Episode 304: Nickelback Lyrics About Japanese Schoolgirls

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather overthink the issues of identity and appropriation in the controversy over Avril Lavigne’s “Hello Kitty.”

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Further Reading

• Digging up meaning from the rubble of an excavated Atari landfill from Ars Technica
• Airwolf on Wikipedia
• Wolfenstein 3D on Wikipedia
• Roc (TV Series) on Wikipedia
• “Hello Kitty” Music Video on YouTube
• “Hello Kitty” lyrics
• And the Internet goes crazy: Vox, HuffPo, TMZ
• Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistible on YouTube
• Kawaii on Wikipedia