UNCATEGORIZED MINDSMASHING: WE ARE THE WORLD
Um...sorry. You had to see this. See, we're working on another post right now, and that means we should technically be working on that post, but then someone sends you footage of Japanese people singing "We Are The World" in blackface, and then you have to post just to get the haunting image out of your head.
When you drop a nuclear bomb on a country, this sort of thing just happens. That and the film Legend of the Overfiend combined make the most powerful of arguments against nuclear war we could ever possibly construct. Harry Truman, had you known, you would have at least hesitated.
We're sorry. If we were Japanese, we'd commit ritual suicide to atone for showing you that, but being American we have no shame, and will instead get another cup of coffee.
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Blackface notwithstanding, I’d say first prize goes to Japanese Springsteen. He really rolled up his sleeves and got in there.
by IdentityCrisis on May 29, 2008 2:13 PM EDT reply actions
Asian Bruce Springsteen might have a future in the music business.
+100 Sakes to you, good sir.
by Ground0EastLansing on May 29, 2008 2:13 PM EDT reply actions
If you’re trying to scare us off, that won’t do it. That ruled.
by ChemE93 on May 29, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions
Some celestial event. No – no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should’ve sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful… I had no idea.
by Derrick on May 29, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions
It is entertainment such as this that keeps the meter running.
Btw Orson, forget the coffee…lattes baby! Note correction at end of introduction.
http://juicedsportsblog.com/2008/05/top-100-valuable-sportsblogs.html#more-441
by hunglikehussain on May 29, 2008 2:18 PM EDT reply actions
Orson, this positively saved my life today! EDSBS is the only reason I come to work anymore…today i was pushed to the brink of impaling myself on a pitchfork until watching this video made me realize that there indeed are things to live for…tears…streaming…down…
BRA-FING-VO
by Nate Crosby on May 29, 2008 2:34 PM EDT reply actions
AWESOME!
I wonder if the blackfaced participants will get the Ted Danson treatment.
by SoCalBryan on May 29, 2008 2:40 PM EDT reply actions
Man I hated this fucking song the first time it was done……but I loved it this time.
by Last Dragon on May 29, 2008 2:53 PM EDT reply actions
Yeah, Japanese Springsteen and Lauper brought it. Ray Charles looked pretty good, but I think it was just the glasses. Not really a special performance on the level of The Boss-san.
Why did you apologize for showing that? Nothing else could have possibly summed up more succinctly what I think Japan is really like all the time.
by Hannibal Montegna on May 29, 2008 3:01 PM EDT reply actions
@ 14 – that really is what Japan is like all the time.
by beauford @ theonlygamethatmatters on May 29, 2008 3:04 PM EDT reply actions
Japanese Springsteen truly honors his ancestors with such an auspicious performance.
by robert on May 29, 2008 3:09 PM EDT reply actions
14/15, yes, yes it is. (In case you missed it from yesterday.)
by Brian O'Blivion on May 29, 2008 3:27 PM EDT reply actions
If Asia ever has there version of Eurovision, this gives Benny Lava a serious run for first place.
A round of Imperial Fleet Torpedoes to everyone (sake/ Sapporo boilermakers)
by Out of Conference on May 29, 2008 3:53 PM EDT reply actions
I should have used “their” there in that there sentence up there. ^^
by Out of Conference on May 29, 2008 3:54 PM EDT reply actions
There, there Ooc. They’’re confusing sometimes.
by hunglikehussain on May 29, 2008 4:10 PM EDT reply actions
why is adam sandler in japan doing springsteen impressions???
by gerry dorsey on May 29, 2008 4:48 PM EDT reply actions
I think that really was Cyndi Rauper. Gotta make a buck somehow. And Birry Joel should have got more facetime.
by The General on May 29, 2008 4:58 PM EDT reply actions
Cannot stop laughing…..
This post makes up for all of the recent crappy Friday bunda posts….
…fight on!
by Stacy Keibler Luvs me on May 29, 2008 7:53 PM EDT reply actions
If the Japs had known that losing the war would have led them to this, they might have fought harder.
by karlhungus12 on May 29, 2008 11:07 PM EDT reply actions

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