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Madonna’s Girl Gone Wild recycles decades of her oeuvre

March 21, 2012fetishChange, decades, gays, Girl Gone Wild, grow, image, learn, loyalty, Madonna, Moe, never, oeuvre, old, singtokyo moe Leave a comment

Oh, Madonna never grows old, learns to sing, or changes her image. At least she maintains her loyalty to the gays!

Too cool for school

January 9, 2012fetish, male fashion, men, Public space, Uncanny20, adult, AKB48, Aso City, Coming of Age, cool, emoting, faux, fried, hair, mayor, Moe, schoolgirls, Seiji no Hi, sing, Sun Plaza, updoes, warning, years oldtokyo moe View all 2 comments

The mayor of Aso City stuns 20 year olds at Coming of Age Day (Seiji no Hi) by singing and pantomiming a hit from AKB48, the 4 dozen popular faux school girls who are Japan’s most popular band and advertising monster. The mayor’s singing and emoting strike a stern warning to the young things to never become adults. Poor 20 year olds of Aso City! (Source: Neojapanisme)

I had a much better time greeting and mingling with the 20 year olds celebrating today outside Nakano Sun Plaza. The girls were a riot of faux rabbit and pink/orange/red kimonos and complicated updoes. Many of the boys fried their hair and en-bigg-ed it, paired with shiny suits evocative of men’s host clubs and mid-tier salary men and occasionally traditional men’s kimonos, one in shocking pink. More pix soon. Here’s last years’ photos!

I also met a very handsome Korean photographer, and realized I wasn’t the only one who came to gawk!

Is SMAP entering a creepy Michael Jackson phase?

January 6, 2011men, Public space40, boy band, creepy, dance, disgust, evil, Johnny, Michael Jackson, original, perform, Photoshop, pity, posing, retire, sing, SMAP, subtract, teenagertokyo moe View all 2 comments

I feel alternate disgust and pity for SMAP, Japan’s original boy band from the early 1990s. Each year, they release new CDs, sell stuff in ads, and hog a lot of TV time. But it’s increasingly clear that with each year, the band members are desperately trying to subtract a year from their appearances. It’s unsettling to see these 40 year olds posing as teenagers.

In their recent appearance on the New Years Eve Kouhaku show, they did not dance, sang very poorly, and basically showed no interest in performing. Does evil Johnny prevent them from just retiring? At least they are keeping the Photoshop jockeys in business.