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Pleasure Principled
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I only knew a handful of anime songs back then, and she gave me another CD with a special song on it that made me listen up: Gackt’s “Mizérable” with its catchy violin and rousing groove, plus those suprisingly falsetto vocals from this guy who looked like a spoiled feminist vampire.
Cliff recounts his own introduction to visual kei while sharing the genre’s complex joys to a friend.
I don’t blame these people for being initially wary of SweetS or Hello! Project. As is too often the rub with popular music, image comes before sound, and few can get past the “pedophilia parade”.
Vee discusses her personal experiences in promoting the joys of wota-dom to an otaku crowd.
In January, Kagrra moved to King Records and put out “Core,” and who’s listened to that recently? Viored broke up and aren’t missed much, but a little. X Japan released a so-so song, foreshadowing a year of circus-like goings-on.
Go looks back at the highlights of 2008 in his own inimitable manner, and anticipates 2009.
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