Actully it does matter people are influenced by diffrent things by diffrent people that is how people grow and discover
And the fact that Malice Mizer have split makes no diffrence either look at the people who still obsess over the Beatles,Elvis Presley and many Composers who have long since parted or parted ways with this world.
Please don't compare The Beatles & Elivs Presley with the likes of people who mostly air-guitar & formulate a manufactured image of their band in order to attract the attention of 13 year old Japanese girls.... Those are two diffrent animals all together.
And YES it does matter. It seems somtimes that the entirety of the JROCK community, and I loathe that term can not seem to think in any sort of autonymous manner... Zomg! That Kawaii Super Dolfie looks like blah de blah... Now ZOMGLIEKIMUSTHAVEONE!!!!!!!11~!
Everyone follows exactly what everyone else is doing... Instead of Chuck Berry & Booker T & The MGs influencing Elvis Costello... It's Malice Mizer inspiring Gazette, or Antique Cafe, or some other equally non-sensical French sounding JROCK band that no-one outside of the JROCK community has
ever heard of.
You may think that this is an entirely meaningful wide-reaching and important movement in music, but it's only because you surround yourself with other people who repeat the same assertations.
Honestly I don't care what people listen to, but the fan(girl)isms, the fact that you simply HAVE to do something or other simply because a band you like happened to enjoy it shows a destinct lack of personality--- You should think for yourselves rather than follow someone elses' lead.
Believe it or not, the Punk Rock movement was largely the same way, as was the Hippie movement--- All of it centered around being free, or being unique, or being apart of the mainstream--- But all it ever did was create a mass of sheep who simply fell right into line with whatever attitude, music, or ideals were expected of them.
This is all part & parcel in growing up--- Realising that the music you listen to does not largely govern, nor save your life--- I'm not writing this because I think you personally are a bad person, or that I want to insult you, I'm writing this because I am discussing my feelings on the actions resulting from zealotry.
Also the Shining is a rather lack luster movie to the beuty of Malice Mizer Panda Doom you might actully be better served to see Bara no Konrai and Verte Aile films the group actully stared in...
If you are saying that the videos that feature Malice Mizer are better than the work of director Stanley Kubrick, it may have been futile to even argued about this in the first place.
sou ka... sou ka...