lostage - Television City

http://www.lostage.jp/

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[HonestPeople]

do you know eastern youth? i feel the same way about them - i think they're the best japanese band i've come across.

[omaraty008]

@aaarrrggghhhh Check out "Asian kung fu generation" they rock!!!

[omaraty008]

@ayabiecal I was just thinking about the same thing :D

[Milkchan7]

Well I'm just going by the fact that Japanese visual kei bands are not well-liked by Japanese people, don't get amazing sales whatsoever, and not very often do artists like Miyavi or Girugamesh have music that tops any charts. I've have never heard of them ever being "the rage" in Japan -although most are going major nowadays so that could be a reason why they are getting exposure in mainstream mags.

Yes, they have a small niche and mostly it is for the fashion, not the music.

[KanjiiZ]

I suppose, but I have a handful of Japanese magazines and it seems like visual kei acts are the rage.

One thing I'm sure of is indie groups aren't famous but have a niche. Groups like jenny on the planet aren't famous anywhere else but their niches. I can assume the same is for visual kei.

[Milkchan7]

Seriously, the only VK acts I can think of that are even remotely mainstream as of the present are L'arc en Ciel and Gackt. And not so much for his music, but Gackt goes on many national talk shows, he's in movies and dramas, etc.

[Milkchan7]

Miyavi is barely well-known in Japan. Yes, Girugamesh is untalented, but they are not famous either. They may have cult following over there, but they are not "huge." They SEEM that way b/c many people in the West like them -this is all thanks to X-Japan's Yoshiki's promotion. Plus they WANT to get promoted. Bands like lostage either don't have big guys like Yoshiki behind them, or they just don't want to be "above ground". If you want to get big in Japan, you have to be like B'Z or Loudness

[KanjiiZ]

If that's true, why are people like miyavi so famous? Bands like Girugamesh that have no talent are famous BECAUSE they're visual kei.

[Milkchan7]

That's not true. Visual kei is very, very unpopular and underground in Japan. Maybe even less popular then bands like this one in the video.

It's hard to get big in Japan if you aren't pop or a Western band.

[NarutoDKurosaki]

It's hard to get big in Japan if you're not Visual-kei or not in an anime opening ro ending.