<blockquote><div><cite>Reizu wrote:</cite><blockquote class="uncited"><div>He turned back to the band in general. "There's a lot of vore-themed songs in your set-do you think you're inciting people to eat each other when you play them or do you simply do it for fun or to stand out?"</div></blockquote><br/><br/>Reizu decided to answer this one. "Excuse me, I'd like to try this one." He took a breath of thought before beginning. "Well, I think it was a bit of fun, but a side effect of it was that we happen to stand out. It feels like sometimes we making a new genre of music. But I think every fan who has been to one of our gigs already will probably feel the need to eat one. But, we still have to be careful not to lower the population rate. And I'm sure that whenever that fan eats someone, they'll remember us." He finshed with a pleasant smile.</div></blockquote><br/><br/>Ptricia shook her head. "I'd have to disagree, or at least expand on that. The question's complex, and quite probably loaded. On a superficial level, he's right. I have a considerable interest in vore, and came up with the first song 'We will Vore you' mainly as a joke. But the others liked it, so it went in the playlist, and the audience liked it, so we started playing with other songs. It makes us more than just a cover band, though none of us can really claim to be a songwriter. As for it being 'a new genre of music', don't you think that's just a bit pretentious, Reizu?"<br/><br/>"But on a deeper level, you may have a point. Art is about emotion, and a lot of emotions are generated by the big things in life, love and loss, joy and sorrow, good and evil, life and death... ham and eggs. So there's a lot of art, music, writing, images, sculpture that relates to those big things. But depite the fact that vore, the relationship between predator and prey, between eater and eaten is just as universal... ultimately we're all part of the food chain... there is no corresponding art. Look at the lyrics for many heavy metal songs, for example, they deal with some pretty rough subjects."<br/><br/>She looked thoughtful. "Maybe that's a bit of an oversimplification. There is vore art, and stories, but they're mostly tucked away in dark corners of the internet, and I suppose you could call recipes art associated with food, but that's like having the Karma Sutra as being the only art associated with relationships. There's no 'great art', like... 'Mona Lisa eating microfurs', or 'Holst's main meal and sweet'... you get the idea. Not that I'd call our ditties 'Great Art' but we are exploring an underused area, and it may be we'll find important things to say, possibly without realising it."<br/><br/>"Unlike Reizu, I don't see our songs as encouraging vore, any more than Bohemian Rhapsody is encouraging people to shoot people and go to hell... or whatever was happening. But I'd like to think 'We will Vore you' and 'Don't Stop Me (eating) Now' show people the world behind a predator's eyes, enabling people to understand the subject just a little better. Maybe."