Dance My Generation: Song

So Golden Bomber's come out with another hit single: Dance My Generation. I thought it was very clever of them to write a song that relates to current events in Japanese society and parodies Japan's bubble period for that exact reason. In the video, Golden Bomber is physically imitating the 80's in apparel and hairstyles, to even the cheesy disco ball, and waving copious amounts of money around as if it were nothing. In the beginning of the video, two women are talking about the bubble period, and how awesome it is. Then the band walks out, starts dancing and so on. The Video actually ends with the disco ball actually exploding and everyone becoming greatly unglamorous with flying garbage suddenly blowing in and all of the money mysteriously disappears at the same time. The disco ball exploding signifies the burst of that bubble. I honestly don't know who the woman/man in the video is or what their relevance is yet, but I'm looking into it.

Here's the video in its entirety, for you to see.

I thought it was important to talk about Dance My Generation because Golden Bomber is now an international pop sensation and thus influences vast amounts of people through their mediums of music, videos, and performances. This only lead me to think about how this band started with lots of yaoi and comedy, but often they have had several social commentaries and/or historical references imbedded in the lyrics and their videos. If more fans pay attention to these things that Golden Bomber is doing, it would be a bit revolutionary because they'd become more aware as to what Japan's current plights really are, how they came to be, and how their own country's influenced the present state. Sure, historical Japan or historical anywhere is nice, but it isn't an accurate portrayal of what any country really is, just what it was which is why this video is important. It is helping edge Japan out of its normally secretive ways about their problems.