UVERworld

Genre
The type of band I am using is called the UVERworld from Japan. It is a five-member band, which first formed in 2003 also known as Sound Goku road. The type of genre they use consists Industrial Rock, Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Pop Rock, and Rap Rock. They combine the use of genre onto rock, which creates a creative music that is refreshing to the listeners. In addition, those genres are applied onto different types of songs for creating different kinds of mood for the audiences, therefore, bringing a success of their band through the form of using creative rock genre.

Narrative
UVERworld’s music consists some actions in them, which are usually used in anime opening series that also brings their huge success to their career. Furthermore, they are ranked second in Japan’s Oricon Charts.

In the member of the band, TAKUYA is vocalist of the band who leads to bring the full potential of their music also the group who play other instruments such as guitars, rhythm guitars, and chorus. They aim to become the most influential music of making their music to sound more actionable and realistic and live to the audiences.

Audience
UVERworld music is mainly aimed at young teenage and older teenage as their music are consistently promoted onto the anime series which are known as “Gundam 00” which lead their music soundtrack to a higher rate which they got up onto 2nd place in the Oricon charts. Their song is made up of a mixture of different rock genre that appeals mostly action and usually passionate songs which appeals to the younger group age and older teenage in Japan. Furthermore, the use of their song added onto anime series is able to give out the full potential of the song as it allows the music to sync into the anime’s mood and tension also the action. In addition, the music are able to fully sync with the action of the anime series to give in a more realism, action and life of the music which younger teens and older teens who watches anime also those who don’t.

Representation
UVERworld is represented as the most successful band in Japan, as they appeal creative music to the audience with the influence of promoting their song onto the anime series which creates an effect of realism and actions of anime series also an effect of the their music to sound more live and actions to the audience. UVERworld’s appeal is from their music genre as they use different kinds of rock to make their music act more action and contradict to the music’s side story to appeal the audience with the music’s mood. The band of UVERworld success is by promoting their music onto the anime series as it appeals more meaning and creative art of the music to the audience as the music genre is able to appeal and represent the anime’s genre and contradict to the actions of the anime also making the music sound and act like realistic in the audiences’ mind.

Music album
In this album, this image denotes the 5 male in a band who are dressed up in fashionable clothing and it directly tells us that is it a 5 male group band. In the image, the male in the front row of the band is depicted as the stand out person who comes out in much more appearance than any other males in the image. The male in the front row is also depicted as the dominated person out of the bad to show that he leads the band also his facial expression shows that he is very serious as he stares out of the image with his looking profession. The male that is kneeling down on the left in the front row is also depicted as second rank of the band that also leads the band, which supports the leader from his side. In addition, the three male behind the leader male is denoted as a support from the leader back to represent the support of friendship also they’re common to the leader as they are looking serious to their song. The image colours of the band is depicted as black and white also mists are shown to cover around the band which represents an angelic heaven that the bands are descended to earth which signifies that they descend themselves to spread the song to the whole world. In addition, “UVERworld” links into the angelic atmosphere appearance of the band as the bands name represents that they come from ‘other world’, which they are descended to spread the music. The typography of “UVERworld” is formatted in a hard appearing looking letters as steel also it represents that the music are solid which refers as hard to signify that their song are hard rock. In the album image, a mosaic border is used underneath the album and the right side which covers the album in smaller appearance represent creative music as the mosaic colour is signified as art and creative to the bands song.