"Good evening, everyone, audience!"

"Thank you very much for focusing on Asahi TV at 8 p.m. on Friday, watch our "music station"!"

"I'm the host, Tamori!"

"I am the assistant host, Bingmu Wanli Cai~"

A cool old man wearing sunglasses appeared on the live broadcast stage of "Music Station".

Tamori is the old host of "Music Station". He has been hosting for more than 30 years since 1987. He is the pillar of this program. He has accompanied this program through decades of ups and downs.

But the genus Wanli vegetable is different.

The host of "music station" has a characteristic.

The iron-clad TAMORI (Tamori), the female host of the flowing water.

Since 1993, the assistant host has been changing new ones, and every time he changes female hosts. A female host has been on duty for about five or six years and has not been eternal.

Maybe it is to make the audience feel fresh. After all, it is very important to keep the freshness of a show that has been in operation for decades.

The two hosts were smiling on the stage and chatting about the anecdotes of the Japanese music scene in the past week.

The band is currently communicating with several Japanese singers in the backstage lounge.

"I know you, your Hall of Fame is popular in Europe and the United States, and you have a strong breath for Asian music!"

“This song is so great that it sounds shocking, no wonder it can become popular in the United States.”

"Your Chinese songs are also very good. I like the song "Youthful and Promising". This song is actually very suitable for the Japanese market. If you can re-film a Japanese word, it is very likely that it will become popular in Japan!"

Their Chinese are all good, so even though Ye Weiyang has learned Japanese almost all, he has no room to play and can only communicate with them in Chinese throughout the whole process.

The lead singer of the famous Japanese visual rock band Rainbow Candy Band was grabbing Ye Weiyang's arm and chatting with him enthusiastically.

The visual band, a style born in Japan in the 1980s, is a branch of a rock band.

At that time in Europe and the United States, it was the era when rebellious, decadent hippies and punk cultures were popular, and rock and metal music flourished.

In the era of "bubble economy", Japan is in line with Europe and the United States in a large-scale world, and young people in Japan have gradually embarked on a somewhat rebellious path.

Bad youth culture has become popular, boys keep their take-off heads to form cliques, and girls cut school uniforms.

In contrast to such a cultural trend, the unexpected rules and regulations of Japanese music at that time.

Whether it is a traditional singer, a pop singer or a band, they strictly follow a relatively fixed song structure in creation.

There are even stereotyped rules such as "The chorus should not exceed XX seconds" and "After a main song, one must be followed by a main song, and then the main song will be changed."

In this era of booming economy, false prosperity, and traditional culture needs to be broken through, Japanese pop culture gradually moved closer to Europe and the United States, and Japanese young musicians thus adapted to the needs of the times and began a legendary journey.

This is the birth of the "visual system".

The visual design is basically easy to identify.

Except for some attempts to mainstream the band in the later stages, most of the other styles are very close to the popular Shamatt in China after 2000.

In fact, the popular Samatt in China at that time was also imitating the "visual" trend that came from Japan and South Korea.

Colorful hair, explosive or swelling hairstyles, one to multiple female members, thick eyeliner to the liking, lipstick colors with strong presence, and black clothing are all representative images of visual bands.

They all have exaggerated styles and exaggerated stage expressions, while they each have their own styles in music.

If it were just a bold look, then the visual rock band would not have become a symbol of the era in Japan.

In the golden 1990s, visual bands broke the rules and regulations of the original Japanese music and smashed all the established music frameworks.

The music is in their hands, and there is no longer any constraints like "This position must be entered into the main song, the chorus must be controlled within XX seconds, and the two main songs cannot be connected together"!

The famous visual band, J-Japan, is the first band in the history of Japanese pop music that inserted a double guitar solo for 1 minute between the main song and the chorus, which was an unimaginable creation in previous Japanese songs.

Various visual bands that sprouted like mushrooms after a rain have completely reshaped the structure of Japanese pop songs!

In addition, the various bands in the visual department cover almost all European and American rock and metal music styles that can be learned, introducing many styles that were only emerging in the 1980s and 1990s to the mainstream Japanese music industry.

Gothic, Death Metal, Alternative Rock, Psychedelic, Electronics, Heavy Metal, Punk…

Various new styles were introduced into the traditional and old-school Japanese music scene by visual bands, which completely changed the Japanese music scene and allowed Japanese band culture to lead the entire Asia since the 1990s.

Even more than 20 years later, many songs from the visual department in the 1990s are still outdated, and there are even many songs that still sound avant-garde and pioneering.

To this day, the flourishing bands in Japan are still the most mature and outstanding in Asia.

A large number of Japanese bands with a cumulative sales of more than 20 million copies were born in that golden age of vision.

The Rainbow Candy Band was born in the late 1990s when the visual department was golden. The average age of the five band members was over 40 years old. In terms of age, they could all be Ye Weiyang and their uncles.

However, these uncles were very enthusiastic about Ye Weiyang, and they didn't have the same old-fashioned style as Japanese people in their bones. They talked about their peers when they talked with Ye Weiyang and the others.

As a rebellious generation, a generation that does not succumb to the rules of Japanese society and dares to break the rules, these members of the visual band will naturally not value the deep-rooted rules of previous and juniors in Japanese culture so much.

They are more of the kind of rebellious punk in Europe and the United States, and advocate freedom of personality, so they can communicate better with foreigners like Ye Weiyang.

This kind of communication also made Ye Weiyang and the others very relaxed and comfortable.

There are rules and regulations everywhere, and the etiquette atmosphere is very strong. You must speak respectful words no matter what you do, bow as frequently as drinking water, and be able to chat freely. This feeling is quite wonderful.

It’s like a mute suddenly being able to speak, it’s so cool!

Ye Weiyang quickly started chatting with the members of the Rainbow Candy Band, from the difference between music in China and Japan, to European and American music, and from European and American music to subdivided rock music, heavy metal, and death metal...
Chapter completed!