Michael Jackson: You Are Not Alone
I’ve looked at a lot of disturbing music videos here on konton popHO. In the past, I have explored subjects that nobody else in their right minds would dare touch. I thought that it couldn’t get any worse than Aqua or New Kids on the Block. But I am here to say, yes my friends, it can get worse… much worse… The subject of today’s review is Michael Jackson’s You Are Not Alone, quite possibly one of the most disturbing videos ever created. Every copy of this atrocious affront to human kind should be found and burned. The director should have his flesh flayed from his skin and be fed to kittens. Michael Jackson should be… uh… well he’s fucked up enough already. We can leave him alone.
I have been sitting here for the past 20 minutes trying to come up with a decent intro paragraph for my review of Pumps and a Bumps when I realized that it is impossible to give Hammer a proper introduction and most likely unnecessary. Who hasn’t heard of MC Hammer?! At one point in this guy had it all, but off-stage things weren’t going so well (cue VH1 Behind the Music-transition to black and white…) While many are familiar with Can’t Touch This and 2 Legit 2 Quit, not too many know about his later stuff. I thought I’d rectify that by giving the classic Pumps and a Bump video the popHO treatment.
Hyori’s 10 Minutes was the last article I wrote before I shut down my old website, konton, and in many ways it was a fitting end. Though konton started out as a mish-mash pop culture site, for better or worse, it ended being known for Asian pop. Even though there were signs of it before, 10 Minutes was the final death knell for the golden age of Korean girl groups. SES had split. Baby VOX were pretty much over. Hyori’s star power couldn’t be contained in Fin.K.L. anymore. And there just weren’t any groups around with the charm, wit, and fiyah to replace the old stalwarts. Truly a sad time period… for me at least.
Even though I’ve made fun of a lot of old kpop videos here on popho and on kontona, I gotta admit there’s a part of me that yearns for the days when I would spend hours trolling the #finkses irc chatrooms and the soompi message boards hoping to get my hands on a new SES or Baby VOX video. I realized then and now that it was a pretty sad existence. While I am glad that that phase of my life is over, I fear that I am once again getting sucked into the seedy world of Korean girl groups, and I place the blame entirely on the Wonder Girls.
For obvious reasons, I have never been able to get into Asian boybands. I mean, the main reason I even bother watching Asian pop videos at all is because of all the hot honeys. Occasionally there will be a group that I do enjoy, like HOT or the LA Boyz, but it’s usually because I like to make fun of them in order to feel better about myself. Don’t hate. You’d do the same thing if you were mildly socially retarded and had a pock-marked face.
Ayumi Hamasaki has been one of those Asian artists that I always wanted to write about but never did. It’s not that I dislike Ayu, because I actually dig her music and music videos. She has her own sense of style; something that’s rare in the Asian pop world. (Seriously, 99% of Asian music acts emulate other Asian music acts who, in turn, emulate other Asian music acts and so on…)
I’ve been toying around with the look of popho and cleaning up a bunch of unnecessary code that’ll make this place run smoother. I know I’ve been neglecting this site the past year and haven’t done much to it, but hopefully things will change. Hopefully…
Ever since I heard Back Dat Ass Up way back in my college days, I have been a fan of Cash Money. Nobody does ostentatious rap as well as these guys. I remember I used to review videos from the Cash Money stable on a regular basis… they were just so funny/over the top/stunnin’. 
