Another sad thing is my recent realization about lip-synching. It's stupid, really. I remember many years ago when I just got into this someone told me there is no such thing in Japan, that it's forbidden and I believed it. And well, I mostly watched rock bands and they probably never really lip-synch. And of course there was THSK who did it in Korean but never in Japan. Even if the choreography was really fucking hard they still sang live and they did it well. I guess that's one of the reasons why Japan (and I) loved them so much. But just recently with NEWS I noticed Massu's solos sound so strangely perfect but it only took Remedy to finally get it. And I felt so fucking naive that I haven't realized this before and I probably missed a lot of other songs too. And I tried to tell myself that it's ok, that it's no big deal but in the end I still feel so disappointed and cheated somehow. I know next time I'm going to listen to every song paranoically trying to figure out if it's live or not.
Then again I recently watched this Best Artist 2009 and yes, NEWS were bad in it but then there was KAT-TUN and god, they were so awful I could hardly believe it. I just don't know anymore.