Okay guys, I'm making another extremely long post so if you don't feel like reading through it and getting bored or really pissed off with what I have to say then don't make yourself read it.
For those of you who can read long posts that might contain opinions you don't agree with and have a calm conversation about it afterwards then please read. I'm sorry about some of the repetitiveness in points I bring up/examples of bands I use but its hard to describe what i'm trying to say any other way.
tif they keep making music like the beginning of X, people would complain they lack of creatifity.
One of several excuses I've heard a million times before, Noone has (or at least extremely rarely) questioned or complained at bands like Maiden or Judas Priest (except about Turbo Lover) because the music they make on each album constains such memorable riffs/guitar lines with such memorable sounds and involves major creativity that not everyone can do, people who truly love the heavy metal genre stick with it, because they love the sound and talent involved and want to forever defend talent in music (that's why every time you go on a Sabbath/Maiden/Priest ect. video you see people saying "this is true music, from the heart, that took real work, not like the shitty talentless Jonas Brothers money making machines today") no matter what, they don't ask for Iron Maiden to change to disco music or take out solos from their songs just for the sake of not playing the same stuff.
X do not need to change their genre to be more popular and I think Iron maiden is a perfect example. Iron Maiden are one of the most popular bands in the world, and they became that famous even thought they only played metal, that's because they have a pasion for that genre of music, and this applies to other metal bands who are also some of the most worldwide famous bands. There was no excuse for Yoshiki not to notice this, or try and branch off to many other types of music to be even more and more and more popular, that's just greed in my eyes. And if Yoshiki truly liked the type of music he was playing since 1982 (and decieved fans into listening to because, guess what *that's the genre/liik of music the fans liked*.) He would never have even wanted to change the genre to ballads, he even stated he never liiked metal, so basically he tricked people who loved metal into listening, and then decided to turn it all upside down whenever he wanted against everybody.
I.V and Jade, are metal tunes, and they have decided to change the style of their metal songs, which is great, the problem is, they have no atmosphere or creativity of the "old" songs.
As for writing the same kinds of metal songs over and over again, not many metal bands actually do that, Black Sabbath/Heaven & Blind Guardian are some of the most versitial bands I've ever seen, constantly changing the style of metal they play, giving off different sounds with almost every album, but they still stick to the metal genre, and they still manage to create songs that involve immense skill and talent, because they know if they don't, that will greatly upset all their fans who have followed them from the beginning and love that genre of music above everything else.
I have to say I get very annoyed with comments like, "they need to change their genre of music to show they've grown up" "they need to change so people don't say they havn't grown up", this is some of the biggest BS I've ever heard, what does that even mean? Heavy Metal is not a genre for teenagers who jump around and scream on stage, it is an extremely mature and respected genre that's lasted for 40+ years that encompasses ages of fans & band members up to 60+ years of age, and along with Jazz/classical music its one of the top creatrive genre's in the world, and the oldest and best of the genre such as Ronnie James Dio are some of the most nice and wisest people I've seen, he's 67 and till supporting the genre and singing on stage (and will hopefully beat cancer and continue to do so) So don't you dare ever say that bands who continue to play metal need to 'grow out of it', that's just utter BS.
If you want proof that basically all metal fans think the way I do, go look at the comments on youtube on Iron Maiden/Judas Priest videos & what they think of the state of music today, and what old school band's music means to them, go look at clips from 'Iron Maiden flight 666' and see how passionate all the fans are, some of them crying (grown men) when they got stuff thrown by the band from the stage. That's how they feel about the talent and sound involved in the music.
More proof just look at what happened to Metallica's popularity after they made an album/albums with no solos, imagine what the Dahlia album would've done to X-Japan over in the U.S/UK after their previous albums. Also I have to bring up the new "Gun's N' Roses" album, Chinese Democracy is the exact same situation as Jade & I.V, both bands came back with new songs, and if you go onto review sites/videos on youtube of Chinese Democracy, you will see tons and tons of people bashing chinese democracy for the exact same reasons I'm bashing Jade & I.V. The only people defending Chinese Democracy are new fans of Gn'R who ever listened to the old albums and don't understand what is so important to the fans of old school rock/metal music.
I hate rap, its not singing, however, Rage Against the Machine are still an extremely talented band otherwise that create true and proper music, look at the stand metal fans took against X-Factor with that, look at what people are saying about proper Rock music finally coming back with the album 'Them Crooked Vultures' against the talentless hacks of today.
Btw, I am not going to be grateful to X just because they reunited at all, its been two years, they had more then enough time to fix problems like cancellations, Yoshiki fixing his ego problems, them not performing well on stage and actually bothering to look online and see what people think of their 60-80% ballad:40% rock/metal ratio. But as I've already said, Yoshiki doesn't care about anyone who liked their "old" heavy metal songs.
I waited patiantly for almost a year and a half for them to do something right, more than enough time.
Someone said a few posts back that Yoshiki is not a puppy of the industry, I couldn't disagree more, he's one of the biggest, and I don't believe he truly does what he wants either, and even when he does, he makes the decisions without asking or involving any of the other members, he doesn't work with Pata, Heath and Toshi as a team, he thinks its all "me me me" or the other members of the band have become 'yes' men. And other decisions he makes are based on what his managers and other people over his shoulders tell him to do, his disgusting X-japan merchandise is another example of both managers advice and his own attention whoring making his decisions.
