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Anon has trouble assimilating (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

According to songwriter David Fenton, "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect." Fenton intended the song to be a love song, with the character of the song "pining over a photograph of his ex-girlfriend" in his bedroom, drawing from Fenton's own experience of being rejected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Japanese#:~:text=According%20to%20songwriter%20David%20Fenton,not%20%22really%20mean%20much%22.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That doesn't make much sense to me.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It doesn't really have to? Whatever caused the inspiration for anything artistic can be extremely mundane. Absurdism isn't exactly a new concept, especially to artists. Much like dark humor, not everyone will get the artist's message, or their inspiration.

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