From our other sites
The story
The poster says he’s a member of a band formed with childhood friends from junior high, and that he’s been involved in the songwriting. But he revealed that as the band’s major label debut moved forward, he alone was cut from the lineup — the reason given being that he’d supposedly keep the band from making it big. He says no one told him directly; the news reached him through other members. Replies piled up asking about the circumstances of his departure, his musical skill, and how the band got started, while some commenters suspected the story was too dramatic to be real — more like a template lifted from online fiction.
What people said
I don't need AI's creepy fake friendliness.
We never talked about it directly, but apparently that's what another member said — 'If he stays, this band will never make it.'
It's not about the money — I just can't face the fact that I got cast aside.
I didn't make everything myself. More like I'd hum out a rough chorus, play it for everyone, and we'd build it together from there.
Is it really that big a deal? It's just a call made by the agency and the members — and most artists don't even make it after going major anyway, so who cares?
Because we formed this band back in middle school. We're all childhood friends.
Well yeah, because I never even heard about the major debut thing.
Oh yeah? So what genre IS alive, then?
That's literally what I've been agonizing over since yesterday, so could you not.
I'm not getting a job. Working is for suckers.
The members — and the label too, obviously — have to chase profit, so I can't even resent them for it. It's just this crushing sense of loss and sadness bearing down on me.
I figure the guy who can actually turn this sadness into a song is the one who ends up going pro. Me, I've just got no energy left — not even enough to get back up.
No idea. We're a 5-piece with two guitarists to begin with, and the vocalist can play guitar too, so maybe that's how they landed on 'we don't need him.'
I didn't know about the major debut talks. We'd get handed business cards from sketchy-looking music producers now and then while we were active, so 'going pro' had sort of become a running joke among us.
The other members' lives, maybe. I'm the one who got left out of the story.
22. It's not that I like the phrase — it actually tasted like dirt.
Guess I just didn't have the skill to go pro.
Can't you just go solo lol
No comeback story like that is happening. 'Narou' (the web novel site known for wish-fulfillment power-fantasy stories) is just flooded with trashy fiction that's nothing but the delusions of people who think they can become somebody without putting in any effort.
A guy who only got lucky enough to be in a band with talented people, then got cut — there's no way he pulls it off solo.
Thought you wanted to do music though lol. You ate dirt-flavored beer AND puke-flavored liver and everything lol
Yeah, nobody wants to look at reality. Especially the Lost Generation (Japan's 'ice age' cohort who graduated into the brutal job market of the late '90s–2000s), who make up the bulk of Narou's readership.
Background and Key Points
What split this thread was a single question: how much credence to give the “factualness” of the post. Replies #41 and #90 cast doubt, asking whether the poster was really even a band member and whether the whole saga followed the template of a typical “banishment” story, and the poster himself, in reply #93, pushed back against the idea of a “Narou”-style comeback twist. This shows how the “banishment story” structure that has spread online in recent years has become a go-to benchmark readers use when judging whether a real-life account is credible. At the same time, the post itself suggests that whether a band lands a major label debut hinges not just on individual skill but on a mix of factors — the label’s commercial judgment, the relationships between members, and so on. That said, this is only the poster’s one-sided account; the other members’ and the label’s side of the story have not been presented.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed VIP board) thread “My band just got its major label debut. Without me.”
Leave a Reply