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And I thought I had been too harsh on Lady Gaga.

@nes: Dj Sisen? I mean, DJ SISEN??? Do you know Dj Sisen??? :D

Darius, I care about you, but Lady Gaga, no, no, no. As a person, she’s unbearable; artistically, it’s laughable, and I detest her selling herself as a sordid and dirty sexual object. Since I didn’t go to the concert, I won’t vote: from what I read, I imagine it was a great show, of course, but her utterly repulsive music, I believe, would have ruined even the most admirable of choreographic and scenic setups.

So, what was being said about X JAPAN in the comments to my review? Romanesque Gothic - Vidoll - Recensione di panapp X JAPAN undoubtedly offered quality material; I honestly don’t know if this CD deserves 5 stars, because I don’t think their production has gone up (or down), but rather has been marked by excellent moments and other boring ones. Here we’re at a good level, though; for my taste, it’s not 4 stars, but today I'm feeling generous. P.S.: there’s a gross mistake in the review: it’s called visual kei with an "i," not a "y"! "Kei," not "key"! It’s a Japanese word! Wikipediala!

But hadn’t he been banned?

@coolermaster: I understand your point, but I can't embrace it. It's the same argument made about ancient sculpture and architecture: the Greek temples, so pristine and pure, were all painted in eye-popping bright colors, with red columns, blue entablatures, yellow details, and so on; the same goes for the statues that were colored in a lifelike manner down to the details (including the pupils of the eyes, if you catch my drift). Horror, the museums of that time must have been not dissimilar from today's wax museums (which actually seem to us as places of questionable taste). Time and weather have erased these pigments from buildings and statues so that now we are left with only a few splashes of color here and there to suggest how these works might have originally appeared. This taste has been lost today because we are no longer accustomed to it, not to mention the influence of the classic theorists of the eighteenth century (take Winckelmann as a prime example) who have "fixed" our taste and opinions regarding the ancient. That said, it's clear that no one today would give a nice coat of paint to the Laocoön or the Riace bronzes, but it's good to know that it was once like that; in the musical field, shifting the discussion, we can "approach" ancient perception also to understand precisely the evolution of taste. The idea that philology is arbitrary is highly debatable: when restorers tackle a fresco where there might be a large empty area where the pigment has fallen off, are they arbitrary in addressing that area? Certainly not, there are methods, studies, and practices that they use to deal with these issues. The same story applies to music: how many scores from the past have reached us incomplete, partial, riddled with holes from the baths? Abandoning philological studies means having a partial view of things, illuminating them only with the current light, which is certainly too limited.

Nooo, really, 19Lunghezze has been banned? But why, just when I was starting to have fun.

@19Lengths: what's so funny?