I, for one, find it attractive, can add a lot of personality if not outrageous. Super straight teeth look unnatural to me, like dentures. I also understand how super toothy model/newscaster smiles seem like a sign of aggression to some cultures.
Snaggletooth isn't just a rare blue Kenner action figure any more.
It's now the hot trend in Japan, where the dentist who pioneered the procedure has founded a girl band, TYB48, to promote the look, dubbed tseuke-yaeba. And you thought Michael Jackson's dad was the most disturbing pop Svengali you could imagine. I hate to think what could happen if a Japanese body-piercer gets wind of this notion and starts a band to promote...well...you imagine it.
It may be that someone finally shipped some Jewel CDs to the land of the rising sun. Frankly, I reckon they might be helpful with some of the trickier delicacies over there, too, holding live octopus sashimi in place as your back teeth grind it into submission.
Sexy, though? Speaking as a half-English dude with teeth that reflect it, I'm all for fetishizing fucked-up dental distortion. But knowing how teens like to copy their idols (I wish I could erase from history that brief period when I tried to imitate Pauly Shore), the notion that a dentist created a useless cosmetic procedure they could push through pop is way more disturbing that arousing.
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Is it just my limited exposure, or does every J-pop teen girl band have a name that looks like a license plate number?
TYB48
AKB48
NMB48
GAM
SDN48
SKE48
NO3B
DOCO
ZYX
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Hey, my Kirsten Dunst fantasies suddenly all come rushing back.
To my brain. Felt the need to specify.
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Yay! Avoiding orthodonture increased my sexiness! When will my doughy middle be irresistible?
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Oh great. My parents spent thousands of dollars and I endured years of painful adjustments, only to find out that orthodontics apparently make one LESS sexy now. GOD DAMMIT.
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geez now fangs is japan trying to be the country of full on real life fury is next. people wearing fake animal fur covered from head to toe or better japan can some day in the future have aninal dna injected into citizens who want the full fury effect
I hope not at all. If you're getting a lot of teeth in your BJs, you're seeing the wrong people (or doing it wrong).
@nix.nightbird @vangald So no more tips to the old folks home and a change in dentist. Done and done.
First kemonomimi (animal ears), then mechanical tails, and now fangs!? Sheesh, Japan is entering the age of furry.
This was a trend in Japan during the early 90's for Japanese girls. I'm not sure if it went back earlier than that. But it was such a huge trend, the rest of Asia wanted to do it. It was an excuse for neglecting dental care.
" the dentist who pioneered the procedure has founded a girl band, TYB48, to promote the look,"
I think that's the hardest part to accept. That in Japan you can simply start a group to promote your product and it won't be immediately ridiculed and ignored. Of course, I'm assuming this happens all the time and that it works.
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Well....since I have teeth like that...I guess there's only one response to this.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/bada23a2a4e4dc9afde648cc89fedb22/tumblr_mhkcz8q9qn1s3q9izo1_500.gif
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Hey Luke, It's tsuke-yaeba. (付け八重歯)
Oh here is the page for other body piercings that Luke was thinking of. NSFW probably.
http://www.yokohamachuoh-biyou.com/details/other_pierce.html
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Wassn't this a trend a few years ago? Did it come back again? And as someone who has problems with her teeth, this makes me sick :(
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I have a natural tooth like this- sharp and it juts out further than my other teeth. There's a perpetually sore spot on my lower lip from it, and it makes me look like an inbred hillbilly when I smile. I suppose getting it done surgically, they can make sure it looks cute and not dumb-looking... Still baffling, but whatever. You win again, Japan.
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Japan, ladies and gentlemen. Let's give 'em a round of applause for coming up with another bizzaro sex thing.
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I miss my canines. Two years ago my dentist got tired of ruining gloves on my ultrasharp ultralong canines so she ground off the tips. They were natural - a family trait on my mother's side. Along with my nerdy pallor they made it super easy to pick up goth chicks way back in the day when there were goth chicks.
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You mean before 1990, right?
Because goth- true postpunk goths- were done and over by 1990. Most of us were done by 1989 when it started going all mainstream.
So you're probably talking about Hot Topic kids and vampire brats, is my guess. The whole vampire fang thing was not all that big with the actual postpunk movement, and most actual, old-school goths looked more like Allison from The Breakfast Club than The Crow or any of the characters from an Anne Rice novel.
We liked vampires, but we didn't dress like them.
@nix.nightbird @Gallen_Dugall I was elsewhere in the '90s
I still have my "If you're a Goth where were you when we sacked Rome?" T-Shirt
