J-Rock/Pop, Visual Key

[Talia]

Jaa.. wollte mal fragen ob das jemand von euch hört? Bin ganz begeisterter Fan davon ^^

[Talia]

Kennt das wirklich niemand? *staun* Oder mag es nur niemand? *g* Würd mich jetzt so langsam dann doch mal interessieren...

[Sandy Cohen]

J = Japan? :-? Visual Key ist der Name einer Gruppe? #hm# Also ich kenns nicht. #hm# Die Japan-Pop-mäßigen Soundtracks einiger Videospiele find ich nich schlecht. :-?

[Talia]

J-Rock/Pop = Japanischer Rock/Pop, stimmt, hast recht gehabt ^^

Visual Key ist eine weitere, aber ähnliche Musikrichtung wie J-Rock in Japan. Das machen unter anderem Bands wie:

Janne Da Arc
L'Arc en Ciel
Pierrot
Gackt
Malice Mizer
Dir en Grey
Miyavi
X-Japan
Glay ....
http://www.geocities.com/egniryscimredopyh_aninjection/dokunobaiser.html ist eine englische Seite, wo man sich Lieder anhören kann, speziell zu "Dir en Grey". Da bekommt man einen guten Eindruck von, was Visual Key ist. Ich würds ja gerne genauer definieren, aber darüber findet man so schlecht was.. Das ist das einzigst brauchbare, was ich gefunden habe, leider auch nur auf Englisch:


Visual Kei (lit. "visual type") is a term usually related to Japanese rock music (/J-Rock), referring to bands whose primary point of interest for their fans is their costume and appearance. Inside Japan (/Japan), their fans are almost exclusively teenage (/Teenage) girls and as such they could be considered a uniquely Japanese version of a boy band (/Boy_band). In other countries, the small quantity of Japanese Visual Kei followers is equally comprised by male and female adolescents and young adults. A notable difference between Visual Kei and boy bands is that boy bands are usually prefabricated by an external music producer (/Music_producer) and start with a strong marketing campaign, while there are a lot of indie (/Indie), Visual Kei bands that won't get promoted unless they first gain popularity and sign with a major label. Another notable difference is that most boy bands do not compose their own songs, while Visual Kei bands usually do.
Members of Visual Kei bands often wear striking makeup, style their hair in dramatic shapes with meticulously done colour dyes, and wear elaborate costumes. A look that became popular around 2000 within this trend is called Gothic Lolita (/Gothic_Lolita), and by 2002 had become a major youth fashion (/Youth_fashion) in Japan. Recently some bands are returning to the more colourful and "fantastic" image popular 5 or 6 years ago, taking inspiration from computer roleplaying games (/Roleplaying_games) and anime (/Anime). Although the costumes can sometimes appear feminine, the great majority of bands have an entirely male lineup. The appeal of the costumes to fans is so great that large numbers of girls will do cosplay (/Cosplay) as members of their favourite bands, particularly at live concerts.
Visual Kei, being based upon visual style, is therefore a genre of band but not a genre of music, and the bands often play J-Rock (e.g. LUNA SEA, Dir En Grey) and vocal based pop or light rock (e.g. Glay, L'arc en ciel, Gackt). Bands playing or influenced by Anime theme music, Heavy Metal (e.g. SEX MACHINEGUNS), Industrial, Synth Pop, Punk and so on are also to be found.
Western observers sometimes confuse Visual Kei bands with Goth (/Goth) bands because of the occasionally similar makeup and clothing, but most Japanese goths do not consider Visual Kei to be gothic, and there is very little cultural crossover between Japanese Visual Kei fans and Japanese goths beyond the outer fringes of the "Gothic Lolita" fashion, which was influenced by elements of gothic style.
Largely this movement is credited to have been started "almost single handedly" by , and By-Sexual (/By-Sexual) along with previous bands BUCK-TICK (/BUCK-TICK) and X JAPAN encouraged a "boom" of this media culture.


Ich hoffe, ich konnte damit weiterhelfen *g*

[Stellar]

nix kennen tu! #8o#

[Sandy Cohen]

:-? danke für die Beschreibung. Also kennen tu ich da bisher auch nix.

[Benjamin McKenzie]

Sorry, da kenn ich auch nix.

[wolke]

für mich sind diese bands auch fremd...

[Talia]

Schade, dabei lohnt es sich wirklich da mal reinzuhören! *g* Zumindest für die, die auch gerne mal ausgeflippte Musik hören ^^

[alex]

kennt du vielleicht ayumi hamasaki^^
also find einpaar j-pop/j-rock bands und sänger/inen gut."an boa kwon denkt"

[F@ke]

Also ich kenns nicht, aber hab mal andere japansiche LÖieder gehört, und fand das eher anstrengend.