It’s not enough for Murakami to spin his own gold but he had to make a literal tie-in with the inclusion of all manner of doodads fabricated from precious metals and gems by the likes of Kanye and Pharrell. In the case of Pharrell, he bedazzled a few of his favorite things on the tongue of a Murakami including diamond studded miniatures of a sneaker, ketchup jar, can of soda, cupcake and jar of baby oil. Baby oil? Pardon me, but that’s a tad too much information (see previous comments about prudes). But this only goes to show the age-old cliché that the grass is always greener as its no longer enough for artists to make art or musicians to make music (and headlines); but as artists, these musicians happen to make crappy art.
Kenny Schachter