What kind of rock do most Japanese rock belong to?

1. Visual rock interpretation

Visual rock (VR), under the influence of Glam Rock and Neo-Romanticism in Europe and America, was founded in Japan in the late 1980s and is famous for its gorgeous and exaggerated makeup modeling. Among them, vision is to express music with visual effects such as clothing and makeup. Visual rock bands often dye different hair colors and wear unusual clothes (from Renaissance elegance to post-modern avant-garde). One or two members of a band often wear feminine clothes. Generally speaking, during the period of underground India, the band's dress was bold, and the music paid more attention to thought; After entering the mainstream, their clothes and music generally tend to be popular.

2. Visual rock classification

2. 1 by musical form)

Visual rock is not like "R&; Music nouns such as "b" and "punk" refer to a form of music, and its musical forms are varied. Therefore, according to the main musical forms of bands, they are classified as follows:

Wave sugar music: Shazina

Pop Rock: I'm in heaven, Gray.

Industrial rock: Zlich, machine

Heavy metal rock: X/X Japan, sex machine gun

Special rocks: gray, gray,

Classical/Baroque Rock: Maris M, Laraine.

There are also breezy bands, such as Raphael 1.

At the same time, a band will be compatible with several music forms, even rock and classical coexist (such as X Japan).

2.2 According to the composition of the band

Visual rock bands, like ordinary rock bands, are generally composed of electric guitarists, electric bassists, drummers and lead singers. Five people are common in numbers, and four people are even less.

Five-person band: generally, there are two electric guitarists, one is the main melody and the other is the main chord; Electric bass player, drummer, lead singer. For example, X Japan, Luna Sea. There are also electric guitarists, electric bassists, drummers and lead singers, plus a keyboard player, such as Sophia. There are also very few bands with two drummers, one drummer and one drummer.

Band of Four: It's also quite common. It can be an electric guitarist, an electric bass player, a drummer and a lead singer, such as L' Arcenciel. It can also be two electric guitarists, an electric bass player and a lead singer, such as Glay.

A band with less than four people: very few. The most famous band is "Dark Dreams", which consists of lead singer Chun Qing and bassist. `

2.3 Others

The characteristics of many bands are not only reflected in music, but also cover dressing, behavior, lyrics, playing methods and so on. Therefore, the local Japanese distinguish it by ×× book series: such as basement department, dark department (dark vision department) and soft department (soft vision department). Take the basement department as an example. This kind of visual rock band, with heavy makeup, is mostly black and white. Songs have the flavor of nursery rhymes, and the lyrics mainly express feelings, death and loneliness; Musical skills vary from band to band. There are also regional classifications, Osaka School, Sendai School, Nagoya School and Kyushu School. But unexpectedly, although there are many bands established in Tokyo, few of them are all local bands in Tokyo.

On the stage of visual rock, new bands appear constantly, while old bands die out and stop from time to time, and the market competition is extremely fierce. Sometimes a good band can't escape the fate of breaking up. The disappearance of a band that grew up with fans at its peak is undoubtedly a great pity for the band itself and those who love them! However, the representative bands of visual rock will not be forgotten, and their music is still widely circulated.

The low tide of 3.3. VR（Virtual Reality）

3. 1 indicates that the visual system has entered a trough _

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. 1. 1 old and new bands have been dissolved one after another, and the visual department lacks standard bearers.

After the dissolution of visual rock's soul X-Japan 1997 on September 22nd, Hide, Japan's first guitar, died mysteriously at home on May 2nd, 1998. Since then, the visual rock camp has been in constant turmoil, and the Rainbow Band publicly announced its refusal to be called the visual department. At the end of 2000, the Moon Sea ended, and the three major visual systems no longer existed. Even Glay, the main force of visual rock, claimed in Beijing that "neutral dress is really close to the visual system, but this dress is not to be close to a certain group", and the implication is self-evident. The situation of other bands is also very bad: the lead singer Gackt of Malice Mizer quit the band at 1999, and the drummer Kami died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Although I organized a group again, I finally went solo at 200 1; The dark dream of debuting with X Japan at the same time, after a period of two-person band, finally announced an indefinite rest. Emerging bands also have many accidents: in Raphael's team who just boarded the budokan, Kazuki Watanabe musicians died of overdose of sedatives; D-shade was dissolved, Lareine members withdrew one after another, and Due'le qrartz, which was favored by the media, was also dissolved in 2002. At this point, the main bands in visual rock are not complete. Although Dir-en-grey and Pierret are still active, the whole visual system is obviously no longer brave.

3. 1.2 album sales declined, and the market began to slump.

Although visual rock was not favored by record companies at first, it had to raise funds for its own album, but by the mid-1990s, Vision Rock gradually flourished, which was not only supported by big companies, but also affirmed by various awards, and the album was even more popular. Take Glay as an example (as of 200 1):

1996 beloved 1522000 copies;

487 million copies of 1997 Review;

1998 pure soul 2.427 million copies;

1999 rewritten 2.357 million copies;

In 2000, the circulation of Drive-Glay Complete Best was 2.637 million copies.

At the same time, Rainbow's album and luna Sea's selected works have sold more than 6,543,800+copies, and there are 780,000 tribute albums "Hide pays tribute to ghosts and gods" to mourn the death of Hide.

After entering 2 1 century, the sales volume of video tapes dropped obviously, and even the sales volume of Glay's A Love in 200 1 year was far below one million. By 2003, the album management of the visual department was even more bleak, with a maximum of 300,000 (the highest was Glay's selected works, with 240,000 and 250,000 respectively). Most albums sold less than 65,438+million, and singles sold less than 50,000. None of them made the top 30 of the year. In the long run, it is estimated that the visual rock market will continue to shrink and the band companies will face difficulties. When the visual department was popular, not only did the band's own records sell well, but the corresponding industries also appeared: specialized magazines of the visual department (such as SHOXX, in which the proper term "visual rock" appeared for the first time), professional TV programs (such as "Breakthrough" of Asahi TV, which mainly introduced underground bands), large-scale Indian rock shows (such as shock waves), and Cosplay. The band itself also carried out by-products such as official fan clubs and peripheral products; Some team members also open their own stores, such as Malice Mizer's Mana who runs a concept store. However, with the dissolution of the band, the official fan club, professional TV programs and many magazines stopped publishing. This is the sorrow of the visual system.

3.2 Visual Rock Depression Analysis

All kinds of music forms in the world have ups and downs. The decline of visual rock has its own shortcomings, and it is also influenced by the global music atmosphere, and more is the role of business and economy. The reason is complicated. The following are only personal opinions.

1) The global music style is not good for the development of rock and roll.

Looking at the world, all countries in the United States are Rap, and the whole of Asia is in R&; b； Jay Chou and Tao Zhe, the two main Chinese music circles, are also R&; B's singer; Japan's R& is true; B is prevalent. Young people pursue fashion, change their families and stay away from rock and roll. It's just the simplest reason why Japanese visual rock has entered the trough: forced by the music trend.

Japan's popular economy is in recession.

From the perspective of the whole industry in japanese pop, it is facing the Great Depression. Since 1999, the output of records has been declining year by year, with a decrease of more than 654.38+000 billion (Japanese yen, 2002 data). Young people not only spend less time listening to music, but also spend less. The popularity of online music downloading has brought a great blow to the global music industry.

In recent years, the number of newcomers has dropped sharply, from 128 in 2006 to 5 10 in 199 1. It's even harder for a rock band to debut. In the Indian era, more than 65,438+0,000 records may attract the attention of mainstream record companies. This led to the dystocia of the new force of visual rock.

At the same time, the number of creative musicians who can't sell albums has also increased, and record companies give priority to releasing albums with good sales for their own safety. Rock bands need more time and money than ordinary singers, and the time to benefit from them is several times that of idol singers. Today's popular or once brilliant visual rock bands have gone through the underground stage of suffering for several years, even starving for the album; Even after the debut, there were no examples of selling immediately, only counterexamples: Glay lasted for 3 years; Rainbow takes at least 2 years; On the other hand, Yueshenhai lingered between commercial interests and musical ideas from beginning to end, with no outstanding achievements. Therefore, on the one hand, record companies are reluctant to release movies for rock bands easily; On the other hand, some visual rock bands gave up their musical ideas after entering the mainstream. As a result, many excellent rock bands have to turn to Indians for help, which affects the output and quality of visual rock albums to some extent.

In the past two years, Japanese popular magazines in China have stopped publishing (such as Music Today), and some have been forced to shrink their editions, mostly giving way to Korean music magazines, which also illustrates the depression of Japanese popularity from one side.

3) Some visual systems are divorced from the essence of music.

After the visual department came to the mainstream, it seems that the styles of some bands gradually moved closer to the mainstream, abandoning the initial visual shock in modeling, with the main purpose of attracting fans. Over time, the media and the public have a wrong impression that wearing neutral clothes and stunning makeup are the visual departments, ignoring that dressing is the modeling and music is the god of rock bands. The performance of backward orchestras also makes people feel that their creativity is gradually dying. Whether in music or modeling, they constantly see the shadow of their predecessors, and there is not much irreplaceable establishment of their own style. Under the over-packaging of commercialization, orchestras whose primary task was to create music gradually degenerated into goods similar to idol groups, and even packaged Vision Rock ∧ucifer appeared. As a result, the visual system classification and terminology, which originally belonged to rock music, began to shake, and it also became the meaning of "judging people by their appearances", and the characteristics of the visual system "combining visual expression with music" gradually blurred. Some fans also ignore the performance of music, judge people by their appearances, and are obsessed with rock musicians like youth idols, which leads to the distortion of the meaning of the visual system.

Visual rock music is not a genre based on musical style, so it will not be inherited in musical style. "The combination of visual expression and music" is the most important tone of visual rock band. I hope that the emerging band can make efforts in both visual music and become a band with both spirit and form.

4) Many musicians died suddenly, causing public dissatisfaction.

As we all know, there are many dissatisfaction with deviant rock musicians; The public's dissatisfaction with visual rock lies in their weird costumes. Since 1999, there have been news about the accidental death of visual rock musicians almost every year:

1May 2, 999 was praised as the first guitar in Japan. X former Japanese guitarist Hide died mysteriously at home. The cause of death is unknown. He may have committed suicide.

Camille, the drummer of Maris M, died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.

June 365438+1October 3, 2000, Kazuki Watanabe musician, Captain Raphael, died at the age of 19 after taking too much sedative. Among them, the death of Hide has dealt the greatest blow to visual rock. On the one hand, Hide has helped many backward bands, and now even Glay has been helped by him. So Hide's death is a great loss to the Japanese visual system. On the other hand, after Hide's death, many radical girls wanted to die for her, and even a few committed suicide successfully, which made many parents object to their children's liking for the visual system, in case they also set foot on the road of no return. At the same time, the whole japanese pop circle began to reflect on the merits and demerits of visual rock.

The death of a musician in Kazuki Watanabe is a commercial tragedy of the Visual Department. Rafael's players were signed by the record company before they graduated from high school. As the captain, the main music creator, Kazuki Watanabe musician, took a lot of tranquilizers because of excessive pressure and died in his teens.

At this point, visual rock is getting less and less support from ordinary people. Parents are not only against liking, but also against engaging in the visual department; The road to the visual system has also become difficult.

Step 5: The epilogue

Visual rock culture has only been formed in Japan for 20 years. Although there are commercial speculation factors, the charm of the visual system itself plays a more important role. Although today's trend has been far away from visual rock, the latter has a deep foundation of underground bands in Japan and will not decline overnight. If one or two excellent bands stand out and lead the whole music scene, visual rock can create more glory.

Second, the development in China.

Throughout these decades, we have undergone profound changes from the Cultural Revolution and ten years of turmoil to today's rapid economic development! It is because of the backward economy that the China government realized this problem. Although we are still very backward in reform and opening up. But we have also developed! Similarly, Chanel believes that in today's China, we are still experiencing our own "Cultural Revolution" period in the cultural field. We don't have the same environment and space as Japan. We can't accept fresh culture. Even, we have a fear, a deep fear, and we want to make progress but are afraid.

1997, the government banned the circulation of Japanese cartoons in China. But it didn't stop the younger generation from being infected by the spirit and power in animation. Because we want everyone to know that children in China are not only naive enough to be sent away by a little boring and childish things! We need a higher ideological level;

Later, Japanese dramas and Korean dramas were forbidden to be broadcast in prime time on various radio stations, but we were still moved by the true feelings revealed there! Because today's China is so lacking in warmth and sincerity.

Nowadays, VR is a non-mainstream thing, but there are still tens of thousands of fans crazy about it in China. Because we need this passion in the deepest part of our hearts!

To solve these problems, escape is not a problem. When we realize that we are as backward as the economy, it will be too late. Now we are still quite backward in the field of culture and art, and the space for rock and roll, especially VR, is very narrow. He needs extensive support and understanding of the spiritual essence inside! The present society has given us too much pressure and competition, such as further education, employment, running around, for the sake of livelihood and career setbacks! While we are enjoying the indifference of human nature, our hearts are on the verge of scarcity! People who love VR have a fire in their hearts, which is released by those dedicated band artists. . . . . . . I think there is no shortage of enthusiasm and talents in China, but we have no fertile ground for VR enthusiasm. Today, a "Meteor Garden" will be banned. Why aren't we bound? Our music, even in all aspects, is still in the stage of pale imitation! The world is developing and VR is also making rapid progress. Despite such hardships, it still can't stop Japanese boys from struggling for their ideals under pressure! They are absorbing all kinds of excellent elements to enrich themselves! Looking around, the whole market is gradually saturated. Chanel thinks that we should always feel emergency and crisis. Otherwise, when our government realizes that today, our culture also needs a profound revolution, the territory of VR has already been carved up, and we will have no place at all! Only by letting go, developing, not afraid, not afraid of failure, can we have a chance not to fail! Today, as the most common small fan, as long as you can fully realize that VR is not only music, but also a kind of persistence! An eternity! Just like the spirit of HIDE and MANA temple, it will never be forgotten by the times! ! !

Three attitude problems

This group is established in the hope that everyone will love each other on an equal footing and make more like-minded friends here. Everyone should know how to respect others while loving the band! Different hobbies, everyone who likes bands. Chanel hopes here that even if parents don't like a group, they don't discriminate against the food that loves this group. Xiaobai is not terrible, and every senior meal doesn't start like this. Everyone starts with Xiao Bai. Chanel has the idea of this VR academy because she wants to help the little whites become real meals! As long as everyone respects VR with a rigorous attitude and truly loves their own music, I believe that after March, Xiaobai will become an expert so that you can talk about any band in front of others. Handsome. Fan Yan is a despised term. Parents should understand the real reason, because too much Fan Yan will make the VR market unstable, leading to more commercialization and mainstream of VR BAND. It is not terrible for everyone who loves the band to fall in love with them because of their beautiful appearance, but only by listening to their music with your heart is what your beloved band members really want! VR can be made more lasting. After all, V is a form, not a substance, and rock and roll is fundamental! Chanel sincerely hopes, earnestly hopes and sincerely prays that every noodle should understand the essence of VR and pay more attention to their music. In fact, this is also a process of self-knowledge. Walking out of the ranks of Fan Yan proves your maturity, because you really understand what kind of music you need at this moment! The true passion for their music is enduring and eternal, and can stand the test of time. It is also the best reward for these bands and every artist engaged in VR! These are my heartfelt words. I hope every parent will read them carefully! Finally, Chanel pays tribute to Gege and everyone who loves and contributes to everyone. I hope you really understand our sincerity. We live in harmony, actively share, tolerate others and promote each other. The passionate and firm spirit of VR is applied to life to motivate yourself to laugh at the setbacks in life! It is the happiest thing to grow up with the love group and share each other's feelings with parents who also love VR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I am here to convey

welcome

-by Chanel

2007- 1- 1

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People who play pop music will definitely add image factors, which may not have changed since ancient times. Who doesn't want to see something new and beautiful? They have enchanting looks, eyes full of evil and Satan, exaggerated and ghostly clothes, constantly changing colors of hair, neutral and classical clothes, and metal ornaments everywhere. Sometimes they scream like demons and laugh hysterically, and sometimes they are as noble and elegant as princes and princesses. Sometimes they show serious and deep despair, and sometimes they exude subtle and intoxicating breath from their bones. They are today's Vision Rock. As a huge music system, it dominates the Japanese music scene.

In the early days, visual music was called visual shock. The word came from the full name of X, which was influenced by art rock in the 1970s and British neo-romanticism in the early 1980s. At that time, some British bands had heavy makeup and gorgeous costumes. For example, Roxy Music, Culture club and KISS, which should belong to another department, are not visually shocking. Visual shock is actually unique to Japan. Buck-Tick and X were the earliest. At that time, no matter hard rock X, punk color, or D'ERLANGER under the influence of Gothic and New Wave, they all adhered to the rock music route. Even Luna Sea and Kuroyume developed later. However, as the visual system is gradually accepted and loved by the society, it has become a style trend that originated in Japan and is popular in Southeast Asia, and the music styles of emerging new bands are very diverse, not just rock and roll.

Visual artists are mostly male groups, but their appearance packaging is usually labeled as "gorgeous" and "bright" by the media. They created an incredible beauty that transcends gender differences, that is, an unrealistic beauty that lives in an unreal world far from the hubbub. The gap between this beauty and the singer's inner masculinity is a unique charm. When they appear in public, they often give people a visual impulse, even an impulse of jealousy. Because in front of every fan who is eager to come out and flaunt himself, they can still be brand new. When they proudly stand on the dazzling and psychedelic stage, waving guitars and making strong appeals and calls with the most penetrating voice and great emotional power, you have to sigh: "These guys must come from hell!"

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The meanings of some English words and abbreviations

Q: What are J-Rock and VR?

A: JRock is Japanese rock, which generally refers to Japanese rock. VR is visual rock, mainly referring to the Japanese visual rock team.

Q: What is an Indian band?

A: Indie is the abbreviation of independent. Generally speaking, it is difficult to attract mainstream record companies to sign with them after forming a band. So they often set up their own record companies, or sign contracts with independent record companies to release their own demos, singles and albums. In a few years, they may attract the attention of big record companies (such as EMI and Sony) and sign up as major label bands. There are also some bands that refuse to register as independent major bands.

What is Live House?

A: It's a performance venue, where Indian bands often give live performances. It's a shrine for fans. The more famous is Muheiming Road Concert Hall.

Q: Q: What does vision mean?

A: Vision uses clothes and makeup to express music. VR bands often dye different hair colors and wear unusual clothes (from Renaissance elegance to postmodern avant-garde). One or two members of a band often wear feminine clothes. Generally speaking, in the Indian period, the band's clothing was bold and the makeup was strong. After entering the mainstream, their costumes and makeup generally tend to be normal (fans don't like it).

Q: Are all the visual departments rock music?

A: Not all. They also have many types.

Wave sugar music: Shazina

Pop Rock: I'm in heaven, Gray.

Industrial rock: Zlich, machine

Tekno: Bram honey, velvet Eden

Hard core: annoying sweetheart, dead pop star

Heavy metals: X/X Japan, sex machine guns.

Gothic rock: gray, gray, gray.

Classical/Baroque Style: Maris M, Amadeus, Laraine.

However, the style of most bands is not static. For example, Luna Sea has completed the transition from hard rock to pop rock.

Q: What do these abbreviations mean?

A: PV- the promotional video is MTV.

Audition tape

Maxi-maxi singles usually contain three or four songs.

commercial advertisement

SE- sound effect sound effect

Background music background music

C/w-coupling generally refers to the single of the B-end song.

Q: What is the origin of visual rock?

A: Visual Rock was founded in Japan in the late 1980s under the influence of Glam Rock and New Romance. The generic name of visual rock comes from the full name of the famous X band.

Q: What is the "First Return Special Edition"?

A: Sometimes postcards, special picture books and even posters will appear in the first edition. All the treasures collected by fans.

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As a unique cultural phenomenon, "visual system" has influenced and promoted japanese pop industry and become a unique landscape in japanese pop industry. Its own development is like a relay race. Now let's see how several ace bands relay-

Founder of Mountain: X- Japan

In the field of visual rock music, X-Japan is definitely the king who knows everyone. Glory and beauty are only moments, and listening to X-Japan's songs is embarrassing. In the past ten years, there has never been an influential rock band like them in Japan except the safety zone. Speed, strength, sadness, passion, this is X- Japan. Like the western nirvana, they have too many crazy followers. Like Kurt, hiding itself is like a mystery.

1982 In the summer, when heavy metals and rock and roll became popular in Japan, Yoshiki Hayashi (drummer) and his good friend Toshi (lead singer) formed the X band. 1985, the band finally found three members in their destiny: hide, Pata and Taiji. The record released by X has become a social topic, a best-selling record of independent bands, and is known as a hard rock band with high musicality and orthodoxy. 1989 released "MAJOR debut" won them the best newcomer award and sales champion in the major charts of that year. In the early 1990s, Taidi formed a band after joining the Red and White Choir for the first time. After a break, X announced its international March and changed its name to X-Japan, which has been smooth sailing for many years.

The members of the band come from different backgrounds and have distinct personalities. They all admire western heavy metals. When the band debuted, both the appearance and the singing style were metallic. Gothic costumes and feelings make the Japanese music scene full of decadent voices refreshing. Hide, the lead guitarist with pink hair, has unparalleled gorgeous skills and jaw-dropping speed in Japan, while Yoshiki Hayashi, who has a background in classical music, has created a lot of momentum for some originally lyrical songs.

At the peak of X-Japan,1September 22nd, 997, lead singer Toshiki left the band and his friend Yoshiki Hayashi for 20 years because of his different musical orientation. Fans accused him of denying the past and X-Japan like brainwashing. Jun Shu said "X is already Yoshiki Hayashi's X" when he left, and in this way, X-JAPAN in 17 was dissolved. What makes the fans more sad is that Hide, the soul of the band, hanged himself at home on 1998, which completely shattered the hope of the band's comeback. This ubiquitous guitarist with pink hair guitar has a high popularity among Japanese music fans and influenced many bands.

X-Japan is not only a band, but also represents the mental state of the younger generation in Japan. They are very contradictory. On the one hand, they are unconventional and constantly cheating to distinguish them from others. On the other hand, they are eager for identification and afraid of loneliness. The gorgeous clothes and hairstyles in the early X period were once considered neurotic, but now they have become the symbol of X. As the ancestor of visual rock, X-Japan has had a far-reaching influence on later generations, not only in behavior and clothing, but also in spiritual strength.

The second best: Blue Luna Sea Moon Sea.

After X-Japan, Luna Sea (then Lunacy) gradually brought the visual system to a new development height, and showed a clearer development route, and the bands that grew up under their influence gradually appeared. In the growing new force of the visual department, there are many bands that explore and pursue musicality different from the past, and the visual department has entered a new starting era.

Lunacy was originally composed of Inoran and J, and persuaded Sugihara Yasuhiro and Shinya, former competitors of Yi Shi's colleges and universities, to join. Finally, Ryuichi Kawamura, the lead singer, came backstage with doughnuts after a live broadcast and asked to join, thus forming a complete Luna Sea. 1989 Luna Sea, which started from a pub in Tokyo-CHO, was published under the pull of YOSHIKI, the former head of X-JAPAN.