Goats. Sex. Harajuku Girls.
Right now Gwen Stefani’s Wind It Up single is number seven on the Billboard’s Top Ten.
So I figure it’s about time for more Japanophilia of Gwen Stefani (covered before on the 3Yen in World tour with geisha arm-candy).
Here’s Stefani’s music video for Wind It Up with the “Harjuku Girls” as wind-up toys for Stefani yodelling a mash-up of the Lonely Goatherd song.
Yikes!
From Gwen Stefani’s official website FAQ…
Q: Are the Harajuku girls going to be a part of the next tour or are they retired?
A: The Harajuku Girls are absolutely a part of this new tour. You might have seen them in the new video, “Wind It Up,” but you didn’t recognize them with their new blond hair. Their dancing is wicked. Check’em out winding it up.
I think that the stand-up comic, Margaret Cho, put it best when she labeled the Harajuku Girls as a “minstrel show.” Mihi Ahn has also had a few choice words about them too at Salon.com.
Wind it up
Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Yodellay, yodallay, yodal-HO
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December 3rd, 2006 at 7:48 am
Worst. Lyrics. EVER! I saw a recent picture of Gwen’s new look and thought “what horrid new fad music is she creating now?” Now I sadly know. I thought she was done with these girls. They have become nothing more than a tool to her. It’s so disrespectful.
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Nathan wrote:
>I thought she was done with these girls.
Well at least the Harajuku Girls no longer have have to play “geisha’ and schoolgirls. Saaaa.
December 8th, 2006 at 6:24 am
whos complaining :) she makes great music, and the girls do dance wicked :)
December 13th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
What a terrible noise. Crap lyrics, crap dancing, crap style. This is why I only listen to old stuff.