saiko
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This song should enter every citypop top 5 ever made, yay or nay?
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The chorus is certainly memorable. I prefer the Akina Nakamori ver. b/c Takeuchi originally wrote it with her voice in mind. Nakamori has a sultrier, deeper voice, which with the instrumental, feels more appropriate to the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF2uqXDmXAk
As a side note, while the Plastic Love phenomenon was certainly great for the genre, its timeliness and rise still comes off as a bit bizarre/head-scratching to me. Great singer-songwriter becoming an incidental leading figure for a movement largely founded on vaporwave, a meme-driven plunderphonic genre initially meant to be western consumer-capitalist satire. Most video games consumed in the era were Japanese, and six degrees of kevin bacon later, here we are.
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I bet it is Aku no hana.
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You are forgetting ☆chicboy ☆ Now seriously, while this clearly isn't the over-the-top world-into-flames edgy dramatic A-sides Kizu has accustomed us since their first single (and hell, if those aren't epic songs!), this actually is a nice song. I'd prefer to listen to it a couple of times more before giving a more detailed opinion, also I'd like to listen to the full single for it, but for a first listen it sounds actually pretty well arranged and executed (Lime's still delivering greatness with his voice). Overall, a very good job.
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I really doubt there's something more iconic in the scene's history than Atsushi Sakurai's gothic voice flooding the stage and making the crowd go crazy at 1:51. This is so much graciousness for me to put up with...
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Imho, 'Weekend' is the perfect example of X's musical concept, and I dare to say that that concept played a key part in the development of VK's musical concept itself. 'Weekend' starts out as a typical glam riot-song -considering the difference that makes the full melodic bassline of Taiji againts the always-on-the-root of most of the Western metal basslines-. But when one reaches the pre-chorus, the song fills with orchestral string arrangments and suddenly the ambient shifts from a groupie-party to a scenery of beauty and tragedy. The PV makes this very clear while putting this sounds into images of shoujo manga-like characters in situations of self-harm, suicide, crazyness, loneliness, etc. Of course, I'm not saying you can't dislike X lol. Just wanted to share some points with you and everyone else about the things that imho make X a special act in the history of rock, aside from Wikipedia and bandomen overall calling them the VK momma with no apparent explanation.
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When I recall people in late 00's calling Visual Kei "dead" because hide was found dead and X and Luna Sea disbanded I think they didn't even imagined how much dead and full of absurd garbage could the scene be like it is right now lol
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I used to feel that way, but after, I don't know, 5+ years? after discovering MM and their Klaha era, I think I became able to "understand" what they might have tried to put out with the whole 'Castlevaniaesque' aesthetics. I strongly recommend you to take another listen to this beautifully decadent tracks that should be considered true VK hymns, even worldwide neoclassical rock hymns: Also, their respective live performances are just beautiful. It's awesome that even after losing Kami, Gackt and with that their major deal with Nippon Columbia, MM still managed not only to stay popular but also creative enough to make another iconic Budokan gig.
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Basically 99% of the bands of today's scene.
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So, according to @Seelentau's deep anaylisis, this is the hide and Tusk photoshoot that inspired Toshiya to enter the VK scene! Awesome! 😍
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Beautiful, thank you!
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This can sum up everything posted in this thread to date. It's so evident that I can't understand why people tend to get entangled so much over anything else. Suffering over sex or love matters happen over a wide range of politic, social, economic and psychic questions that transverse the life of each individual, just to reduce it to the mere desires or practices people have.
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Hm, another one got into the recent Kagerou nostalgia train. I got interested in how they'll develop soon.
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I fucking know that the guitar phrase at 1:10 was directly extracted from a VK song I've heard a lot of times, but I can't recall which one! Halpp!!!1 Btw, sill sounding so much like a song from Kuroyume's "Feminism" album (with 'Sugizoesque' solos), bordering plagiarism. But still much fresh than almost anything else today in the scene. So it's a yes for me.
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Are there actually loaded people that crave for uninspired cosplay musicians? I'm curious about what kind of job they'll have. Japanese culture of "supporting an artist" is fascinating.
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Still don't have a clue on why even in 2019 Japanese people insist so much on making up funny English gramatics lol
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I think I've got what you say, but music wise I wouldn't put Dimlim in the same level with Mamireta. After "Ojamashimasu" -a song that delivered a genuine concept while at the same time revived the 00's 'Kagerouesque' legacy- Mamireta still hasn't released a single song you can actually say it's worth the listening in a sense of "Wow, this is really filling the gap other bands have left and definitely doesn't sound samey at all". At least, that is my meaning for "VK saviour".
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Thanks. No tolerance for hateful minds.
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I tried to figure out why was that comment offensive, but I couldn't...
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What?
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I really think guys need to play a lot in Japan, build their loyal fanbase even if it is little, and then think about moving on to something else. I feel they are rushing things a bit. Btw, how come they don't have "someone" behind? I mean, the releases, the recordings, the PVs... I mean, I always supposed they actually had an 'infrastructure', to say, I think they are far from being just guys composing djent in pajama in their parents house at 3:00 a.m. (Btw, how old are they?). But if this isn't the case, their output is by far so good for today's scene standars that I'm sure they already had a bigger VK-bands managing house interested in asking Dimlim to join them!
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What? Misery's solos are all about that VK vibes! Seriously, if I think of a guitarist who actually has a place in the scene it's him!
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Please!!!!
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What a statement
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Make VK great again
