Turning Japanese by The Vapors
“I'm making a quick trade only two days into my last jam to bring you this gem from 1980. "Turning Japanese" has the dubious honor of being spawned from a one-hit wonder, The Vapors. What a song to do it on. The song has often been associated in the endless fray of "I don't get it, therefore sex" lyric demographic. In this case, references to masturbation. To just say this about that one facet is to deny the true intention and miss the point. "Turning Japanese" is about losing something you couldn't live without, and metamorphosing into a foreign being you don't really understand. In this case, obsession of love and the austerity and mystique of Japanese culture, respectively. The song doesn't just focus on culture aspects, and could even be applied to the modern day hikikomori. What I'm saying is this song came near close to predicting an entire subculture whose principle is characterized in isolation and mental anguish. Damn.”
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I'm making a quick trade only two days into my last jam to bring you this gem from 1980. "Turning Japanese" has the dubious honor of being spawned from a one-hit wonder, The Vapors. What a song to do it on. The song has often been associated in the endless fray of "I don't get it, therefore sex" lyric demographic. In this case, references to masturbation. To just say this about that one facet is to deny the true intention and miss the point. "Turning Japanese" is about losing something you couldn't live without, and metamorphosing into a foreign being you don't really understand. In this case, obsession of love and the austerity and mystique of Japanese culture, respectively. The song doesn't just focus on culture aspects, and could even be applied to the modern day hikikomori. What I'm saying is this song came near close to predicting an entire subculture whose principle is characterized in isolation and mental anguish. Damn.
Post-punk pop monster! One we're dropping at Blackwoods Beers Festival, #Nottingham Sat. 16th May... #BeerFestJamm
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Unbelievably catchy and likeable. Always makes me chuckle.
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おめでとう (omedetō) or congratulations, Japan - welcome to the grown-up rugby nations club!! Outstanding performance today. #RugbyNotJustForExColonies
Randomly heard this old favourite on the radio today (yes, radios still exist in this house ) and had to have it as a jam !
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The Vapors never matched the success of this song.
