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Have a Nice Day

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I’m off for the weekend. We have a no laptops rule on road trips. So, won’t be posting. Setting up some open threads for the interim. Peace.

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The guy in the yellow tie is my favorite.

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  9. Great video, the title should be:Atack of the Happy Japanese Salary Man.

    We have made ‘Guess the plot of the kpop/kpop video’ into a game.

    In this one, three women ride to the top of a tower in iPhone shaped elevators. They discover they are all wearing the same outfit and engage in a dance off while terrified citizens fir lasers at them.

    https://youtu.be/vxl4gsvgEQY

  10. From what little I know about Japanese culture, I had a feeling that the song was more bittersweet than the music and video let on. The smiles just seemed a little too fixed and fake for the song’s content to be 100% genuine. So I looked up a translation and, lo and behold, the video and music form a very ironic juxtaposition with the content of the lyrics.

  11. Their odd-gait has some Edo-period cultural significance, but my sieve-like mind has forgotten it’s context.

    Looking at a few of their other YouTube videos, behind the smiles and forced-happiness everything has a “living hell”-feel; the school-girl-fetish attire, the overall nihilism, the isolation. No-wonder young Japanese men aren’t dating, marrying, or even leaving their apartments or parents’ homes. #Japan is NOT winning.

  12. @ Ted B.: The lyrics are about a guy having to keep up appearances as he goes about his day, watching couples as he deals with his own feelings, which are unrequited. The Japanese have a very keen sense of irony.

  13. I find the theme if keeping up appearances and frustration over losing out on women to men with better appearances is a recurring theme , jpop. In Kpop a recurring theme is crushing on someone who is unaware of you and socially unavailable

  14. We could also call it synchronized individualality (sic) . The Japanese culture had a great deal of conformaty built into it. They have wild fantasy lives ( just look at real anime, hentai and manga) But their day to day existence can be rather regimented.