Kazuo wrote:
Camuflagem wrote:
Kazuo...i already said why i think they are arrogant, if you don't understand, i am very sorry, but i won't repeat myself all over again. Actions can speak more than words sometimes, you know.
I like some Deg songs; and i am not a fan of a lot of their albums, but i don't go around bashing them or anything. I am just very sad to see their un-ethical actions towards an artist that i like very much. As I said, i've got this feeling, if you don't...it is OK. I am just trying to put my point of view here, i am sure there will be other people who will share it with me.
What "unethical actions"? I'd really love for you to explain this. If you have a "feeling" it's just an assumption so I wouldn't say they're arrogant based on an assumption of what they
might think. I'm sure you'd have something to argue if they had said right out "Oh yeah, he's an idiot. He wears too much makeup and has little to no guitar skill", sure, then I'd say that's pretty arrogant, but that's not the case here.
I guess what I'm basically trying to say is.. it could have been alot worse.
If you follow Dir en Grey you should know by now that they try as much to be away from VK as the devil runs from the cross. I dunno why they stayed neutral in this interview...maybe because it wasn't Kyo answering, but i felt that by the way they were answering they were not treating mana as a equal. It sounded like he was a joke. If you read the JAME interview of the band Electric eel shock, you will understand more clearly what i am trying to say - the "funny" thing about being a VK band, in the view of non-VK bands. Maybe they didn't tell with all the letters, and i am making assumptions, but i am making these based on what i comprehended after reading the interview. Or are you going to say that the "truth" is only one? People can interpret it the way they want, and for me it sounded that way.
Besides, remember that they are japanese. And japanese people like to talk in a more polite way, with subtle messages sometimes.
I don't care if it would be worse. I care about the fact that i found it to be arrogant and disrespectful.
And of course, it will never change my view/respect about Mana or any other artist i like; respect takes long time to be solidified, while to destroy it takes only seconds.
Concluding, if you were doing a lecture in a classroom about the church with a bunch of catholic kids, and started giggling and not keeping a posture like you did in other classes, wouldn't they find that you were disrespecting their religion? If you don't think that's direspectful; if i were one of these kids, i would. It was only necessary to pronounce Mana's name, so Deg memebers would start to laugh. It could be as other peple stated it, but i higly doubt it based on the
fact that they try to hide their VK past as much as possible.
Ps: the un-ethical thing is just more about this disrecpectful behaviour i explained above. Then again, you can say it is their opinion on another band, but that's not, exactly,
only this that i saw along those lines.