Saw this pop up on BBC, not VK related but interesting none the less.
5 Likes
Well that went about as well as expectedâŚ
The most shocking thing here is that there are actually people watching and listening to this shitty-ass band.
Theyâre like the Japanese AJR
2 Likes
Candy Foxxâs Curry Police: Electric Boogaloo
Hereâs the video on Internet Archive:
Lyrics
Until the Day I Fall Asleep
500 million years ago,
I took a little detour on a whim,
Even then, I couldnât tell you.
The great inventions,
The discovered cells,
The creation flowing
In the ocean waves.
Like the day when I will fall asleep,
An uncertain but definite goal,
An unexpectedly pleasant everyday life,
Pouring into my thirsty heart,
Zooming in on a little miracle.
It doesnât mean anything,
But still, still, still, I havenât noticed yet,
I want to drink up love today too.
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-tu-tu, tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-tu-tu, tu-ru
âIâm sorry,â
Itâs the hardest thing to say,
On my way to growing up,
I couldnât say it.
The evolution of civilization,
The historic comebacks,
The exhilaration of Columbus,
Heard from the depths of the earth.
Like the loneliness youâll overcome someday,
The equal morning sun and night sky,
An everyday life that makes your stomach ache,
Straightening my thirsty heart,
Zooming in on a little bit of aesthetics.
It means everything,
But still, still, still, I end up hurting,
Learning from sorrow today too.
The differences with you,
Are a curse to be myself,
Though I remain dejected,
I canât truly hate
Such a self.
Ah, the honorable wounds to be loved,
Celebrate grandly the subtle things
That seem so important.
Continuing somewhere,
An uncertain but definite goal,
An unexpectedly quick everyday life,
Pouring into my thirsty heart,
Zooming in on a little bit of play.
Weâll connect with each other,
Until, until, until we drop,
I want to drink up today with you too.
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-ru-ru-tu (Woah)
Tu-ru-ru-tu
Tu-tu-tu, tu-ru-ru
âI want to know you,â
Like itâs an adventure,
Touching gently on a kind solitude,
That no one else could know.
âI want to know you,â
Like the aurora,
Reaching a wonderful scenery,
That no one has yet known.
Look, the boat moves forward again,
Repeating meetings and farewells.
To give meaning to these teary eyes,
First, we search for a treasure chest.
As for my personal thoughts on the band, objectively theyâre not that bad, in fact, I like their earlier stuff. If weâre talking about the music theyâre churning out lately, the AJR comparison is spot-on 
. Sekai no Owari and Mrs. Green Apple occupy a similar section of my brain, not very much of it and mostly memes/flubs.
2 Likes
In one of two apology statements posted yesterday, the band said they had intended to depict âlife forms of different ages having a home partyâ.
"We were concerned from the beginning that [the apes] might be seen as discriminatory expression, but we had no intention of likening apes to humans.
âWe never intended to make the content discriminatory or to make it something that affirms tragic history,â it said.
such assholes, extremely intentional because texting like âwe didnât knowâ âit wasnât our intentionâ doesnât work anymore!
1 Like
A video like this go through several iterations and production phases. Many many people worked on it. Claim innocence is plain stupid
You knew what you were doing, and you did it anyways
Every single time this happens is the same farce, itâs tiring
1 Like
They have some great songs, but I fell off after their first album. The IA video embed not working for anyone else?
Works, but it does have issues buffering. You can right click to download if you want.
Otherwise, hereâs a YT re-up. Might be taken down eventually:
Thanks for the video.
So they dress up as some European historical figures (Napoleon, Beethoven, Colombus), as Japanese tend to like European history and aesthetics. And they dance around with some people dressed as monkeys and show them all the cool things they think Europeans/humans have. 100% this came from a place of innocence.
I canât say the same about the music.
1 Like
I can buy this being done out of innocence.
Unfortunately, itâs also 100% ignorant.
Though, sadly, I also donât expect the average Japanese person to be well educated on or even aware of the implications stuff like this has on the marginalized.
I suppose theyâre finding out now, though.
8 Likes
Eh now that Iâve seen this in full the only offensive thing was the music video production; pretty bad. I can definitely see how theyâre just the representation of prehistoric man in a nod to Darwin and the entire thing is basically an homage to adventurous discovery. 
Song could be better for sure.
4 Likes
Listen to Columbus and then to MMMBop
1 Like
block
block block block
have you ever publicly explained your username?
4 Likes
Are you asking me this because I think this video came about as described here
Instead of being due to these Japanese pop stars being white supremacists?
I honestly dont think there was any ill will that went into this (besides the musif itself being pretty terrible) I think as said above ignorance is the main thing here. That said, I also feel like if their intentions were far from what people have misinterpreted it as it probably didnt occur to them for one minute that people would be offended by something that wasnt supposed to contain any potentially offensive material. The whole video is so dumb anyway, how are people taking it seriously enough to be offended to begin with? Speaks more about the current state of society than the band imo.
1 Like
fun story that iâm just typing as a fun story, no other meaning⌠(ĺ)
iâm in this band XROSZ (hey check us out on spotify) and we pronounce it like âcrossâ. itâs just a funny spelling of that word.
Weâre writing this this gyakudai kinda song back in 2020.
Vocalist writes these lyrics that get shouted and sung repeatedly in the chorus:
âburn it away, burn it away, burn it awayâŚâ
so we think ok got it, the song is called Burn, simple.
wasnât until we were pulling up the exported demo on our phones w/ metadata we saw it listed as âBurn - XROSZâ and flashing red alert ABORT ABORT BAD DECISION signals went up for all three of us.
I mean, we meant nothing bad by it, but⌠imagine us not changing it lmao
itâd be straight indefensible.
the songâs called Downfall now, we just pulled from other lyrics.
But like. we were three guys, 100% indie, no one on âstaffâ but our gfs helping us film PVs.
They didnât even hear about the almost-name until we were laughing later about how we almost walked blindfolded into a terrible decision.
No one had a gun to our heads, no one âcalled us outâ, there was no cancelling or pressure, etc etc etc. We just caught an honest mistake and figured: we lose literally zero by changing our song name, and the benefit is we donât carelessly invoke ahhh, that kind of imagery.
writing my example to say - you donât get to invoke a name like christopher columbus without taking full responsibility for everything youâre saying.
If we put out our song w/ that name, weâd take full responsibility, bc i stand by what i write - and if hearing of that association was new to us, the only decent way to act would be for us to apologize, say itâs an honest mistake and we didnât know - but then, crucially: fix it by swapping the name to something else. No gaslighting about how our intent is more relevant or somehow takes priority over someoneâs read.
Just⌠honest mistake (maybe) â apply the info youâve just learned about how to make your art that you care about less shitty to marginalized people â say my b, thanks for the heads up â move on
7 Likes
Yeah, like it âmakes senseâ, itâs just got enough moments where it goes into HMMMMM territory (the monkey pulling the cart that the guy is riding, for example) that ends up veering over into YIKES.
In a sense, it kind of does do an excellent job of depicting the two-facedness of âcivilizationâ, so I guess they did achieve A Thing if you watch it as satire.
1 Like