I feel like we're a week away from some international netizen thread about why gyaru and yanki are detrimental influences to society, sounding like some restoration Japan ultra-rightwing nationalist.
"Anime was better before the perver--"
It was always perverts. It was ramshackle teams of freaks all the way down. The roots of foundational moe culture would make your head spin. Every notable anime aesthetic and archetype was introduced as some specific weirdo's fetish.
for people who try their best to be music critics, mfs don’t know the difference between: sampling, interpolation, remakes, demos and straight up plagiarism. god i miss that 1 account that used to post the samples/interpolations used in kpop songs, i haven’t seen them in a while
PSY - PSY from the PSYcho World! (2001)
Yes, that PSY. P Nation's CEO, and the man that brought us closest to world piece. This is his first mixtape. A piece of K-Pop history, man.
In the 90s, Criterion originally published on Laserdisc, and almost nobody bought Laserdiscs and the studios didn’t care about it, so Criterion got licenses to do laserdiscs of all kinds of big popular movies.
Laserdiscs, by the way, were movies on optical media before DVD compression, so they were the size of a vinyl record and only held about half an hour of 320x240 video. A movie came on two dual-sided discs and you had to flip it and then change it several times during the movie.
There were Criterion Laserdisc editions of Ghostbusters, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dr. No and Pulp Fiction.
When DVDs became huge sellers, studios stopped licensing their major mainstream catalog titles to a third party boutique home video publisher, so Criterion focused more on restorations of older and obscure titles and foreign films.
A few directors who were Criterion fans like Michael Bay and Wes Anderson got their stuff licensed to Criterion, but otherwise, the studios were releasing their own DVDs and BluRays.
Even movies Criterion had released on DVD in the late 90s or early 2000s like Silence of the Lambs and Robocop got their rights yanked by the studios and Criterion had to stop printing those movies.
Now that relatively few people buy home video again, Criterion is able to get the rights to mainstream movies again. So doing Criterion editions of movies like Kpop Demon Hunters is actually something old, not something new.