[Columbine]

Let's face it, if VK was all about the music and writing music and selling an image solely based on the music it'd be called Auditory Kei. Fact is, the lead singer's hair do and duds are probably just as important as the track. Sure a Jpop star has the same concern, but he can whack on the same shiny suit and floppy hair as everyone else in the business and pull it off; VK relies on some sort of original signature.

So why all the horror that they need help to write their songs? It's a disillusionment, sure, but I don't think the audiences are being as naively deceived as you think. We live in generation X factor- Everyone knows there's a whole kit and caboodle of artists who are utterly incapable of songwriting and yet are hitting it big in the charts, because the industry is a lot about look. So if the fans get indignant that a brand that is predominantly about look economizes on sound, should get a whap to the head, because surely that's bleeding obvious.

I think the main issue is that VK is supposed to be the trendy free-spirit alternative to mainstream and people get peeved that they've been suckered in on the exact same premise they were trying to avoid; they find out that their cool dark idols are just Girls Aloud gone goffick.