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From the land of Kow Pad Gai and Thaksinomics, here’s the pop duo Raffy Nancy (not a collaboration between this fellow and this unfortunate soul, although that would have been something to behold) with “UFO”:



No, I don’t understand it, either.

My wife picked up this album back when she watched a lot of Asian music video programs on the International Channel. The paucity of decent pop music at the time led her far off the beaten path. As a consequence, her CD collection is full of some really bizarre stuff, both foreign and domestic, from the early-to-mid 1990’s.

Raffy Nancy – UFO (from Raffy Nancy) - I'm unsure of the exact release dats, seeing as how I can't read Thai. There's an Independence Day reference in the video, which places it sometime after the summer of 1996 or thereabouts.

The more astute – or nerdy – among you may have noticed that the title for today’s post comes from the excellent sci-fi miniseries (and absolutely terrible ongoing TV series) V. When the hype machine surrounding Independence Day started up, the marketing people placed ads featuring a massive flying saucer hovering over New York in nearly every subway station in Boston. My friend and I came up with a plan to paint giant red V’s over all of the posters. We didn’t carry it out, though, because we were cowards and we were lazy. It would have been really funny…for the handful of people able to understand the joke.