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By: John

John — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:32:47 +0000

I played a few songs on The Slants’ MySpace and I just didn’t think they weer all that great. Music is subjective. Plus, I didn’t quite hear any of the lyrics in the songs that were supposed to be about Asian-American alienation. I posted about The Slants because I thought people would be interested.

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:32:00 +0000

By: Another Gaijin

Another Gaijin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:20:32 +0000

In all fairness to John, his only original contribution was that “Personally, I’ve never heard of The Slants until tonight, and thought it odd that NPR did profile them, considering I don’t think that they are that great. Let me know if you think the same…”

I think you guys are being a little rough on him.
Ok, so…
1. Now he’s heard of them. Not many non-AmerOtaku have, let’s face it!
2. He thought it was “odd that NPR profiled them” since *he* didn’t “think they [were] that great.”
Well, I didn’t realize NPR used John’s musical tastes as their criteria for selecting bands to profile… I thought it was more that they were *news-worthy* in that they were (mostly) AA’s re-purposing their derogatory label and rendering it powerless through their music and popularity.
3. He then asked if we “felt the same.”
Hmmm… well, I guess not!

PS: I whole-heartedly have to agree with Ernie on one thing…
*** AnimeCon fans scare me too!!! ***
And I’m an old-skool otaku! (and we’re talking “Macross”, “Bubble Gum Crisis” and “Fist of the North Star” old skool here. I was anime when anime wasn;t cool!)

By: Another Gaijin

Another Gaijin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:20:00 +0000

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:13:53 +0000

Eonyoo,

Um…so John said that he thought their music wasn’t so great, and you chastise him to “show some pride in being Asian?” What does his musical tastes have to do with his Asian pride? Maybe he just doesn’t like them. Isn’t a guy entitled to judge whether something is good or bad without having his ethnic identity called into question?

By the way, I heard them too, and I agree with John.

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:13:00 +0000

Eonyoo,

By the way, I heard them too, and I agree with John.

By: Eonyoo

Eonyoo — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:09:43 +0000

No offense but I think you’re trying to mooch off of the Slants at the moment hahaha.
Looking around at your blogs, this is the only blog that surpassed five comments. how said. Happy that the Slants are giving you some publicity?

I’m a Slants fan. They give off music to encourage those who weren’t the typical boy or girl that fit in. And yet you’re ridiculing that by saying they’re not “that great”. And who do you think you are? man… show some pride in being Asian. I’m sorry if YOU never got made fun of for your chinky eyes and yellow skin but there are several of us that did. So show some respect. and how old are you? you look pretty darn old enough.