The fucking point is that a band doesn't have to be PERFECT so that you can love it and so that it can be your favourite band.
You are not just critisizing them, you are flat out bashing them and you insult everyone else who still likes them by saying we are blind, stupid or whatever.
I don't care if you want to say your opinion about song, or their new direction...go on and say it as many times as you like, we have all memorized it by now.
However, the WAY you are saying it really grates into my nerves far too fucking much.
I love this band, I love their songs, I don't give a flying shit WHAT kind od genre their songs are as long as they are songs I like.
And hell, I do like them. That's all that matters to me.
I'm tired of you and everything you post here.......yes, you have every fucking right to post it but OMG, I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY FUXKING SICK OF IT.
I think I'm being won over by everyone now, mostly.
I don't know truly what yoshiki was thinking when he made the Dahlia album, he might not have realised about fans like me, Darkcat, Demonbefriender ect. So he might not have been deliberatly thinking "I know I'm gonna piss fans like this off, but I don't care", he might've been thinking a lot of people like the ballads we play, so I'll do more of them, and he did put in Rusty Nail and Dahlia as well. Also I reckon he was fueled by being told in the early days by managers "you must write this kind of metal" in which he basically responded with "I don't want to be forced into doing only one type of metal songs, fuck off". So his desicions to change a lot might've been fueled by that.
And Yoshiki might not have even known about the mentality of fans like me, his roots are heavy metal but also classical composition/piano ect, and then love/sad songs probably because of his father, and living in Japan where at the time there basically was no metal & no internet I doubt he would've heard the opinions of metal fans from bands like Maiden & Priest, so there's a lot he can't be blamed for I guess. I'm not sure if that's fully the case but it could probably be true.
However I'm not saying I like him much as a person still, but not that much for a lot of the reasons I mentioned anymore. But becase of his personality and the way he shows himself off and treats everyone else as inferior, which I still hold to be true, I don't think I like him all that much for those reasons still.
Anyway, I guess I do agree with the "it doesn't matter what genre statements", I mostly agree to that, as long as whatever different genre or style of music they play still takes a lot of talent to make and play, and as long as it comes from the heart and not some generic dance/rap beat (not insulting ALL rap) made on a computer like some of the pop songs I hear. I also believe that a complete transformation in music style should be done slowly over time, so as not to confuse fans and make them go "hey wait wha? Where's the heavy metal music?", in other words not the way Yoshiki did it with the Dahlia album, but again he probably just doesn't know what a lot of metal fans like me think so, again I have much less of a problem with his decision then I used to. I'm critisising the speed in which he changed the band rather than what he changed it to itself.
I believe that Jade comes under a different style, but still takes talent, there's good writing in that song. There are still a lot of areas Jade that imo should be improved like
1. The riff sounds like its trying to hard to be heavy metal "du dun dun dun DUN DUN" over and over, it doesn't come off as naturally sounding like a metal riff.
2. I think the trying to sound moody/mysterious when singing style in the verses slows things down to much and doesn't sound s interesting as other things they could be doing there.
3. Glad there's a solo, now extended and write more then "dedeledeledeledele dudolodulodulodulodulu".
However I have good points about the song.
1.The riff sounds okay, and I love the sudden shrieks of the guitar near the end before the first verse, and at least there is a riff.
2. I don't know what to think of the live version, but Toshi's voice and harmonies makes the choruse's feel a lot less boring then I think they might do live, they sound awesome.
3.The solo, hooray I'm glad one even exists, and besides my critisisms about itearlier it does still sound kind of cool.
Its got advantages and dissadvantages against 'Dahlia', so its not a pointless or shit song as I claimed it was.
As for I.V, well I think Jade is a lot better then I.V now, but apparently there's an 8 minute version coming out so i'll wait and see what it is, however there have been times when fans who've been to these events/lives have somehow got it wrong before.
I do still have a couple of critisisms of the band, and its Yoshiki's personality towards others that makes me not like him that much mainly, but I have a mostly different look on things thanks to your post RoseofPain.
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