Rambling thoughts on collabs

[fencer_x]

Huh.

So Tuti's still the one mixing all of *pnish*'s songs?

Today I was told not to come to rehearsals, to just make the soundtrack, so here I am at home packing everything in. Everyone else has been working on the dances at rehearsals.
If I don't bring this tomorrow they're gonna get mad at me.
Hope I finish...

...As posted at THREE IN THE FUCKING MORNING. GEEZ.

And THAT SCREEN is Tuti's computer?! Holy crap *_____*

In other news--so apparently Nagayan is doing a collab with Naoya? I can't really tell...that actually looks like the Kime collab shirt to me. Guess we'll see?

I've actually been thinking about the collabs he does with his friends, and...no matter how you cut it, Tuti's is special. Like, REALLY special.

1) No one else has gotten more than two collaborations (with an implication that there may indeed be more coming). Kime got two--that's the most. And that was only AFTER Tuti already had two under his belt, with three now. Nagayan just doesn't collaborate with people more than once--and I dare say his second one with Kime could have just been an attempt to dispel suspicions about why Tuti was the only one he'd ever collaborated more than once with.

2) No one else has gotten their own brand name. Nagayan gave Tuti not only his own brand name (or hell, maybe Tuti thought it up himself?), but a name quite intimately linked with HIS brand name. Seriously, "decossam" doesn't even make SENSE. And yet it DOES make sense.

and (probably the most important) 3) No collaboration Nagayan has done with anyone else has been such a true collaboration, showing obvious elements of the two who put work into it such that it doesn't even look like Blossam anymore so much as a melding of two styles, like a collaboration should be. The wine label shirt with its 1978-1979, the two bags with their obvious floral patterns to represent Tuti (stated outright that they represent Tuti) and the plaid to represent Nagayan, the YELLOW decossam tag.

Every other collab he's done with people before has always been something that, if he hadn't said it was a collab, I'd have thought it was just another normal piece of Blossam merchandise. But you cannot argue that the collabs with Tuti aren't as much HIM as they are Nagayan, at all.

Comments

[hitome-bore.livejournal.com]

IAWTP

[umbrellaofdoom.livejournal.com]

Re: Naoya colab:
AHAHAHA, AWESOME. Naoya is using the butterflies from the Butterfly Bathbomb at Lush. He's so adorable it hurts.

[nikki-aino.livejournal.com]

Thanks for putting my "Nagayan's sleeping collabing with everyone now D:" feelings in perspective XDD
You absolutely have a point there :D

[analineblue.livejournal.com]

And you know with the other collabs, it just never feels like it's as big of a deal, you know? As far as I know, they've never done the line-up-hours-before thing for any collabs other than the ones with Tuti and in general it just...feels more special. Like you said, none of the other ones really feel like they actively represent both Nagayan and the other person. And the brand name. Yep. Definitely special. <3333

In other words, I have nothing to add, I just agree completely. :P

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

Exactly :/ I believe they DO the line-up thing, but there's never a rush. The second Kime collab? Was still around up til BuriMyu (when the foreign chicks cleaned Tenchou out XD), months after it went on sale. All the decossam collabs sell out THAT DAY.

His collabs with Tuti are a big deal, when it really doesn't make SENSE from a non-shippy point of view. I'd personally think collabs with Kime would be bigger, but...they're very much not o_O

[analineblue.livejournal.com]

Yep, I know what you mean. I find myself forgetting that he's even done collabs with Kime, because it's so NOT a big deal. XD;;;

And you're right about it not making sense. ^_~ Especially since... I don't know, I think you said the same thing once, but... Do you get the impression that everyone who lines up for those bags really ships them? Or are big *pnish* fans? I just wonder why, I guess. I'd really think there'd be more Kime fans... or... I don't know. It's weird. Especially since Nagayan never says a word about them. Any of them. O_o It's like people inherently know that they're special. *_*

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

I honestly have no idea really o_O I mean, there's Mitsuru and Asami of course, who DO ship them, but the day they went on sale, there were a ton of girls who went to Sono Tettou for *pnish* later that day toting them. Last weekend, for Kitty Guys, there were THREE other girls with the bag, and then there was me, Becca, and Lindsey who had our own.

These girls seem to be all around fans, so...I dunno what to make of them o_O

[hibimaosuki.livejournal.com]

His monitor is a HITACHI. I... I am yoi-ed.