It’s the same with every genre of music your going to get fans who listen to your music come to your lives and say “you saved my life for xyz reason” and maybe show you scars and that’s okay if the band approves of it and encourges them to tell there stories as a strength not a weakness I’ve seen multiple bands do that for mental health in other genres
But there a big difference between “your part of helping my mental health” and “your idolising these problems and it makes me think oh thats not an issue”
They did put out a statement about it and fan twitter just went “COME ON WHY CANT YOU GIVE THEM RESPECT!” and others are like “waht happened” and its like…I’m sorry but can’t you see the type of people and things Senketsu (online base) does like it doesn’t surpise me this happened and I hope everyone envolved with it is okay
I make one comment about entitled vkei tiktok and suddenly Senketsu fan tweets are in my recommended this community is so much better in every way shape and form
Well, at least it puts the talk that “only” foreign fans do this shit to rest. Good to be reminded that the Japanese fanbase has their occasional weirdos as well.
Some early 2000s-end of 90s bands had some mediocrity (ex: Missalina Rei, Noir Flurir) they had actually peak ideas of music (and looks)…they just didnt managed it right (SUCH AS NOIR FLEURIR’S PUNK+TANGO), plus they wanted to sound really edgy with their lyrics (witch instead of doing in the cool way it was pretty bad). Sorry if I have bad writting, im from South America lol
Today I’ve read all post from june 2024 until now.
Heres my hot take: this thread has no business being this good and having the most thoughtful conversarion in the forum.
Now that I’ve gone to some domestic vk concerts I do have some hot takes to post but that will be another day, I already spent too much time in this thread today
Not related, but…
This fact was the main reason why I completely distanced from vkei (´･_･`) and not only teenagers, sometimes it’s scary to see how 20+ girls are obsessed with “me and my honmei have the same mental illness, we should be together AND WE WILL”
Yep! It’s so strange to see how music can evolve, 90s vkei roots are from gothic and sort of soft glam and progre, which were an example of a copying of the western style, and it ended with thing we all know as old school vkei, unique and cracked but somehow cool.
AND WE WILL”