La Woman came about by the group's own design. Of course, Honda has had to spend the past few months explaining to fans and interviewers why Stereotype A doesn't feature songs about chicken, bagels, vegetables, etc. There is, she notes, a song called Sci-Fi Wasabi, but it isn't really about wasabi at all. The food thing was too eccentric, and people got too focused on it. And I have to admit that in American culture there's no aspect of food that could be artistic.
People think of food as something like a chore.
They didn't grow up with the same thoughts about this life cycle that people in Europe and Japan have. We thought everyone else would get it, which was a big mistake. So it was a learning experience for us, too. This idea that America is all the same was a stereotype on our part. There were things that we weren't really sure we could do, we just did them anyway.