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INTEREST: Megan Thee Stallion's New Song 'Otaku Hot Girl' is Full of Anime References

YackDe wrote:

ANN_Lynzee wrote: It only looks that way if you're completely unfamiliar with the artist, which I imagine most people listening to Megan's music know most of the things I wrote above. I mean, I'm only familiar with her on a cursory basis because of my job, and I know that. I also know no one is expected to flex all of their knowledge into one song to "prove" anything to people who aren't paying attention to her and want to be dismissive anyway. You were wrong about the otaku definition, and you're switching goalposts now instead of just saying, "Oh, I didn't know that about her; never mind." The whole song exists to "prove" something to people, even a cursory understanding of the surrounding context would let you know that. I guess that means you need to get a bit more familiar. Or, you know, you could just listen to lyrics like "I'm not finna argue with a Sasuke avi' / Incel mad, I'm a weeb and a baddie / Y'all be my biggest haters / Knowin' if we met, you'd fold like paper", it's not exactly deeply layered. And no, I was not wrong on the otaku definition. From the dictionary definition to how people use it generally, it absolutely not does refer to a casual watcher of anime. You seem to be greatly overestimating the degree to which it is even in the lexicon over "weeb" or even just "anime fan".

You’re right the lyrics aren’t that deep. That “incel mad” line part in particular speaks a lot right now.

Or, you know, you could just listen to lyrics like "I'm not finna argue with a Sasuke avi' / Incel mad, I'm a weeb and a baddie / Y'all be my biggest haters / Knowin' if we met, you'd fold like paper",

YackDe wrote:

Or, you know, you could just listen to lyrics like "I'm not finna argue with a Sasuke avi' / Incel mad, I'm a weeb and a baddie / Y'all be my biggest haters / Knowin' if we met, you'd fold like paper",

Yeah that bar is about you bro. Like what are you afraid of? That someone is, at the very worst and most uncharitable, stealing otaku valor? It's watching tv shows and buying stuff, not being a firefighter.

YackDe wrote:

Or, you know, you could just listen to lyrics like "I'm not finna argue with a Sasuke avi' / Incel mad, I'm a weeb and a baddie / Y'all be my biggest haters / Knowin' if we met, you'd fold like paper",

Yeah that bar is about you bro. Like what are you afraid of? That someone is, at the very worst and most uncharitable, stealing otaku valor? It's watching tv shows and buying stuff, not being a firefighter.

YackDe is right though. It literally just gives people more ammunition to say she has a shallow at best interest in anime, so what was the point of this song...

"Proto Culture" goes through link cables, the power glove, Daytona USA, Gex, Klonoa, Rival Schools, the Dreamcast, Asteroids, Nightmare Creatures, Colecovision, Donkey Kong Jr., Doom, Disruptor, Ninja Gaiden, Nintendo Power, and Zelda all before the chorus repeats.

Do you have anything you want to contribute, or is a site contributor just going to type like a child in 2006 mad that somebody is criticizing a show they like? Want to add in a slur or two while you're at it, to really complete the picture? It really seems like you do.

In my time here I've seen ATastySub only makes snarky insulting posts about users on their forum and generally does not add much to discussions outside of that. I assume he only gets away with it because he works with the site and if anyone else did what he did they'd have been banned long ago. A number of staff members act this way truth be told.

A number of staff members act this way truth be told.

On another note though, I did feel like the article came off as a bit odd? I understand how bringing up the logistical/licensing hurdles she talked about might not be possible since she didn't explicitly state outright that those issues were due to this song, but not mentioning really simple stuff like how the sample used is the JJK commercial bumper music or how the intro is voiced by Yuji Itadori's ENG VA, etc... and just leaving it at "the song is filled with JJK and Naruto references, specifically X, Y, and Z characters," feels very half-baked.

YackDe wrote:

Do you have anything you want to contribute, or is a site contributor just going to type like a child in 2006 mad that somebody is criticizing a show they like? Want to add in a slur or two while you're at it, to really complete the picture? It really seems like you do.

In my time here I've seen ATastySub only makes snarky insulting posts about users on their forum and generally does not add much to discussions outside of that. I assume he only gets away with it because he works with the site and if anyone else did what he did they'd have been banned long ago. A number of staff members act this way truth be told.

References per minutes is not a marker of song/writing quality or even "gamer cred". She could drop references to one seasonal anime per season from the last 10 years and people would still call her fake.

Wizardizar wrote:

References per minutes is not a marker of song/writing quality or even "gamer cred". She could drop references to one seasonal anime per season from the last 10 years and people would still call her fake.

But it is a marker of demonstrating basic knowledge, one which isn't even difficult to accomplish. A fact that you seem to be sidestepping by ignoring that all this took was to reference literally anything else, including stuff she supposedly has an interest in. The fact that there will always be people calling her fake is no excuse to put in zero effort in the process of calling them out; again, it just gives those people more reason to call her shallow, completely defeating the purpose of making the song in the first place. I'm not expecting Megan to suddenly become Little Simz, but she can at least try a little if she wanted to do this.

YackDe wrote:

Wizardizar wrote: References per minutes is not a marker of song/writing quality or even "gamer cred". She could drop references to one seasonal anime per season from the last 10 years and people would still call her fake. But it is a marker of demonstrating basic knowledge, one which isn't even difficult to accomplish. A fact that you seem to be sidestepping by ignoring that all this took was to reference literally anything else, including stuff she supposedly has an interest in. The fact that there will always be people calling her fake is no excuse to put in zero effort in the process of calling them out; again, it just gives those people more reason to call her shallow, completely defeating the purpose of making the song in the first place. I'm not expecting Megan to suddenly become Little Simz, but she can at least try a little if she wanted to do this.

Because this continues to fly over your head, none of that is necessary for anything. Ernest Cline is not a god tier fan of anything just because he chose to use random references rather than good writing in Ready Player One. The very act of making a large public pop tune with some of the stuff she loves is proof that she's willing to put that on a large public scale. That's it. That's the bar. You can be upset all you want that someone else loves something and has enough of a platform and talent to do that, but they aren't failing your personal geek test because they were never participating in it. As you pointed out in the lyrics of the song you aren't the arbiter of that, you're just mad that the boundaries you want to exist don't.

YackDe is right though. It literally just gives people more ammunition to say she has a shallow at best interest in anime, so what was the point of this song...