... cute metal’ through the Japanese teen girl group Babymetal. Drawing on Sianne Ngai’s theories of cuteness, I explore notions of cuteness on two levels: Babymetal’s cute, and at times childish, vision of ... aggressiveness and the critical, yet ambivalent, reception of Babymetal by some in the global metal community as ... or suspect. The critiques and affective responses to Babymetal’s music reveal the inherent power of cuteness ... if they are being duped. As I argue, Babymetal’s complex performance aesthetics invoke cuteness as inherently ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Feminism, and Media
2016 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Cultural Studies
... 10.15815/kjcaes.2018.13.3.1Lorraine Plourde Babymetal and the ambivalence of cuteness, International Journal of ...
Tópico(s): Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
2005 - University of Chicago Press | Critical Inquiry
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... 10.15815/kjcaes.2018.13.3.1Lorraine Plourde Babymetal and the ambivalence of cuteness, International Journal of ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2005 - University of Chicago Press | Critical Inquiry