Super Eurobeat Vol. 243

[para_rigby]

Regardless of how someone gets into eurobeat, it doesn't make one less dedicated as a fan. Unfortunately, most international listeners had to get exposure to those things to get into the genre.

[Crockett]

Regardless of how someone gets into eurobeat, it doesn't make one less dedicated as a fan. Unfortunately, most international listeners had to get exposure to those things to get into the genre.

Opportunities are much wider now to catch up the genre and all what it offered, if all fans only would want or be aware that Eurobeat in Japan been much more than "those things". I believe the sale would be better too.

[Wataru Akiyama]

And you have a bigger chance to be valued by me personally, just doing music

I think Manuel's just tired of the stigma that comes attached to being associated with the old A-Beat-C, which in turn has become somewhat of a joke on internet culture, propagated by the Initial D anime and really sketchy memes kids are into nowadays.

They were good songs ～ s'just the internet somehow manages to kill everything thru those tasteless repetitions of art kiddo's call memes these days.

As a fan/follower/etc (hate those words) I procure to value people for being human beings, not by the music they make. ☆

Especially when people put videos on YouTube with Pictures of Hitler and dead Jews to the song Gas Gas Gas and think that would be funny.

Holy shit I am so glad I am not the only person who is extremely frustrated about this.

The fact that Eurobeat has been incorporated into the toxic nuclear waste dump called modern day internet meme culture upsets me no end. I can't even enjoy that song anymore! That was one of my favorite songs by Manuel and now it's ruined for me.

I go on Youtube to listen to it real quick and see kids posting shit about Hitler in the comments and I want to die.

I don't blame Manuel for getting upset about it.

Thank you both for mentioning this. It was really upsetting me.

You can't imagine how angry I get when I see people on the Internet treating Eurobeat like it's some hot new meme bullshit, as someone who has been in the scene for as long as the meme kids have been alive, even.

[Bonkers]

First off, a meme should not bother you to the point you can't even listen to a song. What memes are everyone talking about anyway? I only see the one's that pop up on Arren's page.

[xiao]

　　

[Crockett]

Eurobeat fans are Eurobeat fans regardless of nationality, we all got into it somehow.

Still agreed. How they got into, that's ok. What's later ?

What for japanese is addition, ParaPara or Anime, for too much of international fans is the only one image of Eurobeat

So anyway, my experiences so far give me an opinion, that japanese even being dedicated community, can enjoy same music, souvenirs and look at artists on different way, let's say, not through the prism of their culture as is doing worldwide.

Tell me if I'm wrong, in music the main relation is: artists, stuff related with them <---------> fans.

ParaPara is a performance of a few special dancers, while all club in fact is sitting or dancing freestyle on the dancefloor like in every country. ParaPara it's not freaky holy duty, sticky way to enjoy, to introduce each one Eurobeat song by every ordinary fan. But I feel it really is since it left Japan and flooded internet...

I doubt you can certify for so many international ParaPara fans, from North and South America, that they all collect CDs, posters, interviews with artists, instead of collecting tons of videos of their dancing friends... !

The same for Anime soundtrack, selected Eurobeat material for cartoons isn't tantamount to whole genre and getting to know artists and music, no matter how you got into...

The task of fan clubs is or was to connect audience and artists, not exclusively fans between themselves in closed group. Why Eurobeat should be different ?

First show me what famous band, what genre is presented, enjoyed this way like Eurobeat now by hundreds of people outside Japan, when simultaneously has low popularity as a product for sale and to listen, where artists aren't on the top as performers and producers. The excuse of promotion only in Japan isn't actual anymore.

If a fan doesn't have the relation with artists, their image, life, career, he is not willing to pay for music and so on.

[sethreed]

I doubt you can certify for so many international ParaPara fans, from North and South America, that they all collect CDs, posters, interviews with artists, instead of collecting tons of videos of their dancing friends... !

I don't think a true Eurobeat fan is a "collector". A true eurobeat fan is someone that, at 2017, still listening to eurobeat on a daily basis.
Lemme tell you a story about Brazil, that already has been told by Arren.


1º Here in Brazil, our minimum wage is now, exactly:

Tabela do salário mínimo
VIGÊNCIA VALOR MENSAL NORMA LEGAL
01.01.2017 R$ 937,00 Decreto 8.948/2016

R$ 937,00.
And converting to dollar, it's equivalent to US 297,37

2º Informational Link, just look at the graph:
http://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/econom ... aixo.shtml
It's a graph showing the highest taxing countries in the world. (Google Translate can help to read the article too)

Just let me explain, our country have one of the most high taxes in the world. And public service isn't good enough. We pay tax for almost everything and the return is zero.
For example: sinclairestyle.pushcommerce, a song been released one year ago at $2, it cost me exactly R$11 (US 3,49)
Why?
U$ 2 = R$6,40
But we pay too
IOF (Tax over foreigner exchanges)+Dollar value over time (July to August)
Yes we pay more if the dollar value rise. But if the value falls(bellow R$3,20) what will count is exactly the same as on the day of purchase (R$3,20)

3º Now let's move to physical stuff.

For example: We Love TechPara IV at Disco gs it is almost the same price as a SEB ($25 Dollars), buying with megamix store.
$25.00(about R$78.85)+ The postage $20 ( Total + $5 South America / Africa ) + IOF($2,85, based on the postage value) + Any difference with US Dollar until bill closing date September 05~15, 2017
Price: $47,85 (R$150,85)
Just remember, our minumum wage is R$937,00. For a "collector item", most Brazilians will pay 16% of their monthly income.
That doesn't happen only in Brazil. Many countries have the same difficulty.

Most of my friends listen to Eurobeat, daily. And almost all of them didn't buy a SINGLE song in their entire lives. They listen on the youtube, on streaming services like Deezer(It's free for TIM, a mobile telephone provider) or Spotify, or just ask someone. They can't spend money on this. They are struggling to live. And struggling to make Eurobeat/Para Para happen here, creating content as cheap as possible.

So, please, stop this non-sense of "collecting CDs, Posters, interviews is what made true eurobeat fans". Isn't that difficult to have just a little of empathy. This isn't about "collecting videos of our dancing friends".

[Bore]

What I am having trouble understanding with Crockett's speech is how some fans seem to be above others. Better fans. At least that's how it ends up sounding. This has never been a race or a competition, if we like eurobeat then what makes any of us any better. Spending more money equals a higher standing on some ranking chart? Yes, it pays the bills of the artists. Or at least partially, knowing how niche of a genre this is, it's still not something you have to enforce on people. Everyone has their subjective status and situation of life.

[sethreed]

ParaPara it's not freaky holy duty, sticky way to enjoy, to introduce each one Eurobeat song by every ordinary fan.

But i agree with this. It's not ParaPara duty. I know a lot of people who knows eurobeat by other means, not just ParaPara.
I learned about Eurobeat from Initial D, Games, Memes and THEN ParaPara.

[Anthony McBazooka]

Arren's memes are on a complete different level. I totally value his work. But look at the comment section of any international car fan page like Carthrottle or something like that. It's always the same jokes containing the same three or four songs. These are also the people who upload Gas Gas Gas a million times and completely ignore than Manuel has written other songs too.

[sethreed]

Arren's memes are on a complete different level. I totally value his work. But look at the comment section of any international car fan page like Carthrottle or something like that. It's always the same jokes containing the same three or four songs. These are also the people who upload Gas Gas Gas a million times and completely ignore than Manuel has written other songs too.

Or use that song in a fascist context. Isn't funny and it's disrespectful.

[Crockett]

So, please, stop this non-sense of "collecting CDs, Posters, interviews is what made true eurobeat fans". Isn't that difficult to have just a little of empathy. This isn't about "collecting videos of our dancing friends".

What I am having trouble understanding with Crockett's speech is how some fans seem to be above others. Better fans. At least that's how it ends up sounding. This has never been a race or a competition

No problem, you can always explain your personal, group situation. Don't forget I'm not japanese. And don't forget you have internet, which maybe you can't use enough ? You don't need to import big boxes from Japan.

I don't agree with one word - non-sense. Like every genre and market, also this on the closed area of Japan provided much more than limited point of view, which for Eurobeat is Anime and ParaPara. Photos, posters, magazines, interviews aren't non-sense, but the natural extras keep fans interest, making encouragement to buy CDs or attending in events.

Sure, don't spend fortune, don't pay taxes, but don't call obvious in music stuff non-sense. Eurobeat has the problem worldwide, because been too much isolated.

Yes, we shouldn't feel better or worse, but should others feel weird, that they prefer and represent the standard standpoint on music ?

[sethreed]

So, please, stop this non-sense of "collecting CDs, Posters, interviews is what made true eurobeat fans". Isn't that difficult to have just a little of empathy. This isn't about "collecting videos of our dancing friends".

What I am having trouble understanding with Crockett's speech is how some fans seem to be above others. Better fans. At least that's how it ends up sounding. This has never been a race or a competition

No problem, you can always explain your personal, group situation. Don't forget I'm not japanese. And don't forget you have internet, which maybe you can't use enough ? You don't need to import big boxes from Japan.

I don't agree with one word - non-sense. Like every genre and market, also this on the closed area of Japan provided much more than limited point of view, which for Eurobeat is Anime and ParaPara. Photos, posters, magazines, interviews aren't non-sense, but the natural extras keep fans interest, making encouragement to buy CDs or attending in events.

Sure, don't spend fortune, don't pay taxes, but don't call obvious in music stuff non-sense. Eurobeat has the problem worldwide, because been too much isolated.

Yes, we shouldn't feel better or worse, but should others feel weird, that they prefer and represent the standard standpoint on music ?

I do understand artists and labels need much more love and support than we know they get actually.

It's non-sense "grading fans" if we don't considerate the social-economic context, like you said, the "personal/group situation".
But I do agree, I think Eurobeat must know new ways to promote itself.
And that's why i don't understand Avex. Since it's Avex the one who it's forcing ParaPara as the main way of promoting eurobeat in Japan. And it's the one who is enforcing strict rules on music production.

[Crockett]

It seems to me that collecting records became too serious term.

That doesn't mean another kind of non-sense - spending money for pleasure.

Eurobeat was, perhaps still is so well releasing than anywhere. The quality of music is so important and how curious are the japanese editions.

I don't know what is your requirement, but at first we're looking for acceptable shape and cheap price.

Collecting doesn't have to be obsession in having OBI strip etc.

[Wataru Akiyama]

First off, a meme should not bother you to the point you can't even listen to a song. What memes are everyone talking about anyway? I only see the one's that pop up on Arren's page.

Anthony and I were talking about this thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HSjn1HFXQ4

I'm certain this probably upset Manuel for obvious reasons. It's not just on this Youtube video. Almost every upload of Manuel's song has references to the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, or Hitler in it. Look at the comments.

Also, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8kdS6yDZE

So this is what these neo-fascist nazi-loving teenagers on the Internet are doing these days, and as you might guess, it's upsetting. I don't want nazi frogs and Hitler to be associated with my favorite music, especially since I'm opposed to this disturbing trend of Nazi worship that's so popular on the Internet presently.

It's bad enough that Eurobeat is obscure, but having kids assume that it's funny to interlace Nazi crap on our music is just the worst. Thankfully they don't seem to know about the rest of it.

I'm particularly sore because I really liked that song. I had all the remixes of it.

I'm super glad Anthony, Sethreed, and Xiao share my upset about it.