Ado

He was, he pioneered the study of Asian religions, and he also studied the disenchantment of the world or the death of the idea of a mystical religious world to a modern atomistic mechanistic one, and he connected this to the development of the iron cage, which...

A- and it's funny because my favorite musician, the Japanese singer Ado, she sings in an, all of her songs in a giant iron cage as symbolic for something like this, like the constrictive nature of life today.

And the iron cage is an idea that modernity establishes these bureaucratic incentives that control people's daily lives, and this was part of a revolution in scale where, and this is something that Sam Francis talks about, where because the world's population grew so rapidly, you had to find ways to move people into the cities at a speed where they could work and get houses and to corral people together.

And I'm reading an author who I think was from this time period, Canetti, and he talks about this.

And both of these that I'm going to talk about first in my picks came to me via friends in social media saying, Man, my daughter, my youngin', dragged me to this concert, and I couldn't believe what I saw.

The first one, Greg, goes by the name of Ado.

That's how I'm going to pronounce it.

A-D-O.

She's now 24. has never shown her face.

The images have all been like video game avatars and the videos have been, you know, we sort of see a side profile for the first time with this single, but not even still her face.

And a friend on social media had written that their 11-year-old daughter dragged them all the way from New York to Chicago to see Ado perform here recently.

And there's this kind of anti-idol thing happening with the J-pop stars where they're not showing their images.