Guys, i just found this song from a taiwanese boyband call Typhoon, this song is so much like "Vanilla".
And they said the composer of the song is one of their members
Here the link Click
Try to listen 2it and tell me wat u think.
I hate them. Poor Gakuto.

Btw, could you tell me where you found that Typhoon song? Or a website of them... or a fansite or something? Please! ^O^ I want to know more about this. I've been looking for it but I found nothing

But i found a pix of that group in yesasia

]' date='Dec 22 2005, 09:33 PM' post='1092399']
a crappy poster i made.
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3323/gacktcamui9yb.jpg

anyway any one know wat Gackt is doing right now?

anyway any one know wat Gackt is doing right now?

I bet he's doing at least three things at the same time, our little workoholic...

We’ve also been looking at the composition of not just this album alone, but the next one as well while recording this. So during the recording, we did the songs that will be included in the next album (after “DIABOLOS”) first. I think (the staff) will be able to understand better the directions we are supposed to move towards if I let them listen to those songs first. Because that was completed first. (laughs)

Not because of the (mention of) human’s confusing part and its theme, or that even the way it is expressed is ambiguous, not those, but the way I always present it as something beautiful, intense, and fleeting…… Such a balance is the reason why I am “the only one”.

Because justice is something you create, because justice is not something that (simply) exists.

^ Ambeeee~r **

Weee!!
October 2005 Arena 37 Part 1: Long Interview Translation -> Sweiled. It's really worth to read it

He talks about why all the vampire thing ^___^ About the chapters of MOON, about the Tour...

/Edit
Arg I have to go >_< Good night~ *chu*

You find Gackt’s usual self in the studio. No, usual… not quite right to say that. Because of the hairstyle, you see. His hair which is usually let loose and (styled) with mousse or hair wax is now braided tightly and neatly gathered. It’s a completely new image. When asked if this hairstyle has any meaning to it, Gackt answered with a secretive smile.
“Ahahahaha, suitable? (laughs) This is made based on the hairstyle of one of the characters in this story. I was thinking of coming up with the tribal part. It’s totally not suitable for normal clothing though, I’ve been told that it’s scary. (laughs) But it will suit this world view on the stage. Though it’s still rather short now, we will add extensions to it for the stage.”

One more thing, any of u heard a rumor that Gackt going out wit the girl in Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic TV commercials (Ryoko Yonekura)?
"Gackt had written a song for her and wanted to give it to her as a present," (jealous)
Well, I hope it's just a rumor.

I don't like very much he saying this of himself, but yeah, I absolutely agree with him. That's exactly what I think and exactly what I feel when I listen to his music

So based on the hairstyle of one of the characters? You wore braids in Moonchild but I don't think he's talking about that character... And it isn't scary Gakuto, you're so pretty with the braids

But Sho wore braids in Moon Child too... only that those braids looked a little different to those he´s wearing at the moment

... I like the braids too though I liked the hairstyle from Moon Child with the braids in the back but the fluffy hair in the front ....

And @@ information about the tour document for DIABOLOS～哀婉の詩～ is already up. Seems like they are going to have another special limited edition as well. (What DOESN'T have a limited edition these days!?) I believe it'll come in a "specially-made, gorgeous coffin box" (!!) and you will get a silver blade paper knife (!?) 160 pages of pure goodness~~ Pre-orders start tomorrow and ends on 28 Feb; release date is late March. By the side, it's double the price of the normal edition. It's also by the same photographer who does his previous tour books. ^^

I know there is an online debate about this new Taiwanese band. For those who wants to about the group Typhoon, here is the picture of them taken from http://fm974.ent.tom.com/1026/1027/20051210-64184.html.



As the picture shows, the band has 3 members called Toro, Darren and Xiao-Zhu. I can only identify Toro (middle) for you because he used to be in another Taiwanese band called Energy. The website from which the picture was snitched, vaguely mentions about Toro's background and his ideals for this band. The only significant line to note would be:

台风”标榜自己走的是华丽摇滚，有人说他们像日本视觉系艺人，但孙德荣对“视觉系”这顶帽子相当排斥，孙总说：“Toro 、Darren、小村都是美型男，他们五官都长得很好，绝非视觉系。”

The passage translate to say that many people think they are imitating visual artiste hailing from Japan. However, the group's manager says that the band hate to be classified or liken to Japanese visual artistes. He adds that the 3 are all pretty boys and have good facial features, so they are unlike visual bands. This quote above is incomplete from the actual interview actually, because according to the Singapore newspapers the manager further said that unlike visual bands who smeared their faces with makeup, this group does not have to because they have nothing to hide. He further insinuated that he thought it ridiculous that males have to wear makeup and these boys have the clean look that many girls like.

Of course, if you note, I think they are all wearing like makeup. Esp Toro with his eyeliner.
In addition, isnt it ironic that while they try to shun away from the label or association with Japanese groups, Toro is packaged to look like Gackt, The fellow on the left to look like Hide and the one on the right to look like You? No? Please refer to the website given above to see the other 2 more pictures. You would also note that they package themselves to look like GacktJob in a way with their dressing(swords?), poses.

But the controversy would be about the song 狂愛戰隊 which translate into Crazy Love Brigade.

Many have pointed out that this song sounds like Gackt's Vanilla. The LJ discussion can be found here. Provided by [info]ruji, the link when opened in IE will give you the preview of the whole song in question. The singing isnt any good but if you must, listen to find the similarities in tune.

The important question whether the band has rights to the song Vanilla and are only doing a cover of it, is answered in these 2 websites:
1) http://gb.udn.com/gb/stars.udn.com/star/St...nt/Content6902/
2) http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2005/new/de...today-show2.htm

From the first site, the important line is "TORO表示歌曲是他自己创作的，并没有任何抄袭 "
It translate to say that the lead Toro asserting that HE wrote the song himself and there is NO copying.

The second site's important line is "這兩首歌的原曲大不相同，會被大家誤會，只是因為編曲上有日本味道及某些音樂因素是相同的而已。" where Toro says that the 2 songs are different in tune and the only reason people get confuse is because the tune sounds like Japanese pop.


In case, you wanted more information on the song, here is a site that gives you the lyrics and people involved in the producing. By the way, the lyrics in Chinese is bad. I mean the Chinese used is bad, the imagery from the words is horrible. The lyrics translated:


OS: Wait lead broadcaster, it should be my turn! Yes.. this station's news time. First we bring you this emergency warning: The local seaside region has been invaded by unidentified object. It is coming towards the city and it might be a monster which has great damaging powers.
The world is already on high alert, and we have already sent out the strongest team: Typhoon.
Citizens please stay home behind closed doors and windows. There is nothing to worry. Dont go out and leave everything to us newscasters.

How can I ever see you leave again?
Let the proud bright colors of your armour fade with its energy
The birds' curses of "Wah wah wah" are making my body gear up
Dear little princess of the rainbow, actually you are my life

The black pressuring clouds cover all our roofs
The evil rider of folk-lore obstructs my path
You are entangled with crystal tears as you skim pass the black forest
Giving me a heart filled with pure love, which provides me with super powers

Oh baby oh baby, no matter how hard and difficult the road before me lies, God give me strength.
Oh baby oh baby, no matter how hard and difficult, God "powerを貸してください " (dunno what is this)

Dont say goodbye my love. Use both hands to change our future
Goodbye my love, I will make your wait worthy with our fighting
Goodbye my love, use both hands to change our future.
Goodbye my love, please dont wipe out my existence with bright red lipstick.

A glass of red wine feeds their ambition
You must never second-guess and be angry becauseI will come to save you
gathering all my strength to overcome all obstacles
a celebration is waiting for us.

OS: Yes! Latest news for you!
After a day of grueling battle, our team Typhoon has fulfilled all the people's expectations and are back victorious!
The world has recovered its peace. AS they say, the good beget good (from karma), the bad begets bad, it is all a matter of time...



Like how bad are the lyrics?
But go decide by yourselves whether this is a rip-off of Gackt's Vanilla.

I've uploaded this:
Gackt talking in English for Thailand. It' a sound file.

^ It's funny when he says "Gak" I would prefer the clip without the music though V_V

Gackt slides away from Do As Infinity lol Anybody has the whole show? It seems like he sings ANOTHER WORLD there.


Dears - Gackt in L.A.. There's images I hadn't seen yet ^__^, but I don't like the sound and video effects in the clip


Tsuki no Uta live in Utaban Nice~ ^___^

And I'm uploading a weird program, called "How to make a music program". It's like a short drama or something, and there appears Gakuto *yeahhh*, Ayumi, Mika, B'z... It's a Real Media file and I can't edit it, so I have to upload the whole program. In the first part Gackt sings Last Song:


And in the second part, he makes a star appearance in a helicopter The video worth only for watch Gackt going down from the helicopter

The intro was basically the same, telling the story of the vampires' creation and watching Gackt and heroic crew ride out into battle. There were a few new scenes spliced into the intro movie. And with good reason. DAMN good reason. So, on screen, as they rode out into battle, suddenly Gackt and crew came charging out into the arena on horses. Let me repeat that. THEY CAME CHARGING OUT ON HORSEBACK and rode around the inner circle of the arena floor. Oh. My. God. What a way to start a show! I fully and completely believe him now when he says his tours are always in the red concerning profits and that he blows the budget each time. No i can't read. The songs were the same this time around.

During the MC, after a long, drawn out, odd process of elimination, one lucky girl, Mami-chan walked away with the following: one crew shirt, one crew sweatshirt, You-kun's sunglasses and belt, Ryu's sticks and gloves, CHACHA'S GUITAR [Bitch! she probably can't even play. I can, give it to me~~! ^___^] and a Darts ring from Gackt. Actually I shouldn't say walked away, because once she was off stage, she promptly passed the hell out and had to be carried away. Such is the price you pay for such blindingly incredible luck. Maybe next Christmas. He also talked about how this was the first and last time he'll play Tokyo Dome, simply because it's too big. This was also the last time he'll be doing U+K. Perhaps this was the end of the dancing cats. The end of an era? We'll have to wait and see.

So it was solid, wall to wall rock for nearly two hours and then...then the encore came. Which of course involved Gackt cloaked in a stunning white coat being wired across the audience to the part of the stage that jutted out into the audience all the while singing the opening lines to 12 gatsu no Love Song. Cue the water works. I've never seen a performance so wonderful or moving or simply beautiful in my life. Trans-Siberian Orchestra was my number one for the holiday fuzzies, but they've just been bumped to the second place slot. I was stunned into silence and into tears. And then naturally I just had to sing along. What better way to follow up a heart warming Christmas song like 12 gatsu? Why, with a heartbreaking one- Love Letter of course! That brought down the house. Everyone was swaying with their little blue glowsticks. Sang more-cried more. But they were happy tears. I thought I'd be lonely or bummed out that I wasn't in NY with my family, but strangely enough, I wasn't. I was beyond thrilled to be exactly where I was and be with who I was with. He made quite the flashy exit too, but I really didn't expect any less from Gackt. I left there with puffy eyes and an incredibly light heart.

The Gackt Xmas Eve concert at Tokyo Dome was EXTREMELY EXCELLENT!!! This one had two screens on both sides for those poor souls in the back, like me, who couldn't see much from their seats.

First thing, they showed the usual opening movie, but now it's longer, including clips of a mother and child. The mother is killed by the enemy, I'm assuming, and the boy is vainly trying to shake her awake. He looks up to see another enemy, holding a sword, and you see Gackt's angry face as he rides into battle.

THEN ALL FIVE BAND MEMBERS RIDE AROUND TOKYO DOME ON REAL HORSES.


Just when you think Gackt can't up the ante anymore, he pulls this on you. After that was the usual repetoire of songs: Dybbuk, etc. For some of the songs, though, the footage that played on the two screens was obviously different from what was happening on stage. Such as, Gackt was with a i can't read-ton of his dancers, but the screens only showed him dancing around. Or one time, he was on his knees, singing by himself, but the screens showed him holding a woman's dead body. O_o Cool but very disorienting.

For the MC (the part where he takes a break to talk to the audience), he picked out five people from the crowd (I think some people had been pre-selected somehow, like with a piece of paper on their seat or something, but I'm not sure). The first guy to come up looked like a geeky salaryman and had come with his wife, but Gackt was hanging all over him. You could tell the guy was ecstatic. Hell, who wouldn't be? Anyway, all five people (two guys, three girls) did rock-paper-scissors, and the girl who won got presents from each band member.

From Junken: a band t-shirt (probably signed?)
From Ryu: a pair of his drum sticks and some gloves
From You: his OWN belt and sunglasses (he had to run offstage for a second to get a new belt, else his pants would've fallen down)
From Chacha: a signed band sweatshirt and HIS GUITAR (he gave her his own guitar!!)
From Gackt: a Darts ring, which he put on her finger himself

Then she got a hug from him and was sent back to her seat. The entire time, she looked very happy and ready to faint. I was so happy for her. ^___^

After Todokanai..., the usual ending song, Gackt came out again wearing a white coat. He was magically lifted from one part of the arena to the end of the center catwalk on the stage, singing 12月のLove Song the whole time. On stage, he performed Love Letter, during which he was lifted up by a rising pillar. Everyone had blue glow sticks, there were pretty giant lights flinging around everywhere, and the arena crew was firing off fake snow. It was incredibly uplifting, and I saw several of my friends cry. I didn't cry (I did scratch my neck since it suddenly got itchy), but it was a happy moment. Mostly during that incredibly intense minute when all of this stuff was getting thrown at me near the end, I wasn't thinking about how I felt. I was thinking about how he felt, standing up there by himself on that tall platform, surrounded by all these pretty lights and all this falling snow, singing to thousands of his adoring fans. He's got a great life, I tell ya.

From Chacha: a signed band sweatshirt and HIS GUITAR (he gave her his own guitar!!)

From You: his OWN belt and sunglasses

Maybe you guys don't remember, but back in October I said how I had recieved the Crescent cd that I had ordered to give to my cousin for Christmas. Well when I gave it to him yesterday he told me that it was the best present that he had recieved. I was so excited to give it to him that he barely got in the door, and I was shoving it into his hand. That was the best part of my Christmas (other than the food)

I: I would like to clarify something. You’ve said before that the darkside inhabitants were born in the year 700, and in Japan, that would be……
G: Heian period. From the year 700 till around 1,200 is the first chapter of the story. The second chapter is from 1,300 to 1,600, and from that till the current time is the third chapter. The fourth chapter is from the current time to the near future.

I: That PV (Todokanai Ai) was taken from the story as the preview of “DIABOLOS”?
G: Yes. The story of the people who carries such ephemeral destiny is the whole concept this time. The thought that they must go through themselves is that even though their destiny might be a cursed one, carrying that fate makes them able to see their existence for the first time and to feel that they are living. All those are the thoughts of the characters. That there are some things that they have to go through. So I think you can hear the heaviness of “届カナイ愛” (Todokanai Ai) in this album.

I: If you look at it objectively, though “Ash”, “Noesis”, etc., are very ‘rock’, it is true that there is something elegant about Gackt-san’s music.
G: I’m happy that you say that. If it’s simply intense, it would only be thought of as noisy, so I feel there is no meaning in doing that. And that’s not the point, you can see both sides clearly precisely because there is intensity in the calmness; ephemerality in that intensity; and pain and beauty that accompanies the ephemerality.

I: The tour will focus on “DIABOLOS” naturally, but I wonder if there is going to be any other songs as well.
G: First, there are a couple of songs chosen from “Crescent”. The focus is indeed on what you call the songs under the concert, but because I want it to stand (on its own) as a show, as entertainment…… I definitely do not want it to be self-pleasure. So we also discussed with the members and of course, even the songs that are not under the concept will be performed as well. We do not want to forget such a factor too.

^ Oh yes, that's because he says he's a vampire born in 1540 ^___^ Actually he was born in 4th July 1973, Japan. So he's 32 right now

At first I thought he was like 25 or 23 something like that...certainly not in his 30's

I think he may be one of the select few who age gracefully!

^ Oh yes, that's because he says he's a vampire born in 1540 ^___^ Actually he was born in 4th July 1973, Japan. So he's 32 right now

Wooo two songs from Crescent! I would like SO much to see him singing Hoshi no Suna

Cover of the new R&R Newsmaker:

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Wah, the Crescent album, it´s one of my favourites.... I hope he sang Tsuki no Uta or Birdcage ...

My friends don't understand why I like Gackt or Hyde. There were the usual "is that a girl?" (Hyde) "why is he wearing make-up?" (Gackt) "they look kinda gay" ... >_< Still, my friend searched the net for pics of them and picked out those that she thinks I'll like and made me this present.

Alright just some random pictures. I know most have these have been posted before, but meh.

He said that he don't like children but look at those pixs, he look sooo much like a good father.

Eh, this is sorta Gackt related. Look what my friend got me for Christmas.
A notebook decorated with pics of Hyde and Gackt.

She threw in a couple of Takeshi Kaneshiro's pics as a bonus! haha.

thanx so much for the enlarged pic...
i'll go and look for the rest right now!
*edit*
sry, but i can't find it ....ahhh -=runs into the wall=-
but i searched all the way back to the 50s (pages)
do you possibly remember which page it was?

MC man: It's time for the last song part (I'm guessing there were musical guests prior to Gackt's appearance)
I didn't know he had so many fans in our country.
This person is very popular in Korea and with his husky voice, he's a person of merit.
This..what, I can't talk. (because the girls scream in between his sentences)
This person released an album in Korean. His fans love him very much...
I give you Gackt.

Gackt's mini MC: Hello everyone, I'm Gackt.
We're different nationalities, but we're the same Asian people, right?
I believe that we will continue to (do something/can't hear him) in the future as well.
I want to sing to you this song, Love Letter

He said another sentence, but I couldn't figure out what he was saying between his almost-mumbling and the girl's screams. Yeah, I think the girls understood him very well ^^ I even saw boys in the audience!