Andy Warhol Japanese TDK Ad

A Japanese ad for TDK starring Andy Warhol.

[@Sunzu49]

I saw a picture of this, with captions saying, "I fucking love this song."

[@bowie-rocks543]

Lol I have that image saved.

[@GoodJapaneseMusic]

Aka 赤 (Red) Midori 緑 (Green) Ao 青 (Blue) Gunjou-iro 群青色 (Ultramarine Blue) Kirei 綺麗 (Beautiful) IMAJIN (Ima 今 = present,existing,current + Jin 人 = People) or Imagine wo Shigeki Suru. 今人を刺激する。 ("Modern people" or "Imagination" are stimulated. )

[@adrianalucia9387]

he was so adorable

[@nickbarber5366]

I want his voice for my speech-to-text.

[@AlbertoAntonio6]

I watched this like 20 times! It makes me laugh everytime!

[@elestivine]

If you know anything about Warhol's art or aesthetic besides the Campbell's soup cans, you'd know that he didn't "sell out." He began in advertising... THIS was his aesthetic. And he certainly didn't "need the money" at this point in his career.

[@XOPAUXO]

andy warhol was one of the best plastic artist that existed, and was the impulsor of Art Pop

[@belikeandywarhol]

Andy Warhol is the best of the best. He's cool. :] He made the best art that no one else could think of. He's different and that's what I like about him.

[@BillysMom]

LOL It makes me laugh when he says whatever he says in Japanese. It's a funny comercial in my opinion. I love Andy =D

[@GTK_Akira48]

he said: aka (red), midori (green), ao (blue), gunjyo-iro (deep blue, purple), kirei (beautiful, fine)

[@stiqman]

warhol was a genius. and this commercial says it all.

[@CyborgNinja7]

LOL, nice accent there, Andy. For those who don't know, he's naming colors in the ad. BTW, ad is "koukoku" in Japanese. I just learned that one >_>

[@putabananainurear]

i love how he tries to say blue in japanese

[@Dalsemien]

Brilliant man! Together with Cindy Sherman he's one of few people who successfully used subversion to question and make use of the massmedia and consumer culture. THis commercial is highly ironic, but Warhol's use of the media became so cryptic after a while so that most people didn't understand what he was doing.

[@marek606]

Andy Warhol's parents come from a small village in Slovakia Mikova (Prešov Region / northeastern Slovakia)

[@kataidamashi]

@TheBilly It is a kotobasobi (playing with word). The sound JIN of "Imagine" is transcripted by the kanji 人 (person)、whose reading can be also Jin. And IMA, means also "now", conveying in this way the meanings of "Imagine", and "modern person"," person of now". The Japanese wrting systems (hiragana, katakana and kanji) allow a lot of this kind of wordplay. Hope I answered to your question.

[@nanashinameless3457]

The song is ❝I knew I was ❞ by Jun Miyake.

[@gina888warhol1]

Andy looked like an otherworldly , hottie, geek... cute.......He was brilliant with state of the art equipment ie,TDK.. Japan was using Andy to sell.:.Because he was hip , kool, different. He died around the time I was born, so of course, I think he is interesting.. Japonise TDK WAS very evolutionary then. Andy changed things in his mind and gave it to us.

[@donsan21]

Aka(Red), Midori(Green), Ao(Blue), Gunzyouiro(Ultramarine)...Kirei(Beautiful!)

[@MetaruRyuu]

lol awesome. i can tell he's saying, red, green, blue... the rest, not so much. lol thanks two years of japanese back in school.

[@earthlab1]

去年ロンドンで、pop lifeを見た。 入り口の所にTDK−andyの映像が流れていた。 まさにこのCMだったのでコメントしました。

[@MrUnidyne]

Among his ideas that never came to completion was a one-shot TV show he wanted to direct and star in. The title: "Andy Warhol's Nothing Special".

[@CraigWeinstein]

Hi8mm is an awesome format. Even Andy Warhol says so.

[@outlawstud]

he was an artist... they can do whatever they think is good for their career!...

[@0718hani]

yes, he was. he was saying "red" "blue" "green" "ultramarine" and maybe "orange" by japanese language.

[@shazaha]

LOL. I would say calm down, but i know exactly how you feel.

[@manjaganj]

How can you eat a bowl of Campbell's Soup without thinking about Andy Warhol? That's about the only time I think of his oh so brilliant contribution to humanity!

[@Jefferdaughter]

@elestivine - Andy Warhol did not so much create artwork he knew was going to sell (in fact, much/most of 'his' artwork was not even made by him), as he created a 'buzz' around himself. He created at least a couple personals; and even sent someone else to stand-in for him to fulfill a speaking engagement. I consider him the first 'performance artist'. His life, more than any object, was his art. No so unlike the rest of us. If he had any genius, this must be it.

[@elestivine]

He was a "business artist." He created a name for himself and perpetuated his career doing artwork that he knew was going to sell. He wasn't this character like Rothko that snubbed his nose at getting paid... Warhol set out to get paid. Not that there's anything in the world wrong with that!

[@gina888warhol1]

He said Pink, as you know if one thinks about it. The word pink is not blah, it is a mixture of red and blue . Some one would have to of known who ever did this. Knew that they had created a knew color, PINK. So, some one invents the tape evolution

[@RocStarr913]

Wow, even the great Andy Warhol wasn't immune from "Japandering" commercials. Goes to show how cool the gig really was! :-)

[@MrGuitartramp]

Steve Kaufman was a student of warhol and an amazing artist

[@JP1234Productions]

Heres the name of the Andy Warhol factory member that is not credited. SUPERDUDE Superdude is still alive and playing music at nearly 70. He is the person standing right behind Andy in the photo on sonicbids. It would be nice for him to get some recognition. KZbin channel: jp1234productions sonicbids url: Superdude

[@hasunoutena]

He says 群青色, dark blue (there is no brown on the sreen, for one, and I honestly can only see 軍所色 as a typing error), then I'm fairly sure he means to say 綺麗 (beautiful). イマ人 is a pun on イマ (now) 人 (person/people), i.e. modern people, and イマジン (imagine), meaning the tape stimulates the imaination and modern people.

[@bkisme]

TDK makes good optical storage. Had a roll of 50 with no coaster disks. Had that nice new-media smell to it (almost like metallic maple syrup). The only disks that failed were ones i screwed up myself (lol, taking disk out while reading/burning) If you find a roll of TDK dvds for 15 bucks and need storage space, buy em! :)

[@swissair10]

the most of you are false: he says: 赤(red), 緑(green), 青(blue), 軍所色("all-colour-mix" (brown one)), 切れいい (beautiful, wonderful). And then the speaker doesn't say something like Andy Warhol could learn Japanese or so, he just says: he (イマ人 (Andy Warhol)) is stimulated by this colours (刺激する means to stimulate = to make exited). So... it's カラHi-Fi, "kara" is written in Katakana so of course it doesen't mean to buy it means color, and then he just says TDK videotape.

[@oklapi]

Still his ideas and the portraits were GOOD

[@hforrest]

I love the background tune

[@WHOTHAFUCK]

this is art

[@TerraMantis]

I dont disagree with the sell out at the end of his career but towards the end of it he worked with and took advantage of a really great artist Sean Michel Basquiat. Look em up.

[@laima3165]

amazing song

[@GabeMorris]

I'm not saying we should deny the credits, I'm saying we shouldn't act like they were and still are the only people who could ever have done that. I'm not saying the important characters in history aren't important, i'm saying if they never existed, someone else would have eventually taken that spot, for better of for worse.

[@drtchock]

i was wondering what he was saying. thanks so much for the translation!

[@soytubebenenuco]

kirei means beatiful

[@donsan21]

Thank you for upload. This ad is very impressive for many Japanese.

[@taty4ever]

andy warhol is the greatest

[@happeningfish77]

Excellent!

[@t7g6s8]

yeah cause everyone can speak japanese it's such an easy language to learn.

[@craziestrufis]

he is the smartist pearson i have ever seen in my life he the next albert instin

[@discotiq]

@ZPGaming well, maybe the RA RI RU RE and RO might be a bit difficult for english speakers, but if you just pronounce without reading to the romanizations it's sooooo easy...

[@ghamilton841]

saw this video in tate's pop art exhibition and i cannot get that wee tune outta my head! :P gotta love warhol like.

[@xbxoxy]

at the very end you can tell he says "Kirei" wich means pretty the word before that, i dont know... it sounds like "kunjoiro" but that doesnt mean nothing

[@takeapicturetrick]

"does a bear shit in the woods" lmfao. win.

[@XOPAUXO]

of course, u need to watch the film basquiat, warhol was only a manager at his last days

[@senorverde09]

I think he's going through the colors in Japanese cause aka is red and midori is green. Probably he's just stating how vibrant those colors look on TDK's VHS or something

[@earthacademy]

wow a lot of haters on here.

[@pollyannaj]

t's so weird. I wonder what warhol would have though about the fact that he was totally right on. everyone can achieve 15 minutes of fame. america's got talent is the perfect example of this. watch it on tuesday and realize it's just little people becoming big starts for 15 minutes. and they love it.

[@melmagicspell4033]

people are still quoting him. from businesspeople to musicians.

[@TlGBC]

he brought together a capitalist attitude and artistic integrity and mocked both while being regarded as both sophisticated as well as financially successful.

[@dunandunan]

yup!!!

[@Makron5]

Someone else would have done it, ooooh a campbell's can. Cursive, two colors, symbol BOOM DONE! I'm Warhol!

[@bakuhatsubutsu]

Wow. That was brilliant. I like the "imagine/ima-jin" pun (at least I think that was intended to be a pun). Amazing music too.

[@johnnytastetest]

I AM pompous. And everything else in that comment was pretty accurate too --- aside from the "[there's] no thing as a 'superior artist'" part.

[@PatrickSchabus]

thanks a lot for al this information !

[@unwired71]

すごい

[@gina888warhol1]

cool he understands!!

[@L0LUNIC0RN]

id buy it

[@bapyou]

How did Warhol navigate the legal issue of incorporating an image such as a Campbell's soup can label? Did Campbell's make an issue out of Warhol's appropriation?

[@UltraFlashlight]

Just look at how he articulates the words so perfectly. It's like I'm hearing Japanese spoken from a true native. *sarcasm*

[@warnnie]

the color he said the last word may be kiiro(yellow).

[@soytubebenenuco]

red, green,blue, aqua, "beatiful"

[@SnDFrostey]

watch andy warhols films on youtube. their really good.

[@bradleycontois]

@ravebritt its cool, not every day we end up working things out on youtube you know. im sure you can vouch for that.

[@Mikaylee]

Does anyone know when this originally aired?

[@xlowjoyx]

OMG Andy's right - sometimes it's better to feel NOTHING

[@TheNeonRabbit]

@elestivine Hell, he called his studio "The factory"

[@GoldenPickaxe]

@TheMammaHUT the new warhol is R33MIX

[@oklapi]

Imagine how much he affected all the streetart ect IDIOTA !

[@micalove]

I was really upset when they made Andy seem like the "bad guy" in Factory Girl. It's just not right.

[@Dalsemien]

People who don't get why he did this commercial really should try and dig deeper into his work! Ever heard of double irony? His work celebrated and at the same time ridiculed commercialism, fame and art. He played with the conventional ways of approaching art, movies, music etc. etc. etc. You don't have to like his work, that's not the point, but we owe much of our open cultural scene to Warhol.

[@soytubebenenuco]

does somebody knows the name of the song and the musician who made it?

[@Nekotan]

Andy my love

[@oklapi]

Depends on what hues

[@Spewk89]

thank you very much :)

[@hilarioph]

Not only that Andy Warhol was appear on the cars video Hello again

[@AladasianTheMeerkat]

Ahhh, so this is where 7L & Esoteric got the sample on EvJ from! Lol!

[@cciemail]

what year was this?

[@smashbot]

Too cool! :P

[@ColeVecsion]

well, no one never accused ol andy of not being a sell out, this is just further proof of that lol

[@gina888warhol1]

it was his voice. I don't think that he would have had it dubbed because it wasn't his style

[@Hellishcrusade]

Too right! TDK made great cassette tape...in fact most of my cassettes were TDK because you could always rely on 'em, but when I recorded the same album onto TDK and Fuji..you could hear the bigger range, and thick tape too...unlike Maxell..too thin! Kept snapping! :( Erm...I'm getting all geeky again here aren't I ...lol!!

[@youarenowreadingthis]

I don't care who he influnced. Those names you just listed aren't even of intrest to me so you fail to prove your point to me. All you explained is that he was more money orianted then involved in creating intresting art. It seems your more impressed by the way he marketed himself then paying attention to his art. Yes he detached himself from his art. He had the "factory" and said he'd like to take the emotion out of art. What a genius.

[@ingridvayne]

I love this guy....this video is really cool!

[@RichLunaMusic]

There was a long awkward silence in the beginning :/

[@PonchSatrio]

Andy Warhol rulez!

[@plasticvideo]

Hi, I'm the 21st Century Warhol. Dare you to find out why. こんにちは、私は21 世紀Warhol である。なぜ見つけるために敢えてしなさい。

[@GusPiolaFotografia]

Crazy cool!!!

[@PatrickSchabus]

who was the directore, maybe warhol himself ?

[@Chamaleon]

This is some of the weird art my brain will be never capable to understand :(((

[@SmileysRevenge100]

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ANDY WARHOL!