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Monday, November 12th, 2007
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3:37p - "Stop calling Japanese rock "J-Rock", you genre-ignorant dumbasses!"
Last.fm is a "social music" site, where by downloading a plugin for your music player of choice, a record of what you listen to will be sent to your profile, and the site can issue you recommendations for new artists based on this information. It also provides journals, wherein you can talk about music. So of course, like any site that has more than one person on it and allows them to talk to one another, it has its share of wank.
Last.fm also allows you to "tag" artists; these tags will be visible to anyone who views the artist's page. Unsurprisingly, these tags are an ongoing source of wank, as people are constantly telling others to stop tagging artists -- any artist! -- with terms such as "indie," "alternative," "anime," or, as in the case of this particular wank, "J-rock."
It all begins back in May of last year, when an_ill_omen makes a post telling "Japanese music only fans" to stop tagging artists as "j-rock", because apparently there is "nothing J-rock" about bands like MUCC and Dir en Grey. No, really.
( Since there's no such thing as J-rock, anyway. )
Fast-forward to a few weeks ago, when scarredworld345 makes a post with the same intent, bearing the somewhat confusing title of The "J-rock" tagging will have to STOP anytime soon!. an_ill_omen jumps in immediately to say that he did it first and to warn scarredworld345 of the evils of vordul.
( vordul and scarredworld go head-to-head. Wank ensues. )
And it gets pretty repetitive at this point ("you're a troll!" "No, you're a troll!" "No, you are!" "No, you are!"), so I think I'll leave it there. In conclusion, this wank has taught me that tags and musical genres are serious business, and anyone who refers to Japanese music as J-rock is an ignorant weeaboo. I only hope it is as educational for the rest of you. Thank you for your time.
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