Talking about Idols...
I actually divide J-Rockers in 3 groups.
1st there is the very distant group...for me those people are really unreachable. For instance Mana...or Gackt and such. But also Members of Alice nine, Ayabie, Gazette and such. Because for me those people don't seem to be real existing. Although I read their blogs and such...they are like...Dolls. Yeah, they exist so fans can think of them as they please and project their hopes/dreams/what ever into those persons. So they are living dolls.
2nd there are those who seem real to me. Mucc seems real to me and Girugamesh...and D'espairs Ray...don't ask me why. Maybe because Hizumi reminds me of Nheira...and, as some of you know, I think of Nheira as a "real" person. Those persons have character for me...You don't really have to imagine about how they could be in real life because you can see their character, also you can see that they all actually are normal persons like you and me, and that's what makes them so likeable.
3rd is the genius. First person I think of is Kyô. People tend to put him in the 1st category. But I can't because he actually seems too real to me, but the more he seems real to me, the more I feel reverence for him. I think of him as a genius and at the same time I'm afraid that he get's lost in this genius world of his. You know what I mean ? Just like Dalí or other geniuses.
Actually I can't imagine Kyô to die old in his bed...Kyô is just to extreme for something like that, and that kind of frightens me.
I don't want to say that my opinion the only one true and I don't want to juge about neither of those persons. I don't think of them as bad or good.
Just a few minutes ago I watched the new D'espairs Ray PV from Kamikaze...it kind of made me sad because it feels like D'esapirs Ray is struggeling to keep up with the changing VK scene and the new bands.This is normal, but I didn't feel any heart in that song at all. I heard a lot of people who disagreed with the new styling or the new musical development.
But aside of this...I feel blessed that I can watch the bands grow and change through the years. Because we all change and grw our selfs...so I think that it is a good thing that the bands we listen to also can change. Because time never stands still.
"I wanna fly and keep on flying.
I wanna change and keep on changin'."