Here we have an American-born Chinese first speaking French and then using Japanese music (played with Japanese instruments) on an electronic bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGvQZvD4hk
“Japanese Boy” was included on the soundtrack (and an in-world radio station) for GTA: Vice City (2002), set in a fictionalized 1980s. I don’t know if that raised the song’s historical profile at all — perhaps only for a certain age group — but it stuck around long past its expiration date.
Kung Fu Fighting was the bane of my life as a karateka in the UK at the time.
Should have also mentioned this hit which came out a year earlier.
“Turning Japanese” by The Vapors.
https://youtu.be/nGy9uomagO4?si=vx8jGuhJOO2BWT0J
Another non-favourite of mine. And I thought I'd erased it from my memory - Cheers.
Ahh, this completely escaped my memory
Here we have an American-born Chinese first speaking French and then using Japanese music (played with Japanese instruments) on an electronic bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGvQZvD4hk
Is that cultural appropriation?
I don't know, and I don't care.
I love it.
“Japanese Boy” was included on the soundtrack (and an in-world radio station) for GTA: Vice City (2002), set in a fictionalized 1980s. I don’t know if that raised the song’s historical profile at all — perhaps only for a certain age group — but it stuck around long past its expiration date.