Somewhere in Japan a ragtag group of people on some sort of television show got together and (some donning black face) reenacted, with eerie precision, the famous pile-up of celebrities that is the video for 1985's charity song "We Are The World". Japanese Michael Jackson! Japanese Cyndi Lauper! Japanese Lionel Richie! Even Japanese Ray Charles! No matter that this has nothing to do with anything. We just can't send you into the comfort of the weekend without first making you ponder the fact that things such as this exist. Video after the jump.
Japanese People Reenact "We Are The World" Video
1:32 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Richard
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I can't wait til Nick Douglas covers this 4 months from now.
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Also: I think I'm in love with Japanese Cyndi Lauper.
That. Was fucking. AWESOME.
japanese people in black face... is that kind of like kentucky fried sushi?
It's amazing what you can do with exhumed corpses.
We don't give the Japanese enough credit for stuff.
Not to get all obscure 'n' stuff, but the last track of Adolf Noise (aka DJ Koze)'s Wo Die Rammelwolle Fliegt contains an effin hilarious verz. of WatW where he does all the voices. Badly.
First the rape of Nanking, now this.
Jus soo and meeeeee.....
Japanese Billy Joel looks rather Wayne Newton, but Japanese Springsteen is fabu!
Sure it looks goofy now. But give them 20 years and they'll be making celebrity benefit songs for less money and with better craftsmanship than ours.
@dado: Come on, Nanking was totally asking for it.
Apparently Japanese Michael Jackson is American Michael Jackson in 15 years.
The long-term effects of nuclear radiation should NOT be underestimated.
The lingering effects of nuclear radiation should NOT be underestimated.
My bad - 30-second posting delay.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Aw, I take that back. He gave me 5 flash games to play with last night, all of which I thoroughly enjoyed.
@antisocialite: @dado: Is there anything they won't Hokkai-do?
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Man, that was mean. Oh wait, you took that back. I take this back.
@qtcomments: They're just feeling particularly Enola Gay today.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: "Sacrelicious" was also great. But I still loved your comment.
"Didn't these people kill my great-grandparents?" asked the Filipina contestant on American Idol. "Whatever, I can sing better than them. And I'm tons cuter!"
They're just trying to compete with the Thriller Prison Break Dance routine. Can you repost that cause that's awesome? I can't watch this at work.
"Chotto futtota Stevie Wonder" -- a kind of fat Stevie Wonder.
I'm not sure why THAT line, out of everything on this video, is what made me LOL, but it did. 'Cause apparently seeing Japanese in blackface isn't enough to do it for me no mo'.
TOKIO MINSTREL!
Japanese people reenacting "We are the World" is the new Filipino prison inmates reenacting "Thriller" ...
@BalknChain:
My thoughts exactly ... that's it, I need to find a new second job here because it's interfering with my first job of posting on gawker ...
Oh please don't encourage them or else FOX will give them a weekly show.
Action figures please!
Just more proof that the Japanese are afraid to take on Bob Geldof.
@Sir Winston Thriller:
Dear Winston:
A contract is already on the way. Thanks anyway.
Love,
Rupert
@DonLaFontaine: ha! I love your avatar!! That was alsome
@DonLaFontaine: Is that Alanis Morrissette irony?
Senator McCain, with all due respect, these are the kind of people (meaning Asians, or as yu call 'em, gooks) who held you hostage for all that time? They're adorable! Like the Shirt Tales. Remember the Shirt Tales, John? They lived in a tree in a park and only wore shirts, like those guys at Burning Man who walk around with shirts and no pants, the shirtcockers? Are you a shirtcocker, Mr. McCain?
@BalknChain: I saw that video once. It scared the fuck out of me.
I knew it: karaoke is Japan's revenge on the world for losing the war.
@In Other News...: I stared blankly at first; then it sank in and I laughed til I cried.
its ultimate japanese karaoke!!! (except they aren't all in a tiny booth singing only to eachother)
I rike bely bely muchu.
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