Avril Lavigne Goes Kawaii

[Taro Toporific]

Make sure you have a barf bowl handy before watching the video.

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Avril's management is half-assed trying to the pull the video off from Avril Lavigne's official YouTube site (HuffPost) but it is still up everywhere and on her website.

http://youtu.be/HzG_Hpex31Y

[wagyl]

Great. Now those who claimed it was racist will feel that their opinions have been vindicated.

First they came for Avril Lavigne, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not Avril Lavigne....

[matsuki]

They better get on the less known "racists," misappropriating Japanese "culture"...in Japanese "accent"

[Coligny]

Ok, can I play too ?

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That's kinky... wacist...

[Coligny]

Make sure you have a barf bowl handy before watching the video.

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Avril's management is half-assed trying to the pull the video off from Avril Lavigne's official YouTube site (HuffPost) but it is still up everywhere and on her website.

http://youtu.be/HzG_Hpex31Y

Also toats on her yout00b VeVo channel...

https://www.youtube.com/user/AvrilLavigneVEVO

[sublight]

So has anyone Japanese called it offensive?

And before you post a link to Dr. Deb's board, Japanese articles about the accusations happening in America, quoting the people in America making those accusations, don't count no matter how badly you mis-translate them.

[yanpa]

The Mrs. called it "crap" but took no racial offence.

[wagyl]

Well I am grateful for the comment on Dr Deb's board becasue without the content of that Livedoor article, I was having difficulty working out just what Avril was attempting to say.

[havill]

Here's a recap of the situation:

Avril, who is big in Japan apparently, gets assigned by her Japanese in Japan label to make a song + M/V for Japanese in Japan, for the Japanese market.
The Japanese in Japan record label uses Japanese in Japan directors, producers, choreographers, and dancers, and sets the video in Japan.

After doing this, non-Japanese complain that Avril is appropriating and stereotyping Asian-Japanese culture -- their evidence being that Asians don't really act that way.

Yet another P.C. derp by activists.

If anything, the Japanese "appropriated" Avril Lavigne, not the other way around.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Someone wrote on Reddit that Avril had twittered that she is no racist. So it's probably all good.

[Mike Oxlong]

Someone wrote on Reddit that Avril had twittered that she is no racist. So it's probably all good.

That's right. In fact, some of her friends are Japanese.

[Coligny]

Someone wrote on Reddit that Avril had twittered that she is no racist. So it's probably all good.

That's right. In fact, some of her friends are Japanese.

And she ate sushi twice...

[Wage Slave]

Someone wrote on Reddit that Avril had twittered that she is no racist. So it's probably all good.

That's right. In fact, some of her friends are Japanese.

And she ate sushi twice...

And she likes Hello Kitty ......

[matsuki]

If anything, the Japanese "appropriated" Avril Lavigne, not the other way around.

Pretty much THIS

....and speaking of derps, have you ever heard them appropriate her songs at Karaoke? I just heard such a tone deaf, derp, howling rendition of "sk8et boi" that I would gladly listen to the original a million times in hopes that I could forget what I just suffered through.

[Coligny]

The traditionnal japanese 'toddler' dilemna...

If i see it, i want it
If I want it, it's mine


Maybe try to stop dating schoolgurls and you won't have to go to karaoke...

[matsuki]

The traditionnal japanese 'toddler' dilemna...

If i see it, i want it
If I want it, it's mine


Maybe try to stop dating schoolgurls and you won't have to go to karaoke...

That's like telling this one to stop eating chocolate and maybe she won't get fat...

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[JAVGOD]

She is some repugnant shit.

[Isle of View]

Spot the "cultural appropriation":

[Russell]

This video is approved for all ages, except Choko's...

[Taro Toporific]

Avril Lavigne's 'Hello Kitty' Video: 'Favorable' Reactions in Japan After Racism Controversy
Billboard | May 02, 2014 | by Rob Schwartz
...Japanese citizens, meanwhile, view the candy cane fluff as a tribute, however shallow, to their homeland. The video logged 12 million views in a week.
Hiro Ugaya, a Tokyo-based journalist and media commentator, is one of those forgivers. "I assume that images of cultures outside of one's own in mass media are always different from the reality," he says, acknowledging that pop culture will reduce anything to a digestible pap. "When you're trying to reach the majority of consumers, images tend to be lowest common dominator."
Nobuyuki Hayashi, a well-known Tokyo-based tech and social media expert, concurs. "Searches in the Japanese Twittersphere and blogsphere show that most of the reactions were favorable," he says, adding, "The people who are blaming the artist for racism are non-Japanese … but most Japanese people are not taking it that seriously."
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Judging from Avril and her Japanese film crew's reactions and remarks in this "Behind the scenes of Hello Kitty" there's no malice meant in the music video, just mega-derp.

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[matsuki]

Spot the "cultural appropriation":

...but got to love the best part of what Taro posted:

The people who are blaming the artist for racism are non-Japanese

[Taro Toporific]

Spot the "cultural appropriation":

What's your verdict on this cultural appropriation?

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[Samurai_Jerk]

Spot the "cultural appropriation":

What's your verdict on this cultural appropriation?

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I'm offended by the lack of visible nipples.

[matsuki]

I'm offended by the lack of visible nipples.

[Taro Toporific]

I'm offended by the lack of visible nipples.

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[Isle of View]

Spot the culture "appropriation"

[Samurai_Jerk]

Spot the culture "appropriation"

She needs to appropriate some singing ability.

[matsuki]

Or just go straight to JAV?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Speaking of cultural appropriation.

[Wage Slave]

Spot the culture "appropriation"

She needs to appropriate some singing ability.

No need for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune