I love that you thought this would make me angry, I'm dying. I must seem like such a crazy person... I actually largely agree, it's just that our responses were different. I got into KAT-TUN in around 2006, not long after they debuted, after watching Nobuta. I'd seen Kame in a bit of Gokusen 2, but I didn't really know anything about him til my RL best friend and I started obsessively watching Shuuji to Akira clips on YouTube. Somehow, she got intensely into Pi and I got INTENSELY into Kame, and when she asked me why, my only response was that he seemed like he really needed people to love him... and I don't mean that in a pathetic way. Basically, at that time, he just seemed patently miserable. My heart hurt for him. And that lasted up until around the time that Signal was released, when it seemed like the tensions between KAT-TUN eased up and he could relax again.
I always thought that a lot of his OH LOOK AT ME I'M HAVING FUN stuff came from his inability/unwillingness to express how tense and unhappy he was. And basically from realism/pragmatism on his part; he could say no to people, but it wouldn't get him anywhere but out of work and out of favour, with no money, no high school diploma, no baseball... I always got the impression that there was a LOT more pressure on Kame than the rest of KAT-TUN at that time; or at least, it seemed like he really had a grasp of how much they had riding on their first few singles and that he felt like he had to really haul the rest of them through it, no matter what. Now that they're fairly stable and entrenched in terms of their popularity, you can really see that he's eased up a lot and doesn't feel like he's got to be 'perfect' all the time. It's such a relief. He seems so much happier now than he did a few years ago.
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Date: 2010-02-23 09:03 am (UTC)I always thought that a lot of his OH LOOK AT ME I'M HAVING FUN stuff came from his inability/unwillingness to express how tense and unhappy he was. And basically from realism/pragmatism on his part; he could say no to people, but it wouldn't get him anywhere but out of work and out of favour, with no money, no high school diploma, no baseball...
I always got the impression that there was a LOT more pressure on Kame than the rest of KAT-TUN at that time; or at least, it seemed like he really had a grasp of how much they had riding on their first few singles and that he felt like he had to really haul the rest of them through it, no matter what. Now that they're fairly stable and entrenched in terms of their popularity, you can really see that he's eased up a lot and doesn't feel like he's got to be 'perfect' all the time. It's such a relief. He seems so much happier now than he did a few years ago.