25 posts tagged “ガゼット”
So yeah yesterday I had my presentation of my favorite band on English. I was really nervous and my hands were slightly trembling. I asked the class to have understanding for what I was going to present them, noting that I have to make them try to understand something in five minutes what took me three years.
So after presenting the band (and getting an applause because it was really clearly and pretty said) I asked them what kind of a song do they want me to play. Did they want a ballad, a furious song, a rock'n'roll one or something completely experimental. They all expressed that they want to hear something "regular" that the GazettE have.
I don't really know why but I wanted to play something from NIL, since that album is one of the best I've ever heard. So I looked at my sister and asked her "Filth or Shadow?" and she said "Shadow". I regret it later, but well can't change that. No matter how prepared I would be, I'd always have a complaint.
So I played SHADOW VI II I. It was really loud so I could hear all the imperfections in Ruki's 2006. singing (which got really better after they've released Filth in the Beauty single). I also noticed that my heartbeat was synchronized with Kai's drumming (which was really scary). I didn't look at the class, just down at my table, wishing to kick Ruki in the balls every time he opened his mouth. I've noticed that the class chattered surprised on the bridge where Aoi plays his acoustic guitar and Ruki sings like he is from some boyband.
After the song, they've said that it sounded all right and cool and the teacher said it reminded her on System of a Down (O_O?). And when looking at my paper the teacher asked the most common question: "Are they all men?.
I've said: "Yes"
Since the end of the school year is coming soon and I'm up to my throat with exams whose number is exact to the legally allowed number of exams per week, our English teacher has been so nice not to gives us an exam and to let us mostly relax on our English classes until the end.
So today we had to listen to this song which glimmering optimism almost made my ulcer pop and fill out the lyrics. Just as always when learning English through songs.
That was ok. Until the homework part...
Which is:
You have to pick your favorite song and play it and hold a five minute speech about the band and the song.
A homework most people would die for to have, right? Sure if you're an average teen listener stuck on MTV hits or the usual pop or rock classic artists (like well... everybody from my English class).
To say that my situation is slightly different would be understating. Especially when destiny has made that my so called favorite rock band comes from the land most people tend to generalize as Asians working vacation-less in high tech factories with their small eyes, big incisors, black hair and always bowing, invading every tourist spot in the world; that look hotter than most girls do (while not having boobs and having an extra something in between their legs) and whose songs would be to mild to describe as ultimate auditive chaos rock hybrid of various not rarely unmixable genres? And when most of the people (I know) find the term "Japanese rock" as funny and crazy by itself and I'm well in a school/land/*wider term* where is normal for teens like me to listen to the usual things you see on MTV?
How am I going to hold a minimum five minute about my favorite band when my hands and voice shiver every time I have to show/talk about to somebody my favorite band and not to mention about holding a speech about them in front of the class trying to compress the understanding and tolerance for a such band in five minutes that I needed three years to get. If my heart won't jump out and throw itself out of the window I'll consider myself as a "strong character".
So if I do manage to pull the talk out it is still a problem which song to play and describe. I don't have a specific overall favorite song by them, most of their songs are my favorites. I was thinking about Taion, but then again Taion begins with Ruki's uncorrectable English and does sound a bit harsh for your average listener (and the song has a special meaning to me I'm not sure I want to share). Another one of my favorites is the legendary Filth in the Beauty which would make an almost perfect choice if it weren't for the obvious incestuous lyrics (damn your perverted mind Ruki). I have to find some other T.T....
So yeah...
In short...
I'm screwed.
So as you might already know the GazettE have finished their probably most longest tour ever, the 2007-2008. Standing live tour STACKED RUBBISH - PULSE WRIGGLING TO BLACK.
The tour started way back in July (15.7.2007.) and lasted to 20.4.2008. with a total of 71 performances divided unto 4 tour parts.
Part 1 (15.7-7.9.2007.) had live performances throughout various clubs, halls and live houses in Japan with a final performed on 7.9. in Nippon Budoukan. Anybody watching the NAMELESS LIBERTY SIX GUNS live DVD (from the Budoukan concert in 2006) will see that the guys have kept their promise and returned again to Nippon Budoukan as well as "making a tour in which they will go and play in every city or town, no matter how small it is". Looks like they'd even managed to do that, since they had so many performances.
I swear that I really hated them back then just because I love their music so much and that I'll have to wait again (after waiting a year) for them to come back to Europe. All I wanted was to see the persons whose music means the life to me. Just to say one day Thank you for everything to them would mean the world to me. Because I can't never make up for what they have done for me.
The start of 2008. was marked with the boys collaboration with the jewelry label GEMCEREY and the release of their personally designed jewelry, which was followed with the release of their, probably the best, single ever Guren. The single was released on 13.2.2008. and managed to get to number 2 in the Oricon single charts. After the single release the guy's were ready to continue their PULSE WRIGGLING TO BACK tour with the Fan Club only tour part 3 (1.-10.3.2008.)
As predictable the band announced that the concert held yesterday in Yoyogi National Stadium will be released on a DVD the GazettE TOUR 2007-2008 STACKED RUBBISH GRAND FINALE [REPEATED COUNTLESS ERROR] IN 国立代々木競技場第一体育館 and the band will hold a Gazerock Festival [BURST INTO BLAZE] on 23.8.2008. on Fujikyuu (not quite sure about that) highlands. And of course the guys will release a new single this autumn (let's hope it will be Gazerock at it's best and craziest form).
So yeah, wishing them less than this would be egoistical (knowing that I'm not really fond of the band's ever growing popularity, but I can't keep them for myself can I?) so I wish them the best and more than that because they deserve more than the best. They have got my biggest gratitude.
Even if they really know to piss and annoy me sometimes, I still love them. I wish them a lot of success and many years of happy Gazerocking.
To the greatest rock band if not in the whole, than at least in my world.
Having a blog on Ameba proved to be very addicting. i just can't wait to post something! I post the most random things, from what I have been doing in the morning, what I have heard from music or my drawings. Basically anything worth posting a little entry. I write on Japanese there and I've noticed that my Japanese is gradually getting better. It's still miles away from perfect, but it is still quite understandable and I try my best to have a correct grammar.
Besides posting small entries I put a lot of colors, emojis, pictures and everything else. It does look like I'm on some LSD trip but it is really fun writing those cute and colorful entries on Japanese. Really fun XD. And it also helps me to follow the entries of my favorite bands easily. At this moment I am following the GazettE official blog, Kagrra,'s blog, alice nine.'s blog, Ayabie's Aoi and Yumehito's blogs as well. Really fun! Please check if you know a bit of Japanese.
Back to the Visual news/randomness.
When speaking of new looks...
4/19・20 国立代々木競技場第一体育館
13.4.2008. Oosakajou Hall
19.-20.4.2008. National Yoyogi Gymnasium (first gymnasium)
I hope that they are going to record the tour final of their most longest tour ever for a live DVD (which I'm going to buy and overly enjoy watching). 頑張って GazettE! 頑張って!
Asari over and out gone learning.
Yeah I admit I am feeling posting-happy so look forward for me posting stupid but still entertaining posts X).
I simply love what interesting things you can find browsing around Livejournal and other forums/blogs/whatever where hordes of Visual kei fans get together and share interesting things. I am also continuing the series of before/after posts I have started and that Heroin(e) has continued with an excellent post about GazettE's Aoi and Kai's previous bands.
Today I will literally unmask the beautiful visage of famous Visual kei artists and show their normal, human side. No make up allowed. Are you ready?
So yeah, as much as I love Girugämesh I must admit that when I first saw them in their Visuals (not without the make up) that I said to myself Whoa! These guys are reaaaaaal ugly! Poor guys... If I am ever going to listen to them it definitely won't be because of the appearance. Yeah unfortunately Girugämesh is really one of the ugliest bands around (although charming in a way), but at least they look very much like themselves without the make-up even more than some other Visual kei artists.
Next are D'espairsRay!
D'espairsRay always had this great Visuals and they always looked really good, starting from their extreme dark Visuals from the start of their career up to nowadays with a bit watered down, but still very stylish Visuals. The guys look mostly like they do in real life nowadays because they don't use a lot of make up and are going for a more natural style.
So first of all let's take a peek at singer Hizumi and bassist Zero.
My jaw dropped when I saw Aoi's picture from the recent MacPeople magazine. He wasn't wearing any makeup and he really looked older than usual (which shouldn't surprise since he is 29 years old). In a way he reminded me from somebody from LUNA SEA (Sugizo or Inoran? Not sure) in a way because he looks really mature and like a real adult.
What is the most shocking about this picture is that it shows everything Visual Uruha isn't: a rough, not handsome Japanese MAN. He looks soo manly it's almost scary and impossible to believe. The Beast behind the Beauty.
The moral of the joke: We (women) have to achieve perfection with makeup. So hypothetically speaking what if men, who are already perfect by themselves, would use our means of achieving visual perfection (or makeup)? Does that make them more than perfect according to the joke? A little bit of truth is in that joke actually.God was creating the world. God created the man and said rapturously: Oh you are so perfect!
Then god created the woman and said a bit less rapturously: Listen, you will have to put makeup.
So with makeup or without, pretty or ugly, we all love our favorite Visual kei rockers. As long as they make good music that makes our days exciting the Visuals really don't matter. The true beauty comes from inside :).
I saw this a few days ago on Batsu (although I seldom go there because of the horrifying amount of fangirls and often lack of common sense; not a big forum fan I suppose), but I didn't post it since I didn't have the matching video clip for it. But anyway I finally found the clip so...
But most of all, it was offensive towards the people who actually love Visual kei and to who Visual kei represents much more than just music. I am not going to discuss here what Visual kei means for me (you know that already).
The airing of this episode was announced on the official the GazettE site, but without the knowledge about what the episode was about. After the episode was aired, no one mentioned it again on the web site, except Ruki on his fanclub blog. He apparently expressed his disappointment with the way they not just portraited the fans, but also the way people displayed Visual kei as a mass aimed shallow music trash.
(Translation taken from Batsu)"It’s impermissible for people to hurt other people who are chasing and striving for the same dreams as us with words like that on their own accord.
Anyone can say things.
Humans must not have the right to intrude, contaminate and criticize other people’s dreams."
I must admit that I agree with Ruki because I have never been approval of judging people based on their music liking. It is like criticizing someone's personal choice, because music is always a matter of choice and people should not be judged because of that. But yet again such things happen.
I just wanted to show this as one of thousands examples of how Visual kei is treated. Those who think it is different in Japan are wrong, because in Japan Visual kei is also facing the same prejudice, the same taboo theme label just as in any other country.
People just tend to judge things they don't know.
Track list
1. 紅蓮 (Guren) [PV] [Listen]
2. 傀儡絵 (Kugutsu e) [Listen]
3. 虚無の終わり 箱詰めの黙示 (Kyomu no owari Hakodzume no mokushi) [Listen]
A year has passed since the GazettE's last single HYENA. Six months since the release of their third album STACKED RUBBISH which was, hand on heart, stacked rubbish with a handful of shallow songs. Damn, even the GazettE themselves admit that the album wasn't their brightest achievement and not to mention that loads of fans were left disappointed or/and left with a bitter aftertaste. The GazettE were facing a stagnation in their non interrupted series of amazing achievements.
But I must say that my faith in the band and their talent was restored with the Guren single. Guren is a lyrical masterpiece, something like CALM ENVY (without the irritating parts) and Kagrra,'s Irodori no sanka combined into one beautiful and a bit reminiscent song with a constant flow, minimalistic and yet wonderful instrumental parts supported by the beautiful strings in the background. A song to dive into, freed from any aggression but yet strong in emotions, without being too emotional or pathetic. As beautiful as a Japanese lyrical scenery, with some profound feelings which can only be expressed as 物の哀れ (mono no aware).
Kugutsu e may begin calm, with an intro almost identical to Chizuru, but after a few moments it grabs you by the neck with it's distorted guitars, fast beat and heavy bass. A fast, schizophrenic, adrenaline charged ride through the chaos. This song is even for GazettE terms very chaotic, combining elements from nearly every good 2006./07. released GazettE song. Although it doesn't bring anything new, the pure excitement and adrenaline in this song combined with already known elements make this song sound refreshing and dynamic without losing depth, raping STACKED RUBBISH's songs analy. Rocks hard and is extremely addicting.
Kyomu no owari Hakodzume no mokushi surprised me with verse riffs resembling those of RED...[em] (just a bit reduced) from Dir en grey. But that is not the only resemblance. I could easily imagine Kyo singing the dark, mysterious, haunting and a bit sarcastic Hydra-666-esque verses. But after the first verse the song erupts in a instrumentally vast and almost apocalyptic epic masterpiece, reminding mostly on a more intense version of Chizuru but with sarcastic bridges and a very intense chorus that prevents the song from becoming Chizuru. Kyomu no owari Hakodzume no mokushi is what Apocalypse would sound: angry, desperate, ironical at times, dark and overall filled with emotions.
I simply can't express how glad I am that the GazettE have finally made a single to be proud of and most important with depth. I am glad that this songs are the songs you could dive into and feel. And they get better with every listening. For me it is not important how the songs are, if they bring something new or not, but if they don't have a depth, If they can't awake any emotions, then they are not something I would be overall pleased with.
Guren has showed that the boys are capable of making interesting songs that manage to sound exciting, fresh and new, even with combined elements from their previous releases. Although returning to their post-NIL, pre-STACKED RUBBISH state, this returning is not a stagnation, it is a development to more mature sound with more and more improving instrumental and yet still preserving the undeniable energy and chaos the GazettE are so known of.
What NIL is compared to other GazettE albums, Guren is to singles. A masterpiece that stands out with it's quality even with all the flaws and virtues. This single is not just an obligatory to GazettE fans, but also to anybody who wants to hear some quality Visual kei stuff (and not the usual trash). A masterpiece worth your listening (and money).
And I couldn't imagine a better present for the upcoming Valentines day and my birthday. 心からありがとうガゼット様。愛してる。
The GazettE brought out a new PV yesterday. It is the PV for their upcoming single Guren.
Guren is a great song with feelings, not that it is emotional or something, but that it awakes felling inside the listener. It is one of the songs you hear and drown in because it says so much more than it seems. It is a song with depth and I am glad GazettE managed to do such a song. My faith for them has been restored after it was shaken by the mere shallowness of the STACKED RUBBISH's songs.
Rare are such PV's that capture the spirit of the song so well as Guren. This PV is a must see not only because of the PV itself, but also because of the beautiful, almost transcendental song. Guren has already proven it's quality as a song and I hope that the remaining two songs from the Auditory Impression of the single won't ruin that. To shorten the waiting or the single, enjoy this PV masterpiece.
Watch at your own risk... Be sure not to eat or drink anything while watching and not to be in the near of sharp, hard or edged objects. If you have a heart problem don't watch. If you have a hard time straining yourself from laughing DEFINITELY DON'T WATCH.
I hope you guys die of embarrassment...
I've finally finished my the GazettE PSP theme. It is the first theme I've made. Of course, it could have been better but I'm satisfied with the way it ended.
So if you have a PSP with the latest update installed download this theme put it in the folder .../PSP/THEME/ of your PSP and install it on your PSP. Some icons like the internet radio or remote play are not included, mainly because my PSP theme maker doesn't have them. Oh and since I have the good old fat PSP some icons for the slim PSP may not be included.
So anyway I hope you like this theme. Who says you have to stick with the plain old boring PSP theme. Refresh your PSP with some Visual kei goodness.
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