PS
There was one other thing I forgot to mention.
"We know it best now as the kind of crazy stuff Malice Mizer pulled, but that was one extreme in the spectrum that made the VK "look." Again, there are no hard-and-fast rules on any of this, so to you maybe VK really didn't start until Mana launched EGL in full-form, but as I write in the piece, I think it started well in the mid-80s, at least in rudimentary form. LUNA SEA and Kuroyume were certainly inheritors of a look that X JAPAN and B-T already started."
Besides the contradiction to other statements in her post about what "visual" is, she implies that I am possibly a Manatard n00b and that I am the one with a narrow perspective. Uh, if I thought Malice Mizer was the definition of visual, why would I have said that PENICILLIN, whom she thinks is too dressed down to be visual, is visual? CONTRADICTIONS, I AM DROWNING IN THEM.
Found a couple of other shitty "articles" while trying to find something on Google:
http://www.articlestree.com/music/visual-kei-as-a-music-world-vision-tx229267.html (Really just kind of wtf-ing at this one as it honestly doesn't make a lot of sense.)
http://forums.livingwithstyle.com/archive/index.php/t-145529.html (Okay, so it's actually a forum post from somewhere. Doesn't make it fail less.)
"We know it best now as the kind of crazy stuff Malice Mizer pulled, but that was one extreme in the spectrum that made the VK "look." Again, there are no hard-and-fast rules on any of this, so to you maybe VK really didn't start until Mana launched EGL in full-form, but as I write in the piece, I think it started well in the mid-80s, at least in rudimentary form. LUNA SEA and Kuroyume were certainly inheritors of a look that X JAPAN and B-T already started."
Besides the contradiction to other statements in her post about what "visual" is, she implies that I am possibly a Manatard n00b and that I am the one with a narrow perspective. Uh, if I thought Malice Mizer was the definition of visual, why would I have said that PENICILLIN, whom she thinks is too dressed down to be visual, is visual? CONTRADICTIONS, I AM DROWNING IN THEM.
Found a couple of other shitty "articles" while trying to find something on Google:
http://www.articlestree.com/music/visual-kei-as-a-music-world-vision-tx229267.html (Really just kind of wtf-ing at this one as it honestly doesn't make a lot of sense.)
http://forums.livingwithstyle.com/archive/index.php/t-145529.html (Okay, so it's actually a forum post from somewhere. Doesn't make it fail less.)