I mean, if Yoshiki really does this alone and Toshi is sad about it, why would Toshi say it? It could get Toshi in a lot of trouble if he said this to the fans. I mean, think about it. It's like a rose war for a band if someone said loudly that he is feeling bad about the decisions of the band leader....
nb has a point. Would it be wise to start a press war with Yoshiki at this point? Probably not. And it would be extremely out of character for Toshi to do that (hey, he's a showbiz professional who's lived through five decades, survived a cult and rebuilt his public image and career from scratch - would he really fall into that trap?). Why did he chose to drop the hint that he was bummed, though? Maybe because he's a human being and bummed human beings tend to seek validation from people who like them by declaring that they're... well, bummed. It lightens the burden. All things considered, he was very diplomatic and cautious with this words. Just because he let it slip, it doesn't mean he's publicly lashing out at Yoshiki.
Yoshiki is an extremely skilled musician and he deserves all our respect for that. In recent years, I've come to realise that he's not really that good at managing his band's success, though. Sounds like he might be surrounded but PR morons too. I bet his intentions with this single were the best: he wanted to make a great song and to kill two birds with one stone by rallying both X and Hyde fans. It's just that the whole thing was marketed rather disastrously for the rest of the band. I trust that they're adults and that they discussed this beforehand, but heck, was it a strange move! Anyway, the world won't end just because Yoshiki tried and failed at pleasing everyone. Toshi most certainly will not leave the band. Yoshiki has certainly got enough backslash by now to understand that nobody wants another X feat [whoever] thing. Us fans will be bummed for Toshi for a while, but he knows he's loved by millions of us and I don't think he'll take it too personally. If anything, fan reactions will only make him realise how important he is to us and how inconceivable an X minus Toshi would be. And if this marketing move was somebody else's idea, I'm pretty sure they've been fired by now.
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