the GazettE: Music, drama and growing up

After a week's absence to focus on uni work, I'm back to blogging and a good place to kick things off are with this pretty awesome band, the GazettE, who will quite possible steal the title of my 'new favourite band' from Hyde and company.

What I really like about them is how emotive their songs are and I adore their fashion style, rather tempted to steal Ruki's flamboyant jacket. But this got me thinking about what music means to different people. On a forum I noticed other GazettE fans saying that the people around them think this is all 'just a phase' and they will grow out of it. Well, by that definition, I've been in a phase for the last two years, but I'm okay with that.

People are inspired by different things and music has always had a profound effect on me, it's seen me through some tough times and on a certain level I think music can help people relate to the world. I've lost count of songs that I've heard where I suddenly thought, oh! That's what I'm feeling!

And the GazettE do that surprisingly well. Reading the other posts I realised for a lot of teenagers, music is important, it was for me and I remember watching the kids at the recent An Cafe gig, thinking how lucky they must be to have discovered Visual Kei music at that age.

Music has a way of shaping things, it can help to create your identity and as people get older, music can fade into the backdrop, but sometimes, as I found recently, it can come bursting to the very front. Music has a way of saying the things you can't really say in words. Perhaps people need to justify the way they feel, or at the very least acknowledge that this is something real. That makes music so very powerful. In some ways, no matter how old we get, a part of us is always 17 and that's why no matter what changes happen in my life, there is always a little space for music on my bookshelf, even when my words fail you, music can speak volumes instead.