Polynesian Pop in da current media

The influence of Polynesia on American Pop culture continues in all corners;

Some country western dude has tiki bars in the title of his latest album, and has haole girls doing an insultingly fake pseudo hula in the video...
flapping their hands and bouncing around like barbie...

leseee...
oh....kayyy, here tis:
Kenny Chesney Guitars Tiki bars and a whole lot of love
(huh!? Maitais meets led Zep thru C&W?!)

Latya Jackson will apparently be involved in an entertainment project called the "Wicked Wahine Tour"

not that there's anything wrong with it..
it's just pretty goofy...

oh... and a show in the HGTV lineup; shot some questions and footage of Hawaiiana and Tiki mugs at da swap meet in Honolulu. To be aired later...

KC puts on a great live show, but when he says tiki bars think east coast Florida tiki bar(any bar with a palm frond roof rarley any real tiki in sight)

he got masks on his ads

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=2615&forum=1&vpost=73314

On 2004-05-28 07:02, Johnny Dollar wrote:
he got masks on his ads.

yea. The Kon Tiki Logo mask. Wonder if they got permission from the Thor Heyerdahl Trust on that one?

"KC puts on a great live show, but when he says tiki bars think east coast Florida tiki bar(any bar with a palm frond roof rarely any real tiki in sight)"
or if a tiki, that Florida style with biiiig eyelids and huge teeth with that ubiquitous pineapple on the forehead.
's funny.
as in ancient Polynesia; each geographical area has its own indigenous style...

On 2004-05-26 19:44, lanikai wrote:
The influence of Polynesia on American Pop culture continues in all corners;

and Old Navy continues with their tiki push;
new tiki motif t shirts and carved wood painted tiki key chains...