I can’t stop watching. It’s like eating marshmallow while bathing in fairy floss inside a sugar house that David Lynch built inside John Waters brain.
h/t Paul Ryan’s Dirty Sockpuppet
ETA: With script by William Gibson. Does anyone know if this girl is even real?
EATA: I offer this for our electronica minded bretheren, to counteract the sugar.
EOATA: Crikey.
h/t Comrade Mary
ruemara
God, it just makes me wish a tentacle would burst out of her head already.
Yutsano
It’s like…every single j-pop/anime trope stuffed into one video. And pretty remarkable considering how fat-phobic the Japanese are for females.
darkmatter
What in the nine hells am I watching? And I thought that Yatta was strange enough.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
Bugger. Now I have to watch it!
Have I mentioned on this blog how much I love Baltimore culture? Edgar Allan Poe to HL Mencken to John Waters? Hah! Match that, LA and NY!!!
moe99
Don’t forget HP Lovecraft, Brother Shotgun.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ruemara:
A girl has to save something for the second single.
WarMunchkin
Sent this video a while back to my old Japanese lab-mate, who wrote back “This is unexplainable.”
That’s Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, who has been P.R.-ing herself as the “Lady Gaga of Japan”.
Comrade Kevin
@moe99: HP Lovecraft is more Providence, actually.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@moe99: Really? Thanks, I learned something tonight.
David Lynch and John Waters can only dream of coming up with a video like that. What the hell did I just see????
Derf
And still no post from General Doom Cole. I guess because this is too cup half full of a development. As soon as the rebels start cutting off peoples heads or whatev’s I am sure he will be on here saying “see, this is what happens when you mess with other countries”.
I guess he needs Greenwald to start the thought process. Come hell or high water Cole will find a way to make this into a cup half empty moment. Because war is bad….so don’t do it..just because. Signed…..General Cole.
WarMunchkin
(yes it’s real)
here’s her website:
http://kyary.asobisystem.com/
Comrade Kevin
When you see a comment by Derf, think of an even less-funny version of this.
Mnemosyne
@Yutsano:
I don’t think the fat one was female. Which just made it even more surreal.
Comrade Kevin
Holy shit, that first video is goddamn frightening.
eemom
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
didn’t you used to be SISTER Shotgun etc.? Is my memory failing or are surgical congratulations in order?
Southern Beale
what’s with the large woman in black face? I’m so confused. Maybe speaking Japanese would help …
Yutsano
@Southern Beale: Not really. Most of what I could understand was typical J-pop lyrical claptrap. There may be some subtleties in the verbs I’m missing. From the images though it’s normal Japanese hyper-consumerism.
Did you go up the Needle yet? Or ride a duck?
@Comrade Kevin: They kinda look like fun. They pass me all the time as I’m heading in to work (I park a block away) so it seems interesting to me.
soonergrunt
we should ask matoko-chan what this is all about. That’s a Japanese character after all.
Comrade Kevin
@Yutsano: I took the Duck tour one time I was up in Seattle, it was a blast!
Jon H
@Southern Beale: “what’s with the large woman in black face?”
I’m not sure if it’s black face. It’s kinda purplish, and I’m not even sure if there’s any facial features, eyes, mouth, nose, etc.
Comrade Mary
Oh, if you want transcendent Japanese pop, it’s time for me to drag out a girl called Ringo for y’all again.
Villago Delenda Est
@soonergrunt:
I’m sure she’ll give us as authentic a take on Japanese culture as she does on Middle Eastern cultures.
LT
my god…my god…Reed College Ren Faire tea is coming back, full force…what have you done…
Derf
@Comrade Kevin: Always appreciate the attention from my groupies. As you know us ‘trolls’ thrive on such attention.
Comrade Mary
Oh, and while we’re at it, a tutorial on big-eye anime makeup by the fabulous Michelle Phan.
Bonus: her Bad Romance huge eyes tutorial, with some extra video trickery.
McGeorge Bundy
THAT. FIRST. VIDEO. IS. . . .
A W E S O M E
Holy fuck.
Yutsano
Okay fine. If we’re gonna play this game…
Derf
Geez this doesn’t look good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14608807
How is Cole going to save face over this embarassment. What embarassment you may ask. Permit me to remind you.
https://balloon-juice.com/2011/07/20/why-does-john-cole-hate-freedom/
https://balloon-juice.com/2011/07/13/so-who-do-we-start-bombing-to-stop-these-war-crimes/
Wrong way Cole gets it…WRONG…as usual.
Derf
Geez this doezzzzzzzzzzzzz…………..
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Yutsano:
Done.
Comrade Mary
Game on? Hot diggity!
From power pop to noodly fusion.
Cliff in NH
I was in a cheesy Japanese music video.
It was LoL’s all day.
Bago
As long as I get the toast clap power at some point in my life, I can die happily.
Yutsano
@Sarah Proud and Tall: Hmm..go evil? Or go slightly bizarre? Decisions decisions.
A Humble Lurker
Hey, it’s the clappy eyeball toast girl! I’ve seen her around in gifs and things.
And Miku-chan! Yay! That video is actually pretty different from what she’s usually in. More often it’s really cute, sugary stuff. But every once and a while some robotic dystopian future music video gets in there. I just wish she were singing more. (Or at all. I can’t actually tell if she’s singing in that video.)
John Weiss
@Derf: Why are you so down on JC? He seems like a straight-up fellow to me. After all, he loves his doggies.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Yutsano:
Nice. For some reason I’m coming back with this, which I’m squeezing in under the Tangential Ethnicity of Vocalist bylaws of 1954.
Yutsano
@Sarah Proud and Tall: We can also head off in completely different directions if we so choose. Though this has me craving a pina colada.
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
FYYT.
Comrade Mary
ARGH! Those last two videos won’t show in Canuckistan! Hints?
owlbear1
Fiddle-Faddle and Macaroni & Cheese anyone?
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Yutsano:
@Comrade Mary:
I edited mine to link to a different (live) performance which should work (or maybe not, let’s see).
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Let me try an end run here. Not the exact video I put up but at least the song.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Yutsano:
I don’t like you.
Sarah Proud and Tall
Beth Ditto.
Yutsano
@Sarah Proud and Tall: Don’t you try to out-Eurovision me there woman.
(Victor/Victoria has nothing on the Israelis.)
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Yutsano:
Distracted. Making three cheese quiche with bacon, onion and silverbeet.
Hee. Is Dana the best you got, sugarlips?
Cliff in NH
Wow its already 4:15!?
Geez.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Yutsano:
Ring a ding ding.
Cliff in NH
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
How about a beef hotlink sausage, videlia onion and tomato pizza? (with garlic)
It’ll be up some time in the next 24… I think…
With This six day old dough (it’s Yummy)
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Cliff in NH:
You sound like a man after my own heart. There is little that cannot be improved by the addition of sausage.
Cacti
I just found out my Grandma passed away.
(tears)
hamletta
@Cliff in NH: I was in a movie written by Bret Michaels.
Cliff in NH
Hopefully I’ll be eating it in the next 12 hours or less..
Now I must decide whether to cash out and sleep a few hours or brew coffee and hope profits become bigger profits.
hmmm, cash or coffee?
hamletta
@Cacti: I’m sorry, honey.
Cliff in NH
@Cacti:
I’m sad =( here is a flower, I miss my gram too.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Cacti:
Best wishes, hon.
piratedan
doggone it! Here I was hopin this would devolve into classic anime theme songs and someone has hijacked a thread subtitled Hot Japanese Girls into music video roulette from Eurovision’s past
so I guess I’ll have see if anyone else ever jonesed to a couple of these hyperactive manic goodies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ-bz-y85Qs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huWKSYUX5Fs&feature=related
sighs… thank the powers that be for cheesy anime goodness and the Japanese twisted take on our own Pop Culture
Arclite
God, even by talentless vapid Jpop standards, Ponponpon is awful. At least Tokyo Jihen has a modicum of talent.
Japan isn’t a total wasteland though. For a more authentic Japanese rock experience I point you to the Blue Hearts.
Which reminds me: If you haven’t seen the movie Linda Linda, it’s really a great story.
Arclite
@Sarah Proud and Tall: Yeesh, now we’re really getting off track…
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Arclite:
I know. Terrifying isn’t it. The Dutch I have met seem to treat it as one of those dark national secrets about which one does not speak.
Arclite
I might as well post a couple more reasonable Japanese bands.
Here’s Flow. They’re tight with a hard pop sense. If you like this song, also check out their song Remember.
The Uluful’s had a huge hit 15 or so years ago with Banzai.
It’s almost the perfect rock pop song. However, I actually prefer their more humorous songs like Osaka Strut and Dame na Mono wa Dame!
Sarah Proud and Tall
@piratedan:
Well then hijack it back from them immediately! Bastards.
ETA: Jesus. Now you’ve got me clicking on related videos. I may be some time.
EATA: The world is a very strange place full of things I do not understand (and may not wish to understand).
Shlemizel - was Alwhite
@Comrade Kevin:
I just assume derf is about 12 years old or suffering from some memory disorder that prevents him from being aware of all the groovie outcomes of American military adventurism & how the end results are always so neat, tidy and double plus good.
jane from hell
The first two videos (at the top) share the same rhythm, I’d love to hear them synced up.
Steve M.
Well, this will counteract the sugar high. It’s not really full-on punk, but it rocks, and the singer is (in a much subtler way) still rather kawaii….
M-Pop
Can we have J-Pop threads forever and ever, Ms. Sarah Proud and Tall? Arigato gozaimas!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve M.: Okay, this I liked.
Jay in Oregon
Sarah,
It terrifies me that you found that machine muzik clip on YouTube. Especially since I’ve seen it before…
DKF
That girl has some seriously psychedelic flatulence at about 1:29.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@eemom: No surgery. Maybe you’re thinking of Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony. Us Unitarian Jihadists are everywhere.
daveX99
Regarding that first video, I just have to say that Pee Wee’s Playhouse has become really weird since Paul Reubens left.
mike in dc
Chap Hop! Pip Pip!
The Other Chuck
I’m waiting for a katamari to roll up that whole house…
The Worst Person In the World
First vid is complete awesomeness.
Anoniminous
Nothing says “eating marshmallow while bathing in fairy floss inside a sugar house” like a cross-eyed Snuggle Bunny song!
In Swedish to immerse the viewer in the full Euro-Trash experience.
(Jag är så kär! = I’m so in love)
Johnny Coelacanth
My favorite bit of J-Pop. Or is it J-Rock? Either way, Puffy Ami Yumi are adorable. The guitar riff is pretty sweet, too.
Paul Ryan's Dirty Sockpuppet
Thanks Sarah for spreading the glory of PONPONPON. Sure it’s vapid but I liked it. Some days I’m very sorry I never learned much Japanese but there’s a silver lining. It lets me enjoy empty candy-coated pop from time to time without getting distracted by what’s certain to be rather horrid lyrics.
On a more serious note about Japanese music, School Food Punishment is some of the most brain-pissingly beautiful music I’ve ever heard.
Beldar
Sweet Jeebus, she farted out colorful streamers at the 1:29 mark…
Yes, I actually ran that part again just to make sure I wasn’t just seeing things.
This video strikes me as a musical take on Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, on crack…
Paul in KY
@Cacti: Very sorry. My condolences to you & your family.