December 27, 2004 | Posted by at 9:54 AM

Let's Do the Some Japanese Thing

Waradakumi

(I promise: Not remotely a Christmas song.)

In Kumamoto, Christmas wasn't about lovin' the Good Lord. It was about lovin' the one you love. Locals celebrate X-mas like Valentine's Day. Family ain't a factor, everyone's just dying to find a hot date.

In honor of that odd fact, I give you the goofiest stupid-blunted falsetto Japanese slow-jam I've purchased this week:

some illegible Japanese kanji by Maboroshi. (Please drop a comment if you can read the title on the file.)

The opening lyric is "Hey, you Sexy Lady / Let's do the 'warudakumi'". My dictionary says "warudakumi" means "wiles; sinister design; trick; conspiracy; intrigue".

Sexy!

Speaking of which, I can't help but include:
"Go! Sexy" by Maboroshi .

Because in it, they say the word 'go' 40 times. And 'sexy' 9 times.

And it's only 52 seconds long.

According to CDjapan.co.jp, "Maboroshi consists of Mummy-D (Rhymster) and Tomoyasu Takeuchi (Super Butter Dog)."

Lovely.

Get their latest, The Waradakumi, at Tower Records Japan, or here.

Comments

the two characters in the song name, individually, mean "mud" or "mashed" (usually used to describe a vegetable), and "bat" or "stick", at least in Chinese, at least at first glance, and least as they showed up in my playlist, anyway.

i'd like to think it could be translated as something like "Mashing Bat"-- but, maybe in japanese it's different.

cool name though.

Posted by: tuck at December 27, 2004 1:06 PM

泥棒 in Japanese means "thief", but I'm guessing because CJK doesn't show up in my playlist.

Posted by: Sabina at December 28, 2004 12:37 AM

"dothe" is "nuki-ashi sashi-ashi"
"nuki-ashi sashi-ashi" means "tip toe"

Posted by: Tarou at December 29, 2004 3:08 AM
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