History Music / VioletUK

%%* AnimalMotifs: ''Insect'' motifs, that is, for ''Blue Butterfly.''
%%* ApocalypticLog: The radio edit/TV commercial ambient sound version of ''Blind Dance.'' The "the nuclear facilities" line also makes this HarsherInHindsight.

%%* ATasteOfTheLash: Someone's getting this in the full version of ''Blind Dance.''

%%* BadassDriver: Yoshiki in the PV for ''Confusion'' (one of the lesser known songs) + ''White Poem II'''s Violet UK remix.
* {{Bowdlerise}} : ''Blind Dance,'' which for its commercial version/radio edit was not only cut for time and style (the original runs 18 minutes long and is GothicMetal) but also for [[TheImmodestOrgasm orgasmic moans]], references to BDSM, and a ClusterFBomb.
* BoundAndGagged: Not necessarily ''gagged,'' but the protagonist having the sex in ''Blind Dance'' is [[TitleDrop blindfolded]] and bound.
%%* BrainsAndBondage: ''Blind Dance,'' and ''Blue and Blind'' are ''not'' your usual {{Obligatory Bondage Song}}s. They are far more subtle and nuanced than the usual take on this trope, and Blind Dance full version is comparable to ''Art of Life.''
* BreakupSong: ''Amethyst'' is a BreakupSong + GriefSong (undesired breakup due to ''death'' and longing for the dead partner to return).

%%* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: ''Blue Butterfly.''
* ClusterFBomb: One can be found in the full version of ''Blind Dance'' (the 17 minute plus version). "Fucking, fucking, fucking..."

** In the ''Confusion'' PV, Yoshiki is driving a black sports car with the marque obscured but it's likely a Porsche or Lamborghini.
** One also appears in the allegedly fanmade PV for ''Sex and Religion'' - part of the composite footage the editor used was from a TV documentary on Yoshiki featuring him driving a white Lamborghini.
* CombatStilettos: In the ''Confusion'' PV, Yoshiki's bodyguards are all models. Wearing high heels.
* CoverVersion: [[Music/ToshimitsuDeyama Toshi]] has covered ''Unnamed Song/7th,'' and ''I'll Be Your Love.''
%%* DamageProofVehicle: The car in ''Confusion.''
* {{Dominatrix}}: Heavily implied in some of the fashion, and again ''Blind Dance'' could be with one of these... or a lover.
%%* DueToTheDead: ''Amethyst'' and ''Unnamed Song/7th'' are both GriefSong and this in their own way.
%%* EmergencyBroadcast: Fused with ApocalypticLog for the ambient sound commercial cut of ''Blind Dance.''
%%* EpicRocking: The full version of ''Blind Dance,'' ''especially'' once the drums come in. ''Sex and Religion,'' again for the drums. ''Blue Butterfly'' is almost there.

%%* GoingCosmic: Happens during the full version of ''Blind Dance,'' and ''Sex and Religion'' tries for it with its lyrical theme. ''Rosa'' is a more nuanced version not related to sex but to angst.
%%* GrayRainOfDepression: Referred to in the lyrics of ''I'll Be Your Love.''
%%* GriefSong: ''Amethyst,'' ''Without You'' VUK version, ''7th/Unnamed Song''

%%**''Amethyst'''s lyrics. The instrumental version just sounds like a pretty instrumental semi-classical piece. The lyrics are pure, raw GriefSong over a lover lost to death.
%%** In the commercial/radio edit of ''Blind Dance,'' "the ''nuclear facilities.''" The hint that the piece is ApocalypticLog ''and'' far HarsherInHindsight post a certain event in 2011.
%%* {{Horror}}: Most of the US work Violet UK has done is horror or SplatterPunk, such as ''Catacombs'' and ''Repo!''.
%%* TheImmodestOrgasm: In the full version of ''Blind Dance,'' someone's having this complete with a ClusterFBomb. Yoshiki's moaning/panting during the drum solo in ''Sex And Religion'' might also qualify.

%%* IntercourseWithYou: The full version of ''Blind Dance.'' The radio edit is an ambient sound piece with some of the vocals left in, but it's more reliant on DoubleEntendre and implications. The full version is a GothicMetal IntercourseWithYou song.
* LoveHurts: ''Amethyst.'' The entire song is a grieving lover for his beloved...
%%* OdeToIntoxication: ''Sex And Religion,'' possibly ''VUK-R''
%%* PowerPop: English and Japanese versions of ''I'll Be Your Love.''
* PrecisionFStrike: "It's still fucking my mind!" in ''Sex and Religion.''
* PerformanceVideo: Only ''one'' actual one exists - ''Confusion/White Poem II,'' and it's more of a video full of film clips than performance. There is a video for ''Sex and Religion'' that is ''allegedly'' fanmade but has some very high production value and has archival footage from Yoshiki's collection that hadn't widely circulated the internet outside it - leading to some [[EpilepticTrees speculation]] that the video was either made by Yoshiki himself/his in-house video staff and given to a staffer posing as a fan to post/the account posting it was his SockPuppet, or that the fan was a high-level ''kankeisha'' who was either given the footage or the video.
%%* ReligionRantSong: ''Sex And Religion.''
* SelfHarm: The lyrics of ''Hero'' reference SelfHarm, [[UsefulNotes/{{Suicide}} suicidal feelings]], and the struggle to overcome both.
%%* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: ''Blind Dance'' original, ''Sex and Religion,'' ''Blue and Blind,'' ''VUK-R.''
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: ''I'll Be Your Love'' could be either this or a lesser version, the singer trying to convince the listener there is hope in life...

Solo project by Music/YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 20 years of work. Violet UK has produced music for, among others, the movies ''Film/{{Catacombs}}'' ("Blue Butterfly,"), ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' ("VUK-R"), ''{{Goemon}}'' ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by Music/XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live). Technically (though it can also be considered under Yoshiki's solo classical project), the 2014 song ''Hero'' for ''Anime/SaintSeiya: Legend of Sanctuary'' also is a Violet UK song due to the project's sole remaining vocalist (Katie Fitzgerald) being the vocalist of record for it.

* {{Angst}}: It wouldn't *be* a Music/YoshikiHayashi project without it. Much of the angst is about lost love...
* AnimalMotifs: ''Insect'' motifs, that is, for ''Blue Butterfly.''
* AnyoneCanDie: Originally Violet UK was meant to be the "Second Music/XJapan," X Japan with [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] as the lead vocalist. When hide died, these plans for the fusion fell apart, and Yoshiki reinvisioned the project to be fashion and music, with each new song being his experience with LoveHurts, written for Toshi's voice but given to a group of female singers.
* ApocalypticLog: The radio edit/TV commercial ambient sound version of ''Blind Dance.'' The "the nuclear facilities" line also makes this HarsherInHindsight.
* ArtisticStimulation: If the SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll songs are from personal experience...
* ATasteOfTheLash: Someone's getting this in the full version of ''Blind Dance.''
* AuthorAppeal: The model vocalists and the BDSM themes.
* BadassDriver: Yoshiki in the PV for ''Confusion'' (one of the lesser known songs) + ''White Poem II'''s Violet UK remix.
* BleachedUnderpants / {{Bowdlerize}} : ''Blind Dance,'' which for its commercial version/radio edit was not only cut for time and style (the original runs 18 minutes long and is GothicMetal) but also for [[TheImmodestOrgasm orgasmic moans]], references to BDSM, and a ClusterFBomb.

* BrainsAndBondage: ''Blind Dance,'' and ''Blue and Blind'' are ''not'' your usual ObligatoryBondageSongs. They are far more subtle and nuanced than the usual take on this trope, and Blind Dance full version is comparable to ''Art of Life.''

* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: ''Blue Butterfly.''
* CastingCouch: Its vocalists [[AuthorAppeal all seem to share]] [[MsFanservice certain characteristics]] that Yoshiki appears to find personally attractive, and he's dated at least one vocalist and one bassist from the project.

* CoolCar: See BadassDriver in the ''Confusion'' PV above - Yoshiki is driving a black sports car with the marque obscured but it's likely a Porsche or Lamborghini.

* CombatStilettos: Invoked in the ''Confusion'' PV - Yoshiki's bodyguards are all models. Wearing high heels.

* DamageProofVehicle: The car in ''Confusion.''

* DueToTheDead: ''Amethyst'' and ''Unnamed Song/7th'' are both GriefSong and this in their own way.
* EmergencyBroadcast: Fused with ApocalypticLog for the ambient sound commercial cut of ''Blind Dance.''
* EpicRocking: The full version of ''Blind Dance,'' ''especially'' once the drums come in. ''Sex and Religion,'' again for the drums. ''Blue Butterfly'' is almost there.
* FashionShow: VUK's usual role in Music/XJapan concerts.
* GoingCosmic: Happens during the full version of ''Blind Dance,'' and ''Sex and Religion'' tries for it with its lyrical theme. ''Rosa'' is a more nuanced version not related to sex but to angst.
* GrayRainOfDepression: Referred to in the lyrics of ''I'll Be Your Love.''
* {{Goth}}
* GothicPunk
* GothicMetal
* GothRock
* GriefSong: ''Amethyst,'' ''Without You'' VUK version, ''7th/Unnamed Song''
* GutPunch: ''Amethyst'''s lyrics. The instrumental version just sounds like a pretty instrumental semi-classical piece. The lyrics are pure, raw GriefSong over a lover lost to death.
** In the commercial/radio edit of ''Blind Dance,'' "the ''nuclear facilities.''" The hint that the piece is ApocalypticLog ''and'' far HarsherInHindsight post a certain event in 2011.
* {{Horror}}: Most of the US work Violet UK has done is horror or SplatterPunk, such as ''Catacombs'' and ''Repo!''.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: In the full version of ''Blind Dance,'' someone's having this complete with a ClusterFBomb. Yoshiki's moaning/panting during the drum solo in ''Sex And Religion'' might also qualify.

* IntercourseWithYou: The full version of ''Blind Dance.'' The radio edit is an ambient sound piece with some of the vocals left in, but it's more reliant on DoubleEntendre and implications. The full version is a GothicMetal IntercourseWithYou song.

* OdeToIntoxication: ''Sex And Religion,'' possibly ''VUK-R''
* PowerPop: English and Japanese versions of ''I'll Be Your Love.''

* ReligionRantSong: ''Sex And Religion.''

* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: ''Blind Dance'' original, ''Sex and Religion,'' ''Blue and Blind,'' ''VUK-R.''

Solo project by Music/YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 20 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. Violet UK has produced music for, among others, the movies ''Film/{{Catacombs}}'' ("Blue Butterfly,"), ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' ("VUK-R"), ''{{Goemon}}'' ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by Music/XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live). Technically (though it can also be considered under Yoshiki's solo classical project), the 2014 song ''Hero'' for ''Anime/SaintSeiya: Legend of Sanctuary'' also is a Violet UK song due to the project's sole remaining vocalist (Katie Fitzgerald) being the vocalist of record for it.

* FashionShow: VUK's usual role in XJapan concerts.

Solo project by Music/YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 10 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. Violet UK has produced music for, among others, the movies ''Film/{{Catacombs}}'' ("Blue Butterfly,"), ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' ("VUK-R"), ''{{Goemon}}'' ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by Music/XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live). Technically (though it can also be considered under Yoshiki's solo classical project), the 2014 song ''Hero'' for ''Anime/SaintSeiya: Legend of Sanctuary'' also is a Violet UK song due to the project's sole remaining vocalist (Katie Fitzgerald) being the vocalist of record for it.

Solo project by Music/YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 10 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. VioletUK has produced music for, among others, the movies ''Film/{{Catacombs}}'' ("Blue Butterfly,"), ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' ("VUK-R"), ''{{Goemon}}'' ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by Music/XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live). Technically (though it can also be considered under Yoshiki's solo classical project), the 2014 song ''Hero'' for ''Anime/SaintSeiya: Legend of Sanctuary'' also is a VioletUK song due to the project's sole remaining vocalist (Katie Fitzgerald) being the vocalist of record for it.

* {{Horror}}: Most of the US work VioletUK has done is horror or SplatterPunk, such as ''Catacombs'' and ''Repo!''.

Solo project by Music/YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 10 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. VioletUK has produced music for, among others, the movies "{{Catacombs}}" ("Blue Butterfly,"), RepoTheGeneticOpera ("VUK-R"), {{Goemon}} ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by Music/XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live). Technically (though it can also be considered under Yoshiki's solo classical project), the 2014 song ''Hero'' for ''Anime/SaintSeiya: Legend of Sanctuary'' also is a VioletUK song due to the project's sole remaining vocalist (Katie Fitzgerald) being the vocalist of record for it.

'''Provides Examples of:'''

* ButNotTooForeign: Played straight and defied at the same time. Violet UK has had only one Japanese vocalist (two if you count Toshi's covering two songs), and it seems a prerequisite for vocalists to be female, thin, modelesque, European, and preferably blonde (though [[Music/PussycatDolls Nicole Scherzinger]] was an exception for European and blonde) almost to the degree of UnfortunateImplications. Therefore the trope is played straight for Hollywood, but defied for Japan.

Solo project by Music/YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 10 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. VioletUK has produced music for, among others, the movies "{{Catacombs}}" ("Blue Butterfly,"), RepoTheGeneticOpera ("VUK-R"), {{Goemon}} ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by Music/XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live).

* ContractualPurity: ''Averted'' and PlayedStraight at the same time. Yoshiki is one of the few people in the Japanese music scene that can do almost whatever he wants either artistically or in his personal life and get away with it, if not cheered on for it, which ''should'' give him ultimate creative freedom for Violet UK. However, the bread and butter of current Violet UK work seems to be for commercials and films, both of which have at least some limits (e.g. more instrumentals, no BDSM) ''and'' which force him to maintain a better reputation (and to overcome the reputation of being a procrastinating perfectionist that will happily run a project way over time and over budget to get it right.)

* '''DevelopmentHell''': Violet UK has existed in some form since ''2000'' but in a case of a LongRunner that produces very little output, has only had a few songs (most of which were made for films or commercials or the like) and appearances at Music/XJapan concerts as mostly a fashion show set to some background electronic/instrumental music, and while an album has been promised since 2007 or so, it never comes into existence. Most of this is due to Yoshiki's perfectionism as an artist.

* TrollingCreator: Some people suspect Yoshiki and the entire project to be this due to its never seeming to get out of DevelopmentHell.

* PromotionalVideo: Only ''one'' actual one exists - ''Confusion/White Poem II.'' There is a video for ''Sex and Religion'' that is ''allegedly'' fanmade but has some very high production value and has archival footage from Yoshiki's collection that hadn't widely circulated the internet outside it - leading to some [[EpilepticTrees speculation]] that the video was either made by Yoshiki himself/his in-house video staff and given to a staffer posing as a fan to post/the account posting it was his SockPuppet, or that the fan was a high-level ''kankeisha'' who was either given the footage or the video.

** One also appears in the fanmade PV for ''Sex and Religion'' - part of the composite footage the editor used was from a TV documentary on Yoshiki featuring him driving a white Lamborghini.

* ClusterFBomb: One can be found in the full version of "Blind Dance" (the 17 minute plus version). "Fucking, fucking, fucking..."
* CoolCar: See BadassDriver in the Confusion PV above - Yoshiki is driving a black sports car with the marque obscured but it's likely a Porsche or Lamborghini.
** One also appears in the fanmade PV for "Sex and Religion" - part of the composite footage the editor used was from a TV documentary on Yoshiki featuring him driving a white Lamborghini.

Solo project by Music/YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 10 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. VioletUK has produced music for, among others, the movies "{{Catacombs}}" ("Blue Butterfly,"), RepoTheGeneticOpera ("VUK-R"), {{Goemon}} ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live).

* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: "Blue Butterfly."

* {{Angst}}: It wouldn't *be* a Music/YoshikiHayashi project without it.

* CoverVersion: [[Music/ToshimitsuDeyama Toshi]] has covered "Unnamed Song/7th," and "I'll Be Your Love."

* IntercourseWithYou: The full version of "Blind Dance." The radio edit is an ambient sound piece with some of the vocals left in, but it's more reliant on DoubleEntendre and implications. The full version is a GothicMetal IntercourseWithYou song.
* PowerPop: English and Japanese versions of "I'll Be Your Love."
* PrecisionFStrike: "It's still fucking my mind!" in "Sex and Religion."
* ReligionRantSong: "Sex And Religion."

Solo project by YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 10 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. VioletUK has produced music for, among others, the movies "{{Catacombs}}" ("Blue Butterfly,"), RepoTheGeneticOpera ("VUK-R"), {{Goemon}} ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was CoveredUp by XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live).

* {{Angst}}: It wouldn't *be* a YoshikiHayashi project without it.

* CoverVersion: [[ToshimitsuDeyama Toshi]] has covered "Unnamed Song/7th," and "I'll Be Your Love."

Solo project by YoshikiHayashi that has spanned over 10 years of work. Arguably a CastingCouch, but has produced some very interesting solo music. VioletUK has produced music for, among others, the movies "{{Catacombs}}" ("Blue Butterfly,"), RepoTheGeneticOpera ("VUK-R"), {{Goemon}} ("Rosa"), a Japanese news station ("Blue Sky Heaven"), as well as a series of previous songs that were performed in a 2002 symphonic concert (one of which, "Unnamed Song," was arguably CoveredUp by XJapan vocalist Toshi in his 2010 farewell solo live).

* CastingCouch: Arguably one, since its vocalists [[AuthorAppeal all seem to share]] [[MsFanservice certain characteristics]] that Yoshiki appears to find personally attractive, and he's dated at least one vocalist and one bassist from the project.

* CoverVersion: [[ToshimitsuDeyama Toshi]] has covered "Unnamed Song/7th."
* FaceOfTheBand: [[YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] is the only permament member of VioletUK. Notable members to have worked in the project are longtime ex-bassist Mandi Jordan-Golla ([=PunkScandal=]), vocalists Katie, Natalie, and Daughter, and guest vocalist Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls.