Dead of laughter
Dec. 5th, 2004 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaDownloading Gwen Stefani's new album, as it managed to cause minor kerfufflage in two utterly unrelated peripheral flist-reading fandoms. The mp3 blogger one obv (does Gwen r0xx0r or suxx0r???**), and the visual kei/gothloli one which is undergoing growing pains of terminology appropriation, somewhat like the definition-of-yaoi discussions that go down on AMLA from time to time: know-nothing Western newbies using words like "lolita" or "EGL" re outfits that no Japanese would ever describe as such. Like Miz Stefani on the back of her album, I suspect, and hence "Harajuku Girls". Good grief, "Harajuku Girls". Not so much a song as it is a weapon. The next time anyone in animanga fandom complains about know-nothing newbies and said newbies declaim loudly their right to use Japanese words any which way they like, I'll just put "Harajuku Girls" on repeat until both sides give up and beg for mercy. Or I would if this didn't all happen over the Internet.
Seriously, it wouldn't take more than two minutes.
(Re r0xx0r or suxx0r: I am so not a No Doubt fan that... okay, let's just say I'm not, but this isn't a No Doubt album. "Crash" and "Serious" are ace in an if-only-Britney-had-singles-like-this sort of way, instead of the long stretch of total melodic forgettability between "Oops! I Did It Again" and "Toxic". The badness of "Harajuku Girls" is such that it about averages any produced-pop goodness on the rest of the album out to nil, though. And one probably does need to be in something like animanga or gothloli fandom to "appreciate" properly, but... point, yes. I would post it except I don't want to be directly responsible for spreading the meme. XD)
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In other news, I watched the first four episodes of Meine Liebe. It's... well, it's everything everyone's said about it for years, sure enough. (Special mention of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tongari's comment re Ed's eerie resemblance to Bebop!Ed. Damn...) One gets into the flow of the thing after a while, but I keep wanting to yell "will someone take that Wagner record off and let these boys and their garter boots angst in peace?" at the unfeeling anime sky.
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In other-other news, I have yet to finish reading GB 27 as I expect it to make me goober over the charas' winter outfits yet again, but COULD FUDOU BE ANY GAYER KTHX?
Seriously, it wouldn't take more than two minutes.
(Re r0xx0r or suxx0r: I am so not a No Doubt fan that... okay, let's just say I'm not, but this isn't a No Doubt album. "Crash" and "Serious" are ace in an if-only-Britney-had-singles-like-this sort of way, instead of the long stretch of total melodic forgettability between "Oops! I Did It Again" and "Toxic". The badness of "Harajuku Girls" is such that it about averages any produced-pop goodness on the rest of the album out to nil, though. And one probably does need to be in something like animanga or gothloli fandom to "appreciate" properly, but... point, yes. I would post it except I don't want to be directly responsible for spreading the meme. XD)
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In other news, I watched the first four episodes of Meine Liebe. It's... well, it's everything everyone's said about it for years, sure enough. (Special mention of
tongari's comment re Ed's eerie resemblance to Bebop!Ed. Damn...) One gets into the flow of the thing after a while, but I keep wanting to yell "will someone take that Wagner record off and let these boys and their garter boots angst in peace?" at the unfeeling anime sky.***
In other-other news, I have yet to finish reading GB 27 as I expect it to make me goober over the charas' winter outfits yet again, but COULD FUDOU BE ANY GAYER KTHX?
