nekkichi

tbh all of their music sounds the same, they could as well keep the "new song A/B/C" thing as the actual finalized titles

budget versailles can unconditionally gtfo already

natsuki wyd there, run-n-n-n-n-n

idg it????? he looks like the token ugly twink friend????? tha joke is lost on me tbh

tbh I sometimes think someone offered sadie members a modest retirement pension just to prevent them from releasing more crap ~in tha universe~, but by some wicked reason those two lil shits never settled

gzt are pretty self-aware of their semi-manufactured poprock band niche in the music industry and lack kaoru's signature asinine stubborness. this sounds like a release they would dedicate to fans not impressed by dogma (it didn't really sell well, despite all the promotion effort) without investing that much time & creative energy; I really don't get where Deg comparisons come from if anything this would be closer to that lynch. best of thing.

it's for Asians and white girls who listen to top-40 music anyway, except in a fancy exotique language with visibly hetsex men flaunting nice hair. they can release that shit for free lbr and get reimbursed with skincare collabs & live gigs slipknot did the very same thing tho I'm actually pretty curious regarding what the trans-othersex people who use "it" and "zir" as their pronouns listen to on the reg. (like I really would like someone in the know to chime in on this) and that being said, there will be a spike in western trans-music acts getting signed/promoted/recognized before vk will have its hypothetical 2nd chance if we're using gender expression as a reference point.

I appreciate their dedication in putting those overtime hours working as a sound excrement human farm tbh. bonus points for lifting a single title off LMC, like, literally scrapping the bottom of vk compost barrel there. that's sadie members for you, duh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

mama serving foodbaby Willam looks this time, loving this concept

this gotta be something beautiful, talented, one of a kind, unique like a tour of stand up episodes of Kirito laughing at his own “be careful who you call ugly during indie label era” jokes, and an embarrassed freshly head-shaved kyo selectively pigsquealing in response all funds procured go towards a time machine to 2002, thus the project title

as long as it's not a goth EDM solo artist under the name Gaya/Maya/Daya/Slaya, I'm lowkey here for it

retiring with style, i c

nosutaruggia is v. good I'm really unhappy with how much filler initial-l produces compared to late lycaon (their demo live was bloated with shit-tier tracks that mostly went to type a/b b-sides) on a bright side, moonlight dank went top15-something on oricon, that's slightly better than major girugamesh in terms of sales (last dance peaked on #12 iirc, better than all of their other releases); they're potentially the next big thing in vk, judging by that drama tie-in they have coming up too, yuuki good sis does her hustle right so far.

omg remember lovetrick

could there be some correlation between myspace fading into obscurity by late 2010, and last.fm following its steps, with tumlr not really being focused on music/media sharing, but rather being granulated into small fandoms and meme reblogging? the myspace/last.fm tandem were relatively efficient for sharing media and luring heterosexual men into mana sama's fandom dungeons. nowadays tho there's barely any way for unsuspecting normies to get acquainted with this genre (visual kei in russia was covered by both animoo/gaming magazines and the local teen vogues of the time around '03-'05) - and I'm not even aware of those existing these days, press took a huge nosedive as well somewhere past 2012; everything that was spoon-fed in bi-weekly issues is now spread over a dozen blogs/twitters that I have zero interest of following tbh. I think there's an overall trend of Japanese media losing its presence in general (like the only semi-recent development I'm aware of is anime alt-right nazis, aside from regular pokemon iterations); lack of new bands of the same caliber as what used to define VK even in early 2000s is also showing - another Rentrer en soi or kagerou caliber band would be both welcome and will definitely revive interest in the scene. there's not much stuff comparable to those. even a good nightmare or SID copycat without the excess of ayabie's poor choices would probably do something in a scene this dire. It's a combination of higher population density (Tbilisi that you've linked has over a million residents), not much other stuff going on coupled with the novelty factor of a real japanese celeb descending over there, and likely close-knit local vk.com animoo community sharing news in advance. iirc, the recent gazette moscow gig was sold out in 30 minutes (I can't find a source for this though, was on someone's instagram that I don't follow on the reg.)

I mean... they're re-recorded now, so at least that's something. I'm disappointed ever since Aoi posted he also wanted an okuribi re-recording, but I guess we can't have nice things, so it's calm envy and shiroki yuutsu, the despicable album filler, making the cut :/

no more hope for japanese music, I suppose

really hope Akane's health has stabilized enough so that he can go on with his scene endeavors. good to know their unreleased material doesn't go to waste as well.

this falls on my birthday, like, O M F G!! really curious how ito's going to turn out with ruki's current singing style.

is it finally time to start speculating that their self-glorifying kickstarter campaign was, like, funded by dynamite tommys loansharks & they weren't amused with return on investment resulties