Imperfect boys with their perfect ploys...

So, YouTube has once again kind of broken my brain.

This time, I came across a song I've been looking for for over ten years, since my cassette of it died, Globe's "Is This Love." The whole album, but especially "Is This Love," was kind of the quintessential distillation of jpop - incredibly catchy, hummable, and just full of this deep wistful kind of joy, and I adored it. Because Waterloo had a huge anime community, I heard a lot of jpop, and while most of it bouced off me, I loved Globe with a deep love.

But I'd never actually seen the Japanese video for it, until today. And now, I have to inflict it on all of you (the music doesn't actually really start until over a minute and a half in, for the impatient):



So, help me Intertubes, cause I cannot decide. Is this a wonderful post-modern deconstruction of the various levels of cultural interaction and cultural appropriation intrinsic in the sheer existence of the genre of jpop, or reverse Orientalism and Native fetishization at its most terrifying? Or both? And do I think too much about this kind of thing?