I tried having one blog that would encompass Jpop, Jrock, and Kpop entries; it didn’t work. I had so many things I wanted to write about Jpop that a lot of Jrock entries I wanted to write never got done, and when I did write something about Jrock, few people who actually care about Jrock would ever see it on my pop-centric site. My regular audience is more the wota crowd, and the only Jrock-related entry that seemed to get a great deal of comments was the one about Bou leaving An Cafe (which I still get comments on, for some reason…). It started to feel like Jrock entries just didn’t fit in at Wings of My Heart, though Jpop and Kpop could coexist pretty well there. Add to all that the fact that I slowly, then almost completely fell out of touch with Jrock over the course of 2007, and my desire to get caught up, and my decision to start this blog should be pretty understandable. This Jrock-centric blog is an extension of my music blogging experience, and I think I’m going to enjoy it a lot.
The name of this blog comes from a misheard Dir en grey lyric. That concept might seem completely tiresome to some of you, but being the hyper person that I am, I’m all for the amusement. In the song “Disabled Complexes” on Diru’s most recent album, The Marrow of a Bone, the line “The world is full of psychos” sounded like “WHAT IS PILLOW FIGHT!” to me when I first heard it, and I’m still entertained by that. Dir en grey are important enough to me that the line seemed good for the blog’s name. Diru are also the only Jrock band I’ve seen live (so far). Meanwhile, the current header picture features Miyavi, another of my first Jrock loves. Aside from them, I also listen to a lot of Gackt, L’Arc-en-Ciel, HYDE, An Cafe, the Gazette, and alice nine. I tend to get really into certain bands/artists and listen to a lot of them and not much of anyone else, but there are always a few songs here and there that I like by a lot of different bands; a few bands that I want to listen to more of are MUCC, Kra, and Kragrra,. In some ways I’m still a bit of a Jrock n00b, I guess, despite having listened to the genre for a little over two years now, but I mostly just know what I like and stick to that. I think that’s okay.
As for those of you who don’t know me as a blogger already, hi, my name’s Julia, nice to meet you! I’m 17 years old and Canadian, and writing is one of my passions, along with singing, music, and performing. Aside from music blogging, I also write a lot of stories, and basically whatever a person can write. Allow me to plug my Youtube channel, where you can check out some of my singing (though it’s mostly Jpop that much of the audience I’m hoping this blog will reach probably doesn’t care about). I’m really excited to be starting this blog - I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile - and I hope that you’ll enjoy what I’ve got to say here!
