Sorry, I'm only seeing this topic now must have missed it all the time :S Oops
Well atm I live in Japan so I hope I can at least give a little insight into what people here think about Hyde.
He's surely widely known, no doubt about that and everyone is full of respect for him, boys and girls alike.
Girls mostly find him cool, they adore his voice and his fashion style, they worship Laruku and almost everyone here loves Hyde because of Laruku while in the western fandom many people became a fan of Hyde first through Moonchild.
For the guys it's acutally the same, the find him incredibly cool (it's actually quite hilarious), my friend had a conversation with a guy who told her that he always sings Laruku songs at karaoke and thinks that Hyde is almost too cool and that it pisses him off. He said to her "but he's really tiny you know" and she said "well that only adds to his charm" and he was like "I know, damn, he's really too cool, how can us normal guys get a chance with the girls if they all adore Haido?". I LAWLED
Of course they are people who've never heard of Laruku or Hyde at all, but there are not that many. When we go into the older league there are women around their fourtys and fiftys who follow the band around since forever (I personally met one of them, she was camping in front of the Zepp Tokyo for all of the VAMPS showz CRAZY OBAASAN). Hyde is called their kawaikochan (sweet child), at Laruku concerts you can mostly see them wearing their traditional Yukatas, they are coming along in pairs or with their daughters and sometimes even with their grandchildren. (Younger women often come with their husbands)
Within the music business itself I never met anyone who didn't speak very fondly of Hyde. He's known for being a true workaholic and very down to earth, it's apparently lots of fun to work with him. Sometimes he doesn't even realize his own VIP status and just goes out without telling anyone, saying "me? no no I'm not known at all". He does many things he wouldn't have to do just to make his fans happy, which makes him happy too.
I sounds all very mushy but that are the things I hear everytime, even when I speak to different people who worked with him.
He has many fans within the business itself, for example the comedian who came out during the breaks of the Halloween shows to entertain the fans, he talked about Laruku and how he met them and then made the crowd spontaniously sing Kasou.
As most of you know Yasu from Janne Darc (Acid Black Cherry) and Daigo are also fans and now friends of him. Daigo became a fan through Vivid Colour (he told us on the second night of the Halloween lives and tried to play it on his acoustic guitar but failed XD).
Other's would include the Glay guys, Gackt of course, KAT-TUN who are are crazy for him, Hiroki Narimiya, Tamori from MS and his female counterpart (forgot her name), apparently Hyde was even invided to her wedding. And many more.
Back to the general public:
Laruku is viewed as a band Japan can be proud of, especially Japan's pop-rock scene, they are well aware that many overseas critics would headdesks at hearing their usual idols sing.
They are also getting lots of positive feedback from interviewers of music magazines or critics on the radio and the same goes for Hyde.
He's viewed as beautiful and talented and an ideal for many vocalists out there since even within the japanese music scene is voice is regarded as very unique.
Something that finds not as much recognition in the Western fanbase as it does in the Japanese are the lyrics.
He is known for his poem style lyrics which brought him a nomination as best lyricist once. Especially the older fans love this part of Laruku's music (because well Hyde's solo lyrics are a tad different... they are more loved by the rockin' youth who find English kakkoi) Many people I met said that hearing a Laruku song feels like listening to part of a story or a dream and that it makes them happy that Japanese musicians still use their language in that way.
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Date: 2008-12-16 05:14 am (UTC)Well atm I live in Japan so I hope I can at least give a little insight into what people here think about Hyde.
He's surely widely known, no doubt about that and everyone is full of respect for him, boys and girls alike.
Girls mostly find him cool, they adore his voice and his fashion style, they worship Laruku and almost everyone here loves Hyde because of Laruku while in the western fandom many people became a fan of Hyde first through Moonchild.
For the guys it's acutally the same, the find him incredibly cool (it's actually quite hilarious), my friend had a conversation with a guy who told her that he always sings Laruku songs at karaoke and thinks that Hyde is almost too cool and that it pisses him off.
He said to her "but he's really tiny you know" and she said "well that only adds to his charm" and he was like "I know, damn, he's really too cool, how can us normal guys get a chance with the girls if they all adore Haido?". I LAWLED
Of course they are people who've never heard of Laruku or Hyde at all, but there are not that many. When we go into the older league there are women around their fourtys and fiftys who follow the band around since forever (I personally met one of them, she was camping in front of the Zepp Tokyo for all of the VAMPS showz CRAZY OBAASAN).
Hyde is called their kawaikochan (sweet child), at Laruku concerts you can mostly see them wearing their traditional Yukatas, they are coming along in pairs or with their daughters and sometimes even with their grandchildren.
(Younger women often come with their husbands)
Within the music business itself I never met anyone who didn't speak very fondly of Hyde.
He's known for being a true workaholic and very down to earth, it's apparently lots of fun to work with him.
Sometimes he doesn't even realize his own VIP status and just goes out without telling anyone, saying "me? no no I'm not known at all".
He does many things he wouldn't have to do just to make his fans happy, which makes him happy too.
I sounds all very mushy but that are the things I hear everytime, even when I speak to different people who worked with him.
He has many fans within the business itself, for example the comedian who came out during the breaks of the Halloween shows to entertain the fans, he talked about Laruku and how he met them and then made the crowd spontaniously sing Kasou.
As most of you know Yasu from Janne Darc (Acid Black Cherry) and Daigo are also fans and now friends of him. Daigo became a fan through Vivid Colour (he told us on the second night of the Halloween lives and tried to play it on his acoustic guitar but failed XD).
Other's would include the Glay guys, Gackt of course, KAT-TUN who are are crazy for him, Hiroki Narimiya, Tamori from MS and his female counterpart (forgot her name), apparently Hyde was even invided to her wedding. And many more.
Back to the general public:
Laruku is viewed as a band Japan can be proud of, especially Japan's pop-rock scene, they are well aware that many overseas critics would headdesks at hearing their usual idols sing.
They are also getting lots of positive feedback from interviewers of music magazines or critics on the radio and the same goes for Hyde.
He's viewed as beautiful and talented and an ideal for many vocalists out there since even within the japanese music scene is voice is regarded as very unique.
Something that finds not as much recognition in the Western fanbase as it does in the Japanese are the lyrics.
He is known for his poem style lyrics which brought him a nomination as best lyricist once. Especially the older fans love this part of Laruku's music (because well Hyde's solo lyrics are a tad different... they are more loved by the rockin' youth who find English kakkoi)
Many people I met said that hearing a Laruku song feels like listening to part of a story or a dream and that it makes them happy that Japanese musicians still use their language in that way.
LONG POST IS LONG.
SORRY
I hope I could help you out a bit.