re: something that most of my current flist will probably have no clue of 8(
After a long while of paying little to no attention the visual kei scene at all, I decided to have a browse round of current bands and the like (in part spurred by the fact that I hooked up one of external HDs last night and got all nostalgic over some of the music on it) and... Well, obviously times and music change but man. The music is so different these days and totally not what drew me to the VK scene in the first place.
I mean, objectively speaking, I know Matina, Key Party and the like were no less 'contrived' (in a sense) than PSC and whatever record labels are around at present, but there was just something about the mid-late 90s/early millennium sound that makes me like it so much more than the vast majority of what's around today. I know part of it is inevitably 'I've grown up a bit' and also that, now, I'm no longer of the 'target age range', if you will. But still. It makes me sad :|
Also, oh god, this will sound completely terrible of me, but in parts -- as with the music scene as a whole -- I feel that the internet has been a help and a hindrance to VK. There was something immensely satisfying about finding other fans of that little group that you stumbled across entirely by accident on Visunavi or VKDB. Now it seems something of a given that those fans are out there and that you will find them and I DON'T KNOW. IT JUST FEELS DIFFERENT 8( And, I don't know. With the style change, the scene also feels more shallow. Maybe that's just, again, more to do with me and my perception of it and how that's changed, rather than VK/indies as a whole. (Side note: I really dislike the current VK fashion, which doesn't help. I know, it's hypocritical of me to go on about how much more shallow it seems and then complain about the looks jfldkg.)
That said, I remember when I first got into VK, I would read all these comments by older members of the scene lambasting the current scene and how it had all gone to hell and saying basically everything I've just said, and I'd think 'what, no, these bands are great. How can they not like them?!' -- and now here I am :|
Although, it's nice to see that indie groups remain as much of an incestuous scene as ever dklg even if I no longer recognise half the names popping up.
I mean, objectively speaking, I know Matina, Key Party and the like were no less 'contrived' (in a sense) than PSC and whatever record labels are around at present, but there was just something about the mid-late 90s/early millennium sound that makes me like it so much more than the vast majority of what's around today. I know part of it is inevitably 'I've grown up a bit' and also that, now, I'm no longer of the 'target age range', if you will. But still. It makes me sad :|
Also, oh god, this will sound completely terrible of me, but in parts -- as with the music scene as a whole -- I feel that the internet has been a help and a hindrance to VK. There was something immensely satisfying about finding other fans of that little group that you stumbled across entirely by accident on Visunavi or VKDB. Now it seems something of a given that those fans are out there and that you will find them and I DON'T KNOW. IT JUST FEELS DIFFERENT 8( And, I don't know. With the style change, the scene also feels more shallow. Maybe that's just, again, more to do with me and my perception of it and how that's changed, rather than VK/indies as a whole. (Side note: I really dislike the current VK fashion, which doesn't help. I know, it's hypocritical of me to go on about how much more shallow it seems and then complain about the looks jfldkg.)
That said, I remember when I first got into VK, I would read all these comments by older members of the scene lambasting the current scene and how it had all gone to hell and saying basically everything I've just said, and I'd think 'what, no, these bands are great. How can they not like them?!' -- and now here I am :|
Although, it's nice to see that indie groups remain as much of an incestuous scene as ever dklg even if I no longer recognise half the names popping up.