MH FEATURED POLL #41: What are the things you *LOVE* about Visual Kei?

[CAT5 9075]

MH POLL OF THE WEEK #40: What are the things you *LOVE* about Visual Kei?

HUGE thanks to @paradoxal, @Seimeisen, @kyoselflove, @kyoisKILLINGME and @togz for contributing to this poll!   

 

To submit a poll for the MH POLL OF THE WEEK, P.M. either @CAT5 or @beni with your poll question, choices, and state whether it's multiple choice or not.

[blackdoll 907]

How it inspiring it is! because see grown ass men look super feminine while pulling it off looking un-strange and sometimes hot made me view the world and made me more comfortable with myself.

 

also some vocals are like idgaf ima sing

[eiheartx 1310]

OTHER: SINGING YOUR FAV TUNES IN SHITTY JAPANEZZ BCOZ WHY THE FUCK NOT??!!

 

[Euthanasia 333]

"The love and hate relationship with your mailman" omg so accurate it hurts.

 

Anyway, I wouldn't had been into VK this long if I didn't love the majority of it. The bands, the friends I've gained.. It's lovely. 

[ruki11 965]

their vocalists switch between sweet voice and roar <- this made me can't bear normal metal

 

 The Crazy looks! <- and vote this

their looks can scare away lots of innocent people

[beni 2149]

Other: An Cafe. Unffff.

Pretty much the whole poll, especially the looks/style ones. Neat poll in contrast to the other. x3

[Lestat 2167]

Kisaki, Kamijo, Gackt and Asagi. That's all for now.

[freesia 714]

I think it's because some of the VK bands has a dark feeling with their looks and music and that corresponds with my interest in dark feelings and things....

[blackdoll 907]

other: Queen kyoselflove

[peffy 3568]

It greatly amuses me to see men have to dress up and put on tons of makeup, in the way that normally only female performers have to...

(even if they have to be super photoshopped to look decent)

 

But most of all, I like how the music can be so different from typical western pop music you'd hear on the radio. I'm sooooo sooooo sick of neutered mass-market easy-on-the-ears songs with pitch perfect singers. I like flawed vocals, painful screams, dissonance.. the contrast between growls & pretty melodies that some bands do very well. I also love the.. aesthetics of the Japanese language when sung, and it's always a special treat when it's contrasted with the occasional bad Engrish line.

[emmny 4139]

i love how i came into the scene for mostly shits and giggles with bands i felt were on the same level as anime rock like diaura, royz, gazette, monolith, DIV and how i "left" with bands like deadman, diru, amber gris, kagerou, emmuree, moran and lynch that could rival my western favourites.

[Delkmiroph 1649]

The love and hate relationship with your mailman

 

FOREVER LOL 

 

 ~

 

Plastic tree, amber gris, KEEL/HOLLOWGRAM, GE+IM...... <3

[YuyoDrift 1540]

The musical sound.

[mad_hatter 6]

One word....headbanging.

[TetsuAkira 289]

Just everything. There's nothing like it.

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

Their web design

[inartistic 1151]

I've always admired that visual kei, as a “genre”, can accommodate many musical styles

[gekiai 231]

I voted for a lot of things on the poll (seems I definitely love more than I hate haha)

 

But the best thing is that there's always a variety. There's always new songs, new bands, new looks coming out, and even if the generic neo vkei is seemingly the thing now, there are always a few hidden gems and when you find them it's like...the BEST THING EVER.

 

I've made new friends in the fandom, discovered things I thought I wouldn't even imagine liking before. I've been inspired by vkei with my style and dress...I've laughed a lot, I've cried a lot, I've gotten angry and frustrated a lot with vkei and I've only been into it for a few years :')) But I'm sure I'll be hanging on for more years to come (even if I am pretty late).

[AverageS 19]

Definitely the thigh porn