#dazbee

[mrn0093]

【info】 I drew DAZBEE's new album jacket【𝑵𝑬𝑾𝑻𝑹𝑶 𝑾𝑨𝑽𝑬】!

[harrowharr0w]

2 of my favorite jp music artists🩷

[miki-hasugi]

....so I wanna talk about k-pop...

well not kpop kpop, but just the sounds of "APT" by Rose (ft. Bruno Mars) and "Odoriko" by Vaundy (which is actually jpop lol) covered by NJZ Minji. There's something nostalgic about these two songs, reminding me of the mood and the sounds of the 2000s where everything is upbeat or melancholic in a "grieving the beautiful moment that are passing by right now as we live" vibe.

Personally, it just reminds me of the time I had in high school. Singing along to upbeat vibes with friends, doing crazy stupid shit without care about the world or ourselves, at a time where the biggest worries any of us have is homework, oppressive assholery teachers, and whether or not our crushes like us back. It was a simpler time. And it makes the current me a bit scared, tired and sad.

At first, I'm scared because Minji is quite literally young, and initially I didn't quite understand why I put the video on loop. I told myself it was the music, but clearly I didn't replay Vaundy's original or even Dazbee's version (which was how I discovered all this) as much. I was even scared to admit maybe it's Minji herself or the high school look that is so deceptive and manipulative, an industry standard to invite male gaze (and further the patriarchal society that we live in).

And then I'm tired, that something as simple as one's emotion is being questioned and deconstructed, especially in the current environment where we don't know which one is resulted from generations of indoctrination, and which one is genuinely (and perhaps uniquely) personal. How do I know if I like a high school look because it is what the mainstream media has trained me to like? That sex sells and every outfit and style reflects some certain ideas and movements forced upon you whether or not you realize it. Take your thought on a walk, take any step in any direction and you stumble upon something questionable. Even if the questioning itself is for a good cause (cause of course, we're deconstructing what was deemed "natural" and "tradition" but in fact was oppressive).

And I'm sad.

I longed for the simpler time. The nostalgia that is commonly associated with when people think they have stability and peace (see Lindsey Ellis' here for more on nostalgia). The world is on fire. I have built my life around political sciences and working in international affairs, and now some random bumfuck is literally crumbling down 100 years of an academic tradition. (well not that it fundamentally changes the field like how Einstein's Relativity theory change Newtonian physics - just, a cold reminder that people are shit - but, but, human are worth fighting for).

And I can't simply just go out and yell "hey y'all you saw this amazing singer singing this amazing song by another amazing artist???" of the top of my lung to scream out all the frustration and fear and anger and sadness that I have accumulated over the years.

So much so that I am ranting on a platform so publicly about something so personal.

It was supposed to be as simple as "hey, Minji is amazing, she sings so well and she slays the look in this performance".

But before I can finish writing any of these, my mind runs "y'all heard about New Jeans' fight against their parent companies and how fucking assholes still side with corporate interests against literal workers?" or "y'all think this might be a bit problematic like the Gaiman guy who does heinous things to women?" or "y'all have some time to think bout the world burning yet?"

Before I become conscious again about fighting for the world, let me linger a moment where my playlist shuffle Dazbee, and I am transported back in time to 10 years ago, when I first discovered jpop. Putting on Aimer and Ghibli playlist while reading manga about silly high school love. Thinking about what kind of person I will become, hopefully someone as cool and as kind as I can imagine.

[9823678]

Acacia (BUMP OF CHICKEN) Pokémon GOTCHA！／ダズビー COVER

art by 001_31_ on twitter

[kvsagi]

just got an ipad air very recently hehe  (tried to do painting practice w aijanai)

[nawalp-illust]

"こんなの愛じゃない ---まぁそうじゃない？"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqUStT2oax0

Dazbee "愛じゃない" fanart! Congrats on 1st Album!

1st アルバムおめでとうございます！

[holy-darling]

[lively-lizard]

A few of my favorite outfits from the new update for deemo They’re all so fucking hard to draw especially the last one was a pain in the ass First one: dusk to dawn by xi Second one: nyanya no uta by nicode and dazbee Third one: re: union duo blade against by ice and morimori atsushi