Dir en grey... mtv needs to die.
Dir en grey is said to play along with other bands at the Family Values Tour. Here are parts from two articles:
Please post this wherever if you're a fan.
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"Rounding out the mainstage lineup will be Stone Sour, Flyleaf and Dir en gray, who Davis described as 'this crazy Japanese band that are just out of their minds.'"
"Levitt compares the band's onstage theatrics and shock element to Marilyn Manson, recalling she was surprised when Kyo began cutting himself during the performances. She describes Dir En Grey as a "good, solid band; hard; very visual to look at." The audience "was not the Fall Out Boy crowd. That's what was so fun and different about it too, that's why we were so excited... It's like, 'Oh my God, something fresh and new that looks good.'"
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I don't think Dir en grey would like to be known as 'out of their minds'.
I was expecting the Manson comparison, and I understand why they made it, but I'm still annoyed because I don't want people to start drawing that comparison further and think that Kyo is "copying" him, or that he acts like him in other ways besides cutting himself onstage (and frankly I see a big difference between how Kyo acts when he cuts himself and how Manson acts when he does the same). For example, I personally lost all respect for Manson when he played a half-assed show in my hometown, and I don't want people to think that Dir en grey would ever do the same.
What really pissed me off is this paragraph:
"There is this culture of mostly American kids, and they're the ones that watch [Comedy Central's] 'Adult Swim' and anime shows on that. They're the ones that shop at Hot Topic, and [many] can speak Japanese," he says. "A bunch of them just enjoy the culture, and they are really into it."
It's really inaccurate. Aside from the fact that Adult Swim is on Cartoon Network, NOT Comedy Central, it seems to portray a stereotype of the fans rather than what we're actually like, considering that I've seen a fair amount of animosity towards Hot Topic and self-defined "otaku" among Dir en grey fans. It's true that SOME fans are like that, yes, but I've worked hard enough to separate myself from that stereotype already and I think it would be REALLY annoying if people started thinking that all Diru fans shop at Hot Topic, etc.
Full Articles here:
Billboard
MTV
Comment on the picture:
So according to MTV, Dir en grey is going back to their visual kei roots. O_o Posting this picture is absolutely ridiculous. Even if it was properly credited as being from circa 1999, the band has NOT been visual since the release of Vulgar in 2003, when they made a conscious decision to move AWAY from that genre because it doesn't work with the band's theme. Using this picture is misleading, and only serves to undermine the band's choice to get away from visual kei. It looks to me like MTV is just trying to make people think Diru is a bunch of crazy guys in make-up (which of course will make people think they're gay), but unfortunately because of this a lot of people are going to be wondering where the "girls" went when the band takes the stage.
Credit to:
Chelsea
Chelsea
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Danny
athena's comment:
- ehh.. manson? i see. sorry to say and i don't want to sound rude or mean or anything, frankly, he's ugleh. UGLEH! compared to these smexy japanese men.
- funny how the picture just suddenly "disappears" when i tried to search the word "family values" in mtv.com and looked at the photobook, then found out that dir en gray's picture was not there... ANYMORE.. hmmm... interesting.
- i think that they're just feeling threatened because this japanese band is actually earning dollars here in America. pfffft... >.>
- i'm impressed with the way diru captures the foreign audiences because most of them don't even understand the lyrics, therefore the tune and rhythm itself is already beautiful unlike "some bands" out there who write BAD POETRY mixed with BAD WHINY VOICES...
- i'm glad that i discovered jrock (i think it was in 10th grade or later, definitely not 9th grade.. ) because if i didn't i would now probably be cutting my wrists and write bad poetry myself and still worship bad.. extremely bad musicians, i mean HORRIBLE musicians.. i can't even believe that i liked good charlotte. T_T embarassing. i know. sue me. >.> Thanks to jrock i'm saved. LOL.