Japan Revolutionizes The Girl Group
Watch your back, K-pop!
Although Japan’s been eating your dust for years in the girl group game, it’s recently produced quite possibly the most unforgettable pop sensation this world has ever seen.
Give it up for HRP-4C!
Unforgettable, in every way, but mostly in the skin-crawling, vertigo-inducing, scarier-than-clowns, make-it-stop way.
The upshot? She’d make for a terrific Halloween costume, especially if you hate trick-or-treaters, children in general, or, really, all people.
[via The Awl]
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plus infected with the asian pachelbel bug soon to swap dna with the autotune virus and hide under mattresses in posh hotels around the globe
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Dress it up in a TSA uniform, with clown makeup, and you’ve got yourself a Fear and Loathing Machine.
Iranai (do NOT want)! Do not let them go viral, like SARS. Sometimes Japan has very bad ideas, like Cucumber flavored Pepsi.
I’m not sure which is worse: the literal objectification of women, or that they deliberately made her a terrible dancer.
How much must it suck to be those women in back? Reduced to dancing for a creepy robot.
Her man-hands are freaking me out.
@dalianmoon HA! Backup singers/dancers to a robot who can’t sing or dance–that is awful.
The man hands are a turn off… otherwise I think I’d hit that.
This makes ‘I, Robot’ much scarier to me