October 11, 2008

Hello Kitty, Hello World

I was at Walmart a few nights ago. Now I rarely go to Walmart and in fact I try to avoid it at all costs. There are many reasons for my disdain of Walmart, but the main one being that it is evil. Anyways, I was forced to go into the store of horrors when it turned out they were the only store within my area that had the CD I wanted. So I headed in and went straight to the electronics department and headed for the CD I needed so I could get in and then get out as quickly as I could. All was going to plan until I found something that stopped me dead in my tracks...
Hello World is the debut album from Hello Kitty. I'm assuming it's called Hello World because most of the world doesn't know about Hello Kitty and this is her big introduction into the mainstream. I LOVE Hello Kitty and I am a huge fan, but even this is a bit much for me. I have seen the cartoons and she can't even talk, how is she supposed to have a full length album out?! I almost bought it out of pure curiousity but decided against it as my cash available was limited. I came home and I researched it and I am now very happy I didn't buy it because it is a sham! It has 11 songs, none of which are sung by hello kitty!

Track listing for Hello World:
1. Come On, Come On - Keke Palmer
2. Getaway - Cheryl Yie
3. Hello Kitty - Mandy Ventrice
4. Hey Yeah - Gen
5. Hello World - Ainjel Emme
6. To All The Girls - Jennifer Marks
7. Get This Party Started - Cheryl Yie
8. I Smile - Lindsay Dennis
9. Take It Easy (Chococat’s Jam) - The Seventeens
10. Sweeter Than Sweet - Emma Hunton
11. Do You Really Wanna - Cori Yarckin

This was really disappointing and made me sad about overmarketing of characters and products and brands, that is until Thursday when I saw a robot Hello Kitty comforter!

~Peace

6 comments:

Vanilla Bear said...

OMG Chococat's Jam??

Poor Hello Kitty, all she wanted to do was be a cute kitty and say hello, now she's a victim of greedy businessmen trying to make money. I am sad.

Vanilla Bear said...

PS. Who is Chococat?

Stephanie said...

Chococat is my personal fave, i have a chococat calendar! Chococat is a friend of hello kitty!
http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t341/awsmsteph/ZSpecials/chococat_3.gif

Anonymous said...

i wonder if thise songs are any good actually...

Anonymous said...

opps - sorry *those songs

Jesca said...

Well isn't that just dumb. To make a hello kitty cd in which not even hello kitty herself gets to sing. Not that she talks anyway so I don't know how she would sing.