I flew to Tokyo to shoot this video.specifically for my Japanese fans, WITH my Japanese label, Japanese choreographers AND a Japanese director IN Japan. 30 Hiro Ugaya, a Tokyo-based journalist and media commentator, assumed that images of cultures outside of ones own in mass media are always different from the reality.. When youre trying to reach the majority of consumers, images tend to be lowest common dominator sic.It was written by Lavigne, Chad Kroeger, David Hodges and Martin Johnson.Production was handled by Kroeger and Hodges, with additional production by Brandon Paddock and Kyle Moorman.
Musically, Hello Kitty is a J-pop, dubstep, and EDM song, featuring an electro -influenced drop. The song was influenced by her obsession with all things related to the Japanese brand Hello Kitty, and has some sexual content. It was mostly panned by Western music critics, who criticized its sound and called it immature, with Billboard labeling it abhorrent and lazy, while a few critics praised the song saying it is unique and playful. Lavigne shot a music video for the track in Japan and was released on 21 April 2014. Due to the videos popularity, the song charted at number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the second highest charting single from the album. Lavigne stated that the album would musically be the opposite of Goodbye Lullaby, with a release date rumoured for sometime in 2012. Lavigne explained, Goodbye Lullaby was more mellow, but the next one will be pop and more fun again. I already have a song that I know is going to be a single, I just need to re-record it. In an interview, Lavigne said about her collaboration with Kroeger: I have a song called Hello Kitty, which I wrote about Hello Kitty because Im obsessed, and its a really fun thing that Ive never done before. It kind of has a kind of glitchy, electronic feel to it and its. Its really different and a lot of my friends Ive played it for really like it. Brandon Paddock and Kyle Moorman became assistants in its production. The song was engineered by John Hanes, musical mixed by Serban Ghenea and additional programming was held by Paddock and Moorman. I wanted it to sound over the top so I ended up hiring a new producer to help me with it. Kawaii is Japanese for cute, and the word is popularly used to describe endearing physical characterizations in Manga and Japanese video games. She was later asked about the double meaning of the song, on account of the interchangeability of the sexual euphemisms kitty and pussy, to which she responded, Obviously its flirtatious and somewhat sexual, but its genuinely about my love for Hello Kitty as well. Additionally, she said at MuchMusic Awards, Its really fun and its about a slumber party and loving the kitty. While labeling it weird, Nick Catucci from Entertainment Weekly called it a dubstep track that seems to acknowledge its own tokenism by adopting a J-Pop American Funtime Now sheen. Despite praising her techno-pop influence, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard felt that its a bold stab at a genre outside of Lavignes oeuvre, but it never comes together. By the 20th time Hello Kitty, youre so pretty is declared, the listeners attention is already on the next track. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that the song bypasses bubblegum so it can settle into the embarrassing. While reviewing and stating that most of the album was soggy, Chuck Eddy from Rolling Stone felt that Hello Kitty was the most playful song on the album and called it J-pop -via- Kesha. Robert Corpsey from Digital Spy was mixed on his opinion of the song, writing that the juddering electro-pop beats of Hello Kitty serve as an ode to her you-know-what as well as her sizeable Japanese fanbase. As a curveball, it works brilliantly; but as an attempt to make her sound current in todays EDM -pop dominated charts, it falls considerably short. It also became her highest debut on Streaming Songs to date, as the track debuted at number 14 (besting Heres to Never Growing Up, which opened at number 26 in May following its official video debut). The song also surged to 5,000 downloads sold in the tracking week ending Sunday, 27 April, up from a negligible number the week before, according to Nielsen SoundScan. On the Japanese Hot Top Airplay chart, Hello Kitty debuted at number 82 for the week ending of 12 May 2014. The video also shows Lavigne playing guitar, wearing glasses, eating sushi, waving at admirers and fans and taking a single photograph, 24 wearing gloves that are paired with pastel hair extensions and a pink tutu covered in three-dimensional cupcakes. Jason Lipshutz of Billboard panned it as even more abhorrent than the song. While acknowledging that the albums previous videos were excellent, he pointed out that the Hello Kitty video tries to do nothing. Its laziness is demonstrated in the first 21 seconds, during which Lavigne holds a plush stack of cupcakes, shakes her hips, stares at the cupcakes, bounces her shoulders, and then, when she sings the line Someone chuck a cupcake at me. I flew to Tokyo to shoot this video.specifically for my Japanese fans, WITH my Japanese label, Japanese choreographers AND a Japanese director IN Japan. Hiro Ugaya, a Tokyo-based journalist and media commentator, assumed that images of cultures outside of ones own in mass media are always different from the reality.. When youre trying to reach the majority of consumers, images tend to be lowest common dominator sic.
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