I'm currently digging visual kei Jrock band alice nine! (all go: kel listens to Jrock now??!!) i'm expecting some friends to be gawking in awe, since i've always been loyal to solely english r&b music.
*Jrock just refers to the japanese version of heavy metal. there's the thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound.
i first learnt about alice nine when i stumbled upon samantha's blog, and her blogskin bore their pictures. i saw their pics and gaped. thats because they looked like girls. yes, guys looking like girls. i know this' probably nothing new to some of you who literally worship Jrock considering visual kei has been the 'in' thing years ago. the guys wore makeup; thick makeup. heavily drawn eyeliner plus eyeshadow, accompanied by coloured contact lens which exhibit strange patterns. that'll make one's eye look diseased or somethin. their hair colour is ALWAYS striking, they can never go unnoticed if they stepped onto some sane street along japan. their outfits manifests unmatching colours, doused with countless chains/belts/sashes around their neck and waist. i first heard alice nine's song when yinying sent me the song titled Corona, and i was captivated. its was strung with passion. uhh, im lost for words. SHOU ALWAYS SINGS WITH PASSION!! right, sam?? XD though shou undoubtedly looks feminine with his enormous puppy eyes, his voice thrills me, and sam. its SO manly, a complete opposite of his looks.
in my opinion, the visual kei makes them stunningly different and interesting. they're daring and bold. well, at least before more and more bands came out and made the whole market saturated. now japan's flooded with visual kei bands i've lost track.
i know probably none of you are interested except probably dearest samantha who started this whole craze within me. but behind the emo/gothic/whatever getup, i realised that alice nine aren't actually what they appear to be like. sure, they look scary and unapproacable, but they are actually hiliarious, silly and often make fools of themselves when they're offstage. or during interviews. like bursting in excitment and endlessly clapping, exclaiming aloud out of the blue, poking fun at one another. infact, even on stage they do inane stuff: they kiss one another, pretend to have spasms and jump around like wild monkeys. they're entertaining and truly a pleasure to watch.
but rest assured i'm not helplessly in love with them till i would cry my eyes out when i watch an emotional video of them. (i joined a forum, there ARE people that crazy. PUH-lease.) there's still some facets of them which i dislike. i still feel a little turned off and disgusted by their overly-feminine pictures.
earlier i was surfing through youtube and i chanced on a video dissing Jrockers. the fella who posted the video up referred to Jrockers as Jfuckers instead. he made clippings of Jrockers on several of their wild escapdaes. it was escorted by a recording of himself rapping a lyric he thought of, making sarcastic remarks of emo Jrockers. sam, hiroto's face was in it. damn. but hiroto is soooooooooo cute! ahem, back to where i was at. i couldn't help but 1) laugh. it cracked me up. he rapped somethin like:
'- girls keep breaking up with me because they say they already have a pussy, they don't need another one.
- i stole my sister's mascara and now i'm in trouble. '
LOL!
and the artist made it so ironic; if i'm not wrong he rapped: 'im not cool cos i dont shave my legs or paint my nails' LOL!
2) agree a little. i mean, what's the deal with the clean shaven legs and eyebrows? THAT, i cannot stand. well i'm not totally sure if they do shave their legs but sometimes they wear shorts(yes, they do) for photoshoots. so i'm guessin they would shave the hair off so they'd look undoubtedly flawless. uh, shaved eyebrows for guys?? and i mean totally plucked off, hairless, clean, not a single strand left. then a short bit is drawn on with the pencil. like those minahs do. *shudders* that goes against nature of guys!! *stomps foot on ground*
remember i mentioned i'd love my guy to have that strip of hair under his navel? well saga always "flaunts" his six-pack-LESS, hairLESS and incredibly FAIR tummy in photos. and his fans will go: 'i love saga's tummy!!' and did i mention his waist is insanely slim? *faint*
seriously, some of the older visual kei bands are REALLY CREEPY. they look terribly horrifying, like they're the living dead on halloween night. ugh. look how creepy they are!
if i'm not wrong these members come from bands like Dir en Grey/Gazette/Lolita 23Q. correct me if i'm wrong, please.
i'm thankful alice nine isn't visual kei to that extent. hang on, i just noticed how much i'm contradicting. NOW how do i redeem myself now that i've just dissed my idols? lol..
okay at least only as my boyfriend, THEN the guy has to have those aspects - hairy/muscles/tanned body. cos thats my taste.
at the same time though, i like alice nine because of the great music they produce. i don't think i've ever heard such a young band play such wonderous in-tune melody. imagine the amount of practice, to create your own beat and tempo. what about the guitarists, how they managed to piece together, such harmonious rhythms. and at such a young age! they're all in their early 20s. i take my hat off to them.
ladies and germs, THIS is alice nine.
see? they're not that bad right? they look like normal, healthy, ALIVE people! haha. the other horrendously visual bands just look dead. alice nine don't even use as much makeup.
of course however, alice nine started out very very visual.
i guess this' the peak of how visual they ever got.
BUT,
i hate to idolise! and i don't wanna. so shou's gotta continue doing the fucking annoying girly wrist action that i hate, so that i won't loooooooooooove him with all my heart till i'd be oh-so devastated and attempt to slit my wrists when i realise one day that he's getting married.
boy am i weird.
for now, i've gotta be goin. for some teppanyaki with nicholas. yumyum. and he owes me starbucks. shall explain in my next post. tralalala
Replies to tags:
mic: you'll do a good job babe! u're brilliantly clever, we all know that.
leraine: teehee thanks..
cin: take the simplest gem first. or the ones which aren't as popular. thats what my senior said, because everyone would chiong for it first.
dino: i miss you alot. oh when will your bro be back? be sure to pick him up at the airport when he arrives then. =)
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