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[neverphree]

I'm beginning to loathe the Visual Kei fanbase. All I ever see posted at Jrock uploads are pretty visual bands which even I used to download until I realized, "Hey, these bands suck. They're sure as hell pretty, but man do they suck." This isn't to say I hate bands because they are visual. I love the visual kei style, but it's being used by SO many

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[neverphree]

Yes yes yes yes YES. D:

[tarouchan]

Thank you thank you thank you.

I could not have said this better myself. This is exactly why I stopped listening to J-Rock/VisKei/etc.: the music, quite frankly, sucks. :/ And I'm sick of fanbrats raving about how WONDERFUL *insert-obscure-band-name-here* is, and they haven't even listened to a single song of theirs. Le sigh.

It's always pissed me off that GLAY gets a bad rap here because they aren't "visual" enough. Ugh.

And, yeah, you know: I'm even more critical of bands I like than ones I don't. ^^; I don't get the whole "praise everything!" mentality that some fans have. */end rant*

(Oh, and amusing story: when I was in Japan a few years ago, a friend of mine asked a clerk, in Japanese, where the "J-Rock" section was. That poor clerk looked so, so, confused. XD)

[neverphree]

Thank you for agreeing. xD

I find it funny that most "Visual Kei" music is pop. POP MELODIES. POP-NESS. And yet the fanbase doesn't even know the difference.

And it does piss me off too. Because like you said, GLAY would have a better reputtion IF THEY WERE VISUAL. Then again, why would we want to be associated with a shallow fanbase anyway? I am happy with how they look (even though I secretly wish they would go back to suites xDD).

I also have to agree with you about the more critical part. I know what you mean because with every new GLAY release, I expect so much. Actually, too much. I need to give them some slack, the poor guys. :x

Haha, exactly~! What's strange is I think that J-POP is an actual genre in Japan and even referred to that way. o_O

[tarouchan]

Yeah, we don't need those crazies over here in the GLAY fandom. I like it juuuuuust fine the way it is. :3

Mm, GLAY in suits. Hot. Hothothot.

I criticize GLAY too much, too. ^^; I feel really bad about it sometimes.

And yes! J-POP is a genre, not J-Rock. If you go to any Japanese record store, there are two very clearly seperated sections: the "J-POP" section that has everything Japanese (including all these VisKei hard-rock acts that the fanbrats insist aren't pop), and then all the Western music (that is actually divided into 'rock' 'pop' 'metal,' etc.).

'J-Rock' doesn't actually exist; I wish more people understood that. :x

[girl_underwater]

Amen Sister!

[neverphree]

Double triple quadruple AMEN. xD

Lovely icon, by the way. :]