Famous artist Gwen Stefani recently declared that she is Japanese despite being born to an Italian American father and an Irish American mother. The singer was born in Fullerton, California, and lived in that state all his life until he achieved fame.
Over the years, Stefani has infuriated people because of her use of several cultures. He was called out recently, in 2022, for his dreadlock hairstyle in a music video.
Stefani added to her previous antics recently by claiming she is a completely different race. While talking about the 2004 Harajuku Lovers Collection, the artist said he was Japanese and referenced his exposure to the culture.
Read on to learn more.
Gwen Stefani Says Japanese Culture Is Fascinating To Her
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California-born Stefani recently claimed that she is a completely different race than her parents. Artists also participate Allure Magazine in an interview on Tuesday and told the interviewer, who is Asian, that he is Japanese. Neither of Stefani’s parents are Asian, more or less Japanese; then there is no sign that he really comes from this country.
The interviewer initially asked Stefani about her now-controversial 2004 Harajuku Lovers Collection and what she might have learned from the experience, including praise, criticism and everything in between.
The artist went on to talk about the story he had previously told about his father’s Yamaha job and how for nearly a decade, he traveled from their home in California to Japan. “That is my Japanese influence, and that is a culture so rich in tradition, yet so futuristic [with] so much attention to art and detail and discipline, and it’s interesting to me,” he said.
Gwen Stefani Insists She’s Japanese
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Stefani added that after years of watching her father travel to the country and experience its culture, she was finally able to travel there and see Harajuku in all its glory for herself. Despite the lack of ethnic affiliation, Stefani said, “I said, ‘Oh my God, I’m Japanese, and I don’t know it.’”
The spoken words elicited no response from the interviewer, and Stefani backed up her comments by saying, “I do, you know.” He went into detail about what he described as his “innocent” love of Japanese culture. Stefani later described herself as a “super fan.”
The “Voice” judges continued, “If [people are] would criticize me for being a fan of something beautiful and sharing it, then I don’t think that’s appropriate. I think it’s a wonderful time for creativity… a time of ping-pong between Harajuku culture and American culture.”
“[It] It should be okay to be inspired by other cultures because if we’re not allowed to, then that divides people, doesn’t it?”
He said alluring Misunderstood Him
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alluring further noted that during the interview, Stefani called herself Japanese twice and at one point claimed she was “a little Orange County girl, a little Japanese girl, a little English girl.”
A day after the interview, the artist’s representative contacted the magazine, claiming that the interviewer had misinterpreted Stefani’s words. When asked by alluring to provide a statement on the record and clarify the comment, the representative declined.
While talking to paper magazine in May 2021, Stefani made a similar comment about her “Harajuku Girl”, claiming that sharing one’s culture helps growth.
He said, “If we didn’t buy and sell and trade our culture, we wouldn’t have so much beauty, you know? We learn from each other; we share with each other, we grow with each other. And all these rules are dividing us even more.”
Gwen Stefani Accused Of Using Harajuku Subculture
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Following the release of his debut studio album in 2004, “Love. Angel. Music. Honey,” Stefani launched the fragrance “Harajuku Lovers” four years later. After the launch, the artist was accused of using the Japanese Harajuku subculture in her marketing band album artwork.
Stefani also toured with four “Harajuku Girls,” at the time, as her backup dancers. The group serves as the artist’s entourage and is the inspiration behind Stefani’s fragrance bottle.
The artist has been accused of cultural appropriation in several other instances since the 90s. At the time, she was dating Tony Kanal, her Indian bandmate, and was sometimes seen in a bindi, a mark that adorns the forehead of Indian women.
Stefani also recently caused a stir after her appearance in “Light My Fire” by Sean Paul, where she wore dreadlocks and a dress that had the colors of the Jamaican flag.
While talking to Billboard in 2019, the artist said, “I get a little defensive when people [call it culture appropriation] because if we don’t allow each other to share our culture, what are we? You are proud of your culture and have traditions, and then you share them to create new things.”
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