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A bunch of McGeneric Nameron vanilla midgets overhyped by internet virgins having 20 minute technical workrate matches to ever-dwindling interest without drawing a buck is actually eerily similar to what's going on in vk

That's too bad. The singer has a really cute voice, and I liked REBELLION and SEVENTH a lot, so I was hoping they'd eventually start building some momentum.
Well, three years is a decent run for a  VK band these days, I guess.

That's too bad. The singer has a really cute voice, and I liked REBELLION and SEVENTH a lot, so I was hoping they'd eventually start building some momentum.
Well, three years is a decent run for a  VK band these days, I guess.

Deep down you know that, somewhere out there in the world, there is a woman who falls asleep hugging that strippable Gackt body pillow.

Lol, I was coming here to post about the guy from Hypnosis Mic. I dunno, I think his song sounds VK enough, because Leetspeak monsters wrote it, and it basically just sounds like Leetspeak monsters with some other dude singing. I like that they made the rose petals blow across the screen only for his preview in the trailer. That's 100% VK. 🤣
 
 

God, Gen's cat Chikuwa is so cute. Sometimes I really wish I could have a cat again, but I don't have anywhere practical to put a litter box in my condo, and I also happen to have a budgie, so I'd have to worry about the cat eating her/scaring her to death every day.
 
 

God, Gen's cat Chikuwa is so cute. Sometimes I really wish I could have a cat again, but I don't have anywhere practical to put a litter box in my condo, and I also happen to have a budgie, so I'd have to worry about the cat eating her/scaring her to death every day.
 
 

Kenzi with a sickly looking Yuuga and a very different Yayoi from a Deadly Sanctuary revival in 2007.

Cursed photo of Orochi when it originally formed when Ryu was studying in Australia.

Really enjoying the new LIPHLICH single.
 
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kTnqj2Yz9nWlGxTdxqkae

for like one second i thought that was just Helena Bonham-Carter looking weird

ARUKARA, with Yuya from folca on support guitar
 
 

Yeah, I just figured that out from the covers 🤣
I've just been reading it as "lerr" in my head until now

Gonna give this a shot again, although I never seem to get very many releases in.
 
Last update: December 5th
 

DE DE MOUSE's set from the "streaming music festival" Music Unity 2020.
 
 
He does a lot of streams like this, but this one has a nice set list.
 
1. baby’s star jam (unreleased edit)
2. Growing Up (Mixed) from Nulife
3. my favorite swing (Edit 003)
4. Heartbeat (Mixed) from Nulife
5. like your magic (unreleased edit)
6. scat n’ shout (unreleased edit) from be yourself
7. Free (unreleased edit) from Nulife
8. Stay (with me) (unreleased edit) from Nulife
9. Do You Feel Me
10. Silly Love (Original Mix)
11. Regret (unreleased edit) from Nulife
12. sweet gravity (unreleased edit)
13. Breath (unreleased edit)
14. Getup (unreleased original track)
15. Muddy Water Waltz from Hello My Friend
16. be yourself (unreleased edit) from be yourself
17. Nulife (unreleased edit) from Nulife
18. Hello My Friend from Helo My Friend

A big part of it is that I'm half Chinese and I grew up in two cities where there weren't really a lot of Asian people around, I suppose. Growing up, there were almost no Asian bands or artists on TV. There was like LOUDNESS on VH1 sometimes and the guy from Linkin Park, and that was it. I mean, I'm exaggerating a bit, but those are literally the only two examples I remember.
 
I was really into hair metal/glam rock, etc. as a teenager, and I was so excited when I saw that there was a whole genre that Asian people made that took influence from that style of music. That's a big part of it.
 
I'm also just kind of an introverted weirdo and an emo kid at heart, so the really over the top emotional side and quirkiness of it is also appealing. 🤣

A big part of it is that I'm half Chinese and I grew up in two cities where there weren't really a lot of Asian people around, I suppose. Growing up, there were almost no Asian bands or artists on TV. There was like LOUDNESS on VH1 sometimes and the guy from Linkin Park, and that was it. I mean, I'm exaggerating a bit, but those are literally the only two examples I remember.
 
I was really into hair metal/glam rock, etc. as a teenager, and I was so excited when I saw that there was a whole genre that Asian people made that took influence from that style of music. That's a big part of it.
 
I'm also just kind of an introverted weirdo and an emo kid at heart, so the really over the top emotional side and quirkiness of it is also appealing. 🤣

SKY-HI uploaded the vlog from the stream he did in March. Thought it was just going to be like five minutes of digest footage, but he actually posted a pretty thorough 25-minute summary of it.
 
ETA: Jesus, that performance of Snatchaway at 22:13 is great. He really brings that encore energy.
 
 

Sorry, but I want this to happen now 

Lol, after reading the posts in this thread I just imagined like a montage of YOSHIKI headlines.
 
"Long-awaited X JAPAN album finally released - hits number 30 on the Billboard charts"
"Legendary rock band X JAPAN collaborates with Oprah, crafts a line of best-selling home decor items"
"Meet YOSHIKI, the head of X Decor, the brand taking it to IKEA"
"X Decor's YOSHIKI is now one of the world's richest living people"
"YOSHIKI transfers brain into mechanized body, so that he may live forever and 'escape the pain of his past'"
"Mecha Emperor YOSHIKI promises that his new album is finished and will be released 'once all the details have been worked out with management'"
"'While I can no longer physically die, making this album was so tough that it almost killed me' Emperor YOSHIKI confesses"
 
 

No, I'm not a fan of Misc. nor Retsu's individual attitude, but I feel like many here are just plain mean/annoying.
Like, why don't you just ignore/let go of them if you're gonna be negative about everything they do.
 
DIMLIM is not just Retsu, so I feel bad for Sho and Hiroshi.
Also things are changing daily because of the Corona shit going on, so you can't blame any artist for saying "it won't be cancelled/postponed" 2 days prior cancelling/postponing the live after all. It happens all the time everywhere.
I live in Tokyo and I also have tickets for lives that have been postponed/cancelled 2 days prior, while the bands tried not to disappoint the fans at first. Lives/tours in Europe (from Japanese artists) have been postponed/cancelled too. It may have been decided by the venue or government, so the bands can't even do anything about it.
 
Japanese bands have the tendency to give up on their band too easily imo, so I do respect them for the "we keep trying and don't care about the haters" attitude. He's not a criminal or something.

SKY-HI did one today as well, but I missed it. He said there's not going to be an archive but he'll do a vlog with digest footage later. There are some clips fans posted under the hashtag "SKYHI生配信".
 
 
 

THURSDAY'S YOUTH just did one today, and apparently the archive of it will be available for a week.
https://www.mahocast.com/thursdaysyouth/music/1699
^It was a special one-man featuring the singer from asobius and some other people on backing vocals. The performance starts around 12:00.
 
 
 

That's what every JP vkei fan sees when filthy gaijin ask them on Twitter about a random Gesshoku flyer from 1993.
So I won't diss him. He made an effort even though he didn't have to. I can appreciate that.