Personally, I'm upset because, in my eyes, this type of garbage that they call music kind of ruins what X stands for -- or at least used to -- the sort of band that caters to the teenage masses for the sake of fame and fortune and not at all for the love of music, fans, the whole bloody pathos of being a musician and an artist. If it was an indie band that were trying to get by their own way and on their own terms, I'd support it, and I know that X would too, since their own origins lie in the same roots. But this sort of band just screams, literally, of commercialism and selling out, which is just sad but a true face of what music is today (and how I wish that X and Yoshiki had the balls to stand up and rock out regardless that it's not what the mainstream wants).
I don't like it, but at the same time, I don't condone hatefulness toward this band. We all signed up to see X -- and Sweet Bejeezus, haven't we waited a long time? -- and I don't think that VE's opener will detract from the experience of X -- their music won't suck just because the opener did, after all. And maybe VE's (music) contract has been bought by rich executive parents than earned but, still, they are on the stage trying to gain a name for themselves -- albeit in a totally different venue than they should aim for, and maybe their music is little different from wannabee, regurgitated trash.
I know I'll probably loiter outside in the lobby, hoping for glimpses of X members, and I honestly hope no crazy fan (either side of the fanbase) ruins the X experience by being a douche. (Sorry if any of that did not make sense .. soberness escapes me...)
