{"id":32351,"date":"2024-06-13T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=32351"},"modified":"2024-06-13T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:50:10","slug":"japanese-band-behind-one-piece-red-song-rolls-back-racist-music-video-depicting-columbus-and-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-band-behind-one-piece-red-song-rolls-back-racist-music-video-depicting-columbus-and-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese band behind One Piece: Red song rolls back \u201cracist\u201d music video depicting Columbus and apes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The popular Japanese band Mrs. GREEN APPLE <\/strong>unpublished the music video for their new song \u201cColumbus\u201d only a day after its release due to an outrage from fans. The band and music label have issued a statement<\/a> acknowledging that the music video contained \u201cexpressions that lack understanding of historical and cultural backgrounds\u201d and apologized for greenlighting and publishing it in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The offending music video showed Mrs. Green Apple\u2019s three members dressed in costumes representing Columbus, Napoleon and Beethoven respectively. The concept of the video was to depict an imaginary scenario of the three historical figures from different eras travelling together.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the video, the trio is seen \u201cdiscovering\u201d an island inhabited by apes. They have a house party with the apes and \u201ceducate\u201d them in music, writing, and sciences. An ape can be seen pulling Beethoven in a carriage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese users have criticized the dated depiction of Columbus that ignores his role in initiating the slave trade, as well as the implication of the \u201cNew World\u201d he discovers being shown as inhabited by apes. As Japanese people have historically been targets of ethnic slurs such as \u201cyellow monkey,\u201d the imagery of the three Japanese bandsmen cosplaying as white men and civilizing apes was seen as distasteful by many. In addition, as the song and video are a tie-in with Coca Cola (Coke Studio), people are even more confused as to why the concept was approved and released to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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