Gay Happening is a long running series of CD's and DVD's featuring compilations of gay-interest music or music frequently heard in gay clubs.
Vol. 17 is a pretty standard entry, containing a list of tracks from several contemporary gay trance and glam acts, and a cover depicting a mostly nude and well-toned male body. (There is generally not much variation, the inclusion of a disco ball or the model doing the slightly-scared-farmboy-in-overalls look being among the more common twists).
What makes this particular Gay Happening cover (and CD) so special are the words written on the little gold tag in the bottom-left corner:
That's right.
Yatta!
Who knew a camp video featuring Japanese comedians dancing badly to a nonsensical song while wearing nothing but Hanes and a giant leaf would become a cult-classic in the gay community?! If only that kid in high-school who really loved the Japanese shows on Fox's "Worlds Craziest Game Shows" - or the slightly more advanced kid who owned the first DVD of Neon Genesis Evangelion, played Starcraft on Korean servers, and knew that Yatta! was actually a joke - had known this was what the future held. Maybe then they'd have stopped forcing other kids to watch their stupid Japanese comedy videos - or forcing other kids to watch their stupid Japanese comedy videos then mocking those kids for not realizing that the stupid video was SUPPOSED to be for comedy. How's the JET program going guys?
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