![]() Straight-forward punk and old-school rock are still trendy now. However, the situation’s been changing gradually since then, and in recent years there’s been a growing pop-punk and emo revival. In a previous interview, you said “Rock is dead in America.” At the time, that was true. The timing was right - it was the perfect time for us to bring out that anger that was smoldering inside us - so that’s where we directed ourselves as a band. When you start taking a more international approach in your music activities, you inevitably feel this sense of dissatisfaction with Japan’s music industry system. Of course, that made us happy, in a certain sense, but it also prompted us to reexamine our position in Japan. When we went to Japan, all of our shows were sold out. The gap between Japan and other countries was huge. We’re a rock band, so without rivals we just don’t feel as motivated. Taka: When we were on tour supporting Eye of the Storm, we started to feel doubts about our activities in Japan. That’s why we started working on the album with this spirit of really pouring our love for rock into it.īesides that feeling about the future, was there anything else that motivated you to go back to rock? This time, though, we had a feeling that when the album was to be released, September 2022, rock would be making a comeback in the US. As a result of that, on our last album, Eye of the Storm, we moved away from the rock sound, packing it with what we’d learned in America. That’s why we saw this period as a time to learn about American culture, the local situation, and what was popular in the U.S. However, we figured that, honestly, as a Japanese rock band, even if we played over there, our spirit just wouldn’t come through. ![]() We wanted to bring it back from the brink, so we tried all kinds of things. Taka: When we first started trying to move into the US music scene, rock music, which we’d grown up loving, was on the verge of disappearing. With Luxury Disease, ONE OK ROCK has really gone back to its rock roots, hasn’t it? ![]() It has been noted that the recording was not done the contemporary way but rather via Urie doing his thing live and direct into a tape machine. Also the theme of the LP, according to Brendon’s explanation, is supposed to be ‘honestly’ nostalgic in nature.ONE OK ROCK Set to Release New Single ‘Save Yourself,’ Announces North American Tour: See the Datesįifteen years after the release of the band’s debut album Zeitakubyo - a Japanese neologism that means the same as the title of the new album - Billboard Japan interviewed ONE OK ROCK frontman Taka about the future of the band as it begins a new era, which they regard as their second chapter. The title of the project was obviously inspired by Viva Las Vegas, a 1964 film Elvis Presley starred in, in addition to the King helming that movie’s soundtrack. Panic! at the Disco, which at the beginning was a multi-musician band, traces its own origins back to Las Vegas, Nevada.īrendon co-produced this album alongside two of his regular collaborators, Mike Viola and Jake Sinclair. “Viva Las Vengeance” is the seventh-studio album of Panic! at the Disco, a musical act which at its core is just a one-man show, with that one man being Brendon Urie. ![]()
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