I haven't posted a blog here in a little while, but I'm alive! (though I doubt anyone actually reads and follows this haha)
Anyhow, I haven't had much to talk about. I've expressed some of my recent personal and emotional happenings on my LiveJournal.
Actually, I just thought of something that I could mention.
Recently I have noticed a good number of incidents where there was an announcement about by/about an artist but was either taken completely out of context or completely misunderstood. This has been a problem for a long time and continues to be one even now.
News flash: Babelfish/Google Translate/etc is not always your best friend.
One recent one that comes to mind is that someone was under the assumption that Kaya was going to re-release his GLITTER album. This really frustrated me because whoever read Kaya's blog post about it apparently could read a few katakana and saw "GLITTER" in there and went 'hay gaiz kaya's gunna release GLITTER with new vocals!!!1!!zomg' Hahaha....no. He's actually releasing an indies best album with the same name as the GLITTER album. If you actually read the blog post you would have caught that.
Another recent one is one that some people might know about. Someone was going on about how Gackt and Hyde were going to be in a new sci-fi movie together. That made everyone go "...huh?" Especially because they said that they had heard it from some mysterious!Myspace friend and there had been no mention of it anywhere.
These recurring problems not only feed misinformation to others, but this is one of the major ways rumors start. Not to mention how people go about starting rumors as jokes.
That's another thing. Because jrock is such a word-of-mouth oriented community, people will believe anything they hear. This is another problem that has been happening for a long time and still continues to happen. Fans need to be weary of what they hear and check official sources. Though I think the fact that they actually need to do something like that is rather sad, but that's another blog post.
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- Dix†Princesse
- I am the fashion blog editor of JrockRevolution.com and a Project Management Associate of EINSOF Marketing Group. I live in the Los Angeles area and I am a lolita who loves jrock.
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I never really took into account of how the jrock fandom is very word-of-mouth oriented. Or rather, I already knew but I'm always looking for the facts and easily dismiss anything that seems particularly untrue.
Just like that one girl I told you about: She and this other guy actually believe that they know Min-woo because someone is pretending to be him -_-;. How the heck do you convince them that said person is a fake?
I seriously don't know how to talk to those people.
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