The importance of appearance and a 2nd look

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秀吉 / きたない世界 from loqu on Vimeo.

After SEEING that, you might think as I did: "This was the biggest waste of time ever." The guitarists looked like they had neck and spine problems, they couldn't seem to keep in one position. The singing was kinda weak.

Those are the initial thoughts. Then listen to it again, don't look at the video. Just listen to music. Play it over and over again.

秀吉 / きたない世界 from loqu on Vimeo.

I don't know about you, but I started noticing it's true brilliance. The chords and notes that you think are out of key actually compliment the song. I don't know what they're saying, but I'm pretty sure that it's about something that went wrong. You can tell because of the down fall of minor chords after consecutive majors. Along with that, I noticed how volatile the song was. In the end you would think that the song would end in a major chord, yet it ends in nothing but minors.

At first glance, you would never catch any of the seemingly central themes of the song (if you don't know Japanese). The path to get to my present conclusion, was drowned out by stereo typical rock head banging and the rather weak vocal lead. If I did not give it a second glance, I would have missed the thought that was put into this song.

This goes to show that if make something is rather shotty, people might look past all of the true genius of your work, and if you don't give something a chance, you'll never get a chance to see through another eyes.