When I was in College a year ago, my friends saw me listening to X-Japan, when they saw it was a japanese band/found out they sing in Japanese there reactions were "oh, really" in an interesting way, they never bashed the band and they seemed interested in the concept, I didn't ask them to listen to it however and because of that, and also the fact they all had busy lives and were concentrating on so many other bands at the time, they forgot about X and didn't find out any more about them.
But I can tell they didn't mind that it was in Japanese and they were interested in that idea, also the idea of Japanese and english songs together.
@Hypno, I know you didn't say this but I wasn't deciding what direction Yoshiki wants to go for him, I'm just analysing what he's done so far, and the fact that he still claims X is a metal band, and that they're now apparently going to this lollapalooza festival, it shows to me Yoshiki is trying to appeal to the U.S rock/metal crowd a lot, and from that I'm discussing what kind of setlist would work in the U.S for that, if this is what he's intending to do.
I have to say though, even though I have started understanding X-Japan's changes over the years a lot more now and I'm a lot happier with the band then I was before, if they start trying to sound like Green day/Fallout Boy to try and get to the mainstream market I will then bring out the sellout card, I will not be happy, and I think that will be the one desicion by X a lot of people here would not be happy with.