(05-20-2012, 12:08 AM)Tokio Wrote: It feels to me that you are the one making the big deal. We are just expressing our thoughts on the matter, that is all. It isn't like the world is ending, not everyone is going to like everything the band does. Some people will love it, some people won't.
And the forum is here for people to discuss their feelings, reasons, doubts, loves and so on.
You are free to disagree of course, but I don't see how we are making a big deal when all we are doing is discussing our thoughts on things.
Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth. =P
I am looking forward to this tribute album (which no one seems to have ripped to YouTube as of yet) but I am perfectly okay with and understanding of those who are a little more skeptical. I mean, I've gone on a dozen rants about how I don't like how VAMPS have decided to plaster naked women atop blindingly bad color schemes all over their boxes, and although many have disagreed and often misunderstood, I'd like to think that my opinion was respected. Nevertheless, I still love VAMPS' music and HYDE's lyrics despite my open criticism towards their marketing direction.
I believe this whole thing started because the guest seems to have fallen into a common internet miscommunication whereby he/she misinterpreted the tone of the other comments to sound like what I suppose is blatant whining and over-dramatizing the entire situation. Without the intention of sounding condescending, I think it's important to remember that the voice in our head may not always be the voice that they intended to convey. I'm not just directing it towards our guest either, but in general. We've all been there.
As this is a message board as opposed to say, YouTube comments, everyone is here to express specific opinions, and as far as I can tell, I haven't read anything in this thread along the lines of "What a horrible decision on L'Arc's part! I will henceforth boycott the band and refuse to listen to their music! In fact, I may just run to Japan right now and burn HYDE's house down for such an atrocious concept!"
Of course I do agree with the notion that we should be concerned, first and foremost, with our own feelings about L'Arc as opposed to that of other people, but let's face it: As weird as it is, we all have those hipsteresque pet peeves that just annoy us sometimes. As I am not particularly a fan of rap music, I may be a tad annoyed when a rap artist may decide to cover a classic (or modern) hit of an artist of an entirely different genre and cause the cover to become the more popular one. Namely because these sort of covers often tend to misunderstand the meaning of the song and make it into something different. I suppose my parents probably feel the same way about HYDE's cover of
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. (Although as I am a fan of The Beatles as well, I honestly love both versions of the song) But in such a situation, I've learned that music is popular for a reason. Today's pop music may not speak to
me, but apparently it does represent the feelings of today's youth, and that is the core essence of pop music.
Anyway, I'm getting way off-track. Let me just try to put in this in perspective: Somewhere along the lines, there was a miscommunication. In order to remedy this, let's just start over and take into account the current consensus:
- Majority of the members are hesitant and/or unwilling to order this album due to lack of interest or other doubts of qualitative value.
- VAMPkito (aka "idiot with retarded screen name") and 1 unregistered guest wait in anticipation for the results of this album.
(At the risk of sounding slightly hypocritical) As a general rule of thumb, let's all make a note to attempt to understand where the other side is coming from instead of getting a little ahead of ourselves. Don't let the voice in your head get the better of you as he may lead you to say things without fully thinking. Or worse yet, he may try to cause you do something you'll regret. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to hide these dead bodies under the floorboards of Chuck E. Cheese's. (The mistake here? Going to Chuck E. Cheese's!)