According to songwriter David Fenton, “Turning Japanese is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn’t expect.” Fenton intended the song to be a love song, with the character of the song “pining over a photograph of his ex-girlfriend” in his bedroom, drawing from Fenton’s own experience of being rejected.
It doesn’t really have to? Whatever caused the inspiration for anything artistic can be extremely mundane. Absurdism isn’t exactly a new concept, especially to artists. Much like dark humor, not everyone will get the artist’s message, or their inspiration.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Japanese#:~:text=According to songwriter David Fenton,not "really mean much".
That doesn’t make much sense to me.
It doesn’t really have to? Whatever caused the inspiration for anything artistic can be extremely mundane. Absurdism isn’t exactly a new concept, especially to artists. Much like dark humor, not everyone will get the artist’s message, or their inspiration.