Hey there, everybody
I've been reading your forum since discovering it in July, and after drowning in champagne mixed with melon liqueur, finally decided that it was time to dive into the dark depths of the human consciousness which is scape.
I'm twenty one, and I've been loving Malice Mizer since 12. My favorite era conceptually is the Klaha era, but my favorite musically is definitely the Tetsu era. It took me years and years of listening though, to ever get to that point. When I first heard Tetsu, my reaction was basically
oh
bad music for bad people
and then I ran back to the embrace of Bara no Seidou and the one or two Gackt era singles I enjoyed.
Due to a lack of knowledge of places like scape, and a wealth of knowledge to the end of every visual kei act I enjoyed being disbanded, I never kept up with the scene, or actively participated in any discussions. So Malice Mizer was, after my first few years of listening, reduced largely to this nebulous thing of too many (or too few??? still deciding) guitars and beautiful dreams of true and tragic love in my mind. It wasn't until I rediscovered the Tetsu-era pieces that I not only began to appreciate Malice Mizer again, but appreciated it as a very ambitious work of art, capable of great evolution within itself.
What impressed me the most though was not the fact that Malice Mizer was capable of evolving - but that it was able to stay the same. Throughout each era, the same feelings of longing are communicated through the lyrics - but they're each given such unique vehicles through each vocalist. On that day I gave Tetsu another try, I was simply amazed. I never thought that the flowery sentiments of MM's lyrics could ever be physically painful, or heart-rending - they were always distant, always a fantasy. But hearing him sing of autumn leaves, and autumn skies, and hearing him too lament that lovers have no chance, no reason, nothing --
I don't think I ever felt a love for music so true, as the love I felt in those moments.
my feelings in this post are so disorganized, and its likely unruly as far as intros go, but for once I can talk about MM with like minds and I am SO EXCITED!!
I hope we can all talk soon. The gushier the better.