Is VISUAL KEI a dead music genre?

maybe yes maybe no who cares

>>75055589
Right now it's mostly a front for the yakuzas who own the music industry

but there's still a handful of good visual kei bands

>visual
>music

and you wonder why it's shit

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Well, VK isn't a music genre, but a scene.
There's VK bands with all kind of sounds, ranging from electronic pop to black metal, to neo folk, to post-punk, and on and on.
One of the things about VK is that, despite there being a certain sound related around it (although it changed over the years, some conventions remained, sort of), there's a total freedom, as there isn't a certain way a VK band "should" sound. Same with the looks really, obviously VK is all about flashy clothes, make up and stuff, but there isn't really a set rule either.

Some of my favorite VK artists and tracks of all time:

Malice Mizer - Baroque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8BYjJS_TQ
Buck-Tick - Moonlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5iObtepECY
D'erlanger - Moon and the memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5kvD6TsZKw
Lareine - Shiroi Ito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKbIr-1P234
Jeanne da arc - Judgement -shinigami no kiss-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKje_xbULTM
Pierrot - Adolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uVrfoVZk_A
Babylon - In a coop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq6zOLgumtE
hide - Breeding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPdb5MBYte8

>>75056192
>music where the appeal is the clothes they wear while playing it

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>>75056575
If you think about it, that's true for most music in general. People care a lot about the artist's looks.
To me the main appeal of the VK bands I like is the music though.
Their visual aspect is only important for the concerts.

>>75056704
that's only true for posers and normies

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>>75056742
Because you're so tr00, right anon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4l85Sx476I