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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.

I haven't come across a specific thread like this, but it feels like something people will enjoy. Feel free to share any pictures of yourself with Japanese artists. I'll start off with the few pictures I have (and leaving some out because they are too unflattering). 

 



 

With Masashi (Jupiter). I have one with the full band too but there's no telling what my face is doing on that exact photo so I'll leave that to your imaginations.

 



 

Myself and Megaromania. None of them had time to do their hair because they were late, so they're all looking droopy, myself included.

 



 

BLACK LINE. I still don't remember what came over me when I went here. It was enjoyable, to say the least. (I don't recall why I was wearing Kisaki's shirt to this show).

 



 

Together with my ultimate heroes. Look how joyful they are.

 



 

Kaya was lovely. He smelled nice too. Just two hours before this I was still dressed up in the muck from my Silent Hill nurse cosplay, and I dislocated my knee early on that day. 

nice song

fuck yeah

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.

yay finally some samples!! Nice to see they've polish the video presentation.
Sounds good, can't wait to have my copy.
Am I the only one who actually love THE BEGINNING??

nice songs ! i miss Royz so much !

i love it too! then again i liked everything they did after CORE XD
 
this sounds like it will be their best album since their debut one

Why does this thread only have like two replies? I'm in no way a fan of D=OUT, but aren't they a pretty big band with a decent following, and isn't this quite huge news? 

I have never noticed anything of that huge following here on the forum, at least — most people I have heard about them on here either have no opinion or despise Kouki's voice entirely. Their last full album has barely been received here, or at least that's what I have witnessed (or rather, failed to witness). They have always been one of those bands I preferred staying quiet about even while I completely adore them, and even I am not quite sure why. I have no opinion on them departing from PS Company either, to me it seemed like they were already off doing their own thing with their latest single and album because it did not quite seem to fit in the label's regime.

I'm with Takunori tbh.

The first TMR album came out 20 years ago. I'm fine with a few best-ofs

More like NARASAKI though
 
https://www.facebook.com/nocturnalbloodlusttranslations/posts/1590167331233534
 
Cazqui and NARASAKI have been in quite close (work) relations for awhile
 
Also: http://visual.musicshelf.jp/interview/id562/
 
(that's how Leda from Deluhi managed to sneak into BABYMETAL's session lineup btw)

Seems like a good choice for them to leave the label, feel like they could do better for themselves on a different label.

I agree, im hella excited about this line-up. Like i've looked past his shit in Moran and im beyond happy about this project

Soan(ex-Moran) new project will hold his birthday special live "オトノタカラバコ" at Takadanobaba AREA at 2016/06/01
 
[live participating artists]
Dr.Soan (ex-Moran)
Vo.手鞠(temari) (ex-amber gris)
Vo.芥(akuta) (Chanty)
Gt.Shun (ex-DuelJewel)
Gt.タイゾ(taizo) (Kra)
Ba.Ivy (ex-Moran)
Violin.Sachi (黒色すみれ(kokusyoku sumire))
 
 
手鞠(temari) has opened his new blog
 
http://ameblo.jp/tmrchang/
 

I can make decent Fish, Chicken, salad. Bake cinnabons, apple pie(just made one again), pretzels, apple cider donuts.
 
And i just mad spaghetti without noodles, used sauce though. 
 
The perpose of this is so me and @CAT5 know what house to go to. feel free to ask for recipes and stuff or tell us what your making on a given day.

We at V STAR PROMOTION would like to thank everybody for your continued support.
 
Following our recent two announcements, it now means that the number of band V STAR PROMOTION will be working with closely has increased to four, those four bands being:
-Rides In ReVellion
-BLAZE
-Deviloof
-MORRIGAN
However sadly BLAZE will soon be disbanding.
It is our goal and purpose to make sure that the music produced by these bands is accessible to fans worldwide, as well as easy and accessible up to date news regarding these bands on English social media accounts, as well as English subtitled videos.
Of course other things such as occasional competitions live attending support and media in English will also be provided.
 
However this does not mean V STAR PROMOTION will only be working with the above three bands.
Our main goal as a business is to help spread the knowledge about as many talented bands as possible, all it means is that due to man power, time and other issues, these three bands will be receiving a little extra effort as providing all of the above listed services can be very time consuming.
We hope to increase this number whenever possible.
 
We have many different things under construction for the near and distant future..
 
Once again thank you for all of your support.

V STAR PROMOTION is very happy to announce that from this day onward, we will be working with the band
 
 
 
MORRIGAN!
 
V STAR PROMOTION and MORRIGAN will be working closely together to guarantee that their music is available worldwide.
Of course we will also make sure all information about the band is easily accessible to fans worldwide!
 
Please look forward to releases on iTunes, a multi-language official Facebook, subtitled music video, and many other great things.
 
From this moment on, we at V STAR PROMOTION ask that you kindly welcome MORRIGAN.

ダウト(D=OUT) will depart from PS COMPANY after PS COMPANY presents live "PEACE & SMILE PARADE DREAM LIVE-OFFENSE IS THE BEST DEFENSE 2016-" at Maihama AMPHITHEATER at 2016/04/30, and their official fan-club "ZIPANG" will dissolve after then
 

I'm glad tat you really enjoy their stuff, I hope you will enjoy the upcoming release just as much.
 
thank you for the continued support.

i really gotta say when i read some days ago when V STAR PROMOTION wrote that you are working with a heavy band or something like this i was immediately thinking about Deviloof but then i was like: nah, they are probably too heavy so it must be some other band you're talking about... but now that it's really Deviloof i gotta say i am really impressed!
can't wait to see more stuff from my new favorite band!! their music is killer and i can't wait for their new song this saturday! 8D

I'm happy to hear you are supporting them! You'll help give them more exposure and I can't wait to be able to purchase their releases online!

This is of course something we are very mindful of.
however I do have a action plan in mind that should help avoid such a situation.
 
I too hope things go well for Deviloof.