A Showa Rock Band That Feels Like Mode
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A band that felt innovative
And today, as someone currently in a mode fashion boom, the band I'm into now is
BOØWY.Moreover, as for the generation, my mother experienced them in real-time.
When I was listening to them, they had long since disbanded, so I only had CDs and videos...
This jacket photo looks like Yohji Yamamoto.
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The costumes at this time, and Himuro-san and Hotei-san as performers, are divine 😇✨
Even their silhouettes are art!
Here is fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto 📖 ̖́-
No matter how intelligent you are, you cannot trust someone who looks down on fashion.
Even if they are a critic or an architect.
You can tell if someone is the real deal by the clothes they wear.
Words that hit the core.
People who have their own philosophy express themselves through the clothes they wear.
Yohji Yamamoto designs artistic clothes with a black image.
I feel an imbalance between his delicate philosophy and something wild and aggressive.
BOØWY is Rock🎸⚡️, but I also feel art.
The songs, Hotei-san's guitar, Himuro-san's voice, the performance of the four, and the costumes are very artistic.
The costumes are inorganic and black-based.
There is also an aesthetic of stripping things away.
I thought it had something in common with mode.
This matches.
And I asked Addy, the ChatGPT, about it.
What made BOØWY different from the rock that came before them!?
Up until then, Japanese rock was mainly:
・Hot
・Earthy
・Raw emotions
But BOØWY swung completely toward:
→ Cool
→ Distance
→ Inorganic
This is completely a
mode-like way of thinking!
My favorite song in terms of worldview is 'Marionette'
Inorganic, urban, the outside world
The "MAD CITY" in the lyrics
Literally translated
👉 Crazy city / Insane metropolis
It's not that the city is a cool place, but
👉 A place that is broken somewhere
It's a worldview that somehow connects to Yohji Yamamoto's clothes.
"CLOUDY HEART"
It's been a BOØWY song I've loved for a long time♡, but
I had only been listening to it for the nuance.
There are English lyrics, so I took a good look at them.
Honest love, I gotta say, it's fallin' in love
Honest love, say that sound so loud
Since I've only heard it as sound until now, I hadn't really looked at the lyrics, but
I had the impression that the lyric "the end comes naturally" was sad.
And!! I had Addy translate the English lyrics.
It seems to mean "I want you to say this honest feeling out loud properly,"
and furthermore
"sound so loud"
clearly, without deception, properly!!
there is an emphasis, so it means they want them to say it clearly.The title of this song is Cloudy Heart, so
it's not that it's unclear and hazy—it was saying to be clear‼️
It was a discovery, the opposite of what I had thought.
(o📣'▽')o📣
The guitar "erases the boundaries" between songs, keeping the atmosphere alive
And recently, I watched a LIVE on YouTube
This is it👇
Hotei-san's guitar is art, it's amazing❗️
Himuro-san's voice is refreshing—but passionate!!
Including the two's actions and how they keep the rhythm
It's too divine〜😇😇✨
LIVE is definitely better than the CD〜
There are no seams between songs, and connecting them with guitar arrangements is amazing.
Hotei-san goes into B･Blue as a bridge from the previous song, you know
WORKING MAN → B・BLUE is amazing because it enters as a bridge.
It was truly a "power-surging〜💪" LIVE〜