Milena Velba,freeones

I will talk about the little-known Visual Kei. Visual kei is one of the terms to refer to Japanese music

. While it is a musical term, visual kei
word does not define a particular musical style, but refers to the particular appearance of its members.

However, it applies to groups perteneciantes to J-Rock (Japanese Rock) The word " kei"


translated from Japanese means "style"
, could easily deduce that refers to a "style

visual "

.

The "visual"
arises because of the idea of \u200b\u200bindependence and protest against society, some young men in uniform in Japan.



The visual opts for individualism, thus bypassing all the dress rules, rebelling against the conserved

and demonstrating their nonconformity and rebellion against the government. In the "visual" aesthetics are important, but the behavior of the person as well, because we can see that those who opt for this style are people with strong strokes of sudden changes in mood or behavior

The visual-kei has evolved time as his aesthetic has not always been so ambiguous in its early days was more "light", based on the European and base rock.

then state the main styles we find in society . First of all say that there are many subdivisions and I'll try to summarize the most important. is a task relatively complicated because there are many types of classifications and often a group is more at a time and not even the experts agree. TOROTERU visual style. It glam punk with some . Music can be electro punk and ballads

. (

this is my favorite along with Aristocrat White and Kei-kei *.*) Examples: Miyavi LM.C

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This style is more current, was invented recently by a group called An Cafe

its aesthetic inf Antil, pretty colors and bright

, accompanied by a strong
hyperandrogenism

visual trickery, but his lyrics tend to be love or criticize society, but more ironic than the previous. Examples: An Cafe , Zoro , ARISTOCRAT-KEI

This style mixes Baroque and Gothic

. Used clothing dyes elegant medieval or gothic. His music usually mix

Rock and Metal with classical music.

Examples: Versailles, Malice Mizer, Moi dix Mois

White Kei - Soft Visual Under the name, are bands that use inconspicuous clothes and light makeup.
is the visual style that has the largest number of male fans.

musical mix with Pop Rock Examples: L'Arc ~ en ~ Ciel , Glay ,

Aucifer

-KOTE KOTE

This is the most standard genre in Europe is the easier to adopt, but her aesthetic is less aggressive than

the eroguro. In this predominantly

embroidery, dark fabrics and extravagant costumes.
Their music society criticizes

but in a milder than Eroguro (discussed below), thus being more to the public

ccept an ideal

destructive rather than constructive critic as in the eroguro case. Examples: The Gazette,
Dué le Quartz, Madeth gray'll, Girugamesh, Phantasmagoria

,

eroguro

Bands like Dir en Gray: this is the style popular bands type "death metal" for their strong aesthetic , their clothes are based on the leather and latex thus providing aggression accompanied by erotic (eroguro = erotic grotesque). The lyrics of these groups are often an attack
society and problems of this type, using strong comments
and damaging the public's sensitivity with his "sadistic video clips (example: dir en gray obscure ) often include strong guttural cries. style bands are Dir en Grey, Cali ≠ Gari, Kagerou, DéspairsRay, etc.

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Besides these, there are other groups who do not know how to classify (in part for fear of being wrong) and that was not already qualified. Some of them are part of J-Pop also seems wrong to end this post without mentioning DBSK that although there is a Japanese group (only Korean, but some of his songs are made in Japanese or Korean language versions) is greatly influenced by and has a large number of fans for his style tiller to the "back street boys." Other examples of groups that did not know how to classify: UVERworld (Bleach Opening) MintJam
,

Gackt, Orange Range (famous for another Opening that made the anime Bleach), Nightmare (who rose to fame with the anime Death Note), Anna Tsuchiya (famous for the opening Nana), Maximium the Hormone (Ending and opening of Death Note), arashi

(the latter also more J-pop), Utada Hikaru

(also poppy, known for putting music to the game Kingdom Hearts, is J -POP) and

Attack All Around (J-Pop, very mixed with electronics)

As you can see, many Japanese groups become famous because of his songs become in "soundtrack" of an anime series, movies or video games.

As for my personal opinion, I ordered first visual kei classes in order of preference rather than in order of importance. The ones I like are generally

Miyavi LM.C

UVERworld, Nightmare , L'Arc ~ en ~ Ciel , The Gazzetta e, Anna Tsuchiya , Maximium the Hormone and An Cafe, and are the most enthusiastically recommend the strength of their choreography, their lyrics and rhythm. I've also tried icnluir representative images of each class that encompass general characteristics. In conclusion, there is much artistic material in these little-known Eastern countries, which at times pushed back by his appearance (though that is precisely what defines them) but nevertheless a very big potential. emos