Record of Memories
Mar. 25th, 2022 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ribonElsewhere, I did a little write-up of some feelings I had about Record of Memories and thought I'd cross-post here... as well as add some things since I had previously reached the character limit.
Thoughts and emotions under the cut
On March 22nd, I saw ARASHI's Anniversary Tour 5×20 Film "Record of Memories", which was a filming of their 2019 concert but with more cameras than usual (esp. drones!) and emphasis on different and closer viewpoint angles from the standard BluRay/DVD release, at my local AMC theater. In the United States mainland, it was only shown at theaters equipped with Dolby Cinema technology, meaning the picture and sound quality are above that of standard movie halls, meaning this screening was probably the closest someone could get to the experience of actually having gone to the concert in-person.
That in particular meant a great deal to me, because ARASHI as a group went on hiatus on January 1st, 2021, so it is completely plausible that I may never see them perform live should they ever come back.
I first started getting curious about ARASHI at the end of 2018. I had already been into numerous idol groups for years, especially Nogizaka46 and Morning Musume, but had neglected to look into ARASHI in particular. I started by finding a download of their album, "Iza, Now" to listen to (back when they still weren't available on streaming services... glad that's over). The songs, esp. "JAM", immediately appealed to me, but I eventually got distracted and didn't continue checking out the rest of their discography.
Fast-forward to the end of January 2019 - ARASHI announced that group activities would go on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time starting in 2021, which was shocking - the curtain begins to fall on Japan's biggest idol group from 1999. I felt a bit disheartened, but my thought at the time was "well, at least I never got super into them" - famous last words, right? Right.
I continued to dabble in their works (music, concert videos, TV shows, dramas they've acted in, etc), but my obsession didn't really click and start to accelerate into high gear until the autumn of 2019... and it hasn't slowed down yet. As of now, I've officially logged over 12,000 plays of their songs on my Last.fm, learned so much about them, even joined the official fanclub... and I still have so many more years of content left to watch! Over here, it was at the crack of dawn when I watched the livestream of their pre-hiatus concert on December 31st, 2020 (no live audience b/c COVID), tears silently pouring down my face, music leaking out of the earbuds plugged into my laptop. They've helped me tremendously to feel less alone and damaged, to move on from my past, to look forward to the future. I honestly don't think any other group will reach their level, though I'd love to be proven wrong about that.
Thoughts and emotions under the cut
On March 22nd, I saw ARASHI's Anniversary Tour 5×20 Film "Record of Memories", which was a filming of their 2019 concert but with more cameras than usual (esp. drones!) and emphasis on different and closer viewpoint angles from the standard BluRay/DVD release, at my local AMC theater. In the United States mainland, it was only shown at theaters equipped with Dolby Cinema technology, meaning the picture and sound quality are above that of standard movie halls, meaning this screening was probably the closest someone could get to the experience of actually having gone to the concert in-person.
That in particular meant a great deal to me, because ARASHI as a group went on hiatus on January 1st, 2021, so it is completely plausible that I may never see them perform live should they ever come back.
I first started getting curious about ARASHI at the end of 2018. I had already been into numerous idol groups for years, especially Nogizaka46 and Morning Musume, but had neglected to look into ARASHI in particular. I started by finding a download of their album, "Iza, Now" to listen to (back when they still weren't available on streaming services... glad that's over). The songs, esp. "JAM", immediately appealed to me, but I eventually got distracted and didn't continue checking out the rest of their discography.
Fast-forward to the end of January 2019 - ARASHI announced that group activities would go on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time starting in 2021, which was shocking - the curtain begins to fall on Japan's biggest idol group from 1999. I felt a bit disheartened, but my thought at the time was "well, at least I never got super into them" - famous last words, right? Right.
I continued to dabble in their works (music, concert videos, TV shows, dramas they've acted in, etc), but my obsession didn't really click and start to accelerate into high gear until the autumn of 2019... and it hasn't slowed down yet. As of now, I've officially logged over 12,000 plays of their songs on my Last.fm, learned so much about them, even joined the official fanclub... and I still have so many more years of content left to watch! Over here, it was at the crack of dawn when I watched the livestream of their pre-hiatus concert on December 31st, 2020 (no live audience b/c COVID), tears silently pouring down my face, music leaking out of the earbuds plugged into my laptop. They've helped me tremendously to feel less alone and damaged, to move on from my past, to look forward to the future. I honestly don't think any other group will reach their level, though I'd love to be proven wrong about that.
