Edoh: Interesting thing I read earlier regarding bands, their image and magazines. I guess its pretty much what I've been thinking with the bands who go "major", magazines just squeezes them into how they feel they should look, and people would usally just accept and do as they say as they know what they are doing but... hmm. I guess this way of thinking also applies when shootting for PVs, recording songs and covers etc... Indie and pop is pretty damn different after all and everyone is there to make some money...
credits to kiniro-ageha.livejournal.com
“…we are the Gazette all including this kind of look. And when the orientation of the magazines changes, we are also told that we should rather not wear make-up, but we say that this right here, including all of it is what the GazettE is. I always intend to do everything by possessing this kind of pride. The music, the lyrics, the GazettE’s logo, the CD jacket designs, the outfits, everything. Therefore we do of course check the pictures taken for the magazine, everything until the color proof of it. I think in a way, I am a pretty annoying, noisy guy in that sense, as I have to check everything that far. It also includes the images of the songs, the perspective towards things. Also, when I am saying I would like to do (the shooting) in black and white and I am told that “it would be a waste to not do it in full color” or that “the magazine isn’t selling if it’s not in color”, I feel really disappointed by such things. Because this is of course part of the band concept and I think that all of that makes the GazettE. I really don’t like creating things that are unfitting for us. We do not intend to get rid of our make-up just because someone tells us it needs to be done to fit in. That includes the costumes as well. Because that’s something that can’t be changed that easily according to the situation. It’s not meant to be some kind of narrow-mindedness, but when someone asks me to take off the sun glasses and they are part of the outfit then there is no reason to take them off. And it’s like “Huh? There are other artists that are wearing sun glasses but because this is Visual-kei, it’s no good?” There has been this kind of discrimination”
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