(//_-) 🠄 emo bang

I don't watch visual kei MVs or concert videos a lot. I know that sounds crazy when it's called visual kei, but I usually listen to the music and look at pictures of the bands I'm listening to (and bands I don't listen to, naturally) separately. There's no real reason besides I suppose I fell out of the habit of watching MVs after I stopped watching TV. When I do remember that vkei videos are a real thing that I can watch, I have fun. Check these out:



The singer is dressed like if Testament wore pants. The camerawork is kind of funny. And I like the song! 5/5

When I was going through my Watch Later I actually had the video of Sheen saying "one she's a female..." (you know the one) play right before this, and I think it makes a great intro for the song. You should put on that video and then put this song in the queue right after it. Banger.



It's really fun to imagine them having to record these videos really fast before the police/staff stops them. Like, the guy between the shipping containers? No way were they given permission to film there. I don't believe it. Don't tell me they did; I want to dream. Imagine a meet cute where I person just walking down the street stumbles into one person in a group of freaks recording a MV for their epic gothlike band on a camcorder.

More importantly, the blink-and-you'll-miss-it part at 0:37 makes me Have Thoughts. I was called sick for this even though I didn't even say what the thoughts were. Vivimos en una sociedad.

it might just be an aid for the viewer or because they didn't think too deep into it or something, but you know how kliff calls testament testament? which to me implies that's their birth name? that's a crazy ass name to be born with. like that's just not the kind of name a 5 year old should have.

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20:08 / 10:08 P.M.

why is this song so good seriously

Since I'm already screwed when it comes to school, I'm going to get back to blogging now! I know everyone missed me sooo bad. Fret no longer, Cici is back.

It's that time of year again! I've been eagerly awaiting this. To those in the audience smirking because they're above this or don't use Spotify: I still download music. There is plenty of music I listen to that Spotify has no clue about, so my Wrapped can never be truly accurate. The songs I have downloaded are mostly Japanese rock (from the Visual Kei scene, specifically), Showa-era Japanese pop, songs from anime soundtracks, and songs from game soundtracks. So keep that in mind as I continue, I guess.

Last year, my Wrapped was pathetic. It was so bad. I don't even want to get into specifics. Just know that besides the usual Buck-Tick as my top artist (this year makes 6 years in a row in their top fans, but I digress), the rest of my top artists were all the same artists I've been listening to since birth. My top songs were mostly songs I've known since elementary school. My top genres were just Spotify calling me a n[redacted] in 5 different ways. After seeing that shameful display, I swore to listen to less popular Urban Hits of the 00s in 2024.

Do you know how painful that was for me? It hurt so bad. But I did it. Not just to manipulate statistics and have something impressive to show when Wrapped time came around, but because I clearly needed to listen to more music. You may be smart enough to think: But Chris, you probably listened to a lot of new music in a place Spotify couldn't see, right? If you thought that you're smarter than me, because I didn't consider that at all until typing this just now XDDDDD I was just so in shock...

Anyways, my top artists this year are 1. Buck-Tick, 2. Michael Jackson, 3. Beyoncé, 4. Keyshia Cole, 5. Shazna. Heyyy, got it down to 3 R&B artists instead of 4! Yeaaaa babyyyyyyy let's aim for 2 in 2025 babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (I know getting rid of the MJ is entirely unrealistic). Now, there is a small problem: The stupid fucking site didn't say our top genres this year. Everything I did this year was to change how my top genres looked, and now I'll never know how I did. On some outside service I could at least see my top genres of the last 6 months, and going by that I did kind of well (R&B at the top still, but hip hop was down significantly), but what about the start of the year...? Ugh. Also, I listened for 136, 069 minutes, and remember that's excluding my outside MP3 player. This is because I pretty much listen to music during all my waking hours. It cancels outside noise AND provides dopamine! Two in one!!

I will be including my top 100 songs under the cut. Feel free to judge me and beat me and kill me for not listening Tally Hall and 100 gecs and whatnot

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