The Iowa Hawkeyes Run That Asian Music Scene
by Adam Jacobi on Mar 1, 2010 4:13 PM CST
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PrintWe realize it's a little early to start talking about the Girls' Generation, early by about 20 hours or so. We need to, though, if only tangentially.
Remember our (and, we're guessing, your) complete inability to explain what the hell that Iowa football helmet was doing in the video, being doted upon lovingly by the songstresses (did I just write that? really? that seems gross). The uneasy consensus was that perhaps this was a prop that was happened upon at random, with zero knowledge of its context or connection to the Hawkeyes. Like, all they wanted was just a football helmet and it just so happened to be Iowa's, and we'd never be heard from on that side of the ocean anymore.
Not so. Very not so. Via MGoBlog:
ON THAT DUDE'S T-SHIRT, BITCHES. By the way, that's apparently the Silver Fins, which is a band so obscure that they don't even have a listing on AllMusic.com. Based on the members' names, we're guessing they're Japanese. This concludes the research we will do on the matter.
More troubling, though, is the fact that the song's called "Zooing." Now, that definitely sounds like an illicit act that's done by the university 120 miles to the west; at Iowa, we prefer the company of other consenting people. "Animals Can't Say No" is no way to go about business, Cyclone fans.
But we digress. We're inching farther away from "random coincidence" as Hawkeye appearances in the Far East music industry goes. Now, Japan and South Korea are not the same country, and these two musical groups are more than a little dissimilar. They probably have no connection to each other--save a strong desire to be a Hawkeye, course. But there must be more to this story somehow, right? Otherwise it makes no sense.
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Did Blind Melon's "No Rain" finally drop in Japan?
Judging by this video they seem to have found ‘90s rock. Can’t wait until 10 years from now when Limp Bizkit blows up there.
Figuratively and literally.
To be fair
I’m pretty sure they ARE a ‘90s rock band. I haven’t done the research, but it seems they’ve been dormant for awhile. In other words, they pre-date Girl’s Generation, which will soon become the “Lucy” of Iowa-themed Asian music.
Coming soon: “this recently discovered Vietnamese song features a tigerhawk and pre-dates Girl’s Generation, which anthropologists say sheds a new light on the origin of the Asian-Hawkeye musical lineage.”
by PurpleMonkeyDishwasher on Mar 1, 2010 4:41 PM CST up reply actions
They are as bad as every dorm room jam band ever...
but still better than Limp Bizkit.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Mar 1, 2010 6:07 PM CST up reply actions
Your mom is better than Limp Bizkit.
"It’s just that, reading through this thread, it appears you’re getting your ass kicked." -jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Mar 2, 2010 8:35 AM CST up reply actions
This video touches on three things important to me:
1) The Iowa Hawkeyes (duh).
2) Railroading – that is an American train, by the way – likely this video wasn’t filmed in Asia at all, I’d say.
3) Quality, entertaining Easily ridiculed music.
Overall, I’m horrified. If the Girls Generation group is lovingly doting upon Iowa merchandise, then by comparison this guy is effectively sodomizing that shirt.
"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid
Hmm.
If this other video by them is any indication, they may just be obsessed with American colleges (the guitarist looks like he’s wearing a Texas shirt) and the US railroad system.
Also: that video gets a bit NSFW about halfway through, unless it’s cool where you work to watch anime with a naked dude holding a giant sword and running away from a giant bloodfist. And if it is… I want to work there.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Well...
I asked a South Korean friend of mine about the epic Girls Generation song and she said that the lyrics were comparative to a typical American pop song about a girl chasing the popular jock at high school. So yeah, in the end, that’s just a random Hawkeye helmet.
"early by about 20 hours or so"
What happens in 20 hours or so?
by the_iowa_hawkeye on Mar 1, 2010 4:44 PM CST reply actions
The second match-up of Marchifornication.
Girls Generation vs:
Now in glorious 332×891 pixel fury!
"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid
This should just start now considering the Stanzi/Kuntz match-up is a runaway.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Mar 1, 2010 4:51 PM CST up reply actions
Any time Stanzi matches up with Kuntz...
….it’s a runaway.
Wait, what did I mean to say just now? What DID I just say?
I’m still confused from watching the above video at work on choppy, blocked-but-working-anyway, youtube (I’m on lunch break at work).
Soneone with actual access, please tell me, is the girl in that video wearing an Iowa shirt as well? The computer froze one time with her shirt on screen (kinda close up- – about halfway through the vid) and I swear she’s also wearing a shirt that says Iowa.
So, so confused.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Mar 2, 2010 11:57 AM CST up reply actions
"Bandwidth exceeded!"
"It’s just that, reading through this thread, it appears you’re getting your ass kicked." -jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Mar 1, 2010 6:31 PM CST up reply actions
Another Marchifornication match-up.
Looks like it’ll be Girls’ Generation vs jNW cheerleader Nikki Cox
by The Mexican't on Mar 1, 2010 4:49 PM CST up reply actions
Er, that would be Krissy Cox.
Which is a significant error, because Nikki Cox looks like this, and if just Northwestern could land talent like that to be their cheerleaders… well, they wouldn’t really be just Northwestern anymore.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Well...this is awkward...
Ya know, I wasn’t sure of the name, and Nikki was the first to pop up. I didn’t bother to check. That said, I don’t recall seeing anything Nikki Cox has been in, so I don’t know where the name came from. We’ll chalk it up to me being dumb.
by The Mexican't on Mar 1, 2010 5:31 PM CST up reply actions
She's been in a ton of TV shows.
Including such gems as Las Vegas, Nikki, Unhappily Ever After, and The Norm Show (which actually was awesome, by virtue of starring Norm fuckin’ MacDonald).
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Also,
The blind girl on California Dreams. And yes, I’m ashamed that I know this.
by Kinnick Stadium is my Graceland on Mar 1, 2010 8:38 PM CST up reply actions
She was the bodacious babe on UPN’s Unhappily Ever After, before becoming the resident babe on The Drew Carey Show and Norm.
What’s a “UPN”?
"It’s just that, reading through this thread, it appears you’re getting your ass kicked." -jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Mar 1, 2010 6:32 PM CST up reply actions
The former home of WWE Smackdown, jabronie.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Thank you...
…I was just talking to a friend on sunday about a show that featured a second rate Al Bundy, talking to a “dust bunny” that looked like one of Alf’s hairballs, in his basement. We couldn’t think of it, but now I know the name of the show. However, I’m not sure I’ll commit it to memory.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Mar 2, 2010 12:02 PM CST up reply actions
Is this where I tell you
that Cindy Crawford (however briefly) attended Northwestern?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 2, 2010 2:20 AM CST up reply actions
Meh.
She was only there for a quarter, until the just Northwestern-ess of the place scared her off.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Are you sure it wasn't
the just millions of dollars she realized she could make simply for being?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 2, 2010 10:28 AM CST up reply actions
My guess is the guy wanted
to look like he fit in on the farm. I wouldn’t read much more into it than that. But yeah, he should have been wearing an ISU shirt for that.
by the_iowa_hawkeye on Mar 1, 2010 4:46 PM CST reply actions
Black Heart Gold Shirts
Did something happen to the Big in Korea shirt? I don’t see it listed anymore on the spreadshirt site.
Really?
You had to pull it out of inventory?
by The Mexican't on Mar 1, 2010 5:32 PM CST up reply actions
Well, when we get 3 times as many complaints as actual t-shirt sales...
…it’s a pretty easy decision.
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
What the hell were the complaints about?
Why must people ruin our fun?!!?!?!???
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Really? Complaints? What was offensive about it?
People who complain about stuff like that should only be allowed to eat plain mashed potatoes. Nothing else ever. Just plain, COLD, mashed potatoes.
by HawkeyeRecon on Mar 2, 2010 12:30 PM CST up reply actions
A few thousand, right?
Even Colbert Nation pales in comparison to the power of Koreans scorned.
Were those complaints
related to the shirt saying Korea and picturing Japan?
In 100 years, we'll all be dead.
That was my primary issue
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 2, 2010 2:21 AM CST up reply actions
Proof positive that people on the interwebs are stupid and should never be listened to...
…myself included.
That having been said, if you set one aside until the BHGTailgate I’d gladly buy it for full price (seriously). I don’t have a credit card or anything like that (I’m underground/fringe/lazy) so I can’t do online purchases. However, I can’t get Tom Wait’s “Big In Japan” out of my head whenever I see that shirt, and I’d love to own one.
Take that all you intertube Negative-Nancys.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Mar 2, 2010 12:07 PM CST up reply actions
/kim jong il’ed
"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid
DAMN!
Pretend that’s attached to the above thread.
"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid
Is it possible the folks in Asia are linking the Iowa Hawkeyes . . .
. . . to “M*A*S*H” star Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce?
This is getting weirder and weirder. I am searching (likely in vain) for some logical explanation.
Go 'Dawgs!
+1 to the first Asian-American student at Iowa to get his girlfriend to film him and his brother while they strum a guitar and sing in fake Vietnamese while wearing a Clayborn jersey.
"It’s just that, reading through this thread, it appears you’re getting your ass kicked." -jtothep
This almost makes it alright
that we lost to Canada in hockey yesterday. However that does not please HOCKEYBEAR and I am fearful of his wrath.
HOCKEYBEAR does not respect national borders so he doesn't care.
"It’s just that, reading through this thread, it appears you’re getting your ass kicked." -jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Mar 1, 2010 6:42 PM CST up reply actions
Hockeybear...
is saving is wrath for Russia in 2014. We’re safe. For now.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Mar 1, 2010 6:43 PM CST up reply actions
The Russian's should be nervous
with HOCKEYBEAR strategically positioned in Alaska. Perhaps we now know the real reason for the talk of additional disarmament.
HOCKEYBEAR
can see Russia from his house.
"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid
Nah...
…Andy Samburg is gonna take care of Russia right after cutting his own dick off and right before flying into the sun (you know, a typical day as “The BOSS”).
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Mar 2, 2010 12:12 PM CST up reply actions
As a representative of the University of Iowa
I can attest to the fact that UI is one of the most common American colleges that students from many Asian countries (especially South Korea and China) attend. For some reason, Iowa has a huge recruiting presence in those countries. Maybe all these bands contain family members of Iowa students (the same ones that walk six-wide all across campus). Or perhaps, just maybe, Iowa has replaced NYC and LA as the symbols of America overseas.
I can’t explain Japan though.
USA number 1!
I hate to break it to you
but considering those two countries account for 1/5th of the Earth’s population, I’m fairly certain they have pretty strong representation on most research-based college campuses.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 2, 2010 2:25 AM CST up reply actions
No, I understand that
but I know that Iowa is something like the 4th most common American school for South Korean international students, and like the 7th for China. Also, that was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, hence the LA and New York comment.
USA number 1!
by BroncoHawkeye on Mar 2, 2010 3:28 AM CST up reply actions
We should start recruiting
Chinese basketball players. And a Chinese coach. Then, the University can make tons of money selling Hawkeye gear in China.
It’ll help the trade deficiet and we can’t really do any worse.
In 100 years, we'll all be dead.
Perhaps it's an homage to W Edwards Deming?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
See, not all people from Sioux City are morons. Just the ones who stay there.
I've done a bit of research
Yes, Silver Fins is a Japanese band. They had a minor hit with the song Waiting So Long, because of its inclusion in an anime film of some sort. As mentioned before, portions of that video might be NSFW. Naked dude with a sword running from a bloodfist, being tackled on a mountain of skulls as he’s crushed and blood sprays from him.
I’ll ask some of my weaboo friends if they know anything more about them.
Brunettes not fighter jets
Weaboo?
Weaboo…wee-a-boo!
Herky has Japanimation links now? Ferentz needs to get out there and recruit him some tentacled DE’s.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 2, 2010 10:37 AM CST up reply actions
Recruiting japanese animation tentacle monsters is such a not good idea
I saw one of those movies…. yikes. Clayborn punching a cabbie is NOTHING compared to the fallout if… that would happen on campus.
And forget the magical ninjas, too. They’d hike the ball, and then just stand there yelling while epilepsy-inducing lights flashed.
Brunettes not fighter jets
Now the giant robots, on the other hand...
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Jared Reiner already graduated, thank you.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 2, 2010 8:52 PM CST up reply actions
"Now, Japan and South Korea are not the same country"
OK now you’ve just totally blown my mind.
by 4.0 Point Stance on Mar 2, 2010 11:00 AM CST reply actions
I friend who studied abroad twice in Japan and a friend who has been in Korea for about 3 years both confirmed that an inordinate amount of Hawkeye gear is worn in that region. Also, check the name. I make the decisions.
by Girls Generation Manager on Mar 2, 2010 1:17 PM CST reply actions
Thanks
my wife won’t be speaking to me for a week after finding that in the history.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 2, 2010 8:56 PM CST up reply actions
I have a theory.
While traveling overseas, it came to our attention that any clothing from the states, jeans concert t-shirts etc. were worth HUGE money. I was able to trade an un-named 80’s bands t-shirt for about $50 american.(In the early 90’s) Maybe someone realized that Hawkeye merchandise was worth 5 times that and flooded the market. Probably living high on the hog in Seoul right now. Has anyone seen Hayden Fry lately?
Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian
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