Ai Otsuka, a J-Pop star, has a new album called “Love Jam”. I’m aware of this fact because there is a huge billboard at Harajuku crossing with a picture of Ai with strawberry jam spattered across her face.
The first time I saw this billboard, I was sure it had to be a riff on a particular brand of Japanese pornography (The link goes to the Wikipedia, so it’s theoretically safe for work, but it contains explicit discussion of weird Japanese porno, so caveat emptor).
A recent guest had the same thought. After a single glance at the billboard, he remarked “It looks like she gave a strawberry a blowjob.”
Interestingly enough, there are two different pictures of Ai dipped in jelly for the album’s cover art. If you are a cheapskate and only spend $30, you get a picture of Ai with her mouth closed. Spend $38 on the CD+DVD set, though, and you get the photo below of Ai with her tongue a-wagging.
(Special thanks to Ted Warin for fact-checking assistance.)
Posted by pmk at December 5, 2004 9:59 PMThose billboards have been creeping me out, too.
Posted by: sid at December 5, 2004 11:42 PMAt least it hasn’t made it to the burbs
Posted by: Nathan at December 6, 2004 12:14 AMya my friend showed me that in a catalogue he found, we both saud the same thing about givin a strawberry a blowjob!
Posted by: Patrick (believe it or not) at December 6, 2004 3:56 AMApparently somebody tipped off the authorities because this morning the billboard has been taken down and replaced with something less “offensive”…
Posted by: Lone Wolf at December 6, 2004 4:21 AMCould be, but since the album came out on the 17th, they may have only rented the space until today.
Posted by: pmk at December 6, 2004 4:28 AMHi!
Ai Otsuka official site…
http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ai/index.html
What is with Asian celebrities and having their blood type listed on their biographical profile? I’ve seen it especially on Japanese sites, but other nationalities have it sometimes as well.
Posted by: Fred at December 6, 2004 6:43 AMI can’t give you the exact year, but somewhen around the 1920s, scientists started claiming that the blood type has something todo with the “worthiness” of humans, and declared that most asians are “inferior” because they have a specific blood group (i think it’s B). some 40 years later, a japanese scientist brought out a book that linked blood type with social compability, stating that blood types can decide if a marriage will work out or not, and it has been a trend, mostly like zodiacs in europe, ever since.
Posted by: Philipp at December 6, 2004 7:07 AMFred, the thing with blood types is, in Japan people associate blood types with personality types. Certain types are compatible as mates, some aren’t, etc. Sort of like a modern astrology.
Posted by: Jeff at December 6, 2004 7:19 AM“Love Jam”? UH OHHHHHHH
Posted by: Billy Taylor at December 6, 2004 8:28 AMwaaa.. so kawaii!! ^^
Posted by: truegossiper at December 26, 2004 11:47 PMWell, personally I don’t find anything wrong with the cover art. I guess only those people with dirty minds will associate that with blow jobs. If you think it’s offensive, sorry your mind is polluted, and you should stop talking crap.
Posted by: eyn at February 2, 2005 4:16 PMYeah, I saw that too. except it was in a CD store. god damn that caught my attention. Definatley a double take….I showed it to my friends, and they all thought the same thing. The thing you find in japan, eh?
Posted by: Russell at August 30, 2005 10:36 PMyeah,Ai otsuka can cum and see me-and it won’t be jam this time……..
Posted by: Bukkake fan at March 20, 2006 8:49 AM