{"id":2246,"date":"2009-11-13T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2009-11-13T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:38:06","slug":"beckii-cruel-fits-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/beckii-cruel-fits-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckii Cruel Fit&#8217;s in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something intensely interesting (yet contradictorily ordinary) about the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MRirian\">a Western fan of Japanese pop culture<\/a> heading over to Japan to themselves <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/play-video-game-love-the-music-move-to-japan-join-the-band\/\">become part<\/a> of the culture (or subculture) they idolise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkma.co.jp\/tjc\/j_pop\/beckii\/\">Beckii Cruel<\/a> seems to be the latest entrant into this group. She started by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/xBextahx\">dancing to J-Pop and anime songs on YouTube<\/a> and is now <a href=\"http:\/\/lotte-fits.jp\/dance\/beckii_cruel.html\">the new face<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/lotte-fits.jp\/\">Lotti Fit&#8217;s Gum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fits.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/fits\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fits.jpg?fit=480%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,316\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fits\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fits.jpg?fit=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fits.jpg?fit=480%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fits.jpg?resize=480%2C316\" alt=\"fits\" title=\"fits\" width=\"480\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fits.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fits.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s heart-warming&#8230; although a little creepy at the same time. I&#8217;m sure that it&#8217;s a dream come true for her, but she&#8217;s likely a sexual fantasy for many adoring fans. I suppose it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miley_Cyrus\">no different in the rest of the world<\/a> though.<\/p>\n<p>Her <a href=\"http:\/\/lotte-fits.jp\/dance\/beckii_cruel.html\">dancing videos for Fit&#8217;s gum<\/a> are fun and cute&#8230; I&#8217;m probably just a sucker for accessible dancing and colourful costumes. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c6-ZGH0Wu-0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something intensely interesting (yet contradictorily ordinary) about the story of a Western fan of Japanese pop culture heading over to Japan to themselves become part of the culture (or subculture) they idolise. Beckii Cruel seems to be the latest entrant into this group. She started by dancing to J-Pop and anime songs on YouTube &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/beckii-cruel-fits-in-japan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beckii Cruel Fit&#8217;s in Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-Ae","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}