“Please Enjoy”
I’ve already heard this Beck song some time ago and read an interview with him saying that the last time he was on a Shinkansen/Bullet-train he started tripping on the surreal recorded engrish announcements of robot-like girl saying, “Prease enjoy.”
HELL YES
music video by beck dir: garth jennings 2005 :: Windows Media —or— Real Media
UPDATE: Damn I just found that I blogged this before on a different site. I knew the song and Japanese info was too familiar. Here a better explanation of the origin of “Please Enjoy.”
mtv.com, - News- Aug 19, 2005…”Hell Yes,” …The bleepy, blippy tune features vocal contributions from none other than Christina Ricci, who voices a Japanese sushi waitress (and is credited in the album’s liner notes as “Kurisuti-na”)….I had this voice in my head that was saying ‘please enjoy.’ I think it was kind of lodged in my brain from flights to Japan, or rides on the bullet train where you hear the announcer saying, ‘We will be arriving in 15 minutes, lunch cart will be coming. Please enjoy,’ Beck said. “So it was just one of those things that felt like it should be in the song. And we went around to a bunch of sushi places in L.A., sort of, like, auditioning waitresses for the part. But none of them got it. “So one day Christina was in the studio, and she tried it and just absolutely nailed it. … It’s really not funky at all. Kind of like me saying in a deep, boring voice, ‘Yeah, that’s it.’ It most definitely was not hip-hop…more….
Of course, the real star of this new video is not Beck, the four QRIO robots breakdancing.
Watch QRIO surf and hang-ten on the official website: “Please enjoy.”
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