Interesting! I watched an interview with him at the same time I watched the video, so now his persona in each is hopelessly confused with the other, but I'm glad to see people talking intelligently about the politics of Asian male power/sexuality. There was a rather stupid article in the Post this morning about the prevalence of white-man-API-woman interracial couples on TV ads, with toxic comments, that just made me want to tear my hair out. M.
Yup. Don't think it hasn't escaped my notice that with the exception of Ryan Seacrest, pretty much every interview/appearance I've seen of Psy has been "Dance for us, silly Asian man, dance!"
(On the other hand, the Seacrest interview is excellent.)
I think I agree more with the commenter who said that the absence of Asian-American artists in the US musical scene was more disturbing. I'm not a musical expert, so I'm not sure how clear I can be in what I want to say, but I'm going to try anyway. The English speaking world has shared what amounts to a musical conversation for at least around the last 50-100 years (with occasional side conversations). There are certain commonalities between a large amount of the popular music in the US, Canada, Aus, UK, Ireland, etc. that is missing in music that has not been part of that conversation. Much of European pop music sounds too tinny or electronic or something to me, too high? IDK, lacking in musical weight in my ear and Asian pop music often has the same problem for me. I don't, however, have the same problem with traditional music from non-English sources or many trad/mod fusion sounds.
OTOH, Asian-American musicians shouldn't run into the same problem, as they should share much of the same musical vocabulary as European-American musicians or African-American musicians, or British musicians or Canadians or Irish musicians, so the fact that there are very very few popular Asian-American musicians is more worrisome to me than the lack of breakthrough Asian to US market artists.
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Date: 2012-09-28 04:42 pm (UTC)I'm glad to see people talking intelligently about the politics of Asian male power/sexuality. There was a rather stupid article in the Post this morning about the prevalence of white-man-API-woman interracial couples on TV ads, with toxic comments, that just made me want to tear my hair out. M.
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Date: 2012-09-28 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-28 06:12 pm (UTC)(On the other hand, the Seacrest interview is excellent.)
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Date: 2012-09-28 08:11 pm (UTC)(Wait, Ryan Seacrest interviewed PSY?)
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Date: 2012-09-28 08:24 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bom6eoPkRQQ
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Date: 2012-09-28 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-29 01:41 am (UTC)OTOH, Asian-American musicians shouldn't run into the same problem, as they should share much of the same musical vocabulary as European-American musicians or African-American musicians, or British musicians or Canadians or Irish musicians, so the fact that there are very very few popular Asian-American musicians is more worrisome to me than the lack of breakthrough Asian to US market artists.