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Eleven Yearz
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2010
Pop culture phenomena. I create videos that are thoroughly researched, unconventional & heartfelt. All enquiries: elevenyearz11@gmail.com
The Japanese Pop Idol Who Didn’t Exist
1980s Japan was thriving, though a coming ‘Idol Winter Period’ would lead to stagnation within popular idol culture, mirroring the country’s impending economic collapse. A mysterious performer would emerge from the cycle of clones and throwaway performers who had the ability to bring about genuine change within the music industry, her name was Haga Yui [芳賀ゆい]. The only problem though, was that she didn’t actually exist… Who was Haga Yui, and why did we never see her face?
I make videos about pop culture phenomena: youtube.com/@ElevenYearz
My website: elevenyearz.co.uk
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:39 Japan in the 80s
3:44 Idols
7:09 Making a fake girl real
10:34 Starlight Passport
15:52 An idol who just wasn’t there
18:25 Her legacy
20:39 Conclusion
Biblio:
• ‘Haga Yui: The first-order mystery female idol of Japanese showbiz’ Ai Thuong via Kilala (2021) kilala.vn/am-nhac-nhat/haga-yui-nu-idol-bi-an-bac-nhat-cua-showbiz-nhat.html
• ‘The Face of Her Generation’ Dave Kracker via Ceiling Gallery (2014) www.ceiling-gallery.com/blog/2014/6/14/haga-yui
• ‘I'm Alone, But Not Lonely’ Volker Grassmuck (2004) www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/articles/otaku
• ‘Haga Yu - Hoshizora no Passport [星空のパスポート]’ J-Canuck via Kayo Kyoku Plus (2019) kayokyokuplus.blogspot.com/2019/05/yui-haga-hoshizora-no-passport.html
• ‘Desire in Japanese Consumer Capitalism’ Patrick W. Galbraith (2013) masterofants.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/idols-book.pdf
• ‘Haga Yui Legend [芳賀ゆい - はがゆい伝説]’ VHS (1990) th-cam.com/video/O2nvGKmK7lI/w-d-xo.html
All music is produced by myself with the exceptions of 'I Really Want to Stay at Your House’ by Rosa Walton and ‘Starlight Passport’ by Haga Yui.
Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🖤
#HagaYui #Idol #Mystery
I make videos about pop culture phenomena: youtube.com/@ElevenYearz
My website: elevenyearz.co.uk
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:39 Japan in the 80s
3:44 Idols
7:09 Making a fake girl real
10:34 Starlight Passport
15:52 An idol who just wasn’t there
18:25 Her legacy
20:39 Conclusion
Biblio:
• ‘Haga Yui: The first-order mystery female idol of Japanese showbiz’ Ai Thuong via Kilala (2021) kilala.vn/am-nhac-nhat/haga-yui-nu-idol-bi-an-bac-nhat-cua-showbiz-nhat.html
• ‘The Face of Her Generation’ Dave Kracker via Ceiling Gallery (2014) www.ceiling-gallery.com/blog/2014/6/14/haga-yui
• ‘I'm Alone, But Not Lonely’ Volker Grassmuck (2004) www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/articles/otaku
• ‘Haga Yu - Hoshizora no Passport [星空のパスポート]’ J-Canuck via Kayo Kyoku Plus (2019) kayokyokuplus.blogspot.com/2019/05/yui-haga-hoshizora-no-passport.html
• ‘Desire in Japanese Consumer Capitalism’ Patrick W. Galbraith (2013) masterofants.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/idols-book.pdf
• ‘Haga Yui Legend [芳賀ゆい - はがゆい伝説]’ VHS (1990) th-cam.com/video/O2nvGKmK7lI/w-d-xo.html
All music is produced by myself with the exceptions of 'I Really Want to Stay at Your House’ by Rosa Walton and ‘Starlight Passport’ by Haga Yui.
Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🖤
#HagaYui #Idol #Mystery
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This Bus Stop in London is Haunted by Hellraiser VHS Tapes
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A lone bus stop in south-east London holds a mysterious secret, all directed towards the 1987 horror film Hellraiser. I had a slight cold whilst narrating this video, so my voice sounds a little different to usual - thanks for bearing with me! I make videos about pop culture phenomena: youtube.com/@ElevenYearz My website: elevenyearz.co.uk Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:56 Following the Phenomena 2:4...
Why Were Depeche Mode So Big in Russia?
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Depeche Mode’s fanbase in Russia has reached mythical levels of obsession, but why so? Music for the Masses is an exploration of Soviet Union-era censorship, 90s VHS home videos, the creation of Basildon New Town and one 2006 documentary film that captures this pop-culture phenomenon. I make videos about pop culture phenomena: youtube.com/@ElevenYearz My website: elevenyearz.co.uk Chapters: 0:1...
Are These Two 90s Action Movies Connected? Point Break, Terminator 2 & The LA River
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An exploration and analysis of how 1991's Point Break and Terminator 2 are linked not only by their respective filmmakers, Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron, but also seemingly by the canals, creeks and channels of the connecting Los Angeles River. I make videos about pop culture phenomena: youtube.com/@ElevenYearz My website: elevenyearz.co.uk Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:37 1990 3:32 Los Angeles ...
A New Way of Seeing Last Action Hero
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A look at the 1993 film Last Action Hero and the deeper ramifications one brilliant scene has on the rest of the movie. I initially put the first 5 minutes of this together as part of a video editor job application. Never got the role so I decide to continue editing and upload the final result to TH-cam. I make videos about pop culture phenomena: youtube.com/@ElevenYearz My website: elevenyearz...
около 1:12 на видео есть я УГАДАЙТЕ ГДЕ?
Somebody Made a Biography Yui Haga! I've been waiting for this!!
I think the theory doesn't work cause her mom and many irl actors also saw Jack
Well. They will never ever play in Russia again.
If anyone is hesitant to see this movie, just tell them: Arnold is the cheesy hero, Charles Dance is the villain, and Ian McKellen also appears as Death himself.
Im a TH-cam fiend at this point and this type of niche well thought out video essay is exactly what I'm here for. Please keep it up ❤
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The 80s was a horrible bleak decade for music. Music as a cultural phenomenon is highly susceptible to the Zeitgeist the spirit of the times. And you clearly hear that hopelessness, this horrible dispair and senselessness in all that dreadful synth pop. It was the beginning of the end for music in general since you could just program a keyboard with some beats and make music in quotation marks of course. People who could barely sing and should never even have touched and instrument began making music. Next step was techno and the complete and utter commodification of music. Now it's just another things you buy.
The 80s was a horrible bleak decade for music. Music as a cultural phenomenon is highly susceptible to the Zeitgeist the spirit of the times. And you clearly hear that hopelessness, this horrible dispair and senselessness in all that dreadful synth pop. It was the beginning of the end for music in general since you could just program a keyboard with some beats and make "music". People who could barely sing and should never even have touched and instrument began making music. Next step was techno and the complete and utter commodification of music. Now it's just another things you buy.
Imagine watching netflix and all of a sudden Benedict appears on the screen saying "are you still watching?"
I’m glad this video came up on my feed homie. ✌️
SLATER!!!!
Loved this movie as a kid and I definitely agree with the whole. This kid is living a fantasy and it's dangerous for the psyche of a youth. I was that youth
As someone who has moved close to LA and has had T2 in their top 2 movies. I’m telling you. The golden hour on the freeway into Los Angeles is depicted perfectly in movie and reality.
WOW MAN. JUST WOW.
I like this movie
Wow ! There is my brother on this video 😍!!!
Still at the beginning of the video, but I wonder if this will touch on the tragedy of Arnold's character. The movies only show him being under constant danger. So when we see what he actually lives like, it's just sad. A small lonely apartment, and he always has to deal with someone trying to kill him. Because one time, a movie probably showed someone waiting for Arnold. It was a one time movie gag, but for Arnold's character it became part of his normal routine. His life was designed by lazy screenwriters hoping to squeeze out another movie. The end result leaves the main character a hollow shell of a person. Because of this movie, I think about the off-time of action characters. Whenever I watch some crazy action movie, I wonder what the character's apartment looks like. What do they have in their bedroom? Are they able to get a good sleep?
This was great. I hope you made more videos like this!
Prima o poi ci andrò a Basildon a calcare il terreno dove sono vissuti i miei idoli da adolescenti!!!! P.s. Sono nato anch'io il 9 maggio come Dave ma ne '65 😊
My babysitter took me to see this when I was 4, movie is freaking awesome 👏
Personal theory: Jack goes from his movie into Danny's movie. One is about Hollywood's California and the other about Hollywood's NY. Neither of the two are the real places. Danny is spiraling into darkness, so he "imports" the only light he knows into his grim dystopia. Slater is from the Beverly Hills Cop cliché and Danny is from Taxi Driver clichés. Slater loses his super powers, because in Danny's movie clichés people get hurt and die. It's not super powers, it's just about knowing the rules of the setting - neither is reality.
A brilliant film, but Ferris Bueler did talking to the audience through the camera first.
This is cool and interesting. I have Hellraiser on DVD ! xx
The guy plays with kids? Thats not a new way of looking at it. Thats making up a bunch of crap based on nothing. Might as well write a whole different movie.
Loaded Weapon 1 lol
Nothing new about the fourth wall being broken. It appeared early on in film, it was a feature of the 1966 film A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum and has similar parallel to fake worlds bleeding through into the real such as Who Framed Roger Rabit in 1988. So the concepts were well known by 1993 when this film was made.
When I watch a movie, do I play it, or does it play me instead?
This was really cool man. I was here for the Hellraiser and Last Action Hero video. You have an incredible direction, editing style, and writing. I only wish the algorithm hit this video as hard. Why did you choose this subject? What direction are you going to take next?
It's not just the Beatles who were revered in the USSR then. I thought that level of idolatry only happened once - to the Beatles.
Love this. After rewatching again as an adult a few years ago, I realized how brilliant this movie was. I don't think hardcore fans of the action genre at that time realized a lot of their favorite movies were unrealistic and followed the same tropes. So they hated it 🤷🏿♂️
both realities were alternate realities
you used that nothing word postmodern...
Jackanory 24
Love this film
Great video, I enjoyed it Sir. Wow, just realizing it was created 4 years ago. Classics never die :) Last Action Hero was a good movie. Most people didn't get it. I'm glad you did!
Depeche Mode was big in Hungary behind the Iron Curtain, too. Hungarian DM fans, the "Black Army" dressed in black head to toe, sporting Dave or Martin haircuts. Communist police sometimes assumed they are some sort of Fascist gang due to the black shirts they wore. And anyone who was not there to sing "Happy Birthday, Martin!" in 1985 at the Volán pálya concert always remained a "new fan" for the old DM heads.
If you lived around there in about 2014 you’d know they were on bust stops all around queens road/ New Cross/ Camberwell. I even know who did it.
Is this a movie review or political propaganda? Mayor Dinkins did not clean up 42nd Street. Mayor Giuliani did. The Walt Disney deal to restore the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street happened under Mayor Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani. This partnership was part of Giuliani's broader efforts to revitalize Times Square and make it more appealing to tourists and families. The Disney deal became a symbolic moment in the transformation of 42nd Street, attracting other investments and helping shift the area’s image. The New Amsterdam Theatre reopened in 1997 as a family-friendly entertainment venue, with The Lion King as one of its first major productions. The crime statistics under Dinkins were at an all time high, including 11 murders in his last year in office.
Thank you for doing this deep dive analysis in Last action hero. I always knew there was something truly special about this film and it wasn't for the audience at the time to understand until many years later. And how it handles its meta narrative. This film can possibly go deeper into that meta narrative and I love how you brought up the Danny psych analysis theory. I never thought of that before and I actually like it!
Chefs kiss to that final configuratuon
Death is a metaphysical construct ACROSS universes, an absolute value that makes up the fabric of every universe. Much like entropy, oblivion, or infinity. That is why he maintained his powers. He is a necessary part of EVERY universe.
Did Last Action Hero actually invent isekai? /s don't @ me bro.
Great video. But, T-100? Where do you get that from T-800, Cyberdyne Systems model 101? ;-)
Used to live right by it, not there anymore though :( most i saw was 4 copies on the roof and it was hilarious
The cover is the best part of Hellraiser. The movie itself is rubbish
I liked seeing Death having the same powers in reality as in the film universe. Everything dies. Unlike many of the elements in fiction, death comes for us all. ~
nice.
Great video. simply made, good story telling.
This was genuinely amazing. I'm currently writing my diss on this topic, focusing on Hungarian music but also what music listening was like in the lead up to the 1990 fall. so it helps a lot, especially the bibliography in the bio!
Thank you, a lot of this video was pulled from my own MA diss research. A similar phenomena to this is Morrissey's fanbase in Mexico, maybe worth looking in to. Good luck with your studies!
Depeche Mode was big in Hungary behind the Iron Curtain, too. Hungarian DM fans, the "Black Army" dressed in black head to toe, sporting Dave or Martin haircuts. Communist police sometimes assumed they are some sort of Fascist gang due to the black shirts they wore. And anyone who was not there to sing "Happy Birthday, Martin!" in 1985 at the Volán pálya concert always remained a "new fan" for the old DM heads.
@@urhunn7778 hi! Yes that’s what im writing about specifically. There’s 101 klub in Budapest and my dad knows the owner, who knew the person or I think was the person who ran the depeche mode fan club. I didn’t know this specific event though, thank you for informing me.