I’m really not sure what I just read. I mean, I know what I read in terms of the words - but I don’t understand what its purpose is. But I don’t necessarily think it matters…
It was thoroughly diverting, held my attention and made me wish that more people wrote pieces like this where the only real purpose is the conceit, and the subsequent journey the author takes you on.
dooglius · 16m ago
Not everything needs to have a purpose. The most likely explanation to me is just that inspiration happened to strike the author as he heard the song.
tough · 2h ago
I also read it fully, which i don't usually do.
I'm just left guessing if there's some cryptpic yet important geo-political statement hidden in a funny post about some celebrity i had never heard of until now
sylens · 1h ago
It’s a satire on how deeply some fandoms read into lyrics or “hidden messages” from artists and works of art in general
4ggr0 · 2h ago
to me it reads as a well done parody on conspiracy theories.
tough · 2h ago
right! that's it, its like this nonsense numbers conspiracy theories that seem ramblings of some mentally ill person, but written in a more coherent, interestnig way that any of these (they usually are harder/cryptic to read due to its nonsense) so it ends up being an easier read as a parody than an actual conspiracy theory
willvarfar · 39m ago
So I just had a fun 5 minutes trying to talk gemini around to believing that Shawn has a position on the Kuril Islands dispute by submitting all the evidence in the article, but the llm is pretty impressively consistent and insistent that the song is figurative etc. Miss the days when it was so easy to get an LLM to argue for anything by persistence.
rwmj · 2h ago
Sort of on-topic: The Kuril islands are a big deal in Hokkaido. I attended a protest there (by accident) a few years ago with many Japanese demonstrating for a return of the islands to Japan. It was kind of odd as an outsider because the protest clearly has no effect, and there's no chance of it ever happening outside of Russia losing a war.
nati0n · 1h ago
This… this is impressive dedication to a gag blog post. Enjoyed the read.
Brajeshwar · 2h ago
Oh Man. A few years back, my daughter played so much of Lost in Japan repeatedly. I thought the singer was another girl, because of the others in the playlist such as Kate Perry, and Justin Beiber.
tempodox · 1h ago
FYI, Justin Bieber is not a girl.
falcor84 · 1h ago
I see you italicized Bieber, this is surely not a coincidence, because nothing is ever a coincidence.
There are so many gender bender singers in the music industry, White and Black and Chinaman alike.
The lead singer of Yazoo/Yaz was like a baritone or something but turned out to be a fat lady (age of MTV)
Erasure’s frontman, Andy Bell, and all those femmy New Wave falsettos, they were playing girl roles and boys learned how to sing like girls from Erasure on the radio
The point of New Wave and men in makeup was sowing confusion and doubt. The effects it had on me were these, as well as not caring anymore and indiscriminately giving ear or singing along to anything in any register. Pete Burns is dead — Dead or Alive, formerly; now simply dead.
Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, pre-pubescent castrato voice: macho and boyish attitude, but a range for girls to sing in.
Wham! — ditto, Blue-eyed soul but falsetto head voice with a little JITTERBUG baritone
Kate McKinnon portrayed Mr Bieber on SNL and she was genius. You know Kate, fromGhostbusters and Bridesmaids and full lesbo-mode opposite Billie Eilish for 3+ fake commercials. Instant classic. Justin Bieber is an honorary romantic femme.
dkga · 1h ago
Precisely the type of thing I immensely enjoy reading on a holiday!
fshafique · 2h ago
And thus was born a new game, one that combined knowledge of history, politics, and pop trivia.
CommenterPerson · 1h ago
I'm patting myself on the back. After reading the first couple paragraphs, I went Eh? and came here to the comments. Thanks everyone for saving me the time.
erratic_chargi · 1h ago
Man this is so dumb I love it
Unfortunately the song is stuck in my head again...
It was thoroughly diverting, held my attention and made me wish that more people wrote pieces like this where the only real purpose is the conceit, and the subsequent journey the author takes you on.
I'm just left guessing if there's some cryptpic yet important geo-political statement hidden in a funny post about some celebrity i had never heard of until now
There are so many gender bender singers in the music industry, White and Black and Chinaman alike.
The lead singer of Yazoo/Yaz was like a baritone or something but turned out to be a fat lady (age of MTV)
Erasure’s frontman, Andy Bell, and all those femmy New Wave falsettos, they were playing girl roles and boys learned how to sing like girls from Erasure on the radio
The point of New Wave and men in makeup was sowing confusion and doubt. The effects it had on me were these, as well as not caring anymore and indiscriminately giving ear or singing along to anything in any register. Pete Burns is dead — Dead or Alive, formerly; now simply dead.
Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, pre-pubescent castrato voice: macho and boyish attitude, but a range for girls to sing in.
Wham! — ditto, Blue-eyed soul but falsetto head voice with a little JITTERBUG baritone
Kate McKinnon portrayed Mr Bieber on SNL and she was genius. You know Kate, fromGhostbusters and Bridesmaids and full lesbo-mode opposite Billie Eilish for 3+ fake commercials. Instant classic. Justin Bieber is an honorary romantic femme.