Today I want to talk about a kinda special topic. Normally I don't write entries like this, but there's something I need to say.
As some of you might know, I'm a big fan of the japanese Band BORN. Oh yes, I truly love them.
In the last days, a strange topic came up in the news all over the world: Eyeball-licking, also known as oculolinctus or worming.
For those of you who haven't already heard about it: In Japan it recently became popular for teenagers to lick each others eyeballs.
And what has this to do with Born? Exactly ! In their PV for "Spiral Lie" Ryoga got his eyeball licked by that actress.
If you don't know the video, go and watch it or otherwise I won't like you anymore.
However, I don't get how they can blame a video that's already over a year old for a trend that disgusting that only became popular recently. Also, how can people be so stupid trying it out? Do they honestly think that such a practice doesn't cause medical problems? Have fun wearing your eyepatches, kids. People also say it came up long before the video was released...actually I don't really know what to think about it. But in both cases it wouldn't be fair to blame everything on the PV.
But the most amusing thing is Ryogas reaction on his blog.
It’s even been picked up by famous news programs and websites.
Why now?
They say that the act of licking each others’ eyeballs has become popular amongst Japanese youth.
And that the root is the Spiral Lie PV.
I laughed a little bit.
First of all, that’s popular?
I thought it was just something I kind of came up with [for the PV].
I guess that at in-stores, we won’t have handshake events, but maybe we should do eyeball-licking events instead.
It’s been an afternoon of wild delusions.
Ahaha."
Seriously, I love this man. Even in a situation like this he stays calm, even seems amused about it.
Now my question for you: What's your opinion on eyeball-licking? Do you think they should blame Born for the trend? Did 50 Shades of Grey became to mainstream?
Please write me a comment or smth. I'd really love talk discuss it with you. :)
But now I'm going to curl up somewhere because I'm sick, now that the weather finally became hot ü_ü
But now I'm going to curl up somewhere because I'm sick, now that the weather finally became hot ü_ü
See you guys & thanks for reading ^_^