Yoshiki is very smart. With little money, he managed to take a slice of the Japanese industry in the 90s, including doing business with Japanese crime syndicates(it’s all in the game). He’s a visionary and pragmatic guy. He saw that VK wouldn’t last and shifted his activities to US, becoming a tool of Japanese soft power and making money ever since.
Promoting ties between the US and Japan is his job-lobbying here and there, giving gifts to MJ, posing with Obama and Neymar, having tea with the Queen, and a lot more.
These ties doesn’t come to someone who’s a nobody shouting “psychedelic crime of visual shock.”
Some think he’s foolish, but while yo’re heading out, he’s already coming back.
He abandoned heavy music a while ago and now only cares about gaining more power and wealth, and he’s succeeding. I don’t like that, but, as Omar said: “It’s all in the game, yo.”
His father was a businessman after WWII; Yoshiki composed for the Japanese Emperor later. Don’t ask him what his predecessor was doing in the '20s, '30s and '40s…
I never got the whole scoop on the S.K.I.N. “breakup” back in the day, what’d Yoshiki do? Gackt is a control freak, has no desire to play shows in America, and doesn’t like Sugizo so I honestly just assumed he was the problem LOL
What do you guys think is his next step? Something in me tells me he will show up in some hollywood blockbuster lol, being friends with Elon Musk must lead to many connections
Actually he has always dreamed about making it in Hollywood as a composer. But the best he could achieve in 30 years is placing a few pieces of music on the soundtracks of B-movies (X-Japan’s ‘IV’ on Saw 4 being the zenith of those efforts). And that is, no doubt, through leveraing all his local connections to the max… As for Yoshiki as an actor? perish the thought.
At this stage I think he’s pretty much done with music as the inspiration well has run dry a long time ago.
Obviously his new push is into fashion, where he basically only has to lend his name and image, delegate everything to professionals, say “I like this”, “I don’t like that”, and collect the $$$ while still enjoying some attention / spotlight moments.
Watching X Japan live in 1993, and i can’t believe just how sloppy these dudes were. Man, Yoshiki really oversells it live too. The only reason you have spinal injuries is because of your shitty technique.
