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Interview with Deadly Cradle Death
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Interview with Deadly Cradle Death
Deadly Cradle Death Interview
Deadly Cradle Death is an experimental, electronic, no wave, hip-hop duo, They formed in 2011 when He Fan （Birdstriking, Carsick Cars) met at a concert Liu Xingyu (Chui Wan).
Where does the name ‘Deadly Cradle Death’ come from?
Liu Xingyu (LXY)：”Crib your enthusiasm” is one of the episodes of “1000 ways to die”, an American documentary, and “Dead Cradle Death” is the Chinese translate version. It’s about a male pervert who likes to dress up as a baby and still has a big crib for himself at home after marriage. One day when his wife went to work, he accidentally got stuck in the crib and died of suffocation.
Disconnection by Deadly Cradle Death
What are the major influences on your sound?
LXY：Swen Leather/Black Dice and some strange Hip-Hop/Electro music.
He Fan (HF): We got Zoom’in Night，a experiment music series performance on Tuesday when D22/XP opened. The project encourages us to try more.
Deadly Cradle Death – Disconnection
Can you tell us something about when you start to get into music? How did you meet?
LXY：We met in an experimental music gig. At that time, we were only 17-year-old audiences. When He Fan saw that there were peers like me in the audience, he went to ask me for a cigarette chat. Then we formed a No Wave band called Cardiac Murmur.
HF：I meet the drummer and made up Birdstriking when I went to university. I meet Liuxinyu in a noise guitar show. And then I found out that he and the drummer of Birdstriking actually knew each other. The music scene in Beijing is really small at that time.
How do you think it’s changed the underground music scene in Beijing and China?
LXY：In the past, only D-22 / XP was suitable for performing underground music in Beijing, so everyone gathered to influence each other. Now there are no more of these two places. Everyone basically acts separately. You can be seen in every small live house/art space. There are also some interesting DIY performances. I think if we don’t get together every day, there won’t be too many scenes of mutual influence and communication, which is also conducive to the independent thinking of each band/musician.
Is there a song or more songs you are particularly connected to?
HF：I like a band called 门票多少钱（how much is the ticket?），you can hear all elements of Beijing underground scene (D22 style) from it.
What are the main topics for most of your songs?
LXY：Doomsday revelry.
HF: Collective subconscious such as primitive humans dancing around bonfires, creationists, Ancient Aliens, Holographic Universe, and some voodoo stuff.
What are the ideas behind your songs? What do you want to tell?
HF：I mean this era people are going through should be the eve of the super singularity, so I can feel a lot of supernatural power behind all the changes, or I prefer to think like this.
How the environment you live in have shaped your sound?
HF: When I wrote these songs, the air in Beijing was very bad, there was a lot of haze, making people feel depressed. The post-industrial scene may have stimulated me to express it with noise. But right now the air is much better, so it’s difficult to duplicate the sound at that time.
Can you share with us a story from backstage?
LXY：We like to turn off the light and turn on the max volume improvisation in the rehearsal room. Sometimes the improvisation is very cool. A song has been played for 30 minutes, but after turning on the light, we forget all about it.
HF：I found god when we rehearsal.
Will you tour abroad in the next future?
LXY：I’m not sure. I hope we can go to Italy. I’ve been to Italy before, I think Italy is crazy and suitable for our music.
HF：I went to Rome and Barcelona in 2016, it’s a really cozy place, and people in Rome is very cool. Young people prefer art to fashion, I really want to go there once again. In Barcelona, a very capitalist city, I saw a guitarist and drummer beating with plastic barrels, which impressed me deeply on the street. It was a performance with a strong sense of nationality. I used to give them 20 bucks and they thank me and said they didn’t like Barcelona.
Can you tell us something about your next projects?
LXY：There are several new songs. I hope I can record them in the future.
HF：Yes, and I wish we can tour in Italy.
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A New Era for Beijing’s Quirky Music Scene – The Diplomat
A New Era for Beijing’s Quirky Music Scene – The Diplomat
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All The Feminist News You Missed This Week 2/9/2024
In Our Movement:
New York Times Opinion Piece on Detransitiioners (PAYWALLED)
US News:
California: Tracy Chapman Performs At The Grammys
Virginia: Near-Total Abortion Ban Rejected By House Panel
Seattle: Police Officer Makes Racist, Sexist, Remarks After Killing Graduate Student
California: Jenn Jackson Publishes New Book On Black Feminism
California: Dua Lipa Celebrates How Many Women Were Nominated At The Grammys
International:
Afghanistan: Afghan Women Urge UN To Be Included At Doha Conference Next Week
Vatican: Pope, Cardinals Discuss Women's Role In The Catholic Church
France: France On-Track to Constitutionalize Abortion Rights
India: Female Rappers Take on A Male Dominated Music Scene in The South Of India
China: Art Exhibit Honoring Female Artists Opens in Beijing
India: Women's Film Festival, Focused on Sci-Fi and Horror, Begins
The Ivory Coast: Agricultural Program in The Ivory Coast Empowers Women Financially
Britain: Mothers Support and Promote Eachother Inside The Music Industry
Spain: Controversy Over Spain's, Potentially Sexist, Eurovision Entry "Zorra"
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it's been a fruitful year of discoveries, rediscoveries and deeper dives into discographies i wasn't as familiar with so coming up with a trimmed-down selection was challenging but here's my own 2023 "wrapped"!
2023 RELEASES
💿 "genshin impact: millelith's watch" soundtrack disc 1 [and it has to be disc 1], hoyo-mix — i know nothing about it other than it being a video game, loove the music tho
💿 "ok. respira" + "red light (EP)", elodie — are they good? it's radio-friendly pop and EDM but do i like them? absolutely
🎵 i wanted to include paranoïa, angels, true love by christine and the queens but despite having listened to it in its entirety a bunch of times i definitely picked favourites and slightly ignored the rest? so: "tears can be so soft" + "angels crying in my bed" + "marvin descending" + "to be honest"
🎵 same hat for so!yoon!'s episode 1: love -> "in (void)" [one of thee most intros] + "smoke sprite" [give me a solo version i beg u] + "till the sun goes up" + "exit"
🎵 "de selby (part 1)", hozier
🎵 "nothing lasts forever", sevdaliza feat. grimes
🎵 "tik tak tok", silica gel feat. so!yoon!
🎵 "床 (lie)", no party for cao dong
🎵 "ghosts again", depeche mode
K-POP (and related) CORNER: "psycho", jun 🌸 "god of music" + "super" + "fire", seventeen 🌸 "the rizzness" + "guilty", taemin 🌸 "rover" + "sinner", kai 🌸 "coolAs", key 🌸 "o (circle)", onew 🌸 "10x", shinee 🌸 "nevertheless", billlie 🌸 "golden hour", mark lee 🌸 "screen time", epik high feat. hoshi 🌸 "attitude", fromis_9 🌸 "fighting", BSS feat. lee youngji 🌸 "better things" + "drama", aespa
(RE)DISCOVERED IN 2023
💿 listened to kino for the first time, fell in love! i've had the black album (кончится лето/konchitsya leto, муравейник/muraveynik & кукушка/kukushka 😘👌) on rotation lately but i have a bunch of faves you can send an ask about if you like <3
💿 delved deeper into cocteau twins' discography but i basically played "heaven or las vegas" [been waiting for a copy to drop at the local used cd stores to no avail] and this faye wong x cocteau twins playlist *a lot*
💿 also had a massive depeche mode phase in the spring; tended to stick to their 80s/90s releases and "violator" is probably their most popular album but for good reason!! do check "waiting for the night" from it + this is my tag for further track recs
💿 "bié records meets shika shika" — it's a project from two labels, one beijing-based the other argentinian, whose artists marry electronica with ambient and folk music; they matched their artists together to remix each other and this compilation is the result
💿 "raven", kelela
💿 "trececerotres (EP)", daniela lalita
🎵 "a pure person (單純的人)", lim giong — one of the best opening scenes in cinema ever! millennium mambo's soundtrack has been temporarily taken down from spotify so you have to look for it in chinese characters
🎵 "dancing elephants", rochelle jordan — specifically this performance
🎵 "yo-soul", lim kim
🎵 "spring breeze", hiperson — love love the production here
🎵 teresa teng's cover of "長崎は 今日も雨だった" (a rainy day in nagasaki)
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GJ and ZZH Updates — February 26-March 4
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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.
This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)
[Glossary of names and terms]
[Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]
02-26
→ Gong Jun flew back to Beijing.
02-27
→ Fresh posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun, shortly followed by a promotional video.
→ Madame Tussauds posted a gif that used shots of Gong Jun from The Flaming Heart, Dream Garden, Rising with the Wind, and their own photoshoot with him.
02-28
→ 1000th day since Word of Honor filming began.
→ Gong Jun posted a douyin from his trip to Thailand. Caption: “Thailand travel guide” with “guide” (gonglue) written with the gong from his name. BGM is Small Town Summer by LBI利比, one of the songs he sang for his New Year’s Eve performance.
Fan Observations:
- He’s been including images of trees a lot recently.
- A review of the Small Town Summer candy: It’s a song about falling in love in the summer while listening to Jay Chou.
→ Deeyeo posted a teaser image for their upcoming endorsement with Gong Jun. (1129 kadian) Caption: “He can freely switch between different roles, and he has made breakthroughs in various challenges[.] 9:00 on March 2, stay tuned!”
03-01
→ At midnight in all timezones, Zhang Zhehan’s music released by Xinxi (ie. the Light and Another Me albums) were removed from Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon Music. It was noticed soon after that these songs had also been moved from YoYo Rock’s main YouTube channel to their indie channel, where they were unlisted but at that time could be found through a public playlist.
Fan Observations:
- The scammers and whalers were all silent on the topic, suggesting that this was not their doing, if it was CAPA’s doing it should have happened long ago, and if it was a matter of contracts expiring it’s surprising that both albums would be affected at once.
- The most likely explanation at the time of this post is that either Zhang Zhehan or Xinxi specifically requested for the songs to be removed, Zhang Zhehan being more probable as Xinxi’s main concern would be the revenue gained from the songs still being up.
- The purpose of having Zhang Zhehan’s old songs in the same place as the new stolen ones is to give the new songs the impression of legitimacy, so taking them down counters that. [full breakdown of the above points]
- The fact that YoYo Rock moved and unlisted them was likely to try to avoid copyright claims. It’s possible that this was in response to a cease and desist.
Addition 03-05: [breakdown about the YoYo Rock videos]
→ Gong Jun’s studio posted his schedule for March: magazine shoots on 03-02 and 03-05, event on 03-04. Caption: “Spring is blooming, the sky is clear and the air is fresh! Boss @ Gong Jun Simon's March itinerary is coming, the new month is full of energy!” BGM is 春之行 by 灰澈. Fans left comments en masse on the post asking the studio to take action against recent anti activity.
→ Deeyeo posted a teaser of their commercial with Gong Jun that would release the following day. (1129 kadian)
→ Gong Jun posted three photos of himself with a dog to his Xiao Hong Shu, advertising Tangle Teezer’s pet brush. (14:06, 1640 kadian) Tangle Teezer later posted a behind the scenes video of the photoshoot.
→ Madame Tussauds posted a video of their photoshoot with Gong Jun.
Fan Observations:
- In the video, he signs a book with the date 2021-07 (exact date cut). This led to speculation of if it was originally intended for there to be matching wax models of both Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.
- It was noted that on 2021-05-10, Zhang Zhehan wore a very similar white suit by the same brand as the one Gong Jun wore for the Madame Tussauds photoshoot.
03-02
→ Gong Jun posted the full commercial he did for Deeyeo, formally announcing his endorsement with them. This was reposted by his studio and Deeyeo. Deeyeo also posted a photo ad and a promotional video with the announcement.
→ 361° posted two photo ads featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)
Fan Observation: The blue jacket is called 云舒防晒衣, with 云舒 being the same as in the Word of Honor line “Take a lover’s hand, and watch the clouds unfold,” referencing Zhou Zishu’s name (episode 25).
→ Zhang Sanjian appeared briefly at an airport in a paparazzi livestream accompanied by Xie Yihua, wearing baggy clothing, a hat, glasses, and a mask. No one said his name.
→ The unlisted YoYo Rock videos were found to have been privated.
→ Madame Tussauds posted nine old photos of Gong Jun.
03-03
→ Deeyeo posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.
→ Gong Jun posted sixteen photos from his trip to Thailand with a caption playing on the lyric “You know you don’t know (你知不知道 不知道)” replacing “buzhidao” with “pujidao” (Phuket Island). He also posted the photos to his Xiao Hong Shu, caption: “I didn’t have fun! As if 🤭” and Instagram, caption: “Happy Time !” (11:17, 511 kadian)
Fan Observation: Possible ring sighting in the first photo.
→ Gong Jun’s studio posted an additional nine photos of the Thailand trip. Caption: “Green trees by the sea, resting along the road, please check the travel postcards from boss @ Gong Jun Simon.”
→ Gong Jun’s 2017 drama Advance Bravely became available for streaming on Viki.
→ Gong Jun liked two videos on Douyin, one about a dog who “wants to love you unconditionally” and another of an older woman talking about how having a good husband made a hard life easier. It was noted that the date had three 3s in it, Zhang Zhehan’s favourite number.
03-04
→ Tangle Teezer posted a promotional video spoken by Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)
→ Madame Tussauds made a post announcing that the unveiling of Gong Jun’s statue would be shown on a livestream that afternoon.
→ Deeyeo posted a short Q&A video with Gong Jun. [subbed video]
Fan Observation: When asked which of his past roles he’s most similar to he said Yuan Che from Love Lost in Times. Yuan Che’s most notable characteristics are that he’s extremely loyal, and that he waited a long time for his love interest to return.
→ A livestream was streamed showing Gong Jun touring Madame Tussauds, then the unveiling ceremony. (full recording in above link)
Fan Observations / Highlights:
- It was emphasized that new technology was used to make the figure feel more lifelike. Guests are allowed to touch it. [subbed clip]
- Gong Jun commented that the fingernails are too long, he keeps his shorter. (The hands look very off in general tbh.) [clip] He also made a lot of comments about his abs lol.
- When talking about being approached to make the statue, he said “approached us”, and when he was addressing someone with the surname Zhang he said “Zhang-lao— Zhang... Zhang-zong” [clips]
- Many noted that the pose looks as if it was meant to have someone else standing beside it, with people comparing it to the Tom Ford event specifically.
→ Gong Jun’s studio posted nine photos of Gong Jun touring Madame Tussauds. Caption: “No time to explain the new style of aesthetics at the beginning, and boss @ Gong Jun Simon uses a different fashion attitude to create a modern new force.”
→ Gong Jun’s studio posted six photos from the unveiling. Caption: “Through the modern tunnel, boss @ Gong Jun Simon and ‘Second Jun’ appeared at Madame Tussauds Shanghai, weaving fashion trends with original colors.”
→ Madame Tussauds posted another six photos from that day. They also posted additonal photos and a making-of video to their WeChat.
Addition 03-05: ONOFFON Collection made a post highlighting their jacket that Gong Jun had worn to the event.
Additional Reading:
→ Flora’s daily fan news
→ My own observation: The Instagram was unusually inactive this week.
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This post was last edited 2023-03-05.
#There is (a tiny bit of possible) news about zzh!#Also a lot of candy#some of it painful#Zhang Zhehan#Gong Jun#Word of Honor#woh cast#lld timeline
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2023 : EXO at Festivals/Concerts Pt 1
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
JANUARY 2023
230114 - Grand Wave KPOP Music Festival - CHEN
Performances - Shall We? + Beautiful Goodbye + Last Scene + I Don’t Even Mind + Best Luck + Everytime
Ment [2] [3]
230115 - Hunan TV Spring Festival Gala - LAY
Performances - Song of New Lu Mountain + Veil
Ment
Behind the Scenes
News Report
Lay's Douyin Update
230123 - China Internet Audio-Visual Gala - LAY
Youku Weibo Update [2]
Performance - Descendants of Dragon
230128 - Japan Special Live Day 1 - KAI
Full Fancam
Performances - Door + Ride or Die + Nothing On Me + Reason + Peaches + Hello Stranger + Vanilla + I See You + Mmmh + EXO Medley (Electric Kiss + The Eve + Love Shot + Growl + Tempo + Love Me Right) + To Be Honest
230129 - Japan Special Live Day 2 - KAI
Performances - Door + Ride or Die + Nothing On Me + Reason + Peaches + Hello Stranger + Vanilla + I See You + Mmmh + EXO Medley (Electric Kiss + The Eve + Love Shot + Growl + Tempo + Love Me Right) + To Be Honest
230131 - Japan Special Live Day 3 - KAI
Performances - Door + Ride or Die + Nothing On Me + Reason + Peaches + Hello Stranger + Vanilla + Mmmh + EXO Medley (Electric Kiss + The Eve + Love Shot)
FEBURARY 2023
230204 - 2023 Suncheon Bay Boom UP Festa - KAI
Performances - Peaches + Vanilla + To Be Honest + Mmmh
Full Stage + Ment [RAW]
Youtube Shorts [RAW]
230204 - Back to Back Fancon (Jakarta) - EXO-SC
Press Conference
Performances - What A Life + Borderline + 1 Billion Views + Fly Away + Rodeo Station + Just Us 2
Talk Session [RAW]
Game Session [RAW]
Behind the Scenes Vlog [Part 1] [Part 2]
230227 - SCHU HyFlex Entrance Ceremony - EXO-SC, SUHO
Greeting Video by Suho
Full Cut - Hurdle (Suho) + Suho Ment + Rodeo Station (EXO-SC ft. Suho) + Fly Away (EXO-SC ft. Suho) + Ending Ment [RAW]
Ment [1] [2]
APRIL 2023
230421 - 13th Beijing International Film Festival - LAY
Red Carpet
Audience Cut
Behind the Scenes - Xlog Blue
230423 - LOVESOME Festival - Baekhyun
Full Set - Candy + Bungee + Garden in the Air + Love Again + Betcha + UN Village + You're Different (Cover) + Beautiful + Take You Home + Amusement Park
Behind the Scenes Vlog
Event Highlights
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ACI ice dance pt 2--
Gauthier/Thieren - they've been performing with conviction. they were 13th at Lake Placid and 6th here. they won bronze at Championnats in August - there was talk that Quebecois teams got a boost there, and G/T's score was 10 pts higher there than at either of the other 2 comps, so it will be curious to see if that was an anomaly (another Quebec team, Fabbri/Ayer, also scored a career high 183 at Championnats - they're at Nebelhorn this weekend)
Olivia and Tim - she's next level in carriage, presence and how big her skating is. she was good before, but maybe because of what she went through last year thinking her competitive career might be over and going on Dancing on Ice, where she was the leader on her team - she's bringing a new level of ownership over her skating and performing. love her. so happy she's back. oh and Tim lol i only knew him before from the Harley Quinn program from the Beijing season. his head must be spinning, there's so much new in his training, in his partner, in his change of scene - they look good together. very excited to see how they develop
Lim/Quan - she's special. it's been said a lot - she's such a beautiful performer, can bring the emotion, can dance. he maybe doesn't get enough credit for what he brings because she's so arresting. when the 2 older teams were... insensitive to them at practice, when that one team made them scramble and bang the boards to move out of their way, Ye looked surprised, but he smiled a little bit like omg what just happened, and seemed kind of unbothered. someone who can stay even like that is someone you can count on under pressure maybe
Lopareva Brissaud - i didn't love their programs last year, so this was a pleasant surprise- i really like both their RD and FD. the movement in the RD being kind of spiky and quirky works really well for them. the FD is Rachmaninoff, and the austere quality of these pieces also suits them- much of it is slow music without a strong beat, so flow is everything, the one foot step in particular was beautiful. watching this again, some of the elements were ever so slightly behind the music- once they get the timing worked out it will be even more vivid. there's something in her posture that nags at me, can't put my finger on exactly what. but how this is choreographed to change energy with the flurries of motion in the music is exciting - i'm looking forward to seeing this again
Pate and Bye - i don't know what to say - when they were the happy sunshine team in the lower half of the top 10 of US ice dance, their results felt appropriate to what they were putting on the ice. they were on podiums at some smaller competitions and could skate without significant errors and with good energy, but they're not particularly refined either in skating or movement - i've already said my piece on how they don't go deep into the ice and how some issues didn't get called. some of the dancing and the number of times their arms fly out like "ta-da!" don't work at all for me. they actually look a little better on video than in person, like you can't tell as much that what they're carving into the ice is kind of surfacey and smallish. at the moment, their next competition looks like Skate Canada, where they'll go head to head with Zingas/Kolesnik
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Faye Wong gives birth to baby girl in Beijing (1997)
After months of speculation and vehement denials that she was pregnant, Queen of Pop Faye Wong finally gave birth to a baby girl in Beijing on Friday morning after she disappeared from the music scene for several months.
Accompanied by China rocker-hubby Dou Wei, parents and in-laws, she checked into a top hospital in Beijing and gave birth to a bouncy baby girl after a caesarean operation.
The icy cool queen had spent the past months completely out of the limelight and holed up in Beijing with Dou after the Hong Kong media first broke news of her pregnancy some four months back.
She was originally due to give birth tomorrow but had decided on an earlier more auspicious date after consulting the Chinese almanac.
Both mother and baby are in excellent condition and will be discharged today.
According to Dou's sister, the baby girl inherited features from both mum and dad.
First-time daddy is reportedly so captivated that he refused to leave her alone and took turns with Wong to hold the baby. The only thing that irked the beaming father were the hordes of reporters clamoring outside the hospital for a photograph of the newborn.
Apparently, Wong had checked into the hospital that offers tight security specially to foreign diplomats. Her $278 -per-night room was locked 24 hours a day and the Hong Kong reporters could only keep watch outside the hospital.
There are guesses that the proud parents may want to give their girl a two-word name just like their own but close friends revealed that they preferred to have a three-word name.
The Hong Kong media first reported the pregnancy some time in late August. Wong started seeing Dou in 1993, after she broke up with Shu Wei, a member of Dou's rock band Black Panther.
True to her image, the elusive star virtually vanished from the public eye amidst rumors. But the tell-tale signs were unmistakable.
First, the now famous Beijing apartment where Wong was photographed outside the house in shorts and slippers was given to her brother and Dou was seen hunting for a bigger house in Beijing for his wife and baby-to-be.
She also failed to show up at the Singapore Hit Awards some three months ago where she won three major awards, including Most Popular Female Artiste.
A representative from her recording company, Polygram, who received the awards on her behalf, had cited "personal reasons" for her absence then.
Her Hong Kong manager had dismissed the news as rumor. She sad: "Faye Wong cannot be pregnant. She tells me everything about herself. I believe she has just put on weight."
In July, the grapevine buzzed with news of a hush-hush marriage between the pop queen and her beau. According to Hong Kong reports, Wong contacted her lawyer on July 16 to draw up a document declaring her single status.
The Chinese law stipulates that its nationals must declare their unmarried status before they can register for marriage.
Further reports revealed that she had also appointed a witness in China to register her marriage with the Chinese government. Apple Daily even published an application for their marriage.
But the application process was stopped abruptly for no apparent reason, fueling speculation that the couple did not want their marriage to rouse the media's suspicions of a baby on the way.
But Wong, have you forgotten that time will tell?
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SOURCE: THE STRAITS TIMES
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It’s Your Character That Counts: Ashlynn Juarez
Yes, I’m back! I wish I had caught up on this, but when you’re too busy IRL to do posts that take longer than two minutes to write and can only do so at certain times, things like this tend to take a hiatus.
You all know the drill. Everyone automatically loses trustworthiness and citizenship points because they let Buster talk them into breaking the law and lying along with him.
But at least Ash is willing to call him out on this behavior on occasion. Obviously she does it in private, but speaking out when someone wants you to do something wrong, according to the “workbook”, is another big part of trustworthiness. Also, we can’t forget how she called bullshit on that night club owner who payed her way less than all the other acts. Okay, it’s just half, but STILL! Way to stand up for yourself, Ash!
Well, well…
This is mainly for occasional backsass and maybe a dirty look of two, although if we’re also counting self-respect, I think we know what happened with Stupid Dumb Lance. How she was able to put up with his verbal abuse and belittling is still baffling to this day.
Oooooh! You were so close, Ash! You’re usually so good in this department, but unfortunately, I have to count the actions taken in Sing On Tour, no matter how not-canon it is.
I’ve been wanting to talk about this for a while, but without these Kids For Character rankings, there just wasn’t a decent way to being it up without seeming like I’m bitching too much.
If you’ve seen the YouTube videos of Sing On Tour in Universal Studios Japan and Universal Studios Beijing, you know that Ash is absent throughout most of the show because it appeared she had an errand to run. For a year and a half, I thought a guitar string broke and she needed to get a specific brand to make her performances that much more epic… but I was WRONG!
For the longest time, English subtitles for this show were unavailable, but two weeks ago, I found a video where someone translated the Beijing show (They’re both the same, so don’t worry about that) and it turns out she just left the theater to get a bigger speaker!
Like… REALLY, ASH?!? This is not like you! In a canonical version of this, you would have made do with what was there, right? Or, I know that most of the cast didn’t even know who Mizuki was and why she was there (probably a spontaneous decision on Buster’s part), but since she was the new intern, you could have had her get the speaker! Any Ash fan knows that she would NOT pull a stunt like this right before a show!
Yes, I’m also saying that Ash’s Sing On Tour stuff counts for fairness, as it sounds like she was the first act, but also keep the fact that she did sort of abandon Lance and went ahead with the singing competition anyway, even though he lost interest after Buster said he only wanted Ash. No, I’m not saying that I side with that dork, but you still don’t just do that to someone.
But again, if we go back to her first scene in Sing 2, she is more than willing to make things fair between her and the other acts in the night club. Dealing with a jerk like Lance has taught her that she has self-worth and that she deserves to be treated fairly.
“See, I have this rule about not letting guys like you tell me what I’m worth, so, you know, unless I get payed like everyone else, I’m outta here!”
This leads back to her snarkiness. She mostly does it because she cares. When she calls Buster out for his lies, it’s because she doesn’t want to see him hurt. She went ahead with the singing competition because she thought it would help Lance with HIS music! And you can’t say her staying behind at Clay’s house was solely malicious. She was one of his biggest fans and knew he couldn’t just leave him there in a depressed state!
Yeah… You know why this one is the lowest. For the most part, she does the right thing, but Buster trained her to break the law along side him. She was even an accomplice in trying to break into Clay’s house.
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All about P.K.14 ♪
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P.K. 14 is a Chinese rock band composed of vocalist/producer Yang Haisong (杨海崧), Xu Bo (许波) on guitar, bassist Shi Xudong (施旭东), and drummer Jonathan Leijonhufvud (雷坛坛, or 'Tan Tan'). Their post-punk, indie rock musical style has been influential on the Chinese rock scene since their first album was released in 2001, making them 'elder statesmen of the Beijing rock scene'. Formed in 1997 in Nanjing, they moved to Beijing in 2001. One of five groups selected by Time magazine as Asia's best bands in 2008, the band's name is intended as an abbreviation of 'public kingdom for teens'. The band, which sings exclusively in Mandarin Chinese, has been praised for its 'sharp, post-punk" sound: 'P.K.14, for all its lyrical depth, creates an overwhelming barrage of beautiful postpunk chaos'.
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Vocalist/Producer: Yang Haisong (杨海崧)
Guitarist: Xu Bo (许波)
Bassist: Shi Xudong (施旭东)
Drummer: Jonathan Leijonhufvud (雷坛坛)
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PS: my favorite songs by them are Storm Eyes (暴风的中心) and You and I (你和我) ;)
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The crowd gathered in a wood-paneled London hall struggled to contain their enthusiasm: Like music fans catching a glimpse of their favorite act peering out from backstage, people excitedly clapped and chattered when Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, entered to take his seat. They later rose to their feet in raucous applause as he delivered his speech, a lament about the diminishing freedoms in Hong Kong under Chinese rule. Hours earlier, in Hong Kong, Chinese President Xi Jinping had offered his own view, a stern defense of the city’s forceful integration with the mainland carried out through the introduction of a sprawling national-security law, the reengineering of the election system, and the mass arrest of prodemocracy figures.
Both events earlier this month marked the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong being returned to China. Patten’s appearance capped a string of events that had drawn activists, former lawmakers, and exiles to London for a week of lobbying, commemoration, and nostalgia for the protest movement. It was a remarkable scene, the aging head of a former imperial power emphatically cheered by former subjects who had fled their ostensibly decolonized homeland. Most of the Hong Kongers at the London event, a show of hands revealed, had arrived in the United Kingdom after the British government had broken with long-standing immigration policy to welcome them in. Many seeking refuge in the seat of the former empire have done so because it allows them to live and outwardly express an identity that Beijing is intent on stamping out as it imposes its own form of colonial rule and imperialist tendencies.
Some 120,000 Hong Kongers have taken part in the program in the 18 months since it was launched, according to outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The initiative, which is an expansion of the British National Overseas passport scheme, a special status created before the 1997 handover, potentially allows millions of Hong Kongers to stay in the U.K. on a pathway to citizenship. It also helps them avoid the grinding bureaucratic labyrinth of Britain’s asylum system. (The government refers to it as a “bespoke immigration route,” as if it were tailored on Savile Row.) The Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers, a nonprofit umbrella group assisting new arrivals, estimates that up to half a million could come to live in Britain over the next few years. Sunder Katwala, the director of British Future, a think tank that houses the Welcoming Committee, said this month that the influx could “reshape Britain.”
This acceptance of Hong Kongers marks an extraordinary turn for the British government, which for decades staunchly defended the practice of denying its former subjects the right of abode. In 1982, as focus turned toward Hong Kong’s impending handover back to China, then–Foreign Secretary Peter Carington wrote to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, warning of the threat of mass migration should things not proceed smoothly. The U.K., he cautioned, “would be faced with demands of Hong Kong people for guarantees of protection and, more than likely, for the right of admission of fairly large numbers to this country.” Not long after he wrote the memo, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Carington resigned from his post, but his position toward keeping Hong Kongers out of Britain remained.
In 1989, the Tiananmen Square massacre brought the issue to the forefront again. Then–Hong Kong Governor David Wilson traveled to Downing Street shortly after the crackdown and argued that allowing Hong Kongers the chance to migrate to Britain would, counterintuitively, boost confidence in the city, and, in an attempt to sell the idea to Thatcher, said he believed that not many would actually take up the offer. Murray MacLehose, a former Hong Kong governor, called for an amendment to the British Nationality Act to allow for Hong Kongers to obtain citizenship. His plea went unanswered. Instead, full British passports were issued to 50,000 priority Hong Kongers, though even this consolation was condemned by Beijing. It was “not a glorious outcome,” the journalist Michael Sheridan recounted in his book The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic and Hong Kong.
By the time Patten arrived in Hong Kong in 1992, much was already set for Hong Kong’s future ahead of the 1997 handover. He pushed to expand democracy but met fierce resistance from Beijing and some in London. In recent years, he has cast himself as an outspoken crusader, enraging Beijing with his numerous media appearances. His criticism of China and his defense of Hong Kong have, in a way, helped absolve the British of some of the uglier aspects of their rule over the city, including police violence in the 1960s and draconian laws that remain on the books. These relics of empire have been almost gleefully embraced by Beijing loyalists. Colonial laws drafted by the British have been revived by Hong Kong’s new rulers; the charge of sedition has proved particularly popular. The police force that cracked down on the protests and has been transformed into an arm of the ever-expanding national-security apparatus is a distinctly British creation: The title Royal has been dropped from the force’s name, but a few high-ranking British officers remain in uniform.
Jeppe Mulich, a lecturer in modern history at City, University of London, told me the rosy vision of Hong Kong’s past that is often projected within the U.K. is troubling, with much focus on commemorating the last few years of British rule but little on what came before, because “it really is not a very pretty picture in any way.” Patten, who recently published his diaries detailing his time as Hong Kong’s final governor, is “a reliable symbol of the good old days of colonial Hong Kong,” Mulich said, but in reality, “he was a Band-Aid put on a big bleeding wound at much too late a stage.”
Those in attendance at the event I went to in London were hugely sympathetic to the former governor. One audience member asked him about what he made of the colonial legacy in Hong Kong. Patten responded by musing on the astronomy of empire: Britain prepared former colonies such as Singapore and Malaysia for their futures, “put them all onto the launching pad and lit them with touch paper and blasted the whole thing off into outer space,” hoping that they would take to orbit as an “independent and successful country,” he said. But, “with Hong Kong, because of the lease, we couldn’t do that,” he told the audience, referencing the 99-year agreement signed with Beijing in 1898. Instead, Patten explained, the city was “fired off not into orbit on its own but into a docking mechanism with mainland China and that caused a very, very different set of problems.”
Contemporary Hong Kongers are often criticized for harboring too much sympathy for colonial rule. I frequently saw the old colonial flag flying at the numerous marches I attended in 2019. A protester hung it inside the Legislative Council chamber when it was stormed by demonstrators at the height of the prodemocracy movement. Before Xi’s visit this month, a series of videos showing Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Anne made the rounds on social media, with commentators praising the royals for meeting Hong Kongers and visiting housing estates on their visits to the city, in contrast to the imperious distance typically maintained by Xi.
A certain level of colonial nostalgia is understandable given the changes in the city over the past decade, Mulich told me; some view Britain as the lesser of two evils when set against Beijing’s increased influence. Claudia Mo, a former prodemocracy lawmaker who covered the lead-up to the handover as a journalist, told me that she questioned at the time, “Why are we being ruled by foreigners?” and was nagged by the feeling that there was “something not right” about Hong Kong’s governance during colonial times. She had been excited to see Hong Kong return to Chinese rule, but eventually soured on Beijing’s control of the city and became a strident critic in the legislature. Mo was arrested last year and faces the possibility of life in prison for violating the national-security law.
Deference toward the British was also actively fostered prior to the handover. Decades of colonial education “helped cultivate a sense of belonging to the British empire amongst those who were born and raised before 1997,” Vivian Wong, a lecturer in modern Chinese history at the University of Bristol, told me. Members of Hong Kong’s civil society have also “long deployed the rhetoric of imperial cosmopolitanism as a strategic tool to counteract Chinese nationalism,” she added, though this “rosy understanding of British colonial rule” was not universally held.
Prior to Patten’s speech, I made my way into Parliament, past groups of summer tourists and groups of pro- and anti-Brexit protesters engaged in a heated exchange, to attend a roundtable on Hong Kong. One of the speakers was Timothy Lee, a former district councilor who was elected in November 2019 when prodemocracy candidates nearly ran the table in local elections. I had last interviewed Lee after his first district-council meeting. Then, he had been buzzing with nervous energy, words tumbling out of his mouth at a pace that was at times hard to follow. Yet his tenure as a politician was short-lived. Lee left Hong Kong on March 1, 2021, a day after 47 prodemocracy figures, many of them his friends, were arrested for violating the national-security law.
When he landed in London, it was his first time anywhere in Europe. He initially entered as a visitor, moving from place to place, before heading to Taiwan. Though Taipei had been supportive of Hong Kongers during the protests, its immigration policies remain restrictive. Lee found the limitations on his right to work onerous. He returned to London three months later and successfully took part in the new immigration program. He has since settled into an office job and in his spare time does advocacy work. His business card describes him as “one of the last elected district councilors from Hong Kong.”
Lee now lives in a crowded part of London where the streets are busy, like back home. The double-decker buses and the city’s underground remind him of Hong Kong. His decision to leave wasn’t driven by fear of imprisonment so much as by the collapsing space for free speech and the threat of self-censorship. “If I remain in Hong Kong, maybe I won’t get arrested, maybe I will. This is one uncertainty,” Lee explained to me. “But one thing I can be sure of: If I remain in Hong Kong there are many things I used to be able to say that I will not be able to say anymore.” (Shortly after we spoke, an elderly activist with Stage 4 cancer was sentenced to nine months in prison for a protest that had been planned but never took place. The same week, several men were arrested for sharing a Facebook post calling for people to cast blank ballots in the December 2021 elections.)
Others who have fled Hong Kong’s shrinking space for any views or identity beyond those deemed sufficiently patriotic have found a more welcoming home in Britain too. One notably bright Friday, I stepped into the dimly lit foyer of Prince Charles Cinema near Leicester Square and followed a set of signs down a flight of stairs to a theater showing Revolution of Our Times, a documentary about the 2019 protests. The award-winning film was released last month on the video-streaming site Vimeo, but Hong Kong’s police chief has warned the city’s residents against viewing it, and the title is a portion of a now-outlawed protest slogan.
The name of the cinema struck me as ironic. Charles had attended the handover ceremonies 25 years earlier, saluting the Union Jack in his white military dress uniform as the flag came down for the final time. The film was shown at midday, but the theater was almost full. In the lobby, a table was covered with mementos of 2019 for sale, most of which would put the seller at risk in Hong Kong. As the documentary played, sniffles and muffled sobs from the audience offered something of a secondary soundtrack to the film’s original score. Tissue packets crinkled in the darkness as strangers offered them to those sitting nearby. As the documentary ended, people sang along to “Glory to Hong Kong,” an unofficial anthem that was written during the protests.
Among those I met in London was Lilith Leung, a social worker in Hong Kong who was arrested twice during those protests, and who came to Britain via the immigration program. She cried, she told me, as she watched Hong Kong disappear below the plane as she flew out of the city in October.
Leung struggled with English when she first arrived, but being forced to use the language daily has helped her improve. Since moving to London, she has also begun to transition to living as a woman. The prevalence of the term prodemocracy at times obscures the fact that the victims of Beijing’s overhaul of Hong Kong reach far beyond the realm of election politics: civil society, progressive action groups, and individuals who depart from the authorities’ view of the norm. Leung previously worked with the city’s oldest prodemocracy party and its largest trade union. The union closed in the wake of the national-security law, along with dozens of other civil-society groups.
Leung told me she was reluctant to live as a woman in Hong Kong under the more authoritarian political regime now in place. She took the acceptance and encouragement she had received from new friends in London as a sign of the city’s openness compared with Hong Kong, where she saw such openness in steep decline. “It is interesting,” she told me, “that a place can give you the courage to live as yourself and trust yourself. It is a great expression of freedom.”
#nunyas news#think a influx of people that appreciate#the freedoms offered in the UK#isn't going to be a terrible thing
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Interview with Deadly Cradle Death
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Interview with Deadly Cradle Death
Deadly Cradle Death Interview
Deadly Cradle Death is an experimental, electronic, no wave, hip-hop duo, They formed in 2011 when He Fan （Birdstriking, Carsick Cars) met at a concert Liu Xingyu (Chui Wan).
Where does the name ‘Deadly Cradle Death’ come from?
Liu Xingyu (LXY)：”Crib your enthusiasm” is one of the episodes of “1000 ways to die”, an American documentary, and “Dead Cradle Death” is the Chinese translate version. It’s about a male pervert who likes to dress up as a baby and still has a big crib for himself at home after marriage. One day when his wife went to work, he accidentally got stuck in the crib and died of suffocation.
Disconnection by Deadly Cradle Death
What are the major influences on your sound?
LXY：Swen Leather/Black Dice and some strange Hip-Hop/Electro music.
He Fan (HF): We got Zoom’in Night，a experiment music series performance on Tuesday when D22/XP opened. The project encourages us to try more.
Deadly Cradle Death – Disconnection
Can you tell us something about when you start to get into music? How did you meet?
LXY：We met in an experimental music gig. At that time, we were only 17-year-old audiences. When He Fan saw that there were peers like me in the audience, he went to ask me for a cigarette chat. Then we formed a No Wave band called Cardiac Murmur.
HF：I meet the drummer and made up Birdstriking when I went to university. I meet Liuxinyu in a noise guitar show. And then I found out that he and the drummer of Birdstriking actually knew each other. The music scene in Beijing is really small at that time.
How do you think it’s changed the underground music scene in Beijing and China?
LXY：In the past, only D-22 / XP was suitable for performing underground music in Beijing, so everyone gathered to influence each other. Now there are no more of these two places. Everyone basically acts separately. You can be seen in every small live house/art space. There are also some interesting DIY performances. I think if we don’t get together every day, there won’t be too many scenes of mutual influence and communication, which is also conducive to the independent thinking of each band/musician.
Is there a song or more songs you are particularly connected to?
HF：I like a band called 门票多少钱（how much is the ticket?），you can hear all elements of Beijing underground scene (D22 style) from it.
What are the main topics for most of your songs?
LXY：Doomsday revelry.
HF: Collective subconscious such as primitive humans dancing around bonfires, creationists, Ancient Aliens, Holographic Universe, and some voodoo stuff.
What are the ideas behind your songs? What do you want to tell?
HF：I mean this era people are going through should be the eve of the super singularity, so I can feel a lot of supernatural power behind all the changes, or I prefer to think like this.
How the environment you live in have shaped your sound?
HF: When I wrote these songs, the air in Beijing was very bad, there was a lot of haze, making people feel depressed. The post-industrial scene may have stimulated me to express it with noise. But right now the air is much better, so it’s difficult to duplicate the sound at that time.
Can you share with us a story from backstage?
LXY：We like to turn off the light and turn on the max volume improvisation in the rehearsal room. Sometimes the improvisation is very cool. A song has been played for 30 minutes, but after turning on the light, we forget all about it.
HF：I found god when we rehearsal.
Will you tour abroad in the next future?
LXY：I’m not sure. I hope we can go to Italy. I’ve been to Italy before, I think Italy is crazy and suitable for our music.
HF：I went to Rome and Barcelona in 2016, it’s a really cozy place, and people in Rome is very cool. Young people prefer art to fashion, I really want to go there once again. In Barcelona, a very capitalist city, I saw a guitarist and drummer beating with plastic barrels, which impressed me deeply on the street. It was a performance with a strong sense of nationality. I used to give them 20 bucks and they thank me and said they didn’t like Barcelona.
Can you tell us something about your next projects?
LXY：There are several new songs. I hope I can record them in the future.
HF：Yes, and I wish we can tour in Italy.
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A New Era for Beijing’s Quirky Music Scene – The Diplomat
A New Era for Beijing’s Quirky Music Scene – The Diplomat
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Fantasy on Ice 2022 Kobe
FOOTAGE KOBE + INTERVIEW + Translation
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Transcription of translation (all credits to @/marika_yuzu on Twitter):
About FaO: he wants to convey what he wants to express, not necessarily in the form of words, but by creating performances where people can look back thinking "There was that scene", "I liked this part". He used to give 120% but now wants to squeeze out 150% of his strength.
About Beijing Olys: He feels glad he went to Beijing - it changed people's perception of him being a "perfect human being" to "someone who, despite having tries his best, couldn't realize his dream". That led to some people cheering for him, which mad him happy.
About 4A: RF was a declaration of his intention to grasp 4A. His core & strong belief about 4A remain solid. Although he said he was satisfied with the 4A that he showed in Beijing, his perception has changed over time, when he was learning by himself how to dance, thinking "there are more ideas I could try for 4A". He learnt a lot at Beijing & wants to make use of them. He strongly wants to keep challenging. He wants to land it successfully in front of everyone.
His idea of ultimate FS: artistry is important. He likes to skate to the music, pursuing steps & spins that only he can do. He wants to practice jumps more & keep working hard, so that people feel that YH is at his best right now, technically as well. He says he's an athlete; artistry is important in FS, but it's also a sport. He wants you to feel the tension you'd normally experience in sport from YH's FS in ice shows too, at all times.
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Nike x SOULGOODS Dunk Highs Collection
What to Know
The Nike x SOULGOODS collaboration celebrates Chinese youth and redefining sports culture for the next generation.
The pack has details nodding to basketball, music and art from the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s, underscoring the cultural intersections that connect all three decades.
The pack includes three distinct Dunk Highs with varying colors, materials, graphics and narratives.
Following last year’s Converse collaboration, the debut SOULGOODS x Nike collection highlights the growth of sneaker culture and communities in Greater China. The three Dunk Highs, representing the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s, are an expression of the Beijing-based retailer’s roots in basketball, music, style and art.
Each shoe embodies specific characters and stories tied to each decade. The Nike x SOULGOODS Dunk High ’80s references the style found in classic basketball films and local street ball. The ’90s model represents the rock and hip-hop enthusiasts of the club scene. The 2000s model nods to longtime sneaker collectors and artists who witnessed the previous decades.
The footwear features graphic details like a “Soul Tiger” icon and the SOULGOODS motto, “From Beijing to the World.” While the ’80s and ’90s versions have more neutral uppers, the 2000s model has a pink and blue print and the words “Never Change” and "Always Change."
What to Know
The Nike x SOULGOODS collaboration celebrates Chinese youth and redefining sports culture for the next generation.
The pack has details nodding to basketball, music and art from the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s, underscoring the cultural intersections that connect all three decades.
The pack includes three distinct Dunk Highs with varying colors, materials, graphics and narratives.
The Nike x SOULGOODS Dunk Highs collection will release throughout November and December.
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Cyberpunk Fashion.! PT 1
What is Cyberpunk Fashion?
Setting the Scene
A world overrun by technology and big corporations
People in the world are apathetic and feel there is basically nothing they can do
The environment is dying, therefore the people must dress a certain way to adapt to the environment
The Word Itself
Cyberpunk is a compound of cybernetics and punk
According to Google definitions…
Cybernetics: The science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things
Punk: A loud, fast-moving, and aggressive form of rock music, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s; a worthless person; anti-culture
Cyberpunk: Genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
Above everything, cyberpunk is a lifestyle that blends a combination of “high tech, low life” with a deep understanding of social fabric backdoors.
Fashion and aesthetic depicts humans living in an urban dystopian future of highly advanced developments in science and technology
History // General Inspiration
The origin of the movement is rooted in scientific findings and scientific fiction that first developed in the 60s and 70s
Blade Runner (Film): 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott. It focuses on an ex-cop turned private detective in 2019 named Rick Deckard, who is called back into service to hunt down human-looking robots called “replicants”.
Movie inspired by Phillip K Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
The movie itself created the visual look, atmosphere and world of cyberpunk.
Created a world with the structure of a reality we are entangled with, but has blaring signs of an impending doom of artificial intelligence and technology.
Akira (Film): 1990 anime film about Tetsuo, a teenager who had gone through a difficult childhood and is the victim of experiments aimed at developing the psychic abilities that lie dormant in all of us. He is endowed with a power that he himself cannot imagine, and decides to go to war against the world that has oppressed him.
The new digital world with rapid urbanization causes these theories of a potential dystopian future
Cyberpunk fashion becomes both commentary and critique of these theories
The Clothes
Functionality, technology, and a theme of “dystopia” is key to understanding how to dress cyberpunk — “high tech, low life”
Colors Palette: neon colors entwined with dark, earth tones
Also known as techwear: urban apparel that uses high-quality fabrics and technical detailing to create a product that can stand up to the elements
The “Cyberpunk” aesthetic must be apparent and obvious. Especially since techwear is very popular and worn in a lot of different ways, a point must be made to differentiate those who are actively trying to dress cyberpunk versus those who are just buying into the techwear trends.
Some Examples
Rick Owens: Paris based designer known for a largely noir, gray and ice-hued collection with deployment of pentagram motifs. His aesthetic is also known for being “rapturously anti-establishment”. He is one of the leading designers in the aesthetic that is known as “avant apocalypse”: a revolution of subversion, neutral maximalism, deconstructed pieces, asymmetry, wearing clothes the wrong way. Very inaccessible.
Arc’teryx: Canadian outdoor clothing and sporting goods company founded by Dave Lane and Jeremy Guard in 1989. Sells products related to climbing, skiing, snowboarding, backpacking, and hiking-related activities.
YEEZY: Created by Kanye West, who was heavily inspired by the film Akira. He relies heavily on earth tones and comes to the fashion industry with an idea of a uniformed code.
Dingyun Zhang: Born in Beijing. Rising designer out of Central Saint Martins. Worked for YEEZY. Known for his “otherworldly” winter wear. His newest collection of winter wear (collabed with Moncler Genius) has hyperbolic, cartoonish silhouettes and are inspired by the colors and contours of post-apocalyptic underwater life.
“Perhaps I’ll start releasing daily functional pieces through a digital space”
“For instance, utilizing my bonding techniques to make a drainage structure on the coat, helping the downward flow of water off the wearer’s body.”
Pieces from Spring 2022 shown below
Hyein Seo: South Korean designer/label known for its influence on today’s streetwear. Released technical wares that defy convention and traditional codes of dress. Focused on a monochrome palette for the most part. Outerwear includes an array of complicated paneling, exaggerated shapes, obscuring hoods and engineered textiles to combat the elements.
Y-3 by Adidas: collaborative brand between Adidas and designer Yojhi Yamamoto. Known for their high end reinterpretations of adidas silhouettes. A pioneer of breaking down the boundaries between fashion and sport. Have had collaborations with Virgin galactic to produce a full range of space apparel.
Rei Kawakubo: Known for going against the system and being “anti-fashion”, she founded Commes des Garcons as well as Dover Street Market. She was at first known for her dark, oversized, and asymmetrical garments.
Further Questions
What does cyberpunk clothing say about today’s society in terms of class?
Does cyberpunk better society in terms of gender or class or does it entrap us further?
What is cyberpunk clothing trying to warn us of?
Does the cross between high fashion brands and cyberpunk clothing make sense?
Does hypocrisy lie in this?
What is the wider influence of this subculture?
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