Japanophilia

In response to the question about the Japanese spoken in the intro to Missy Elliott's video for 'Get Ur Freak On' raised in class: Whether she intended it or not, this could be read as a device for alienating (for once!) an audience that is accustomed to having everything spoon-fed in 'plain English' all the time. Sure, it could just be that a weird/spooky/cool guy speaking a language we don't understand looks and sounds good, but maybe Missy (or the image-makers around her) are making a comment on intercultural misunderstanding. Maybe this guy's remark that "everyone is speaking incoherently" is a criticism of neo-Orientalist assumptions proliferated on websites like engrish.com and syberpunk.com that everything Japanese, for example, is there for us to goggle and laugh at. Take Gwen Stefani and her 'Harajuku Girls' for example. And read this: http://www.kissui.net/mt/archives/000964.html.