Who cares? Visual Kei sucks sucks.Ī style of Japanese music that really has nothing to do with music. Having bad music and trying to cover it up with lots of blush. That 38 year old woman only likes visual kei because she thinks the guys are hot. The only good vk band is Dir En Grey, and that's because they no longer look like tranvestites. Some VK bands are Duel Jewel, Malice Mizer, Psycho Le Mu, BLOOD. Many vk fans may call this 'Gothic' and the music 'rock'.įans usually are females who love the look of the band members, so they like the music. 'HOLY SHIT, DID YOU SEE THAT NEW VISUAL KEI MUSIC VIDEO, THE LEAD SINGER WAS A SEXY CLOWN!'Ī form of Japanese music that focuses heavily on a very ugly drag queen-esque look. Modern bands include: Mejibray, Dadaroma, The Gazette, The Gallo, etc. Older bands include: Malice Mizer, X japan, Dir en grey, Luna Sea, etc. The members of these bands wear a lot of makeup, and crossdress frequently. Sexy hot japanese bands that are primarily rock are visual kei.

Many visual-kei bands include: X Japan, Malice Mizer, Dir en Grey, Gazette, Phantasmagoria, Alice Nine, 12012, and many more to name. The style alone does not neseccarily have to do with the music but more alone with its outlandish and unique clothing/hair/makeup-thats what its really known for. Although there are branches of Jrock, that have different classifications/characteristics that visual-kei. It's characterized by bands (namely Japanese) that use dramatic costumes/hair/makeup to basically inhance their visual appearance. This style/movement has been largely credited to have been started by X Japan which led to an uprising in the trend of the visual scene. Literally means 'visual type' from a style/movement in J-Rock that started back in the 1980s, and became popular in Japan by the 90s.

Karen was a visual kei band with the theme ' life and death.' There are many sub-genres of visual kei including oshare kei, kote kei, koteose kei, soft visual kei, and many more. A Visual band will usually have a set concept or theme that influences their music style, lyrics, and mode of dress. Visual Kei or Visual Rock is a genre of rock music in Japan.

Visual Kei is just another form of music which doesn't want to conform to popular music, like metal

An example of this is Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet- whose theme revolves around two waring noble clan set in pre-revolutionary France, with a style similar to speed-metal. Also the 'cross-dressing' comes from their culture which performed (and still does) Kabuki, a form of theatre where all actors are male, and so if the bands theme requires females, cross-dressing occurs. But like all band VK bands talk about a multitude of different themes and should not be dissed as such. The GazettE, one particular VK band has amazingly metaphorical lyrics (if translated). Not all of VK fans are female and only care about looks. The Key of Visual Kei is too express a message and bring a twist on it. Visual Kei is a sub-genre of Japanese Music that focuses on self-expression, most Visual Kei, bands do not sound the same, as that statement could be used for Rap as well, but Rap fan will argue that it takes an ear, same applies to Visual Kei. Visual kei: what is it? What does it mean?

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