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I'm off and on when it comes to K-pop but I think this time around I'm gonna stay off.
 
I'm gonna come off a certain way when i say this but i promise its not meant to offend. 
 
When I got back into K-Pop in 2014-2015, I Honestly believed that this was a revolutionary genre. There was a lot of creativity with the music and I will always admire how the songs even in that 3:30-3:50 pocket, can make me feel so satisfied. Even with the plethora of groups, they all had their own style to an extent and they were always reinventing themselves with every release. However with that said, this applied mainly to the Girl groups and there wasn't that pressure or intent to break into the US back then. Come the tail end of 2016-2017...a lot of the groups/singers that i loved chose not to renew their contracts/disbanded, thus ending what I believe was the golden run of K-Pop. Since then, there's been a surge of guy groups that have taken the spotlight. I'm not mad at this because I know that trends happen and its how the business goes. The groups now sound more or less like carbon copies of each other and its clear that the goal is for as many of em to break into the US as possible. The artsy part about it that I need to enjoy music in general is gone. 
 
But im ok with that. I've racked up so much music and videos on my HD with stuff that I enjoy so Its really no love lost. 
 
As for the fans, I try my hardest to stay away from them so they don't bother me as much. But that's not to say they're not some of the most despicable, delusional, and outright nastiest people on the internet. I refuse to give them the pass of mental illness because its disrespectful to those who actually do have issues. Also i believe a lot of these individuals just act like this online and feed off of each other.
 
 
 

I'm off and on when it comes to K-pop but I think this time around I'm gonna stay off.
 
I'm gonna come off a certain way when i say this but i promise its not meant to offend. 
 
When I got back into K-Pop in 2014-2015, I Honestly believed that this was a revolutionary genre. There was a lot of creativity with the music and I will always admire how the songs even in that 3:30-3:50 pocket, can make me feel so satisfied. Even with the plethora of groups, they all had their own style to an extent and they were always reinventing themselves with every release. However with that said, this applied mainly to the Girl groups and there wasn't that pressure or intent to break into the US back then. Come the tail end of 2016-2017...a lot of the groups/singers that i loved chose not to renew their contracts/disbanded, thus ending what I believe was the golden run of K-Pop. Since then, there's been a surge of guy groups that have taken the spotlight. I'm not mad at this because I know that trends happen and its how the business goes. The groups now sound more or less like carbon copies of each other and its clear that the goal is for as many of em to break into the US as possible. The artsy part about it that I need to enjoy music in general is gone. 
 
But im ok with that. I've racked up so much music and videos on my HD with stuff that I enjoy so Its really no love lost. 
 
As for the fans, I try my hardest to stay away from them so they don't bother me as much. But that's not to say they're not some of the most despicable, delusional, and outright nastiest people on the internet. I refuse to give them the pass of mental illness because its disrespectful to those who actually do have issues. Also i believe a lot of these individuals just act like this online and feed off of each other.
 
 
 

This is an interesting topic and is being discussed more maturely than I had anticipated.
From my experience and interests, I used to despise K-Pop. But it is a lot of fun if you like it for your own reasons. 
I would even go as far to say as the Visual Kei fandom is quite similar but on a smaller scale due to how large or small the communities are. 
Both focus around liking sub-cultures and, while not all of them,  most listen exclusively to groups that fall with in those sub-cultures. 
I, myself, listen to a lot of different things as of late. Not just Japanese or Korean music. As for the fandoms, toxicity is not unique to the kpop culture, it exists just as prominently in the visual kei fan base as well as any other other fan base.  Kpop groups charge high prices for meet and greets and concert tickets, while Visual Kei groups host in store events that require you to also spend a lot of money to get a ticket or to be able to meet/have a photo with all the members. In Visual Kei there are fans who follow exclusively one band, and in Kpop there are fans who follow exclusively one group. There are crazy obsessive fans in VK and in Kpop but both also have communities in which people have met really close friends and made memories together that are priceless. As for the music, that's really left to the individual. One may say all kpop sounds the same while another says all visual kei sounds the same. As much as we'd all like to defend our favorites and say that Dir en grey or BTS are so original, it's just not that true. In todays day and age and how people really learn music through the influence of other musicians, there is no one artist who simply picked up an instrument and made something that wasn't at least similarly done by someone on this earth filled with approximately 7.5 billion people. It's more so about being genuine with how you use music as a universal language. That's just me. But I'm sure if i had the time, I could find a lot more lesser known garage bands or bedroom DJs who make more genuine music than a most of massively known artists, but it would be impossible for one person to find them all. So instead of thinking of originality maybe just look at it as "Does this speak to me? Do I vibe with this? Is it genuine?" and just follow what makes you feel good. Do I think people just like Kpop groups for the hot boys? Absolutely, but I also think the same about some fans of visual kei bands. For some people, the music does come first. I'm quite picky when it comes to either side. I have an acquired taste and I know what sort of feeling or vibes I like. Mejibray was really popular, but I just couldn't get in to them musically. TXT is really popular, but their music didn't really vibe with me. It just depends on the person.
 
My last final opinion, based on my own mistakes, denying yourself from listening to something because of the other people who like it... I don't think that's a true opinion of your thoughts on the music regardless of the genre. If you like something, you don't need to partake in the culture of it to enjoy it. 

This is RAW as fuck.
 
I lost mine at 16 and since then i've had good, bad, and anything in between type of experiences when it comes to sex. I do believe sex is best when you do have a connection/relationship with that person. But I also believe that its totally ok to hook up as well, whether its a friends with benefits or a one and done type thing. Just be safe about it mentally, emotionally, and physically. If you are still a virgin in your 20's, who cares. Its your life and fuck anyone who is or may be giving you pressure. While i don't agree that sex is as big of a deal as religion and others may make of it, I understand that is not the case for everyone. Do it when you're ready. And most importantly don't be an idiot about it. Last thing you want is some nasty disease, incurable or not or some damn kids running around. 

This is RAW as fuck.
 
I lost mine at 16 and since then i've had good, bad, and anything in between type of experiences when it comes to sex. I do believe sex is best when you do have a connection/relationship with that person. But I also believe that its totally ok to hook up as well, whether its a friends with benefits or a one and done type thing. Just be safe about it mentally, emotionally, and physically. If you are still a virgin in your 20's, who cares. Its your life and fuck anyone who is or may be giving you pressure. While i don't agree that sex is as big of a deal as religion and others may make of it, I understand that is not the case for everyone. Do it when you're ready. And most importantly don't be an idiot about it. Last thing you want is some nasty disease, incurable or not or some damn kids running around. 

This is RAW as fuck.
 
I lost mine at 16 and since then i've had good, bad, and anything in between type of experiences when it comes to sex. I do believe sex is best when you do have a connection/relationship with that person. But I also believe that its totally ok to hook up as well, whether its a friends with benefits or a one and done type thing. Just be safe about it mentally, emotionally, and physically. If you are still a virgin in your 20's, who cares. Its your life and fuck anyone who is or may be giving you pressure. While i don't agree that sex is as big of a deal as religion and others may make of it, I understand that is not the case for everyone. Do it when you're ready. And most importantly don't be an idiot about it. Last thing you want is some nasty disease, incurable or not or some damn kids running around. 

I still don't get the trend of calling everything sub-par DEG does,  a Sukekiyo outtake.
 
Two Very different bands. 
 
And its already been made known that this is two tracks Shinya and Kaoru brought to the table and Kyo made the suggestion of putting em together.
 
If anything Mercy is pretty much a TIW leftover.
 

Excuse me....
 
Mine are 8.99.

In the grand scheme of things every DEG album sounds like sweaty cheeks, so I don’t know why we even continue to have this discussion 

Excuse me....
 
Mine are 8.99.

Excuse me....
 
Mine are 8.99.

Excuse me....
 
Mine are 8.99.

Excuse me....
 
Mine are 8.99.

Excuse me....
 
Mine are 8.99.

I feel like I should be more knowledgeable on music dynamics and such since I do write music for fun but tbh
 
...maybe my ear isn't as trained as everyone who has this HUGE issue with the production but to me, its nothing that drastic. I feel like I've heard worse.
 
Musically its easily one of their best efforts in a long time and these lives are a great testament to that.
 
 

I'm listening to the world of mercy rn and tbh it would slay as an opening TIW track
(and they optionally could've scrapped the first two or three shit songs or idk release them as singles later, ending the album with ranunculus and everything would have been better that way)
 
but I'm p sure they didn't have enough rejected ideas ready to get rearranged at the time album was produced.
 
 
I'm trimming it to 6:20 for my playlist lol idc papa kaoru's composing genius up his ass again
 
nnnnn @ takumi's shitty new synth jumping out again I hate it sfm I literally can't, another reason to end this thing early
 
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does anyone else think the way they recorded the kyopera around 09:00 sounds p similar to studio fuckery that yomi from nightmare and hayato from duel jewel were resorting to shortly before announcing their hiatuses/semi-retirement? thots?..

I still don't get the trend of calling everything sub-par DEG does,  a Sukekiyo outtake.
 
Two Very different bands. 
 
And its already been made known that this is two tracks Shinya and Kaoru brought to the table and Kyo made the suggestion of putting em together.
 
If anything Mercy is pretty much a TIW leftover.
 

I fixed this for you.

I fixed this for you.

Giving the internet the "ability" to air out their unpopular opinions was a mistake.
 

I fixed this for you.

Honestly it just sounds like a bunch of the Insulated World tracks mixed together, its not too appealing but if the track is gonna be 10 minutes I cant really judge from 2 minutes of listening. I just hope they don't keep trying to get the Vinushka or Macabre feel again, Zetsuentai was the worse track on the album lol

I tried listening to Infitium In is entirety on my way back home today. And i couldn’t help but skip through the entire album. I’m really fucking disappointed cuz I never thought I’d do that for any Kyo related project. The entire thing was them trying really hard to be so be musically abstract, which worked against them. 
 
Also after judging their albums and Mini’s it’s clear that this band does better with a shorter track list. ANIMA and VITIUM show that they can still be creative but it sounds more tight and cohesive. Immortalis is less guilty of this easily making it the more listenable album of the three. ADORATIO’s filler is at least combated by at least 2 BALLING tracks (I’ll edit later with em). But INFITIUM, I legit can’t find any stand out tracks. 
 
I guess this is what happens when you have a line up of “prestigious” musicians.  And y’all don’t know what to do with yourselves.

The holy trinity of DEG live transitions is RINKAKU- AKURO-MAZO from Psychonnect
 
That songs evolution is ballin.