What Manner of Fresh Hell Is This?

Thembi Ford 14 March 2008 11 Comments

I took piano lessons for two years, and I played “We Are The World” at my second recital when I was about nine or ten. I thought I was fly for playing a popular song, only to realize that everyone would be able to tell when I messed up, which I did – twice. Haven’t really played the piano since. Anyway, that little childhood memory is not nearly as painful as watching these Japanese impersonators doing an almost dead-on rendition of “We Are The World.” Yes, Stevie, Lionel, Michael, Tina, all in brownface, the works. I have to love Japanese people, they do any old thing. Fresh hell, I tell you.

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Torrance Stephens bka All-Mi-T said:

that is some bazar uh, stuff lol

# 15 March 2008 at 11:22 am

dara said:

this is why i love your site. this is crazy!

# 15 March 2008 at 3:25 pm

Televisiontraci said:

Girl, where did you find this video? It is too much!

# 15 March 2008 at 5:00 pm

shelbyinitalia said:

this is insane lololol. i love japanese people for real

# 16 March 2008 at 12:11 pm

Aaliyah said:

OUTSTANDING!

# 17 March 2008 at 10:58 am

Vanessa said:

this is so disturbing….

# 18 March 2008 at 9:51 am

Qucifer said:

My friend laughed all the way to the next day with this one, he says that Cindy Raupel made him appreciate the subdued performance or Tina

My Beef is with Ray’s Ashy lips

# 18 March 2008 at 11:25 am

Ginneh Akbar said:

I liked it better when you were gone.

# 20 March 2008 at 12:38 pm

Ehav Ever said:

Are you sure that wasn’t really Michael Jackson? Also, that really looked like Cindy Lauper. The Japanese are always funny with this kind of stuff.

# 21 March 2008 at 1:06 am

Siditty said:

I was scared of Stevie Wonder. That was too funny!!!!! I love how they did black face, they should have did white face for Bruce and Cyndi.

# 24 March 2008 at 4:49 am

Izzy said:

The Japanese those mofos will do anything for western world validation. I live for Cyndi Lauper-ukio HAHAHAHAHA

# 29 April 2008 at 5:29 pm

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Police sketch artist drawings of black people are notoriously poor and rarely look like anyone in particular. I’m convinced that when asked to describe the suspect, witnesses just describe the last black male they saw, even if they last saw a black male on television. So I did a little Thembi-style experiment by going online and digging up dozens of sketches of black suspects to see just who the strong arm of the law is looking for.

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