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Love, Angel, Music, BLEH

7th November 2005

Love, Angel, Music, BLEH

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Am I missing something? How are there not more people offended by Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Girls? She has four seemingly subservient asian women at her bleach blonde beck and call, bestows idiotic names on them (Love, Angel, Music, Baby), purportedly doesn’t allow them to speak English in public . . . and it’s supposed to be cute? Seriously?

Margaret Cho has an interesting, and slightly sad, comment about it on her blog.

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  1. 1 On November 8th, 2005, kq said:

    Wow, I’ve been missing much lately, Y! Sorry, Toy Fair’s got me down. 🙁 I too was just thinking about the Harajuku Girls and the new Harajuku tour. Is Harajuku the new black? Why is it so cool all of a sudden, or just cool to Gwen?

    posted on November 8th, 2005 at 2:15 am

  2. 2 On November 8th, 2005, echan said:

    Well, I think that Gwen is following the Madonna model, where she needs to have someone subservient to her. When Madonna was her age (35? 36?) she had a cadre of young men as her flock (think shirtless, gay? back-up dancers). Gwen is married, so after ditching her band, so, I think that she needed some sort of back up that would be attractive to her audience without threatening her marriage?

    posted on November 8th, 2005 at 3:09 pm

  3. 3 On November 8th, 2005, ToastyKen said:

    Yeah, I have to say that the first time I saw them on stage on some late night talk show, I found it somewhat offensive, too. I mean, it’s one thing to be into Japanese chic, but to tow around four Japanese girls as if they’re interchangeable toys? Blech.

    posted on November 8th, 2005 at 4:39 pm

  4. 4 On November 8th, 2005, ToastyKen said:

    echan: Oh, I’d much prefer if she’d just go kiss Britney and Christina or something! 😛

    posted on November 8th, 2005 at 4:39 pm

  5. 5 On November 8th, 2005, ToastyKen said:

    echan: Oh, I’d much prefer if she’d just go kiss Britney and Christina or something! 😛

    posted on November 8th, 2005 at 4:39 pm

  6. 6 On November 8th, 2005, vitamin_g said:

    just when you think you’ve learned to accessorize some celeb has to go and upset the whole balance. how are we (the non-rock stars) supposed to compete? okay girls, who want’s to follow me around all day? better yet, how can i get that job?

    posted on November 8th, 2005 at 6:12 pm

  7. 7 On November 9th, 2005, echan said:

    Vitamin G: I heard that it’s pretty easy to pick up a troop of Brownies from Hermosa Beach as your back up.

    posted on November 9th, 2005 at 12:00 pm

  8. 8 On November 10th, 2005, vitamin_g said:

    good to know! 🙂 i would like to be known from now on as vitamin g and the brownie bites.

    posted on November 10th, 2005 at 2:04 pm