Actually, I am lying slightly when I said I wasn't doing anything productive. You see, I was studying prior to this post until the song "Tokyo Drift" by the Teriyaki Boyz started playing on my ipod.
I have no idea what possessed me to put that song on my ipod, but I am terribly ashamed of having it there for two reasons. Number one, any artist or band who still think its cool to misspell things like 'boys' on purpose are terribly mistaken. They must be slapped. That stopped being cute around the time when typing LiEk Th!s stopped being cute. Actually it stopped being cute the nanosecond someone came up with the idea. Secondly, Teriyaki Boyz? Really? Do you really need to name your band something that makes it sound like a cheap fast food chain that sells mediocre Japanese food but still pretends to be culturally relevant because you serve green tea instead of water as the default beverage?
Alright, so I'm just kidding around. Mostly. I'm feeling generous. So I'm going to give the Teriyaki Boys (yes Boys, not Boyz) the benefit of the doubt. I'm going to pretend that at their launch party, when they electronically submitted a request to Kinkos for banners and posters, they accidentally hit 'z' instead of 's' and then clicked submit. To this day they probably rue that moment. I like this explanation. It lets me think that they aren't purposely trying to look stupid.
Having said all that, to their credit, Tokyo Drift is an extremely catchy song but it has one fatal flaw. I have no idea what the hell they are saying. Before anyone points out the obvious here, I do realize the song is mostly in Japanese and my rudimentary Japanese doesn't help with comprehension BUT I maintain that I should at least understand the English parts of the song. I can't. So what did I do? I looked up the song lyrics on google. Now keep in mind this is the first result that pops up on google.
Apparently, I am not the only one who has trouble with this song.
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