May 13, 2013

They Said Nobody Could Update "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." They Were Wrong.

Blur Brain sez This Music Video Got Nearly 89 Million Views, Find Out Why "My recent post of a member of the Japanese vocal group AKB48 eating Tororo gave some of you a bad case of yellow fever so here’s one of the group’s most popular music videos. Not sure why it’s so popular, maybe it’s the catchy tune or the odd lyrics. Perhaps you can figure it out."


It is truly said that only two sexual archetypes dominate the internet: 1) The big breasted blonde and 2) the Japanese school girl. This is surely the apotheosis of the latter.

[Note: You may have to play this several times in the course of your investigation. We understand.]

Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 13, 2013 1:41 PM
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I made it to 1:30. I probably could have watched it all the way through with the sound off.

Posted by: Jason in SD at May 13, 2013 2:29 PM

Couldn't.Finish.It.

Like mainlining Nutrasweet.

Posted by: ThomasD at May 13, 2013 4:08 PM

Wimp!

Posted by: vanderleun at May 13, 2013 5:40 PM

Unfortunately, experience (on Japanese railway stations) demonstrates that Japanese Schoolgirls are typically rather chunky and unattractive. (The Japanese are in denial about being ethnically the same as Koreans). Chinese girls, on the other hand....

Posted by: Brett_McS at May 13, 2013 5:48 PM

Catgirls! (2:30 and later)

Posted by: Hale Adams at May 13, 2013 7:46 PM

Surely, Thomas, in the name of science! (What we must endure in search of knowledge...)

Posted by: StephenB at May 13, 2013 11:34 PM

I've lived in Japan for over twelve years now and this can be condensed down to two words that the Japanese fiends have embarked on to reek their revenge on the west after losing the war. It is insidious in its reach and has infiltrated into everything from tooth brushes to adult sex toys here in Japan and now even the western world has had to deal with this relentless onslaught, the words..........."Hello Kitty".....For anybody who doesn't recoil in abject terror at the mention of these two words that Japan has unleashed on an unsuspecting world, google them at your own risk.

The horror, the absolute horror.

Posted by: WadeM at May 14, 2013 4:02 AM

The Japanese are a mysterious people, having two absolute aesthetic modes: the Cute and the Sublime. And they have a firm grasp of each.

Posted by: ahem at May 14, 2013 7:18 AM

I've always loved the way the Japanese leap so adroitly over the boundary of good taste.

Posted by: Voton at May 14, 2013 12:03 PM

Bring back good 'ol kabuki...or is it karaoke?

Posted by: tired dog at May 14, 2013 4:13 PM

Meh, I've seen better legs on pianos.

Posted by: butch at May 14, 2013 5:04 PM

Who came up with the word 'meh' and why would anyone use it?

Posted by: mjazz at May 17, 2013 6:41 PM