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L'arc-en-Ciel (Music)

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L'arc-en-Ciel is a Japanese Alternative Rock band from Osaka, formed in 1991. Founded by bassist tetsuya and vocalist/guitarist Hyde (not to be confused with the late hide of X Japan), with then-rhythm guitarist HIRO and then-drummer PERO, they had a successful start in their hometown in 1992. In the same year, both HIRO and PERO left; they were replaced by current rhythm guitarist ken and drummer sakura. in 1997, sakura was expelled from the band due to being arrested for marijuana possession; That same year, he was later replaced with current drummer yukihiro.They were initially signed to Danger Crue Records, but after releasing their debut album, Dune in 1993, in 1994 they signed a contract with Sony Music Entertainment Japan under the Ki/oon division. and, eventually, becoming one of the best-selling and most prolific musical acts in the Japanese rock music scene.Members (All members use Stage Names):Current Members: hyde: Vocals, guitar (1991-present) tetsuya: Bass guitar (1991-present) yukihiro: Drums (1997-present, became an official member in 1998) ken: Guitar, backing vocals (1992-present)Former Members: sakura: Drums (1993-1997) HIRO (1991-1992) PERO (1991-1992)Discography:Studio albums Dune (1993) Tierra (1994) Heavenly (1995) True (1996) Heart (1998) Ark (1999) Ray (1999) Real (2000) Smile (2004) Awake (2005) Kiss (2007) Butterfly (2012)
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Protest Song
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Protest Song: They have a few, mostly due to hyde, who tends to go this direction in his solo work as well: bravery is a protest of the Japanese media and of gossip about the band. Pieces and its PV use a cursed knife that drives people to murder as allegory to protest the Cycle of Revenge (the knife is the cycle, if someone just resisted its pull to kill...) As One from Awake, is an anti-war protest song and Religion Rant Song pleading for people to stop waiting to be saved and to seek peace and unity for themselves. Existence, also from the Awake album, is an anti-war protest song themed around the suffering of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Hoshizora, also from the Awake album, is hyde's lament of war inspired by the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and by the child victims of The War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Visual Kei
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Visual Kei: Played straight, inverted, subverted, and subverted again like hell. Again, EXACTLY how far they have distanced themselves from the subculture is debatable, but they still put effort into sporting extravagant visual styles and wild hair, as well as maintaining connections with other VK artists.
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all lowercase letters: averted with their name, but played straight with the members' stage names.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: They played alternative rock in the 1990s and popularized it in a scene which was dominated primarily by hair metal and thrash metal worshippers. They are also becoming this to Marilyn Manson due to their vocalist taking on an over-the-top Gothic Metal slant.
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Gratuitous English
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Gratuitous English: ''Crash into the Rolling Morning Flash I'm the Coolest Driver's High'' ''Let's get started, Ready Steady Go!'' ''My life I trade it for your pain'' ''DO YOU EAT THE CRAFF? Me tuuu...'' ''We'll say goodbye lost heaven!'' ''I want to shine on you!'' ''Good Luck My Way, smile at me!'' ''Forever!''
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Older Than They Look
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Older Than They Look: Hyde can easily be mistaken for being decades younger than his actual age. Tetsuya is also very youthful looking.
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Costume Porn
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Costume Porn: Has become a near-constant element of their visual style, which leads fans to wonder how far they have distanced themselves from Visual Kei in the first place.
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Ambiguous Gender
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Ambiguous Gender: Zig-zagged in recent years, but more or less played straight in their early days.
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Genre Roulette
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Genre Roulette
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: sakura can be argued to be a case of this. Seeing as there were open methamphetamine users in the Visual scene (and elsewhere in the rock/metal scene) at the time of his marijuana bust, bands releasing songs about the joys of heroin, and similar, that he and L'Arc caught so much hell for a bag of pot just seems, especially over 15 years later, incredibly pointless and disproportionate. (There has been some thinking that it wouldn't have been quite so big a deal if LeC hadn't been providing the ED credits song for one of the most popular shonen properties in history at that very moment.)
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Religion Rant Song
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As One from Awake, is an anti-war protest song and Religion Rant Song pleading for people to stop waiting to be saved and to seek peace and unity for themselves.
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Manly Tears
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Manly Tears: Hyde is prone to crying rather easily, so much so there was even a comedy skit on a Japanese variety show poking fun at him for the habit. He has also visibly teared up during several concerts.
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Remix Album
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Remix Album: Their special album P'UNK IS NOT DEAD is a compilation of punk remix versions of their own songs (where they pose as their alter ego "P'UNK EN CIEL").
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Bolivian Army Ending
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Bolivian Army Ending: The music video for the song "Driver's High" ends with the band driving their car off a cliff to evade the police, Thelma & Louise style.
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Ur-Example
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Ur-Example: Of post-Visual Kei.
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Cycle of Revenge
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Pieces and its PV use a cursed knife that drives people to murder as allegory to protest the Cycle of Revenge (the knife is the cycle, if someone just resisted its pull to kill...)
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Aerith and Bob
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Aerith and Bob: yukihiro, tetsuya, ken, and hyde
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Visual Kei. They're highly notorious among Visual Kei fans (and some fans of non-Visual rock for that matter) for pretty much being the only band that openly loathes Visual Kei,* There are a few other bands (such as Sigh) that have expressed dislike for Visual Kei, though most of the time it is usually due to stylistic preferences as opposed to actively hating the entire genre on principle, which L'arc is highly notorious for.. despite having been Visual Kei* Even until now they show off clothing, hair and makeup typical of many VK acts and maintaining connections with avowed Visual artists, and despite their own singer being in a Visual Kei project and even going as far as imitating artists from the scene onstage with L'Arc.
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Dude Looks Like a Lady
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Dude Looks Like a Lady: All of them, at one point or another.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Than their contemporaries.
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Cover Version
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Cover Version: Of Marilyn Manson's "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
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Long-Runner Line-up
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Long Runner Lineup: The band's lineup has been mostly stable ever since yukihiro became an official member in 1998.
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Expy
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Expy: No, hyde is NOT an expy of hide, but a blatant copy of his contemporary at the time, vocalist Atsushi Sakurai of BUCK-TICK. He has also took on the image of Dir en grey vocalist Kyo, and in recent years, seems to be impersonating Miyavi.
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Snow Means Love
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Snow Means Love: Snow Drop
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