Ninki Official Karaoke Video - Video

Official Ninki Karaoke Version by Isaac Anzu

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CEASELESS INTENTION
https://isaacanzu.bandcamp.com/album/ceaseless-intention

Production: Isaac Anzu
Lyrics, Vocals: Isaac Anzu, HelloEggie
Video Editing and Animation: Isaac Anzu
Isaac Anzu Model by Figurative Forge
YouTube Captions provided by Melody Wisp

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"Ninki" (人気 ) is Japanese for "popularity" or "public favor", which is a reference to the "Cool Japan" initiative. Since 1980, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made it a priority to promote pop culture outside of Japan, in an attempt to look "cool". It has gone on to become one of the most successful bids for soft power and non-war propaganda in modern history. Is "soft power" also important in our daily lives? If humans need community and connection, don't we also need to practice the game of popularity on a small scale? What happens when your culture rejects you? When your family and friends reject you?

This song features a guest verse by HelloEggie, a kind and cheerful VTuber I met while streaming on Twitch. Somehow, she ends up swearing in this one verse almost as much as I do in this whole album. But she sells it, right? "Ninki" has a sample-based beat with heavy distortion and west-coast inspired rapping.

A state of intoxication put on a pedestal
A state of intoxication put on a pedestal
A state of intoxication put on a pedestal
A state of intoxication put on a pedestal

There's a problem on my mind only I can solve
It's something I discovered while I pondered my self
I didn't realize it was an issue at all
Until I started noticing my feelings overwhelmed

Pick it up quick 'n keep practicin' your chopstickin'
It's been 30 odd years since your brain stopped tickin'
Hit the soy sauce the wasabi, it's cool
You know you want to cop the popular kid in school

He lays down the law and they all follow suit (uh huh)
Everything he does is so sexy or cute (wow)
He's leading the charge on the week's latest trend (yeah)
He knows how your new favorite series will end (OMG)
He makes up a word and before you can blink
The whole school's repeating it can't even think (yeet!)
About going against this cultural titan (uh huh)
So are you gonna choose the winning side or the right one?

Pick it up quick 'n keep practicin' your chopstickin'
It's been 30 odd years since your brain stopped tickin'
Hit the soy sauce the wasabi, it's cool
You know you want to cop the popular kid in school
Pick it up quick 'n keep practicin' your chopstickin'
It's been 30 odd years since your brain stopped tickin'
Hit the soy sauce the wasabi, it's cool
You know you want to cop the popular kid in school

Watch the herd of sheep
One word and they dissipate
A wolf standing out, bitch you better hide, assimilate
Speak against the crowd
You’re the devil incarnate
The world is moving fast
Don’t look back you can’t hesitate
Hot timeline
Keep on scrollin scrollin
New day new trend
Got no credits rollin
Compensate
Watch that money blowin
Don’t you dare click off
Bitch, where ya think ya goin?

Close yourself off, is that what you want?
Make your own food, word, phrases, and taunts
Try to deny that you've done something wrong
As you watch the world keep ignoring your song
Shakes and uncontrolled emotions thinking of my friends
How could I ever again face them as a peer, when we
Realized that we weren't cool at all, was that the end?
When we knew our chance at “popular” was never getting nearer?
Fear when realizing I could not confront my father
Teachers breathing down on me with crazy expectations
Knowing anything less than my best would be a bother
Seems to me my own room's the only place I get vacation


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