My name is Terry and this is my blog. 
09/01/2006: "Say You're Sorry, Kevin Federline"
NB: This was written in a mushroom cloud of fury, so I apologize for spelling and grammar.
So, this morning I'm having my cup of coffee and reading Stereogum. The new music video by Kevin Federline was posted (I still don't understand why they have to cover every story about him) so I decided to have a look, thinking it would be a good laugh to commence the 3-day weekend. WRONG!
Check out the first 25 seconds - Popozao is "rapping", there's some awesome jumpcutting that would make Godard change his underwear and a sweet special efx shot of a tabloid newspaper burning (Get it? He's fed up with the tabloids!) THEN - we see a bunch of Asian girls walking into what must be K-Fed's exclusive party. THEN we see an Asian guy turned away. This is where I stopped the video.
My therapist told me that when I get angry and compose a flaming email, it's best just to let it sit for a few hours. When to return to re-examine it, your anger will have subsided and you'll be able to deal with the conflict in a more civil manner, i.e you don't send it and let the issue pass. Well, a few hours later and I am still pissed. I went back to finish the video thinking that there may be a happy ending - K-FED's bouncer actually directed the Asian guy to another "cooler" entrance where the party was really happenin - chicks of all colors and nationalities (scantily clad), mountains of blow, and some freaky-deaky breakdancin. Unfortunately it does not happen as the subplot of singled-out Asian guy ends where I stopped the video, when the bouncer re-directs the guy to an offscreen P.F. Changs (my educated guess).
This kind of shit just makes my blood boil and leaves me no choice but an angry blog rant. Now, I have friends who are dating/dated Asian girls. I have no problem with that, because I know they are in love and really care about each other. My problem comes when white guys come up to me and tell me that they love all things Asian and then proceed to ask me if I have a sister. Double U- Tee- Eff? Lately I've been seeing more and more articles about the so-called "Asian Fever"/"Yellow Fever" but I always end up joking about it with my friends. But to see such a blatant example of it in a fucking Kevin Federline video is absurd. It blows my mind.
Think about it: Someone - K-Fed, his producer, the record company, or the hack music video director was writing a treatment and came up with the simple video concept of "an exclusive party" and to illustrate the "exclusiveness" and "hipness" of the party "we have a shot where a group of smoking hot ASIAN girls, in the vain of The Fast and the Furious or Anime films, is let into the club by the tall white bouncer, but a lone Asian male is DENIED. Ha ha, you got SERVED."
So the K-Fed just ruined my weekend. Now I have to spend the next three days going about creating an online petition and mobilizing the Asian American community to correct this action. This is all preliminary thinking, but here are my options to Mr. Spears:
1) Stop making music.
2) Re-edit the video with a different ending or simply cut out the part with the racist incident.
3) Formally apologize to me, as I feel I do represent the Asian male who does not get into such exclusive parties.
4) Explain the rational of the subplot and take respoonsibilty for your racist actions.
More later, I have tons of work to do.