And thus we add another project’s corpse to the pile created by this brutal year.
You probably saw the recent hubbub around Montero, the half of Screaming Sixties who did not get to perform in the UK last year (though we did chat with Kai), who announced that she was pregnant. While this was remarkable in itself — not because an idol
絶叫する60度は2019年9月2日のZepp nagoyaワンマン公演をもちまして一旦、活動終了とさせていただきます。無我夢中で走ってきた5年間、これからも変わらずその日まで全力で走り抜きます。未来のことなんて誰にも分からない。僕らはいつも通り目の前のライブに死力を尽くすのみ。よろしくお願いします! pic.twitter.com/5gNM3c9O7N
— 絶叫する60度 (@zekkyo60) June 26, 2019
Here’s Kai’s reaction:
未来のことは
何も分からないけど私にとっては
ライブが、あなたが全て。それだけが
生きる理由なんです。私は歩みを止めずに
私の居場所、
みんなの居場所を守りたい。今と変わらず
全国を旅していたい。9/3以降も
私はこれまで同様に
私なりに活動できるように
考えてます。 https://t.co/AamerCKFl6— 魁-KAI-絶叫する60度🐚 (@kai_422) June 27, 2019
And Montero’s:
ゴライコーさん、来てくれた皆
一緒にライブしてくれて
ありがとうございました今日も胸に刻み込むくらい
全力でライブをするその刻まれた想い
未来のあなた、未来の自分が
また一緒に笑顔でライブできるように pic.twitter.com/aDmHCGT2Yh— もんてろ【絶叫する60度】 (@18Montero18) June 26, 2019
This is a tough one, gang. Back when I was still treating Homicidols Dot Com as a source moreso than a reaction, they were not only one of the last profiles that I did, but one of my personal favorites. They were cool to delve into, a uniquely conceived spin-off from a punk band trying something different, and damn did it work. That they’ve been together for this long and that it’s always been just the two of them (and a rotating cast of support, and their extremely fit wota, and Hamada) is a testament to a real-life version of the strong bond between people that idols so often largely pretend to have.
So what’s next? It’s hard to say for absolute certainty, but come on: Zekkyou is effectively done after this Zepp show. Montero, in addition to just I’m-too-pregnant-to-idol time, is going to have her child, and then she’s going to spend a good while mothering that child. Goodness knows how her outlook will change or remain the same at that point, but the usual Zekkyou grind — traveling all over and performing almost anywhere at almost anytime — just isn’t going to work for her. I could see her — them — taking the stage in the future in a limited sense, a la latter-day FRUITPOCHETTE, but that’s the extent of it. Yeah, there are idols with children out there, but the circumstances that make that work aren’t, I think, in Zekkyou’s favor. Could the group soldier on without Montero? Hypothetically yes, but also it doesn’t sound like that’s the idea. I think we’ll see Kai in another role before we’ll see Screaming Sixties back to being a thing.
Sayonara, I think, Zekkyou. You put on a great show.
You have no idea how badly I wanted to call this post “In Like a Lion, Out with a Bang”, but Team advised that this would be perhaps just the tiniest bit in bad taste