Hey embryo6 from Xradicaldreamers boards, I saw your response to this thread, and guess what, you're a typical yoshiki fangirl, do you think you're presenting anything new to the table? Do you honestly think your any different from previous "no no don't insult my perfect yoshiki wah" fangirls of the past? I've read your posts and I've seen every single one of those excuses before, many, many times, and they have no merit, just more trying to defend yoshiki from that idea that he isn't perfect.
Fact is, you're part of the problem, and yoshiki hasn't done anything to help himself, the band or the fans in anyway whatsoever, he just cares about making drama posts on facebook/twitter and telling everyone how amazing his life is with his irrelevant side projects, and yes embryo they are irrelevant because it's been five years since he promised the album, its been far too long already, the time for side projects is past and now is the time for the album because the wait is getting stupid, and that's largly due to it only being five new songs and some remixes in case you forgot, instead we get a year of fashion parties, Stan lee making him a comic book character, and other pointless crap that doesn't help anybody, he's completely ruined any popularity and word of mouth they got going in the US because that was too long ago, he's wasted time and now no one remembers them anymore.
"I think these new foreign audiences are ruining the band" no, how fucking dare you put the blame on us who are rightfully complaining and frustrated because you want to continue your yoshiki fantasies, we're not ruining the band, he's ruined the band, by acting like a child and a rambling anime fangirl and making drama about hide on twitter when he's a grown man in his mid fourties, instead of supporting his and his band member's careers and showing respect to the fans, and the other band members share part of the blame as well for not standing up to him, "people have all the right to criticize the band, and even joke and make a fool of Yoshiki's attitude... but without becoming offensive and harassing" if you think we're being mean and offensive, you need to grow a thicker skin, you think after years of broken promises in many forms that the only response we're allowed to express is to twiddle our thumbs and go "*sigh*.....I guess we'll just have to wait another year, oh that yoshiki what a loon".
No, stop being weak and acting over offended like a soccer mum, after all this, our language and the way we word our disappointment is justified and perfectly represents how let down we feel and how bad yoshiki's fucked it all up, and yes that comes with being pushy/slight harrasing (harrasment? No.) attitude in how we speak about getting things done too, because he deserves it, we're not breaking into his house are we. you think a grown man's gonna cry from a few expectedly frustrated forum posts after all the delay's for years he's been hammering people with? Get real, and just maybe he should feel really bad for once too. Get off your high horse, go back to XWonderland forums.
The days when the band were the kings and could do no wrong were the early nineties and they're long gone, hope this white knight attitude changes someday.
If you happen to have wrongly taken my post for being offensive, again, then I can tell you, you're the only one doing the offending, you make an entire thread trashing our board essentially saying we're nasty and horrible people, instead of realizing we're perfectly normal but just feel extremely let down and saddened (and yes justifiably angry, take it) by yoshiki and that in a way he's turned his back on us and you don't even have the nerve to post the topic on our forums you'd rather do it all behind our backs, nice. I'm posting here because I don't have an account on the Xdreams boards, I think. Btw I've been a fan of X for six years which is long enough, and even people who were fans before they broke up are annoyed, so its not 'newbies'.
"at least Yoshiki has been talented enough to write great music, and to make a lot of money with it: so who are YOU for judging his current activities?" A fan, loyal fan who's been waiting years and years for a half an album that was 99% complete years ago while yoshiki screws over everyone and cries on twitter for attention and goes partying, basically not doing anything that makes use of the talents that made him famous.
I apologize to people here for my post being a thousand years long, I've added paragraphs since the original post, things just kept coming to my head I had to comment on, I wasn't even gonna post here until I saw that thread on the Xdreams board, he/she clearly doesn't want to have a proper conversation about it here so I'm getting it all out in one post.