Rant about Gazerock.

Because I am just that upset about all the shit people are saying about the new GazettE single which, by the way, isn't even out yet.

It's not all that well composed, but it's my feelings, so they're there. May be offensive, may not be. Sorry.









So basically, I sat there trying to figure out what these people's thought process is for saying "Gazerock is dead". And what I came up with was:


"OMG I DIDN'T LOSE MY VIRGINITY TO THIS NEW TRACK GAZEROCK MUST BE DEAD."




Like WTF. Are you for serious? The CD isn't even out yet! How can you judge a CD by one track? Yes, SHIVER isn't the most unforgettable track ever, but it's something that they put thought into, and to expect another DISCHARGE for every title track is just... dumb.




And then I got to thinking.



I'll admit, I've only been listening to GazettE for one year so I suppose I can't claim seniority compared to those who like to throw their "7 years experience" around, but GazettE is a magic band to me. How can they go so long, still have almost all the original members (the "original drummer" bailed out really early on, so as far as I'm concerned Kai is the original drummer), and still sound like GazettE, even though their sound is completely different? (Yeah that's one that takes a minute to get your mind around.)

Someone said, they've switched distributors. X distributor always puts out dumb music. Therefore GazettE will put out dumb music.



Yes, because all dalmatians are dogs so all dogs are dalmatians.




I said, changing distributors means nothing. You haven't even heard the other tracks, so don't go judging. Ruki still believes in the music they're making, so I'm sticking with him. Haters will hate, true fans will wait.






Apparently, I'm the only one who seems to think that way.






So, to the one who said "people say that being a true fan is sticking with the band is the right thing to do, but true fans would really recognize their best material and understand when they're sellouts"...: I'm trying to figure out what you're seeing isn't good in their new material. Is it the hard rock? The edgy sounds? The progressive mixing? The lyric content?



I'm sorry, what's your favourite track that is sooo much better than, I don't know, HEADACHE MAN, which is one of the hardest rock/metal songs they've put out, when when that screaming and headbanging sound so characterizes them? Is your favourite song, perchance, Miseinen, that oh so memorable track with amazing music from way back in the early 2000's?





I'm failing to see how GazettE are "far past their prime" and "sellouts". All bands evolve with time, and they're no idiots as to keep the same erratic and, to be honest, completely unlikeable scritchy sound that makes them seem like they have about a 100,000 yen ($100ish) budget. They're evolving with the times, putting out music that runs parallel to this day and age, rather than staying with that music that, while it's highly individual, sounds amateur and like an alien shoved a probe up their butts.



Oh, and the sellout thing? What's that coming from? The fact that they can fill Saitama Super Arena with people who will show up to see them live, despite the fact that there being that many people means about maybe five hundred of them, at most, will actually be able to see the band? (The Super Arena can be formatted to hold up to 37,000 people, apparently.) The fact that they're ranking in the Oricon charts now? Have you ever thought that maybe there's a reason that's only happened in the last few years?


Oh wait, you'll say it's because they're doing what's "mainstream" and what people love. Nevermind the songs about incest, and criticism of idols (whom people adore more than GazettE), or abortion, or any of that. They're putting out music that everyone can agree with, and that's why they're OMG suddenly so popular.




See, that's what I like about them, personally. Ruki's lyrics are so much more thought-provoking, so much more deep, have so much more meaning and are so full of art and beauty despite the twistedness of all of them now than they were even just five years ago... and that's amazing, especially when you look at all the other "not-so-sellout" artists that are writing generic stuff. Look at Arashi, and SMAP, and Touhoushinki (oh wait they don't exist anymore sorry), and... wow. I drown in genericness that knows no bounds. But apparently GazettE with their cold-cutting words and truth and simple reality is now generic brand to be easily picked up at a pharmacy near you, to take with your Johnny's to feel warm and fuzzy every day.

Oh, and it's not just Ruki either. Listen to the effing music and go find something else that ranks so high in Oricon that sounds like Guren. Uruha and Aoi and Reita and Kai pour their souls into making music. These men work hard, and they're so proud of what they do. Sellouts! Sellouts! They write their own music still! Sellouts!




Okay, seriously guys. Sellouts are people that just put their faces on things and those items will sell like mad, for absolutely no reason.

GazettE is filling effing Saitama Super Arena. Where people can't even see them.





So really, I don't see what these people are saying.



If you don't like the fact that they've gone eight years now, and are still distinctly GazettE in their sound, have stayed together, and are producing more coherent and much stronger music than most bands after this much time, and music that is much more coherent and much stronger than they've ever made before, I'm more convinced that you're a hater than you are a "true fan". If the band is still putting out music that they're writing, that they believe in, that they are putting effort and thought into, then that's all the reason I need to stick with them and listen. But you're saying that Gazerock is dead, because they're mainstream, because every single track isn't OMG mindblowing (like it's always been every track = OMG MINDBLOWING GAAAAHHH right from the very beginning).





Gazerock is far from dead. It's still going, getting stronger and more menacing.


You just jumped off the train early.

It's been awhile.

And I haven't written because the previous post is still pretty much true.

I just don't have much to say about myself, I guess. Nothing exciting happens, really, and I don't think about much.

Thought it is time for me to start trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to do after school, because I only have a couple of years, and I really have no clue.

Also I think I'm pretty sick. Coughing and losing my voice. Whee.

I'm kind of falling apart.

I've never been the type to go out looking for attention, for people to feel sorry for me and offer their help. I think this all started when I did start with help - professional help - and they actually ended up telling my parents everything I said, which is not what I wanted. So I kind of just started doing things on my own, taking my pain silently and without notice, never really letting it out.

But things under pressure will inevitably explode. And I've reached that point. It seems I can't go a week without suffering some sort of meltdown.

I have no one around to really help me. The few people I do feel like talking with say I need to accept help, that I should be all right with the idea that they want to help me.

It's not that I don't love them or trust them... it's that I don't know how to be helped.

When you've gone so long on your own, how do you let other people help you?

I don't know. But I think I'm just caught in a constant, ongoing panic attack.