Talk:Yatta (song)

message: The article seems to imply that Veloso's message to support the corporations (AOL, Sony, Disney, etc.) is an appeal to support the economy. I was under the impression that they were listed because he used some of their products, photoshopped with Yatta onto them, of course. I know off the top of my head that applies to Johnson and Johnson. Does anyone else know anything about this? --BDD 01:36, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Philip Morris is a famously hated company because its primary business is selling tobacco products, even though it has its fingers in a lot of pies, and I'd be very surprised if he were sincerely supporting them. I don't know Veloso but I doubt he was sincerely encouraging people to use those products -- the Alan Greenspan refs and (IIRC) repeated refs to encouraging people's greed (like the ironic Dr. Ruth thing about SUVs being a compensation for penis size) seem like a really obvious parody of attempts to stimulate the economy and end the recession to me. As far as whether he personally uses all these products -- it seems irrelevant. Most of these aren't cool products one would sincerely promote -- they're random things like Band-Aids, toothpaste, fast food, etc. If anything he's *parodying* brand identification and cliqueyness -- taglines like "The clothes you wear determine your value as a person" and "Apple users would all willingly give (Steve) Jobs a hummer" seem pretty ironic to me.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.58.225.137 (talk) 05:03, 26 April 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no doubt that the work is a parody, and I grant that IrEx is not as random and more formulaic than the average animutation, but I just can't see an animutation being used for such a specific and serious purpose. Is there any evidence supporting this idea? --BDD 18:14, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No doubt much of it is just sheer randomness, sure, but I can't help thinking that there's enough lucid moments that much of the humor does come from skewering people's obsession with the economy and stimulating consumerism and branding. I don't think it's particularly serious, or that Veloso is trying to recruit for the socialist revolution or anything -- but the humor has a bite because it's about something real. The same is true of the original Yatta!, which makes a bit more sense if you recall how incredibly dire Japan's economy looked and how bombarded with pessimism Japanese people were when it came out.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.105.247.164 (talk) 23:24, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Irrational Exuberance "Support" Message

message: This song is copyrighted, of course, so I'm removing the direct link to downloading the official music video. Illegal desu. DJLarZ 16:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Links have since returned, I am removing them again. Wikipedia articles are not allowed to link to content that is in violation of copyrights. -Verdatum (talk) 15:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: Are you sure this is based only on "Go West" by the village people?  Both of those songs are basically Pachelbel's Canon in D.--Dwedit 05:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Go West?

message: I removed this paragraph: Unfortunately, Yatta's reputation has been tarnished by a well known member of a popular New York City community website. The user has been subjected to much in the way of self induced failures and, in addition to expressing a familiar brand of homosexuality, has been noted for being quite eccentric.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.142.53.253 (talk) 08:44, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Strange Reference - Off Topic

message: the article states While the song was intended to be humorous, some viewers outside Japan assumed it to be earnest, perhaps due to the obvious work that went into the special effects in the video. The incomprehensibility of such an elaborate video enhanced its popularity among Western audiences who could not understand the Japanese lyrics.
But what is this factoid based on? Some (western) worldwide study? This is anecdotal, and personal opinion, but when I saw the Yatta! video for the first time, my assumption was that it was a comical music video. Was the video popularized because "some" thought it was "earnest" - whatever we mean by that ... Some people thought it was an earnest non-humor video? And what does that have to to with its popularity? Maybe I'm missing something here. Why would the understanding of lyrics have a bearing on this either? There are tons of people worldwide that don't understand English lyrics in American pop songs, are we to add similar statements to those articles too? Anyway, putting up a 'citation needed' for the paragraph. 
--Popoi (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popularity in the West 

message: What does "Bye-Q" mean, anyways?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.4.242.128 (talk) 02:51, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Bye-Q"