There are so many fans that praise anything that X Japan (or its members) do/create. I'm not one of those fans. X Japan are my favourite band of all time and I listen to them every day.. but that does not mean I think they are perfect. Instead of clogging up the other threads, I decided to make a seperate one for other people to say what they dont like, and for the other people who disagree to get their point across.
I'll go first.
Visual Kei. I wouldnt say hate.. but I do NOT like it at all. I dont care if they play dressed like women or they play naked. As long as the MUSIC is good, i'm happy. I just think the whole VK thing is a bit of a joke. If Yoshiki likes wearing dresses and womens clothes then by all means, he should. I just think it looks stupid. hide definately takes the cake here though. The only time I thought hide looked decent was during his "Pink Spider" PV. I cant really think of any other time I liked how hide looked.
On that note, I dont like hide much at all. His music is average. He has some great songs but he has some awful ones aswell. I do not like his "look" at all.
Yoshiki's drum/piano solo's. As mentioned in other topics, to me they just sound like random bashing. NOT THE FULL SOLO'S!! I'm NOT saying the whole thing is random bashing! Take "Art of Life". At one point, he is literally hitting the piano with his forearm and then standing with his back to the piano hitting keys with his hand. It sounds AWFUL and looks just as bad. You can call it "art" all you want, i'm not falling for it. He's just hitting the piano. Maybe there is some deep meaning behind it, maybe he's doing it for a reason.. I dont care. Musically, it sucks. And I know people can say "Everyone has different tastes, it might sound bad to you but great to someone else". If I did that on a piano, people would say I'm randomly hitting it. They would NOT say i'm creating "art" and they would not say it sounds good. Yoshiki gets away with it because he's Yoshiki.
The drum solo isnt as bad as the piano, but its still not the best. The fact that he has classical music playing in the background doesnt help it at all. Again, he might be trying to get some deep meaning behind it but the drum solo sounds stupid with the classical music behind it. I'm very open-minded and I love all styles of music, but that just sounded stupid.
That'll do for now. There is a chance this topic will go nowhere but it could also be a very active one. It would be good to see who agrees/disagrees and some things that others dont like.
EDIT by Hypno: All fights, quarrels and disagreements ANY of our members will have in this topic are NOT allowed to be brought up elsewhere. You are NOT allowed to create opinions, good or bad, about ANYONE based on this topic. I absolutley FORBID thinking bad about someone becouse of what they will write here!