| In the 80's all-male pop groups like the "Checkers" showed up on the scene. They wore dresses and seemed highly influenced by the English bands of the same period like Culture Club. | ||
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Link to more on the Takarazuka all female review
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Androgyny has a long and great performance history in Japan from Kabuki to the all female Takarazuka review. Visual Rock or Visual Kei, or VisRock is just another facet of the Japanese public's on going facination with the subject. | |
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Visual Kei has been around in Japan for as long as Heavy Metal has been in the States and had their own indie club scene but never hit it big. That was until Hide teamed up with the band X Japan. X Japan took Visual Rock out of the clubs into the arenas and onto TV, they were hugely popular and a good deal of that popularity was due to Hide's gutar playing and his... well that's hard to define isn't it? Hide had star quality. |
