Word: subcult
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...nearly a decade, a subcult of young Japanese has tried breaking free of the country's conformity by replicating and co-opting 'hood images they've been fed by Hollywood. Japanese girls are so into the trend that marketers have invented labels for them: they're called shisutaakei, "the sister group," or "hip hop" after the music they like. Japan's streets are where they fight their battle against the tired, older generations, with feather cell-phone straps, dreadlocks and black face paint...
...Danny Wilde had been asked to record. But after they added their two cents to the song, he got to like it. So did a Nashville disk jockey, who put the 42-second clip from the hit show on the air. The resulting clamor convinced the heretofore subcult-following duo that they ought to add the song to their third album, LP. And now the folks from Friends, including JENNIFER ANISTON, COURTENEY COX and LISA KUDROW are helping out by pretending to play instruments for the video. Somewhere, Davey Jones is smiling...
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