I do love that they’re little. At least she can just be like no little men. You get old carrot shavings today for being little shits 😂 I did not like your song. It’d be like if your hamster was nasty and racist wtf do I do with you 🤣
I feel like it's their way of trying to remedy the racism, but there's so many different types of traditions, especially here in Asia, that it just comes off as hollow
Jews Asians 🤝 being targeted by that lyric in particular (Context: I'm a Jew) Edit: come to think of it, there are actually a lot of stereotypes shared by both anti-Asian racism and antisemitism? I guess because historically Asian people and Jewish people both tend to be immigrants to places like the USA, and are seen as outsiders/intruders? Still seems odd how that turned out. If you're both Jewish and of Asian descent (I'm Jewish but of European descent and Ashkenazic), what's your experience with this? If you feel like sharing?
I do see what they’re saying by saying this is meant to satirize fetishization of Asian women (it’s so insane that I can’t see any other explanation), but they don’t do it with any tact or degree of self-awareness. Like, compare this to Oingo Boingo’s Little Girls, which the lead singer wrote about how a lot of big names in Hollywood creep on young girls. In the song, they intentionally make the lead sound creepy and out-of-his-mind, framing the stuff he says as insane and evil. Satire without clear demonstration of intent is indistinguishable from what it is satirizing, especially when it’s something as inherently unhinged as racism.
yeah the article said they were satirizing "themselves" and other men which..... they dont have any of the self awareness required to satirize yourself. this is just an exaggerated depiction of racist fetishization without actually critiquing the racism so the end product is just exaggerated over the top racism.
This feels like a classic example of "schrodinger's asshole". If you're not familiar, that's the dude who says something potentially offensive, and the decides if it was a joke or not depending upon people's reaction. "Oh you caught me being racist? I was actually making fun of racists so it sounds like you're the racist to me."
It's very very common. It's one of the laziest and stupidest ways to avoid accountability "oh i was joking" but you have to be kind a stupid and lazy(in thinking) to be a racist soo...
So it’s both offensive and not until measured by an audience. So by MW, there’s an infinite set of universes where every reaction happened and yet somehow there is no universe where this video isn’t offensive.
"these tiny tiny... uh- honkeys" cracks me the fck up every time also i'm THRILLED they let the full 8 seconds of total silence play out, it's just perfection
As an Asian this circles right back around to being hysterically funny for me, but yeesh is it definitely a hard watch. This has been around for around a decade now, I'm so sorry that you two had to see this now when you could have gone your whole lives not knowing it exists.
Just in case you truly missed it, "Your momma's so pretty" is the stereotype that Asian women don't noticeably age. So called "positive" stereotypes are still harmful.
I wouldn’t say that Asian women don’t noticeably age is a stereotype. Considering with most older asian women do age well. I’ve seen many where you look at a picture of say a 40 year old Chinese women to when she was 20 and she has aged well and there is barely a difference. I don’t think it’s a stereotype, just good genetics in general.
@@Noooiiiissseee No one said it necessarily does. However in the context of a song fetishizing asian women and specifically mentioning that age doesn't change how they would it CONTEXTUALLY does
Nope, not getting me this time boyz. After watching this on the pod, I had this song stuck in my head for two days. It was like being haunted by a band of racist ghosts. And on that note Happy Halloween everyone!!! 🎃
Every time the band said something I would think to myself, "That's it. That's got to be the most racist line in the song. It can't get worse from there." And every time I was proven wrong almost immediately.
"these tiny tiny honkeys are swimming around in the bath, she got in the bath and threw these tiny men into the bath" was the absolute funniest way to explain that. I was near tears rewinding that and laughing which blissfully delayed the next thing that happened
wow this unearthed a memory- 'asian girls like anal' was definitely an edgy internet 00s 'joke' but clearly a short lived one. thanks again for the psychic damage boys 👌 i could have died without ever remembering and golly what a waste
Which is weird because the most common stereotype I've heard about anal (at least for women/in a heterosexual context) is that it's a thing white Christian girls/women do when they want to have sex before marriage but still "technically" be virgins on their wedding night (if we go by a literal interpretation of the neoclassical, biologically essentialist, misogynistic understanding of what "virginity" means, etc).
The song is just never appropriately disparaging to the racist white men so it doesn't work as satire. "17 or 23, doesn't matter to me" could have been improved by adding "because I'm a creep." Every filler line they came up with could have been replaced by actually demeaning the racist white man characters they were supposedly playing. Also, they are objectifying the actress they hired so that completely negates their attempt at satire.
It would be so easy to do, as well. They could have thrown in a line about weeaboos who think they're Japanese because they watch anime, or about obese 45 year old white guys who go overseas for sex tourism - it'd do a much better job making it clear that it's satire.
@philipsalama8083 oh, make sure to specify that they're poor, ugly and disabled, too, then. really maximise the collateral damage on random unrelated people.
She has them in a cage and is going on dates with all of them and they’re calling her their Asian girl? It seems more like her harem of tiny white men.
I love how Jordan is channeling Sleep Paralysis Demon Energy. Just, his pure *glee* at Jarvis's (and the audience's) horrified reactions. Top tier video boyz!
You know how usually you can point out the worst part out of something you heard? Yeah, not in this one everything was so awful I can’t even grasp the thought process in where thought this was going to be appropriate and a hit as a single.
Oh no, I feel they reigned themselves in from saying 15 or 16. They definitely wanted to shout-out underage hotties.For the whole thing I have this horrid fascination with "what did they edit out???"
Isn’t the age of consent 16-17 in most places? There’s not that many countries where the age of consent is 18+, and there’s a number of first world countries where the age of consent is as low as 15.
@@KTKZon58 If they were going for comedy, if to would have been funnier to go the other way and choose a narrower gap. "You could be 22 or 23" is an excellent lyric in a self-aware song about being an awful group of guys who neg women
Even ignoring the racism, it's super weird that they made a music video of a bunch of dudes in a bird cage watching this woman undress Also, I can confirm that those were Chinese characters being thrown up in the song about who they say is a Korean woman.
What do the characters say exactly? I took Mandarin classes for a bit, so I know the first two characters mean “we” or “us”, but that stupid fake calligraphy font makes it hard to make out the rest
the framing makes their claim that it's a satire of fetishization even stranger and less believable. The ones doing the objectifying.. are in the position of objects, looking up at this giant woman as what can only be an excuse for the camera to undress her with its gaze
I’m pretty sure that the characters they put up are “我們愛你”, which translates to “We love you”. These characters are in traditional Chinese, not simplified (traditional is most often used overseas and in Taiwan from my understanding) so I think that they just chose the first Chinese language in Google Translate and copy + pasted the characters :(
This feels like a song that should exist in a sitcom, so that every character other than the one that wrote it can be horrified and fail to explain to the writer why everything in it is terrible.
In the line "17 or 23, doesn't matter to me" obviously the best choice is to not write the song in the first place but 18 rhymes just as much as 17 and your not a pedophile
The cuts between the two of you while sustaining dead silence and near still frames for like 20 while seconds broke me harder than i could have ever expected. * chefs kiss *
13:33 Woah, I actually payed just enough attention in my 9 years of Chinese school for it to finally come in handy! It says “我們愛你,” which means “we love you”
They took so many sentences that could be totally innocuous and put then into the most racist context possibly. I feel like even the concept of "girls" is somehow racist in this context.
I'll go back to boiling actually sent me. As an Irish person I can verify that the height of our culinary expertise, is boiling food until it is grey and then adding a tumbler of salt. 😅
Their "defense" of this song is just "it's just a prank bro" defense. Like you still perpetuated so much harmful shit with absolutely no condemnation or critique offered along with it.
i think the whole her dating all of them and them all being in the bath with her (and this feels gross to even type) is referencing the horrible stereotype that Asian women are all, inherently, sexually promiscious - which is just further fetishisation (idk if thats how u spell it). i hate that i immediately clocked that, but it is what it is
I don't think that's even a stereotype, this song is racist enough without stretches like that. They are a cringe band who could only hire 1 woman and all wanted some time with her.
My favorite type of satire is when no attempts are made to properly criticize the thing being satirized, therefore making it indistinguishable from the real thing
This feels like this was written by the type of boys who need to be reminded that their favorite streamer won't date them just because they sent her presents. Of which this song is one.
I'm listening while at work right now and could not stop myself from making the most horrified faces, and then I look over and see the boys doing the same. Glad we're on the same page here.
After this pod first came out, I was chilling in my room, and I randomly remembered the pussy stabbing line. I got sick to my stomach. I've never said, "Oh no! Oh my god!" so quickly about an intrusive thought.
The way I choked on my apple turnover when hearing the "It's the year of the dragon" line and what followed. Y'all almost assassinated me with this video, I wasn't ready!!! 💀
I'm glad Jarvis brought up One Week by Barenaked Ladies, because that's exactly what it sounded like to me, a much more racist attempt at a version of One Week
The last "fa la la la la"s at the end aren't just them singing that racist repeated asian leitmotif, but actually a reference to another horribly racist section of a lil film called A Christmas Story, right at the end christmas is ruined because dinner gets burnt, so they go out to have chinese. The chinese restaurant sends multiple people to their table to sing "deck the halls" and they swap the Ls in "fa la la la la, la la, la, la" with Rs
At first I was mad because the song repeated the same 3 words for way too long in the beginning... oh I wish I could go back to this song only containing 3 words.
Thank goodness they have already spent their Day Above Ground, and will forever be dormant in their subterranean dwelling place for the rest of eternity.
There’s a great Folding Ideas video on this I saw a few years ago, was NOT expecting to hear anything about this song ever again lmao. Great pick, Jordan
I sat here wondering where I had seen the model in the music video before. Because I swear I'd seen her before. and I have. She was in The Haunting of Hill House as Trish, the woman who went out with my fav character Theo. That's so funny to me. Wild shit.
reminds me of that Completely Miserable music video by Lit. The band is small, staring up and bouncing around all over a scantily clad Pamela Anderson until she devours them all in the end.
theres so many freaks on the actual yt video's comments saying its just fun and a joke and its not harmful. Pidgeonholing Asian women into mean stereotypes and expecting that from them, teasing them, fetishizing, etc, isnt fun, its not a joke, its just fueling the racist people that listen to and see that video more.
@jewLUBEkneegahRsWHINE acting a certain way and saying things that are disrespectful and fetishizing might make others think it's fine to act like an asshole around these women in real life. A person might see comments like yours and take it too far and actually hurt or abuse these women. You might think you're joking, but other people sometimes dont, and that can spread and turn into something more dangerous. Fueling abusive and horrible people by making them think other people agree with them and that these women are just things to make fun of, humiliate and do whatever with. Using threatening language like that towards me to defend a 'joke' just shows that it's not what normal people should think and joke about. You aren't funny, or edgy, or anything else, you're just racist.
This is unquestionably an attempt at satire, but it just doesn’t work. That’s the thing about satire of a touchy topic like race, it’s got to work. The funny has to be there. There has to be an underlying intelligence. And there has to be some kind of twist to direct the satiric punch at the racism. Satire is always a risk. If it doesn’t work, like this song doesn’t, it might actually normalize or reinforce stereotypes.
I tried to turn the subtitles on for this one to make sure I wasn't mishearing the lyrics and YT was like "Yeah we're not converting that to text for you." and slapped it with the [music] Like okay but calling it music feels like a stretch.
I do actually believe them when they say it was a commentary on asian fetishization, but it was done in the most fucking insanely "edgy internet guy" tonedeaf way possible. Its just insanely hamfisted.
I think where they really missed the satire mark is how they make no effort to imply that these are harmful stereotypes or that people like the ones they ‘portray’ are bad in any way. It’s just an excuse to vomit every possible preconceived idea that these guys associate with Asian people.
@@maddog_rogersIt's so forced that I don't even think these are their stereotypes, it just feels like they Googled "Asian stereotypes" and wrote a song around it. In my opinion, their goal was probably just to make something as inflammatory as possible to stir up controversy, then profit from all the media attention. Of course, this still shows that they do not value Asian people as people because of how they're profiting by attacking them in such a cynical stunt
"They only got one Day Above Ground before being sent back to hell" *GOT'EM!* It works on an extra level of irony, because Levy Tran is still enjoying a successful career in American film and television, meanwhile the guys who threatened to deport her character have been _sent back to where they came from_ which again, in this context... is six feet under.
This song is rad, dudes! I used to request it at every family Bar Mitzvah. I haven’t been invited to one in years, probably unrelated. Thanks Day Above Ground!
Showing traumatic things to Jarvis while smirking is exactly the older cousin energy I’ve come to expect from Jordan
Petition to keep traumatizing Jarvis:
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I had BIG friend envy at that moment. I NEED a friend like Jordan lmao.
10:24 Exactly at this moment to be precise.
Dead 💀💀💀
Thats funny cuz I do that with my younger cousin
I know actual racists that wouldn’t be able to come up with even HALF as many stereotypes. Like holy shit
Bro. These guys just came across my feed today. Lol. This us fn wild. Where they find this shit. Lol
@@Tny.MorelsFungiNature the formatting of your comment is giving me whiplash
The image of these aggressively racist 2-inch men in a birdcage screaming stereotypes at a normal-sized woman is utterly burned into my brain
😭😭😭
They're like a horny reply section on the internet or something.
I do love that they’re little. At least she can just be like no little men. You get old carrot shavings today for being little shits 😂 I did not like your song. It’d be like if your hamster was nasty and racist wtf do I do with you 🤣
Imagine cat-calling a woman, but you're in a cage and the stature of Alvin from Alvin and the chipmunks.
As an asian woman, I too would appreciate having aggressively racist 2-inch men kept in bird cages 😔
This song is an 80’ SNL sketch that escaped from a government lab.
This would have been much better received in the 80’s, SNL or no..
"sit on my lap or ill send you back" is like an "where my hug at" on steroids
the people who wrote this song should be legally mandated to disclose that fact to all future potential employers
I’d rather them have to disclose that info to the poor women that end up on dates with these bozos
@@GuntWastelander Both employers and potential spouses, please. And also to their neighbors as soon as they move to a new neighborhood.
@@LammasDeluge (˃̣̣̥▽˂̣̣̥) why are we treating them like sex offenders
Musical Meghan's law
@@donovanlocust1106they might as well be.
I'm CERTAIN the "you drive me crazy" line was meant to be a double-entendre about bad driving.
oh my god I think you’re right
That seems too clever.
Idk I feel like they might be too dumb to come up with something like that 💀
Ok but explain the buttfucking part.
I feel like they had this bright idea and decided to make an entire song around that double entendre. And clearly ran out of creativity
"tradition, tradition, tradition yeah yeah" has got to be one of the lyrics of all time
the joke when people just leave out an adjective is my joke of all time
i got too sick to watch this about 2 minutes in so i have no context. but now im going to rewatch fiddler on the roof
I feel like it's their way of trying to remedy the racism, but there's so many different types of traditions, especially here in Asia, that it just comes off as hollow
Jews Asians
🤝
being targeted by that lyric in particular
(Context: I'm a Jew)
Edit: come to think of it, there are actually a lot of stereotypes shared by both anti-Asian racism and antisemitism? I guess because historically Asian people and Jewish people both tend to be immigrants to places like the USA, and are seen as outsiders/intruders? Still seems odd how that turned out.
If you're both Jewish and of Asian descent (I'm Jewish but of European descent and Ashkenazic), what's your experience with this? If you feel like sharing?
@@kai_macerationi love it so much
The smug tone Jordan gets he says “would you believe me if I told you it was worse” is hilarious every time
Jordan is like the only person who doesnt become punchable while being smug, charm dialed up to 100😂
That’s a shark-like Cheshire Cat smile for sure lol
7:32
7:35 "It wasn't "your," Jarvis" is delivered with such a menacing energy.
why does he say it like an actual supervillain 😭
His inner supervillain slipped out, oh my god
I do see what they’re saying by saying this is meant to satirize fetishization of Asian women (it’s so insane that I can’t see any other explanation), but they don’t do it with any tact or degree of self-awareness.
Like, compare this to Oingo Boingo’s Little Girls, which the lead singer wrote about how a lot of big names in Hollywood creep on young girls. In the song, they intentionally make the lead sound creepy and out-of-his-mind, framing the stuff he says as insane and evil.
Satire without clear demonstration of intent is indistinguishable from what it is satirizing, especially when it’s something as inherently unhinged as racism.
Its giving, "its a prank bro"
that last sentence, for real. i cant stress this enough
yeah the article said they were satirizing "themselves" and other men which..... they dont have any of the self awareness required to satirize yourself. this is just an exaggerated depiction of racist fetishization without actually critiquing the racism so the end product is just exaggerated over the top racism.
It's very like... Why don't you leave that up to the ppl actually effected by it...
omg i love oingo boingo. let's kiss
This feels like a classic example of "schrodinger's asshole". If you're not familiar, that's the dude who says something potentially offensive, and the decides if it was a joke or not depending upon people's reaction. "Oh you caught me being racist? I was actually making fun of racists so it sounds like you're the racist to me."
It's very very common. It's one of the laziest and stupidest ways to avoid accountability "oh i was joking" but you have to be kind a stupid and lazy(in thinking) to be a racist soo...
So Tom McDonald
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 yes
So it’s both offensive and not until measured by an audience. So by MW, there’s an infinite set of universes where every reaction happened and yet somehow there is no universe where this video isn’t offensive.
"these tiny tiny... uh- honkeys" cracks me the fck up every time
also i'm THRILLED they let the full 8 seconds of total silence play out, it's just perfection
That birdcage was actually a brand-new box of Saltines the whole time
He gets the pass
jarvis's full body cringe and the physical reaction to the song is very relatable
"Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize."
As an Asian this circles right back around to being hysterically funny for me, but yeesh is it definitely a hard watch. This has been around for around a decade now, I'm so sorry that you two had to see this now when you could have gone your whole lives not knowing it exists.
Have you seen 'I want to be ninja'?
so where do you keep your flock of 2" white men? and do they sound equally bad?
Yeah, it swings around to being funny. I can totally picture this song being in a skit from an 2000s edgy comedy show.
@@TheDerpyDeed every Asian girl is given their own miniature racist soft rock (country even? Idk) band
@@gremlinwc8996 can confirm as an asian woman myself
Just in case you truly missed it, "Your momma's so pretty" is the stereotype that Asian women don't noticeably age. So called "positive" stereotypes are still harmful.
I wouldn’t say that Asian women don’t noticeably age is a stereotype. Considering with most older asian women do age well. I’ve seen many where you look at a picture of say a 40 year old Chinese women to when she was 20 and she has aged well and there is barely a difference. I don’t think it’s a stereotype, just good genetics in general.
@@A.blue558 Bruh
@@A.blue558Bro you literally just went it's not a stereotype because stereotypically they don't
Saying that someone's mother is pretty is not necessarily reinforcing any stereotypes lmao what kind of terminally online take is that?
@@Noooiiiissseee No one said it necessarily does. However in the context of a song fetishizing asian women and specifically mentioning that age doesn't change how they would it CONTEXTUALLY does
It was like "oh your racist? Name every racism."
Nope, not getting me this time boyz. After watching this on the pod, I had this song stuck in my head for two days. It was like being haunted by a band of racist ghosts. And on that note Happy Halloween everyone!!! 🎃
i’m trying rlly hard to keep it out of my head
Oh no. I think that's happening to me.
They should've put a racist earworm warning at the beginning of this clip cuz same!
IT'S LIKE A DEMON IS TRYING TO CLAW ITS WAY OUT OF MY THROAT
it’s like that one song by that guy “it’s not okay to be gay”
Every time the band said something I would think to myself, "That's it. That's got to be the most racist line in the song. It can't get worse from there." And every time I was proven wrong almost immediately.
I love how Jordan found this, and immediately showed it to everyone he possibly could. I too inflict pain and suffering onto my friends like this
I love Jordan's faces in this video 😂 just happy to now have a shared insanity instead of having to burden this by himself
"these tiny tiny honkeys are swimming around in the bath, she got in the bath and threw these tiny men into the bath" was the absolute funniest way to explain that. I was near tears rewinding that and laughing which blissfully delayed the next thing that happened
I didn't know Ritz-Kraft/Mondelez international was making bath bombs now
wow this unearthed a memory- 'asian girls like anal' was definitely an edgy internet 00s 'joke' but clearly a short lived one. thanks again for the psychic damage boys 👌 i could have died without ever remembering and golly what a waste
Yeah I assumed this was a weird thing about submission and promiscuity but I'm glad someone else confirmed it 😭
Which is weird because the most common stereotype I've heard about anal (at least for women/in a heterosexual context) is that it's a thing white Christian girls/women do when they want to have sex before marriage but still "technically" be virgins on their wedding night (if we go by a literal interpretation of the neoclassical, biologically essentialist, misogynistic understanding of what "virginity" means, etc).
@@sholem_bond how they used to get around the rules 2000 years ago
I grew up thinking it was a Portuguese thing...
The song is just never appropriately disparaging to the racist white men so it doesn't work as satire. "17 or 23, doesn't matter to me" could have been improved by adding "because I'm a creep." Every filler line they came up with could have been replaced by actually demeaning the racist white man characters they were supposedly playing. Also, they are objectifying the actress they hired so that completely negates their attempt at satire.
It would be so easy to do, as well. They could have thrown in a line about weeaboos who think they're Japanese because they watch anime, or about obese 45 year old white guys who go overseas for sex tourism - it'd do a much better job making it clear that it's satire.
@philipsalama8083 Is sex tourism better or more ethical if the people doing it are skinny? or are you just making a cheap shot
@@joeytwoeyes A cheap shot.
@philipsalama8083 oh, make sure to specify that they're poor, ugly and disabled, too, then. really maximise the collateral damage on random unrelated people.
@@joeytwoeyesgood point tbh that was a bit unnecessary
She has them in a cage and is going on dates with all of them and they’re calling her their Asian girl? It seems more like her harem of tiny white men.
Don’t put this on her even as a joke
There is one Asian guy in this group, the bassist Marcello Lalopua is Indonesian. Ironically he is Asian but mocking his fellow Asian people/culture
@@wu_weichun four tiny white men and one tiny asian man
@@Lucifersfursona what horrible curse has been put upon her to have to deal with this
@@wu_weichunhe has big pick me energy
man, Weezer is really falling off
El Scorcho sounds a lil different from what I remember
They got lost in the woods 😭
@@ch_rryleaf*across the sea
@@70sman that and possibly more
That's an insult to Weezer
I love how Jordan is channeling Sleep Paralysis Demon Energy. Just, his pure *glee* at Jarvis's (and the audience's) horrified reactions.
Top tier video boyz!
You know how usually you can point out the worst part out of something you heard? Yeah, not in this one everything was so awful I can’t even grasp the thought process in where thought this was going to be appropriate and a hit as a single.
Like you hear a part and think, ''yeah, this is it. This is the worst''. But then it gets worse again.
For me it was the Thighs to Eyes lines
I feel I should add for context that giant/tiny is a fetish/kink and I think don't think the references to it in this "mv" is unintentional.
Yeah the bathtub bit made me think that
Oh yeah and its seen in a lot of animated or henta1 so it feels even more intentional
"17 or 23"
It's still incredibly gross, but the number 18 is literally *right there* . I'm absolutely baffled by the existence of this song.
Oh no, I feel they reigned themselves in from saying 15 or 16. They definitely wanted to shout-out underage hotties.For the whole thing I have this horrid fascination with "what did they edit out???"
Isn’t the age of consent 16-17 in most places? There’s not that many countries where the age of consent is 18+, and there’s a number of first world countries where the age of consent is as low as 15.
@@teddscaut493 The band are American and performing and publishing in the US to a US audience, They know what they are saying.
Also, that's not even a giant age gap as far as looks are concerned. It could've been "25 or 43" and it would've worked just fine
@@KTKZon58 If they were going for comedy, if to would have been funnier to go the other way and choose a narrower gap. "You could be 22 or 23" is an excellent lyric in a self-aware song about being an awful group of guys who neg women
Every stanza:
Jarvis: 😦
Jordan: 😁
I always like the juxtaposition of
Jarvis being like D: and then Jordan immediately being like :D after every new unhinged racist line sinks in
Even ignoring the racism, it's super weird that they made a music video of a bunch of dudes in a bird cage watching this woman undress
Also, I can confirm that those were Chinese characters being thrown up in the song about who they say is a Korean woman.
What do the characters say exactly? I took Mandarin classes for a bit, so I know the first two characters mean “we” or “us”, but that stupid fake calligraphy font makes it hard to make out the rest
the framing makes their claim that it's a satire of fetishization even stranger and less believable. The ones doing the objectifying.. are in the position of objects, looking up at this giant woman as what can only be an excuse for the camera to undress her with its gaze
I’m pretty sure that the characters they put up are “我們愛你”, which translates to “We love you”. These characters are in traditional Chinese, not simplified (traditional is most often used overseas and in Taiwan from my understanding) so I think that they just chose the first Chinese language in Google Translate and copy + pasted the characters :(
The actress is Vietnamese tho
@@reddleaf I think they just saw the word “traditional” and clicked because it sounded fancier
More Jarvis and Jordan cringing at some good ol' weird ass racism? This is a very happy Halloween indeed
Every bar I couldn't believe it become more racist, and each time it proved me wrong
This feels like a song that should exist in a sitcom, so that every character other than the one that wrote it can be horrified and fail to explain to the writer why everything in it is terrible.
"I mean the first half was cool, Charlie, the second half sounds like it's about a man that breaks into your house and rapes you"
“Do not diddle kids, it’s no good diddlin kids”
“There is no quicker way to make people think you diddle kids than by writing a song about it!”
It's weird how much more sense the song would make in this context.
In the line "17 or 23, doesn't matter to me" obviously the best choice is to not write the song in the first place but 18 rhymes just as much as 17 and your not a pedophile
16:30 Asian person here, in a song that contains the lyrics “it’s the year of the dragon, ninja pussy I’m stabbin’” how is there a worse line???
it's still supremely funny to me that the "asian girl" from the video has come out and apologized about it
She didn't even need to tbh
The cuts between the two of you while sustaining dead silence and near still frames for like 20 while seconds broke me harder than i could have ever expected. * chefs kiss *
This song was conceptualized, written, practiced, performed, produced, and published and nobody at any point seemed to think it was a bad idea
13:33 Woah, I actually payed just enough attention in my 9 years of Chinese school for it to finally come in handy! It says “我們愛你,” which means “we love you”
this is so hard to watch holy shit but jarvis's face is the best part im crying at his reactions
5:31 fucking kills me
Looking like my mom trying to hold back from screaming at me in public
They took so many sentences that could be totally innocuous and put then into the most racist context possibly. I feel like even the concept of "girls" is somehow racist in this context.
i kinda agree...
this feels like a bit they'd come up with on it's always sunny
No. IASIP racism doesn't usually have so many awkward pauses.
this literally has to be a family guy skit that never aired or something holy shit
“Dark humor is my passion” the song
I'll go back to boiling actually sent me. As an Irish person I can verify that the height of our culinary expertise, is boiling food until it is grey and then adding a tumbler of salt. 😅
Sometimes the food here would make you think the famines still going on
Their "defense" of this song is just "it's just a prank bro" defense. Like you still perpetuated so much harmful shit with absolutely no condemnation or critique offered along with it.
the way i also was completely expecting the stereotypical little string riff...
It’s both expected but almost too obvious. I’m surprised at how unsurprising it is included.
4:33 I love that my first instinct hearing this was to quote "I LOVE YOU BIIIIITCH", only for them to play it immediately after
i think the whole her dating all of them and them all being in the bath with her (and this feels gross to even type) is referencing the horrible stereotype that Asian women are all, inherently, sexually promiscious - which is just further fetishisation (idk if thats how u spell it). i hate that i immediately clocked that, but it is what it is
I didn't even know that was a thing. ugh
Yeah it’s gross, I feel like the entire video sexualising her and not treating her like… a regular human further perpetuates this
I don't think that's even a stereotype, this song is racist enough without stretches like that. They are a cringe band who could only hire 1 woman and all wanted some time with her.
@@drewpeacock9087 might be something local then. or just some shitty people i ran into in my life spewing that
Honestly i thought the stereotype was the opposite, but i do see both in media.
the amount of mileage jordan is getting out of traumatizing other people with this song is killing me
“these tiny tiny, honkies” is sending me😂😂😂
the way he hesitates and then says it so quickly
My favorite type of satire is when no attempts are made to properly criticize the thing being satirized, therefore making it indistinguishable from the real thing
Time to critique eugenics by making death camps
As an ear, eye, and just general brain cleanser, may I recommend "STFU" by Rina Sawayama 💜
GOD yes this was my first thought when I saw the recommendation
YES THAT SONG IS 11/10
This feels like this was written by the type of boys who need to be reminded that their favorite streamer won't date them just because they sent her presents. Of which this song is one.
I'm listening while at work right now and could not stop myself from making the most horrified faces, and then I look over and see the boys doing the same. Glad we're on the same page here.
The "Ninja p***y" lyric had me literally squawk so loud my sister had to check if I was okay. I was so shook omfg
After this pod first came out, I was chilling in my room, and I randomly remembered the pussy stabbing line. I got sick to my stomach. I've never said, "Oh no! Oh my god!" so quickly about an intrusive thought.
My favorite line 😂
The way I choked on my apple turnover when hearing the "It's the year of the dragon" line and what followed. Y'all almost assassinated me with this video, I wasn't ready!!! 💀
1:01 this is giving “I’m in love with an emo girl” Asian edition
What do you mean she ages so well what is she supposed to look like at 23
'cause that's the only line that is weird...
@@carrojohansson8151 I could make every line a comment but I decided on this one
"you dont look a day over 17" i guess? 🤢
Yeah that age range just completely negates the premise…
fr did Leonardo DiCaprio help write this 😭 ??
The way this song is composed sounds like a Red Hot Chili Peppers song and it's throwing me off really bad.
It's almost uncanny.
THIS IS WAY TOO ACCURATE HELP
WHY WAS I THINKING THE SAME THING 😭 the horrible video effects too. they wanna be the peppers so bad
Yeah no it was clearly on purpose, they were doing the whole scat thing that they do
It reminds me of chapstick girl more, which is satire unlike this song lol
I'm glad Jarvis brought up One Week by Barenaked Ladies, because that's exactly what it sounded like to me, a much more racist attempt at a version of One Week
The last "fa la la la la"s at the end aren't just them singing that racist repeated asian leitmotif, but actually a reference to another horribly racist section of a lil film called A Christmas Story, right at the end christmas is ruined because dinner gets burnt, so they go out to have chinese. The chinese restaurant sends multiple people to their table to sing "deck the halls" and they swap the Ls in "fa la la la la, la la, la, la" with Rs
They said that, no offense
At first I was mad because the song repeated the same 3 words for way too long in the beginning... oh I wish I could go back to this song only containing 3 words.
Thank goodness they have already spent their Day Above Ground, and will forever be dormant in their subterranean dwelling place for the rest of eternity.
I like the idea of a whole band being kicked out of itself, like it goes into receivership or something.
Jordan just destroying Jarvis' innocence with this song.
There’s a great Folding Ideas video on this I saw a few years ago, was NOT expecting to hear anything about this song ever again lmao. Great pick, Jordan
I completely burst out laughing at jordans face after the we'll send you back line
Edit: now throwing up at "17 or 23 doesn't matter to me"
Beethoven been real quiet ever since "You're My Asian Girl" dropped
Who wouldn't? This song is a world-wide, 4-minute stun with every negative status condition in the book on top...
I sat here wondering where I had seen the model in the music video before. Because I swear I'd seen her before. and I have. She was in The Haunting of Hill House as Trish, the woman who went out with my fav character Theo. That's so funny to me. Wild shit.
This video perfectly demonstrates the delight in showing something truly awful to your friend
3:00 Jarvis’s “WHAT?!?!” Gets me every time bro
Racism world record speedrun any% (slurless)
Caucasian playthrough 😂
reminds me of that Completely Miserable music video by Lit. The band is small, staring up and bouncing around all over a scantily clad Pamela Anderson until she devours them all in the end.
That's definitely a fetish
This song sounds like something the gang from It's Always Sunny would write.
theres so many freaks on the actual yt video's comments saying its just fun and a joke and its not harmful. Pidgeonholing Asian women into mean stereotypes and expecting that from them, teasing them, fetishizing, etc, isnt fun, its not a joke, its just fueling the racist people that listen to and see that video more.
@jewLUBEkneegahRsWHINE acting a certain way and saying things that are disrespectful and fetishizing might make others think it's fine to act like an asshole around these women in real life. A person might see comments like yours and take it too far and actually hurt or abuse these women. You might think you're joking, but other people sometimes dont, and that can spread and turn into something more dangerous. Fueling abusive and horrible people by making them think other people agree with them and that these women are just things to make fun of, humiliate and do whatever with. Using threatening language like that towards me to defend a 'joke' just shows that it's not what normal people should think and joke about. You aren't funny, or edgy, or anything else, you're just racist.
@jewLUBEkneegahRsWHINE fuck man I was gonna make a comment arguing with you but you got that kanye west ass username I'm not even gonna try
"You age so well, so I can barely tell" Okay, pretty mild.
"17 or 23, baby it doesn't matter to me" WHAT.
This is unquestionably an attempt at satire, but it just doesn’t work. That’s the thing about satire of a touchy topic like race, it’s got to work. The funny has to be there. There has to be an underlying intelligence. And there has to be some kind of twist to direct the satiric punch at the racism.
Satire is always a risk. If it doesn’t work, like this song doesn’t, it might actually normalize or reinforce stereotypes.
the best thing about this video is the sad boyz' reactions. worst thing? knowing this exists now, oh my god.
I tried to turn the subtitles on for this one to make sure I wasn't mishearing the lyrics and YT was like "Yeah we're not converting that to text for you." and slapped it with the [music]
Like okay but calling it music feels like a stretch.
16:30 deceased. any and all hope that i had of being able to recover and cope with what this song has inflicted upon me has been lost.
This is Theo’s girlfriend from Haunting of Hill House glad she was able to recover from this haha
I was hoping someone would point that out
This song gives me a full body allergic reaction, after every line I have to pause to hyperventilate.
Even just perceiving this fills me with guilt and fear that I’m also being racist 😭 this is absolutely insane, how is it still up on TH-cam….
Bruh, I assumed this music video was like 30 years old, but it came out in 2013! what the actual fuck?
Maybe the 2000’s but man that’s so much worse
Time is a flat circle and bigots are always waiting just around the corner
I can feel Hopsin jolting awake knowing his record for most sexually racist song towards asian women being put at stake.
Its been months. I keep coming back. I can't stop. It melts my brain every time.
I have no memory of watching this music video but the chorus is so familiar to me, I think I blocked it out
same here! unless it’s sampling something??
It's giving Snow by the Red Hot Chili Peppers vibes.
Like HEAVILY
@@abrasivesoup finally. the Mid Lukewarm Racist Peppers
@@demongirlfriend That got me wheezing. Thank you lol
its possible you heard it in another video like the full podcast vid or when jordan watched it before on stream
I do actually believe them when they say it was a commentary on asian fetishization, but it was done in the most fucking insanely "edgy internet guy" tonedeaf way possible. Its just insanely hamfisted.
I think where they really missed the satire mark is how they make no effort to imply that these are harmful stereotypes or that people like the ones they ‘portray’ are bad in any way. It’s just an excuse to vomit every possible preconceived idea that these guys associate with Asian people.
@@maddog_rogersIt's so forced that I don't even think these are their stereotypes, it just feels like they Googled "Asian stereotypes" and wrote a song around it. In my opinion, their goal was probably just to make something as inflammatory as possible to stir up controversy, then profit from all the media attention. Of course, this still shows that they do not value Asian people as people because of how they're profiting by attacking them in such a cynical stunt
Every line is just pause worthy
"They only got one Day Above Ground before being sent back to hell"
*GOT'EM!*
It works on an extra level of irony, because Levy Tran is still enjoying a successful career in American film and television, meanwhile the guys who threatened to deport her character have been _sent back to where they came from_ which again, in this context... is six feet under.
Who the fuck is bros ghost writer THE KLAN!?!??!
3:02 Jarvis' reaction here is gold
This song is rad, dudes! I used to request it at every family Bar Mitzvah. I haven’t been invited to one in years, probably unrelated. Thanks Day Above Ground!
WHY DOES IT JUST GET WORSE
you know it's gonna be good when the first nine notes are peaking the racism scale
I love Jordan is tormenting the hell out of people with this song