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Oh god it's perfect!!!!!! I NEED THIS LIKE TODAY

Oh god it's perfect!!!!!! I NEED THIS LIKE TODAY

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The music industry shares many similarities between scenes and genres worldwide. We can bring up similarities between Visual Kei and Pop in the obvious, natural way, or we can try and push some kind of spin on it where the similarities are not natural, and are somehow a part of some `negative` part of Visual Kei, which makes no sense when actually broken down. There`s not much I can find that is exclusive to Visual Kei in terms of their dealings with the record industry that we haven`t seen and heard about, even in much larger degrees in other scenes and genres, even Punk artists signed to major labels, and `Gangster` rappers under major labels as well. Just seems like a lame pot-shot at Visual Kei in general, which people seem to love doing, along with being cynical about the whole thing, but that isn`t exclusive to the Visual Kei fanbase either. But on the other hand, had the article been about some other cultural or subcultural aspects, I am sure they would be much more inclined to just give people straight information instead of unsubstantiated rhetoric.
 
And let`s not forget the Indie artists outselling many major Rock artists at the moment, and staying on their Indie labels...
 
 
Yes, and we can take almost anything and lay the same sassy rhetoric on it (and I know to not take what you say as dead-serious, but I`m going to go on anyway):
 
Old-School Visual Kei is a void of originality, and a garbage hole of rehashed New Wave, Grunge Goth Mall Metal with some JPop hooks thrown in for posterity.
 
Classic Rock is a void of originality and a garbage hole of ripped off Blues ideas this time brought to you by a white-man.
 
This era of `Classical` music is a void of originality, and a garbage hole of proletariat musical theory as well as recycled ideas from this other age of `Classical` music.
 
And so forth.
 
Yet people usually have the inclination in those cases to guess that the people talking are just going on in a pointless diatribe based on some temporary need to feel that their favorite music or era is the best.
 
Although that`s not always the case. Sometimes it might just be a case of not knowing what you don`t know.
 
Sometimes you just have to wonder what credentials people feel are necessary to make a statement on something. And it seems like downloading a few releases out of the hundreds, and clicking on a few PV spots gives people enough wisdom to go out to the Town Square and give their decree to the world.
 
Can the people harping on about their lack of esteem for Indie bands name the top VK Indie bands?
 
Can people even nail down Neo-Visual Kei so that they can make a statement on it?
 
Is it not obvious that without some actual measures and reasoning, almost all discussions of originality or value in Art are rhetoric and opinionated?
 
It would be nice to actually have discussions where people can just accept that people like different era`s of the music, different bands, etc... And not try and generalize things or try to departmentalize Visual Kei or it`s sub-genre`s.
 
Whether the poster I replied to is trolling or not, the post represents the actual way a lot of people `discuss` Visual Kei, and obviously only a certain small crowd of people want to read through how `Visual Kei isn`t original, it sucks now, I don`t like this band so they suck, it`s all about the looks, etc...` every single time they even think of clicking on a web page that includes the words `Visual Kei`.
 
And I also would like it if the bigger fans who seem to actually seem to be way more into than most, expressed themselves more (whether the lack is due to no interest, or not feeling comfortable, I don`t know.)
 
Just my thoughts. I posted the thread to see if it could spring-board into something interesting. But it seems like at most it`ll go down the same road. Ah well.
 
And in response to Perez. I have all the latest Cure and Shoxx, never saw anything about any relatively `new` subgenres, though I don`t always read the whole mag.

Ahh that sucks. Looks like I probably won't use them a lot, if at all, then. Yeah, I hate it when people aren't clear from the beginning how much extra you'll be paying and you end up paying the head's eyes (sorry, Couldn't resist : P I love it. I also know "Je n'ai pas de temps"!)
Ahhh mail order. Hate those releases. Closet Child might have it sometime. I saw sukekiyo's Vitium and Immortalis fan club mail order editions there so there's a chance something like that might pop up.
That's ridiculous! For 2 CDS???? You can fit a small mammal in there. With enough food to last a week......just poke some air holes....
Anyways, thanks for sharing your guys' (guy's?) experience.

The amount of 'uncomfortable' yesterday was quite unreal. I haven't worn a dress since I was four (I am twenty two now), so this phenomenon was just as greatly anticipated by family and friends as was the actual wedding of my sister. 

THIS SHIP SAILS SO MUCH. LOVE YOU BB.
 
@Zeus and @CAT5?
 
 

First there's Tenso (http://www.tenso.com), but it's rather just a package forwarding service than a shopping service. You will still need to be able to purchase the goods yourself, and then you can ship them to Tenso, which will ship them to you. 
 
@Seimeisen just recently linked me to Zenmarket (http://zenmarket.jp/), but I have no idea how they work.
 
I haven't tried either one of them, so I can't really tell you anything else about them

yayyy, hope these bunch of songs sound more like works from their earlier '4 seasons' era

Finnish, English. I didn't vote for Swedish because I wanted Finnish to beat them, but that failed.

so i decided to cut my front hair finally
 

ギルド(GUILD) new mini album "夏祭り(natsumatsuri)" will be released at 2015/07/01 (2 TYPE)
 
limited edition (2,700yen) will include CD+T-shirt, and regular edition (2,160yen) will include CD+DVD
 
[CD track list]
01.夏祭り(natsumatsuri) (Whiteberry cover)
02.爆発MY HEART(bakuhatsu MY HEART)
03.HOT LIMIT (T.M.Revolution cover)
04.Silly Love
05.Yeah！めっちゃホリディ(Yeah! meccha holiday) (松浦亜弥(matsuura aya) cover)
06.CYBER DIVER
07.SYSTEM MONSTER
08.Getting Better
 
[regular edition DVD track list]
01.爆発MY HEART(bakuhatsu MY HEART) (PV)
02.夏祭り(natsumatsuri) (PV)
03.爆発MY HEART(bakuhatsu MY HEART) (PV making)
04.jacket shooting off-shot

MY FIRST DEZERT RAREZ
 

 
And I got exist trace's first single "ambivalence". : P

in honor of me taking home the crown for best looking male, here is a picture of me in terrible drag. #blenditoutbitch
 

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Awww, what's your native language? We can add it to the poll

Para: Just kidding
 
[Hugarian, tho~ There are also few other dudes here, but they're just lurkers (not because I'm that active, but still... xd)]
 
I was graduated from German, but didn't use since ages, I should to recharge my studies.
Learning Dutch currently, but i'm still a beginner. (I never learned English at school, so my grammar is sucks ._.)

Native other. It hurts
 
And also Engrish

Happy birthday @anakuro!

Yes, "arrived" = you picked it up from my place. :D

My Slod - Melt to water arrived, and again thank you Para for surprising me with Mopera flyers, a signed A4-poster and the clear file originally distributed with the limited edition of Justice to put all of my Matenrou junk in. Luv ya <3<3

I'm sorry there's been such a delay in getting shipping quotes out to people this time. Panda and I have had some life issues come up suddenly, and preparing for/dealing with those has been consuming most of our waking hours.
We'll hopefully be able to send out some more shipping invoices in the next few days.
Keiju asks for your patience

To quote what has been said earlier:
 
 
 
IPS4 will have a "Mention"-feature, and we will upgrade to IPS4 once it has a stable, full release. At the moment there is only a release candidate availible, and we don't want to break the forum, so please be patient until the full version is released.

Happy birthday you lovely lot!
 
@Visutox and @Xerath and @Kuroi Hoshii,
as well as @snackpacks and @Meuri!
^o^