![]() ![]() It's hard to imagine that none of the people involved - the artistic oversight at Sony Music (a Japanese company), the director of the film, Lavigne's PR team and lead singer of Nickelback Chad Kroeger (Lavigne's husband, co-writer and erstwhile Hello Kitty enthusiast) - thought to stop her. Especially after Gwen Stefani made this same mistake when she unveiled her Harajuku Girls, right around when she went platinum with " Hollaback Girls." And only half a year after Miley Cyrus used her black dancers like props while she performed "Blurred Lines," the most downloaded song in UK history, at the VMAs. Watching this video is sort of like having someone blow loudly in your ear while they shine a really bright light in your eyes. The whole thing seems to suggest that all Japanese women are as childish as 29-year-old Lavigne. It's up for debate if the most racist moment of the whole thing is when she shouts "Mina saiko arigato," when she has her dancers (still unsmiling) pose for a photograph and then smile for the first and only time when they see it, or when she giddily claps as she orders sushi from a very severe looking Japanese chef. And she, of course, has a troupe of unsmiling Japanese dancers behind her. In it, Lavigne - like Gwen Stefani before her - bastardizes Japanese Kawaii culture. On Tuesday, Lavigne released the video (since pulled from YouTube) for her new song "Hello Kitty." The song is offensively bad. Every time the beat drops in Avril Lavigne's new music video for "Hello Kitty," she shouts "Kawaii!" like it's a battle cry. ![]()
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