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When you're a soft baby, but your cinderella boots are here to destroy everything
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There's such a deep shift happening this year, globally. Just when you think you might be safe for the rest of the year, an identity crisis hits.
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it's only as i recently turned 24 that i'm coming to terms with the fact mejibray were never actually good and i just liked them because they were hot
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Can you suggest names of VK bands that were growing up a following quite notably just before suddenly disbanding? I can think of Charlotte (しゃるろっと for the snobs).
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@Jigsaw9 Raphael definitely had a premature ending imo, but they reached to appear several times on TV and play a gig at Budokan; in this case I'm referring to bands that aborted mission in the very moment of packing up everything to leave the underground scene the next day lol
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Happy birthday!! I hope you have a great day! 🎉
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Happy birthday!!!
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Another proof that even pros fail miserably sometimes.
And I've always thought Kaoru's nervousness at 98' Budokan was an exception...
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Another proof that even pros fail miserably sometimes.
And I've always thought Kaoru's nervousness at 98' Budokan was an exception...
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Best Visual Kei
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I looked up for her immediatly after having read about into some Malice Mizer biography.
Her first two albums are insane. I'm spinning them a lot.
The influence they had over MM and Lareine is clear. Core arragments of some tracks where clearly taken by Mana and Közi, and Kamijo and his colleagues as well if them being roadies for the firsts actually happened.
I think finding her should have made Mana and Kamijo go nuts! I mean, it's like Versailles no Bara going goth, what else could be a wet fantasy for them? lol
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Thanks to the power of Classic Shell, the Wayback machine, and Seamonkey browser, and my evergoing quest for a nostalgia trip, I have made this cursed but blessed screenshot
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So B.P.Records just purged my account (Visual kei uploads) where I had all my Kiryu stuff and those Youtube lives...
I'm working on putting some stuff onto Mediafire and linking those in a googledoc.
Once that's done I'll link it here
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Is there a reason Wagakki Band isn't associated with Visual Kei? I just watched one of their really popular videos for the first time and everyone looks the part. Went to look at their wikipedia page (lel), and vk isn't mentioned at all
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I thought the same as well for artists like Ali project, Unlucky Morpheus and Bridear. For me they are VK bands at least visual wise, and music wise in some cases. Talking about Wagakki, they definitely have lot of arrangments that perfectly match with the cliches of the scene.
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La'cryma Christi gt.Koji was disagnosed with esophageal cancer. Can we just cancel 2020, this shitstream is seems to have no end.
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Is anybody here interested in making a post about the 90s softvi movement? Yesterday I've got very hooked by a bunch of guys that I've never given the chance to listen to yet: Lastier, Jurassic, Close, Waive, and many more. Since they clearly don't belong to the more serious, gothic stuff that the category of visual kei calls for most of the time, I've turned my sight off them because they were mainstream appealing and blabla. But hey, they sound amazing! They bring all that 90s anime opening sound, powerful and dramatic, with that awesome chords modulations that made myself interest in J-music as a kid. So, if there's anyone here interested into giving more insight over them and/or music recomendations, here's your chance!
This is what I found on a brief research over softvi. Still don't know enough Japanese to go into more insightful sites, so my information may remain very little till somebody enlightens me more lol:
*They formed a large group into the 90s VK scene, and also many of them received constant attention from media (judging mostly from magazine covers);
*They had a kind of specific aesthetics for them, both visual and sound wise;
*Most of them (if not all of them) were signed under a label named Break out.
So they were a thing back then, so I think they are a key point to anybody interested in looking for VK's history (although they've fallen into the obscure side of the Western fandom's radar even to this day).
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@robkunwow, AWESOME! Also, very nicely written! Thank you so much!
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Is anybody here interested in making a post about the 90s softvi movement? Yesterday I've got very hooked by a bunch of guys that I've never given the chance to listen to yet: Lastier, Jurassic, Close, Waive, and many more. Since they clearly don't belong to the more serious, gothic stuff that the category of visual kei calls for most of the time, I've turned my sight off them because they were mainstream appealing and blabla. But hey, they sound amazing! They bring all that 90s anime opening sound, powerful and dramatic, with that awesome chords modulations that made myself interest in J-music as a kid. So, if there's anyone here interested into giving more insight over them and/or music recomendations, here's your chance!
This is what I found on a brief research over softvi. Still don't know enough Japanese to go into more insightful sites, so my information may remain very little till somebody enlightens me more lol:
*They formed a large group into the 90s VK scene, and also many of them received constant attention from media (judging mostly from magazine covers);
*They had a kind of specific aesthetics for them, both visual and sound wise;
*Most of them (if not all of them) were signed under a label named Break out.
So they were a thing back then, so I think they are a key point to anybody interested in looking for VK's history (although they've fallen into the obscure side of the Western fandom's radar even to this day).
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Please do not visit my Last.fm profile for a few days, I will be destroying my charts with GACKT plays now that he's released all of his discography on Spotify
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Anyway, I agree on your thoughts on him. The whole Merveilles concert should be enough proof of his capacities as a musician and showman. And recently I've thinking that his decadence as an artist should tell us something about the decadence of the potentials of VK as an art scene.
Fortunately we can rewatch Merveilles whenever we want, helping to forget the cringy child he became soon after... He could have been world's next Bowie. Pure wasted potential.
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Please do not visit my Last.fm profile for a few days, I will be destroying my charts with GACKT plays now that he's released all of his discography on Spotify
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Did he ctually said he wanted to make men less effeminate??? Lmao sis, please watch your sissy ass in the mirror before!
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This day, this year and this life sucks, but how can I ignore Machi's debut as a youtuber（笑）
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So I'm guessing late 90s vkei bands got their love for spoken lyrics from Deshabillz? Or did Deshabillz get it from somewhere else?
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So I'm guessing late 90s vkei bands got their love for spoken lyrics from Deshabillz? Or did Deshabillz get it from somewhere else?
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does anyone else only listen to nightmare in the summer months?
this will be my 2nd year blasting them p much non-stop through june - september and I will completely drop them until next summer after that
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It's honestly annoying as hell how a ton of 90s/2000s vk has essentially all but vanished off the web after Megaupload and Rapidshare died
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It's honestly annoying as hell how a ton of 90s/2000s vk has essentially all but vanished off the web after Megaupload and Rapidshare died
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PC has been blue screening endlessly 😔 Carrying it to the PC doctor 35 mins away on foot. No proper back up of my shit. I played myself 😔
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tried ripping these kizu dvds with different programs and maybe im just a dumbass but nothing work, alot of stuttering, white noise, clippings, fucked up audio, etc ill just leave this for tmrw or something
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