Osaka Popstar : Pop Art and Punk Rock for sure

Osaka Popstar: Pop Art and Punk Rock for sure 

Nowadays, Music and Arts are entwined subjects but it hasn’t ever been like this. The artistic movement known as Pop Art came out as a way to turn the arts into something reachable to anyone.  It’s also considered the transition from Modern to Post Modern in the Arts.

The Pop Art has the goal to communicate directly to the people using signs and symbols from the imaginary world so common on the everyday life from the masses. It’s considered the Modern Art’s opposite once it denied separating art from life.

One of the most expressive names dated from this period (whose highlights were during the 60’s/70’s decades) was Andy Warhol.  Making use of saturated colors and image of myths like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis, for example, demonstrating how public personalities could be impersonal and shallow through a mechanic reproduction instead of the manual (serigraphy). This technique to represent the impersonal state of the object made in large scale for its costumers has turned the Coca Cola bottle and other products symbols of the popular culture.

Such intro was necessary so you RockPulsers could have a better understanding on the band I’m about to present you: the Osaka Popstar. This band is not just a regular one but a super group.

Osaka Popstar was formed in 2006 by the New York producer John Cafiero who’s also assumes the vocals and the lineup is completed by names like Jerry Only (The Misfits - bass, backing vocals), Dez Cadena (Black Flags/The Misfits -the lead guitar), Ivan Julian (The Voidoids - rhythm guitar) and Marky Ramone (Ramones, The Voidoids, Dust and The Misfits - drums). After, such presentation I can only say one thing about their music: a real killer punk rock band!

Besides the music, the Osaka Superstar stands for a lot more including arts, anime characters and cereal! Now, they’ve made the homage to their favorite breakfast cereal from Quaker with a brand new song: “Where’s the Cap’n?”.It’s not just some music for a commercial as John Cafiero’s said: “I thought it would be a fun, almost odd act of musical rebellion to transcend some of my love for the breakfast cereal culture thematically and sonically into a punk-pop song… Cereal mascots, commercial campaigns and the box-art itself were just as important, sometimes even more so, than the cereal itself”.

Finally, besides the music it can be also considering a good sample of Pop Art not only for the Japanese inspired characters and products for sale on their website but to illustrate the breakfast culture as his own way of art.

So, take your time and check more about the Osaka Popstar at:

http://www.osakapopstar.com  -> official site

http://osakapopstar.com/crunch/  -> to see the video

http://www.osakapopstar.com/crunch/OsakaPopstarFreeDownload.zip-> free download