Day Above Ground recently released a song called "Asian Girlz," and immediately felt the backlash, which isn't shocking considering its lyrics and content.
Depending on your point of view, it's either the most racist thing you've seen all week, the most racist thing you've seen ever, or somewhere in between:
While an Asian model strips, the band sings about fried rice and basically every other stereotype you can think of, with varying degrees of offensiveness.
While this is happening, every member of the band goes on a date with an Asian girl, who's "17 or 23, it doesn't matter to me!" Seriously, that's a lyric.
Levy Tran, the "Asian Girl" in the video, apologized for participating in the clip on Twitter, while the band defended the work as a satire in a YouTube statement:
"This video is intended to be a satirical, provocative, absurd, & even silly work of art."
"The lyrics, story, and visuals are so completely over-the-top and ridiculous that we thought it'd be impossible to miss the point."
"But some very vocal groups, especially the blog, Angry Asian Men, attacked it right out of the gate very aggressively. Their fury was soon amplified by the blog/news cycle."
"Shortly after, the views and craziness began climbing by the second. Angry Asian Men, to you we say - all's fair so well done! We salute you. Seriously. No satire intended this time."
"So due to the overwhelming misunderstanding of this video & the anger it has incited - especially the bizarre and horrible personal attacks on actress Levy Tran - we're pulling the video down within the next 48 hours."
"But we'll leave it up until then to give anyone who cares a chance to see for themselves what it's really about before it disappears from our channel and website forever."
"So just step back, take a breath, and relax."
What do you think? Satirical and amusing, and another example of how people should just lighten up? Or beyond racist, offensive and unfunny to boot?
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