Good heavens! I see that Captain Kirk and the Gorn never quite resolved their differences on Cestus III so they're at it again on Earth via a video game. Ah, parodies of "Star Trek"...the gift that keeps on giving. I have been watching the latest entry in the franchise "Strange New Worlds" over the past several weeks, and it looks like the Gorn there have been upgraded into homicidal xenomorphs, so apparently the laughter is now gone.
Mizyu, Rin, Suzuka and Kanon of Atarashii Gakko!, and yep, it looks like the school uniform-garbed song-and-dance quartet has ditched its last two words of "...no Leaders" for a straight exclamation mark, have also their own beef with sentient reptilian races. I was rather wondering whether the music video for their September 2021 single "Pineapple Kryptonite" was going for a Tarentino-esque theme but then I soon caught the Area 51 signs and eventually the ladies were going hardcore on a hapless space invader.
To be honest, I'd also wondered whether the title was just another riff on nonsensical English word salad a la Pikotaro's "PPAP: Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen", but actually "Pineapple Kryptonite" does have a method to its madness if you watch the official music video to its end. If only Captain Pike and crew had some of that Ananas comosus to combat the torture Gorn porn. Incidentally, only several weeks ago in May, a rave-friendly Yohji Igarashi remix version of "Pineapple Kryptonite" was released as you can see and hear above.
Recently, they were selected as the ambassadors for the Japanese release of the new Elvis movie. Lots of cute pictures and TikTok's of them hanging out with Austin Butler and Baz Luhrmann.
ReplyDeleteWow! That would be something to see them do their own version of an Elvis song. Somehow, I think that was a good choice on the promoter's part to have Atarashii Gakko! as the ambassadors.
DeleteAlthough, I would rather someone else from the Japanese music industry to be the ambassador for an Elvis' movie Atarashii Gakko do show off a little bit of the eccentric wild side of Japanese music.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, though, I can actually see all of the ladies being crazy enough to put on the pompadour wigs and rhinestone-studded clothes to perform "Don't Be Cruel".
DeleteBesides, when Elvis premiered he was seen as the absolute wild (and at the time, horribly immoral) side of American music. I'm old enough to remember when one TV network actually hid his moving pelvis during a performance with a black square.