What Japanese bands can you see get recognition in other music scenes or regions?

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Let me add some as well :blush:

I had board game night with some coworkers tonight and we talked about an artist I disliked because I can’t stand his voice. We put him on so the other could say if they get why I dislike it. And after that I said “let me have something I enjoy now” and I put on Dexcore and it was well received by everybody.

That guy in the office I mentioned earlier who likes Dir en grey? I will recommend Dexcore and Jiluka to him. He surely will be intrested in them.

My step dad is a musician who is part of a Rolling Stones cover band. I often bring my CDs when we drive with the car together. He asked me to give him a GazettE CD because he was impressed by them. I think he still has my Stacked Rubbish album :sweat_smile: Last time I brought Kizu and he was imprssed by them as well.

I have mentioned a few times here that my mom loves X and Yoshiki and went with me to Kamijo and thought it was fantastic as well.

My work bestie got a “Spledid God Giraffe” tote back from me today because she liked mine so much and I read funny threads from the forum to her and show her mvs. Step by step… :smiling_imp:

Identifying the best target and most effective weapon is key ~

Ahhh, I have been at this point. I felt like nobody in the world cared for the bands I like anymore. But there are fans. Enough for some bands to try oversea tours again. Enough to still do Kansai Rock summit. Enough for a niche scene to just exist. See, I wish it was 2005 again as well. But this can work like it is right now as well. Maybe there is no need for a high amount of corssover appeal. We should not sink into despair because of this. That’s what I mean with negativity.

As I said before. We should care about things like spotify cause that is a real danger for variaty in music. Their payout system, their recommendation algorithem… That’s a problme for all niche scenes. That’s why I don’t use Spotify Premium. I could afford it but my money would go to Taylor Swift even if I never listen to any of her songs ever. I rather buy merch from that money and stream the music with a free account.

I do have an idea what it is but I don’t think we really have something similar to compare it to. Maybe Amazon comes closest?

Oh dear … we should probably move this to another topic :sweat_smile: this has nothing to do with the inital questeion, has it?

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I can try hahah
I like to keep note of what bands i consider vkei that my non-vkei IRL friends seem genuinely interested in, beyond an interest for the duration of the conversation. Worth mentioning that i have these conversations mostly w/ musicians.

DIMLIM, somehow, never fails to make people say “oh who’s that i gotta look them up” - which surprises me bc i thought they were more on the fringes, esp MISC. But CHE DO A RA, MISC, & kidoairaku all catch attention.

Dexcore too, esp if the person likes metalcore, that’ll be a catch. Nazare gets “ooohs” but no one looks them up on their phone mid-song like Dexcore. Lynch does well tho, esp inferiority complex.

Kagrra, catches much better than Kiryuu. People say “that’s actually really good” (were they expecting it not to be?) but no catches yet on Kiryuu.

No luck w/ l’Arc, Luna Sea, X, but Kuroyume does well esp feminism & corkscrew. Confusingly enough.

One of my non-vkei friends heard Slothtreat and says that’s the best thing i’ve ever shown her. She loves the vocalist’s voice (same)

Naitomea, GazettE, Mucc, Royz, Mejibray, no luck. Most 2000s/2010s vkei ‘classics’, no luck.

Dezert’s early albums have people asking me to tell them the name of that Japanese band with all the writing on the album; no one’s given a second thought if i play a track off Today or later.

If there’s any conclusion i can think to have, it’s that vkei bands with a vkei sound aren’t usually hooking quick listeners outside the scene. But vkei bands who synergize closely w/ a particular genre/sound outside vkei, even if it’s not a scene the listener is super invested - in my personal, unscientific experience, those are the ones that pull in listeners from outside.

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I had heared some X Japan tracks before but I really got into them because Forever Love made me cry as the ending theme of the X-1999 movie.

This anime, other animes from Clamp and a lot of anime that where popular in the same bubble had one thing in common: they were pretty dark and their target group were mostly female.

If you look at vk concert audience … mostly female. Guys are maybe not the best target group for the anime to vk cycle. :sweat_smile: Of course there are guys who enjoy vk! But I think the anime connection worked more on female audiences. But that’s just my personal impression. Maybe it’s wrong if you look at it statistically.

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This is exactly where I’m at, despite me sounding negative. I like Japanese music because nothing else sounds quite like it, and I think a part of that is their insularity. @rsm_rain touched on it much more eloquently here, but they are on the money with this:

But this is why I started my first post with MYV! I like my Japanese music sounding, well, Japanese! I like my American music sounding American. I like my Korean music sounding Korean. I go to each of these scenes - and others in turn - because they provide a unique sound I can’t get anywhere else. When an artist tries to modify their sound to meet the lowest common denominator, you often end up with something that appeals to everyone and no one simultaneously. Something like modern-era MYV.

It all fits together, even if we take the long path to get there!

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