miyuu

this is the theme again if personality of artist plays any role in the music you like. and like 90% of people i am sure they would say to you :NO i only care about music. i have seen it so many times.
excuse me but i care about personality too.at least i notice it. like it or not you can't avoid it. the art was made by a person, not by itself.
so i say if you feel someones personality is so terrible you can not stand it or it goes against your believes. you should feel free to stop listening to him or stop loving his art so much or even boycotting.but of course you should boycott something only if your reasons are indeed noble or righteous !! (otherwise you are shitty personality too)  you can stop listening though personally for whatever reason you want. music is for your own pleasure. you can even be superficial imo.
on the other hand if you feel he has so great talent and you adore his art to the point you can not stop listening .then keep listening to it. but keep saying i don't support his attitude.
music is about your own pleasure so if it bothers you stop listening to it. if it doesn't ,don't stop.

 also there is a limit in the opposite way.
would you support an artist you hate his music because he has a nice personality? that's crazy too.

a lot of people say you should be loyal to a band nomatter what. that's stupid. even in marriage you can get divorced.
even in frienships if you do not have any connection anymore,how are you going to keep it. WHY would you want to keep it?
what is the reason?
 

Is Kyo capable of singing without whining anymore? Dear God.

i don't undertand why people are so serious like this forum is a university or a band or a marriage.
it's a forum.. what's up with the hiatus announcements and the overreacting. 
i see this very often.you know forum means you can leave and come back whenever you want right?
why do you feel like you have to make a decision.
.you do not have to make a decision of leaving forever or not . just come whenever you want to say something or see something...
 
or am i missing something
 
or you just trying to make a complain this way

lol dude hahaha i have thought this too about ryoga. i mean
he looks so ridiculous (to such extent) that makes me think ...no this can't be serious.  maybe he just does a parody and he just makes fun of us.
because the alternative would be wtf is wrong with him?

but i still don't like it LOL
even this thought doesn't help xDDD
 

I stopped following BORN a while ago...and I will continue to do so.

i voted DIE KUSSE too. it's my favorite ♥ ♥ . (i thought i would be the only one for a moment who votes that .yay others like it too xD)
 
i am having a hard time choosing between the other after die kusse.
i think i like more as style Apriori and avalon and then the other. but the other 2 are more "funny/interesting" as pvs
since tzk is eating candle wax, and other stuff.
i thought my least favorite was counting coats.but i love that tzk falls down in the floor at the end .
so yeah i can't decide. but my most favorite is DIE KUSSE

^ Maximum the Hormone...I think? I like it...not better than Sphere, but I do like it. I have mix feelings about the previews, but I still think overall it's good.

(since you wrote that) i was thinking the opposite yesterday xD.
i think i am a lot more excited for nb.

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i think actually the opposite.  that is the reason indie fans avoid them. and they don't like them.even if their music is equally good to other bands that they listen. it backfires. the similarities with gazette and the fandom. and the clothes fanservice.
 
i feel like i have to answer LOL because i prefer meji from gazette.i think most people listen to both bands.
i am one of few who prefers mejibray.also even if i am crazy and i just can't see the similarities in music with the gazette personally.i just can't. for sure the voice is different(i have a big problem with gazette voice) and the visuals are different, plus the more indie mentality. and i think that's  good enough reasons to understand why  someone can prefer them.
to be honest it's hard to believe me but i listen to them despite of their looks and not because of it.
the only band i do this is with them. i mean i find them very attractive.
but the whole similarities with gazette people say and the hyper around this band. and the type of fans that attracts.
actually hits on my nerves and i want to avoid them. but it's one of the very few new bands that i find their music decent  and i  like it ,so i am not going to stop listening to them because i am annoyed by the situation.and also is less pop rock than other/they are a little more "heavy" than most new
i am sure they are one of those  bands that knows how to sell image to attract more fans.
 
 
i really don't have anything with non indie. but i prefer to listen to pop like kat-tun,arashi,news etc. if i want
pop mentality and sound they are better. than pop rock visual kei.
if i want rock etc i would go to heavier bands . that actually are more close to rock mentality.
that inbetween i see no point. we are rock but we are pop too.
 
except if you are something like l'arc en ciel. that i get it. i agree.

i think you mean there are not enough old school visual kei in sound. most turn to neo rock/alternative/metal something that you don't like.
but that's too personal taste/opinion. i miss old deg sound too sometimes so i get it. but i like that "nu metal" stuff too.
 
my personal taste
i don't like pop rock bands like DIV  etc. that are the most succesful today. and alice nine type of bands.
vkei is full of these pop rock bands and are the most succesful.
i meam there are enough pop bands in maistream.we don't need underground and rock bands that are supposed to be unconventional ,to be completely maistream with  pop rock love ballads and cute looks.and that's why psc annoys me.
 
i mean these bands are more commercialized than pop bands. if i wanted pop mentality and sound i would listen to pop not them.

about gazette. i don't hate the people. i am annoyed about the adolescence /weebo fangirlism these fandoms tend to have and the complete lack of interest and knowledge of other bands.  i can't follow them in tumblr etc and i don't want to talk to them because a majority tends to posts 231e342312321423 pages of how uruha touched aoi's shoulder ...from a distance... with his eyes... and OMFG the yaoi.
and another 33322909-0 pages of fangirlism that i don't care about because i don't find attractive the members. i don't see how i could talk with a person who only like gazette etc and haven't a clue at all about other small bands.or bands that i like. they tend to do that.
 
i mean NOT everyone.they are always exceptions. just saying a lot of people. i prefer lycaon fans etc for example even if i don't listen to them. they seem to know about more bands and have more interesting comments

em that's the point it's more about entertainment .
today's visual kei is more about who is the best entertainer and not who is the better musician/artist .
the one who has the most success is the best entertainer. not artist .
i mean entertainers have talend too and are needed but just know what is going on.
 
 
first of all i am a fan of new bands. saying that .
although i am not sure at all because i wasn't there lol.  it seems old school vk looks have different purpose than today's visual kei looks as ideology.
i mean maybe then it was more about looking disobedient or unconventional.
today is more about who is the most good looking or acting with sole emphasis on  profit  and not so much about the shock factor.
and that makes old bands have more artistic value.

what do you thing about it??
 
ok they were always crappy bands that coppy each other with same sound but of course the first bands were going to be be respected more just because they were the first/foundational? no matter how crappy.they started the scene.
people tend to have a feeling of respect of  their roots even if  themselves are better.because without them they wouldn't exist.
also most important some of them were pioneers and avant-garde and radical at that time .something that now is difficult to exist. i dare to say doesn't exist in visual kei now.

lol indeed the name similarities with kyo not only the image .never thought of it before
 
 
also lycaon guy copies slash

 


i can say more about obvious influences that i see in many jrockers than timeless image.sorry if i am out of subject.

most copies i can think are of most jrockers with kiyoharu at some style of his career.
except kyo old look. you can see it in guys like byou(screw),singer of lycaon,even in tsuzuku(mejibray) but is not a blatant copy.you just can see clearly the influence.i am sure there are more i can't think right now.
and omg if i see one more guy with kiyoharu tattoo.
i never understood why so many guys are infatuated so much with kiyoharu more than anyone else.
after him is kyo

and then hide and  maybe hakuei

one of most obvious examples is  koichi likes hakuei
 
PENICILLIN - RAINBOW pv - YouTube
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kie4cmfUero

 
 

 
 
 
sorry if i am out of subject.and he obviously likes gackt

about gazette. i don't hate the people. i am annoyed about the adolescence /weebo fangirlism these fandoms tend to have and the complete lack of interest and knowledge of other bands.  i can't follow them in tumblr etc and i don't want to talk to them because a majority tends to posts 231e342312321423 pages of how uruha touched aoi's shoulder ...from a distance... with his eyes... and OMFG the yaoi.
and another 33322909-0 pages of fangirlism that i don't care about because i don't find attractive the members. i don't see how i could talk with a person who only like gazette etc and haven't a clue at all about other small bands.or bands that i like. they tend to do that.
 
i mean NOT everyone.they are always exceptions. just saying a lot of people. i prefer lycaon fans etc for example even if i don't listen to them. they seem to know about more bands and have more interesting comments

em that's the point it's more about entertainment .
today's visual kei is more about who is the best entertainer and not who is the better musician/artist .
the one who has the most success is the best entertainer. not artist .
i mean entertainers have talend too and are needed but just know what is going on.
 
 
first of all i am a fan of new bands. saying that .
although i am not sure at all because i wasn't there lol.  it seems old school vk looks have different purpose than today's visual kei looks as ideology.
i mean maybe then it was more about looking disobedient or unconventional.
today is more about who is the most good looking or acting with sole emphasis on  profit  and not so much about the shock factor.
and that makes old bands have more artistic value.

what do you thing about it??
 
ok they were always crappy bands that coppy each other with same sound but of course the first bands were going to be be respected more just because they were the first/foundational? no matter how crappy.they started the scene.
people tend to have a feeling of respect of  their roots even if  themselves are better.because without them they wouldn't exist.
also most important some of them were pioneers and avant-garde and radical at that time .something that now is difficult to exist. i dare to say doesn't exist in visual kei now.

random i would prefer too to see a woman play an instrument instead of being the singer.
indeed especcially for vkei is difficult for girls. also why would you want to have  only an audience that is 90% of girls.
but if you have a random vkei band with friends in your area i don't think it would matter at all.
generally i think it's a talent for a girl if she can make other girls to  like her. some girls just have it natural others not.
probably for vkei she must have some kind of boyish attitude or looks to succed.

i completely disagree. to admire someone and to be my most favorite, i have to like his personality.at least what he shows to the fans
and what the lyrics say. and when i say personality i don't mean if he is friendly or asshole but mostly
i mean his ideas.what he wants to show with his art.
 
of course there are many songs and music that i listen without knowing anything about their musicians personality.
but i don't admire them.i don't think of them as most favorite.maybe i 'll say he's got talend but nothing more.
 
and to be honest i don't understand people who don't care at all about the personality of their fav band. i don't say to care about  everything they listen but just their favorite.
i think they are ignorant , if they say they admire or love someone without knowing his beliefs
 
 

here again we have people who sell image and looks and not only music.
such a pop mentality in rock music.
 
i am ok with it only because it helps small bands and i guess it's better than the 25 cd types etc . so people let's keep doing it!!
 
but general thoughts:
personally although i like visual kei and for the looks and for the music but up to a point.
i prefer to buy music products or even band clothes than pictures. i don't feel the need to have autographs.
actually i think it's creepy and stupid to buy and have many pictures of guy that doesn't know you and doesn't give a shit about you.i would only buy if i admire someone very much and very few.
that whole idol mentality is not for me.
 
i know everyone saved a lot of pictures at some point in their life  but at least for free seems more healthy .
 look for example psc that says don't use our photos.
makes me realise again how stupid are genres that care about looks and sell looks more than music(although i like looks too but up to a point)
 
you are not buying art ,you are buying a random guy's image. don't you feel a little stupid.
at least kyo's photography books  was about art

who would have thought that it would be a day that sel'm vocalist would remind so much daisuke.
his voice fits so much in this.
i am so excited about this band.
 
i understand @nekkichi feelings. noone can replace daisuke. makes you miss him. but still this sounds/looks so cool

i would want to see that poll too xD. i wish someone made more polls. i can't think of bands i want to compare but is so fun when others ask

i think also @zess was saying something similar. i have this feeling too. like the old songs maybe had more emotion.
my general impression about most songs:
i think they are good songs/remakes and i can enjoy listening to them!
as long as you don't know the originals/forget the originals .because i think the originals are better.
(and not because always the first are better. i have heard from bands enough remakes that are equal or even better
but i don't feel it here) but  i read randomly another person review and i am gonna quote that's ok life changes.
my main disappointment and what bothers me more of all is just the chorus of final.
and i wasn't gonna write a review but i am dying to say
 
this so much
 
so about the final the melody/rhythm in chorus it's not bad but knowing the lyrics ,the luck of emotion  makes me  sad. i don't know what he was trying to do?. why.?maybe he was trying to be more theatrical but he killed the emotion
leaving a feeling maybe it's too old songs and he doesn't feel the same anymore
the final unplugged it's like i am listening to musical .it's so theatrical.
i think one of the most interesting characteristics of the new dir en grey is that generally is more theatrical and has this atmosperic feeling that can make you feel like you are inside a movie or some place else.(sorry my poor describing expressions but you get what i mean i hope)
my favorite from the first disc is the unraveling . i like it !  but of course it's the same sound as dss
macabre the second part is great as everyone said i agree
random
( i like dss more than uroboros. i mean Vinushka is an epic song probably my most fav from both albums but dss has more songs i like than uroboros in amount.
i don't get why most people seems to like and praise uroboros more is still a mistery to me .i just don't get it)
(i don't see any difference in music since the change they had in uroboros and i don't think they are gonna change a lot for some time.the only difference i see is the feeling they seem to calm down the need of wanting to be
so metal and experimental and hardcore and whatever i don't know how to describe.they seem they calm down and also more ok with their past.which  looks good on them)