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  6. Posted

    going to on the hunt today and get some pink goodies. Hopefully no more 2 dollars or 5 cause i aint got no money.

    Fucking wasted 3 dollar, cause bae ass didn't even come today, like tf? Im'a take it a sign to move on, cause money wasted is just a nono. Dont matter cause Queen Key agreed to be my valentine on Wednesday anyway (sorry pho and tetora). 

  7. Posted

    Yuuki (Lycaon): Rap, R&B, Arabic pop kind of songs, deathcore(harsh vocals >= 60% of the song), Brutal deathcore(harsh vocals >= 60% of the song), Beatdown(harsh vocals >= 60% of the song), K-pop covers, Rentrer en soi covers, Dir en grey covers, a the Gazette cover, K-pop level or higher choreography, twerk, Model, Have his own perfume line. have his own clothing line, become a rich as aunt Nicki Minaj (who rap for his music/voice), be a global icon that show males they don't have to be hardcore men(totally masculine), come tour near me so i can see his ass live, become an actor, learn English, Arabic, and Korean,

     

    I wish Lycaon would reunite

    <3

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    Kyouka has hardly strayed from his antics in Aliene, if anything, Insanity Injection is even more chaotic and reminiscent of the 90's than Aliene Ma'riage itself was. So I do not understand where you pulled that argument out of.

    I do not see what's so bad about not accepting change. You do not have to support the 'ethereal Visual Kei spirit' if you do not want to and leave everyone be who prefers this sound and image. That's why preferences exist, and thank God that they do.

    The riffage is totally new school to me and so is the muddy "shoat vocals and that part," + chaos system, and that drasla oblat song. As for chaotic Ingestion is more chaotic then anything vk so that's no a factor.  

  16. Posted

    To break it down:

    Rock vs. Pop

    Rock made the most profit when culturally it became a part of Pop culture. This started to die off in the 80's but hair metal became a sensation. Hair metal was then killed off for the next wave of acts that were assimilated into the record industries more reliable formulaic machine for hits. Record labels like Mercury began purposefully killing off hair metal bands.

    Eventually pop punk, grunge, nu metal and other genres were manipulated in the main stream to become represented by the producer controlled music making machine.

    Why have a band completely in control of their music and writing what they want when they want? Would you not make a lot more money having an inner circle of producers who have mastered making hits, and creating the mainstream landscape of what a hit is?

    Instead of investing in bands who may go any which direction, it is more lucrative to hire performers who will treat it as more of a job, and sing the songs written for them, dance to the choreography created for them, endorse the products your sponsors give to them, etc..

    And if some kind of rock is popular, we'll study the trend with a focus group, then get the producer to hold their hand through a simple track, we'll get a director to come up with a topical video to get attention, the lyricist's will come up with a catchy provocative line that will be repeated until it gets into people's heads, then the people will repeat the lines and memes to advertise for us, for free. Wardrobe will get them something trendy, then we'll get PR to get some interviews, and create some kind of juicy scandal for the group.

    Then we'll pay stations a lot of money to play us often, iTunes to feature us heavily, Youtube to recommend our video, etc...

    Then we'll make a bunch of money, give a good chunk to execs, producers, lyricists, then pay off all the marketing, and other costs, and we'll throw a few bucks at the band. Oh wait, we 'advanced' the band all sorts of money when we paid for that new guitar, the gas in the tourbus, their catering, etc etc... Better cut down how much we gave them.

    Then compare that to moderately successful VK bands filming a PV in the parking garage a thousand other bands played in, in some flame retardant outfit that 99 percent of people would not be caught dead wearing, and a bass player who looks better than most girls, playing a song in a low drop C tuning, over vocals still high pitched as hell, in a style of music that is no longer popular or never has been popular in the mainstream.

    Then they take that PV, and include it as a bonus for the limited edition, cd only release not on iTunes, and not uploaded to Youtube unless somebody decides to do it against their wishes. And the majority of viewers are international viewers since Japanese have their own sites and ways of digesting media to choose from as well.

    And they compete in the second biggest music market in the world, with a huge amount of other independent visual kei artists, many of them producing their own music, and not having doors opened to them, no big funding, and a lot of bands still survive somehow, and bands like Royz, Kiryu, etc.... enter the top ten of the charts repeatedly beating tons of major produced and marketed acts, despite being the antithesis of worldwide pop culture and trends.

    Then you have bands like SID, and lots of older bands like X Japan, Luna Sea, Dir en grey, who have made more money than most pop artists, have been around longer than KPop was a 'thing', and will be referenced as long as there is VK.

    But in terms of Youtube and worldwide presence, Korean Pop has a very large presence, has several connections to worldwide pop culture where it isn't such a huge step, they are just rapping and twerking in a different language. The Korean government has also heavily funded Korean media on the global stage, from the Korean Wave of film that had a regrettably short life, to KPop now. Japanese individuals and companies have actually complained about not representing Japanese workson the worldwide stage, I even remember Gackt talking about how they are failing to promote Japanese work outside of Japan. But at the same time, Japan has a much more insulated subcultural make-up, and is not AS rapidly molded and influenced by Global and especially American trends. So I definitely think certain cultural exports from Japan are hard to find an audience for, while some others, like anime, games, manga, JDM, etc... have been some of the most influential things in pop culture and subculture history.

    Not sure if I answered the question or even tried to, but ah well.

    See this is why you in my company. Actually took the time, a lot of time to respond. Thank you and i love you. take the week of off. and ill see you tomorrow at your house for you know what.

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  17. Posted

    And how do you propose to measure sincerity?

     

    I find it unnerving that if you're in a 90s vk band that happened to be making dreadful music you could still gloriously play this "sincerity" or "passion" card; but if you're doing well in today's vk scene suddenly it's all because you have great bells and whistles + good at being a shameless sellout because, alas, you've arrived 10 years late and the ethereal spirit of vk no longer permeates your soul.

    Seem like they cant except change. Like is back then it was djent, pop rock, electronic then it became hot messness would they be saying the samething. Its kinda funny too because Kyo (dir en grey, La:sadie), Kyoka (aliene ma riage) has moved on and embraced modern music as well as rivial bands like dezert, grieva, and avelcain. From a psychological perspective now there is nothing super going on in their lives so they have no emotional attachment to music these days. Like after i lost my virginity to my first love, i listen to  D'espairsRay or i started of my career. Could be as simple as holding on to youth.

  20. Posted

    and kinda funny that even as an aspiring vocaloid producer/composer/lyricist he obviously tailors his songs to be more suitable for high-pitched vocals:

    I thought it was kinda funny because for the song which is Ambrozia like he didn't go back to his pre fragile  vocals which a lot of metal era Lycaon fans like and instead did his lovely 'whinny' voice, kinda gave them the middle finger. And yuuki is more than capable of lower vocals

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acc-xprcFYg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqSD9CDzIdE

    Just because bands are fragile, doesn't mean he doesn't need to form one...it just mean he needs to find competent members.

    well that would be Zero, satoshi, ichiro, and hiyuu but they are gone. (Eve is shady and mio gets face palmed for being a hypocritical bitch.) Thus using Ryosuke career choice is best option.

  22. Posted

    I  hate versallies and kamijo, like they are so dry, and people stay hyping them like they are the best. Like kaya and FF i could see. Maybe because people are so quick to hope on what? technicality? like lmao there is so much better stuff like kiryu, grieva.

     

    also any of those people that spoke out in the criticism part https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei cause they are all fake as shit. and fuck their bands too cause why the hell would you be in a band with a dickhead. 

  24. Posted

     

    Yuuki needs a new band asap

    Nah solo album or mixtape first 12+ so he do what ever he wants. then get a band. Then again these bands are fraglie as shit, members, leaving left and right. Maybe Royal works will be the best. And start his own company school these bitches and model and have a beauty and clothing line on the side.   

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