Monday, December 31, 2007
Recently, I have finally gotten around to confirming my long-held suspicion that the band members of Nightmare are also in the band Sendai Kamotsu.
Sendai Kamotsu is the alter-ego of Nightmare and is a kind of parody Visual Kei band - I think some people have even cheekily categorized them as "Visual Gei". They sing extremely silly and campy songs, irreverently poking fun at the stereotype of the VK bandman as effeminate and homosexual. That's why they use the kanji "gei" (which signifies "art" and "performance", as in "geisha") as a pun on the word "gay", foregrounding the perfomativity of sexuality.
I really couldn't believe at first that Sendai Kamotsu is made up of entirely the same band members as Nightmare, except for Kurihara the keyboardist. They are dressed and made-up so differently, and they use aliases, so it's pretty easy to think that they're completely different people. But they still have the kooky Nightmare quality, multiplied by 100. And Ruka is still molesting Yomi, even though he looks a downright horror as the vocalist Chiba. And Sakito as the bespectacled Satty is still so pretty and adorable *___*
"Gei School Otokogumi!!" is, if I'm not mistaken, Sendai Kamotsu's latest PV, and I couldn't help giggling all the way through as I watched it. I've written down the link to the youtube video below, so go watch it if you want something funny and refreshing to pass time on your New Year's Day holiday. And oh yes, do watch out for the super-ironic moment in the PV too! ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9So3Tvr2sfE&feature=related
kaoru said at 10:30 PM
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