Twitter in Translation - Now with Hole Digging

[phonon_belt]

Last time on "Twitter in Translation," we learned that Mr. Hirasawa's simple meals are (for some reason) sometimes jokingly referred to as "kasu," which I've been translating as "dregs" because "scum" is a bit too gross-sounding for me. :|

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[kstipetic]

Wow, it's not like he even said anything very bad about the music industry.

[picturesmcgee]

[fujikothefab]

It's funny, but it's kind of sad as well...

[tenshi_saito]

Since I know the whole ONE PATTERN period sucked so much for Hirasawa, I wonder how the other members at the time felt about it. Not sure if the abuse from the record labels extended until the end of that period, e.g. with the Sankai no Jintaichizu lineup since that's a fandom favorite, and notably Kotobuki stayed on for Defrost...so I wonder...

But Hirasawa would have been hit hardest because he's the leader and the one to write most of the songs. I don't know exactly what he was put through, but the fact that he and just about every other member of P-MODEL I see producing music are under independent labels speaks pretty strongly.

Them trying "erase" him from the industry - it figures! The industry doesn't know talent when it sees it, and sucks the souls from the people they do peddle out by milking them as much as they can.

I'm grateful for independent labels and even more so the internet. It lets independent artists thrive~

[aural_elixir]

Agreed. Thank goodness for the internet and Youtube, or I would never have heard of Hirasawa! I only discovered Satoshi Kon thanks to the internet too, which is how I came to hear the music.
It's a shame that most record companies these days are basically just businesses, with about as much creative capacity as your average mollusc. Yet they have all the advertising power, so you have almost an entire generation of kids listening to nothing but 'dregs', thinking that's the only music there is.
I can see how that must be so annoying to true creatives like Hirasawa. I wish he was more well-known over here, he would have absolutely loads of fans.

[phonon_belt]

Funny, I was exposed to Satoshi Kon in the course of a film class and remember enjoying the music, but it wasn't until later when I started rewatching Kon films out of nostalgia that I noticed many of the soundtracks had a similar style. Google brought me the name of the composer, and that brought me to a weird English page protesting the war on terror, and suddenly two free mp3s straight from the composer later I was hooked. ^^; I probably would never have become a fan if that hadn't happened. (And Youtube definitely helps too.)

[phonon_belt]

Definitely agree! And modern technology has really helped creative people like Hirasawa break away from the music establishment. I mean, anyone with talent and a halfway decent computer can make music that sounds like it was made by an entire orchestra and can then sell that music over the internet with a minimum overhead. Amazing! No wonder the music industry is on its way out. I just wish it were easier for more great independent artists to become well known.