stupid gimmicky clothing. OOOHHH BOY YOU'VE LEFT ME SPEECHLESSSSSS SOOOO SPEECHLEESSSSGaga jokes aside, I wholeheartedly agree that Madonna is better. I'm like Madonna's biggest fan so to say that I like Gaga as much as Madge would be a total insult to Madge. However, I do really like Gaga's music. Why? Not for the lyrics... there's not much merit to them. Her outfits? Naw, I like this whole avante-garde freak thing she's got going on, no doubt, but that's not why I like it... I like it simply because I'm a faggot who likes to dance. Hahahaha, that's what it comes down to with me.

Not addressing your point but...THIS! Oh my god I fucking hate it when people throw this at me! "Oh I don't listen to Diru anymore they're too American for me now!" WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN? First off, most people didn't listen to Dir en grey back when they were VK. I WAS THERE SO I WOULD KNOW! The bunch of these VK-posers need to hop off. Secondly, it's not that Dir en grey is playing "American metal". It's that they're no longer wearing thigh-high bitch boots and loads of make-up. If you listen to the music, which you know, they MAKE, the stylistic differences between Kisou and Six Ugly are not that big. Kyo just has more screams and they tuned their guitars differently. Hell, the transition between Kisou and VULGAR isn't all that big. It's not until Withering to death. where you see these stylistic changes that people dub "American metal". Hell, I bet if they kept up with the VK act people would be jizzing buckets claiming that they're only getting better. *sigh* this is what I've been saying from the start hahaha

This.

Versailles - love the visuals, themes, lyrics, and composition. D'espairsRay - I think they just keep getting better with time, contrary to popular belief. Dir en grey - They make me feel angry, in the best possible way. Kaya - Love his voice and lyrics above all, the musical compositions are phenom, as I love dance music, visuals I love least, because I don't fap over girly looking men (even if they're quite attractive) D - Big fan of a lot of their music. Maybe not all. But most.

I HATE NEGA AND DALI AND SIVA AND ALMOST ALL UCP BANDS. There, I figured out something in JRock I vehemently hate. And not JUST because they're UCP, but because they're completely unimaginative and shit. Nega usually has really good ideas and themes and visuals, BUT theu just suck at music. So so so much suck.

I find myself agreeing with the Kingdom Hearts comments haha, but yeah Phones666 if it's not really your thing I don't blame you for not liking it. For me though, awesome single. I love his genre of music.

EXTREMELY well said. Also @SUBLIMINAL haha yes I'm a he and it's cool! No harm no foul. The only reason why I'm embarrassed about MCR is because everyone in my general area looks at MCR like... Idk... kidmetal or something hahaha. Like only 12 year old scene/emo posers would listen to it but I actually like the music because i like the music, not because I'm scene and it's mandatory or some shit. And I assume you mean MCR is less embarrassing than Madonna, Gaga, Katy, and Miley correct? I get a lot of shit because of Miley, but I'm not embarrassed just because I'm just a huge fan. I can at least see where the ridicule comes from. Madonna, Katy, and Gaga: There is no shame whatsoever.

I'm beginning to just hate this thread. No one but Zesshoku is doing it right. And maybe Tokage.

It's a pretty general scene, but I digress. I hate PIECElang and that Hikaru turned into a faggot, like I mentioned in the JRock Doctor thread.

Actually not at all. I adore Nicki Minaj, if I were embarrassed about one of those two it would be Jeffree Star, but I'm a big fan haha

I totally forgot that shit-ass band's name. Their music was so bad that I think I repressed it. Izabel Varosa is, to this day, one of my favorite bands, and Hikaru is one of my favorite vocalists. PIECElang needs to die..... I'm taking this to the hate thread hahahaa

I'm hating that people are generalizing Versailles fans as 15 year old screaming fan girls. I'm a 20 year old man and love them for their music, I like their visual a lot too but I'm not going to fap over it. Come on now.

What the fuck is Kate Gosselin doing with 2 members of Aicle?

Jrock is really the only rock I like. Aside from that it's american pop... so: Katy Perry, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Jeffree Star, Adam Lambert, Black Eyed Peas, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj (or anything she's featured in.) Also, AFI and My Chemical Romance. But I'm sort of embarrassed by them.

The irony for me is that I really don't like older Jrock aside from the occaisional Luna Sea, Dir en grey, and Malice Mizer. I'm more into Instant Classics. (Which is why I would say Sink by Kaya, but I know that would be shunned upon.) SO, INSTEAD: REDDISH -DIVA version- D'espairsRay Tsuki no Kioku -fallen- D'espairsRay Tainted World D'espairsRay Rosier, Shine, In My Dream, I for you - Luna Sea The entire album of Merveilles by Malice Mizer Obscure by Dir en grey (also Shokubeni)

Can't agree anymore. I feel the same when people always reference D'espairsRay's demo tapes as their "good days." It can be a jumbled mess of crap and screaming, as long as it is "heavy" and "dark" amirite?This and this.