Hello Kitty Guitar - Fernandes & Fender
My wife has a Hello Kitty guitar:
Now, any normal person would assume that if a person buys a guitar, they know how to play or have an interest in learning how to play the guitar. This logic, however, escapes the Hello Kitty fanatic. Not only does my wife not know how to play the guitar, she has absolutely no interest in learning how to play. Despite this, she has to have a Hello Kitty guitar because it is “sooooo cute” (I think these two words really should be banished from the English language).
Even worse? I’m not even allowed to play it. The other day, I thought It would be cool to learn to play a little and decided to get the guitar out to try. Now I know that a man playing a Hello Kitty guitar doesn’t do a whole hell of a lot toward creating a manly image, but I figured I was at home and nobody was ever going to see this indiscretion on my part. So I have it out and am about ready to play when all Hello Kitty Hell breaks loose
Now if there is anything worse than a Hello Kitty fanatic, it’s a Hello Kitty fanatic that is angry (note to all men who have the true misfortune to be involved with a Hello Kitty fanatic - don’t, under any circumstances, touch her Hello Kitty stuff without her permission).
wife: “Don’t you even think about playing that guitar. What if you accidentally scratch it?!?”
me: “What’s the use of having a guitar if you aren’t even going to play it?” (thinking: oops, should have stopped that before it came out)
wife: “You don’t understand anything. You don’t have to play to hear the music that Hello Kitty brings to everyone. All you have to do is look at it and you can hear the music.”
me: “…” (thinking: ?????????)
Which pretty much sums up Hello Kitty Hell - lots of Hello Kitty goods that have a use, but can’t be used for their intended purpose because Hello Kitty is on them (don’t worry, if none of that made sense, it just means you’re not a Hello Kitty fanatic which is a good thing)
Of course, now there are other Hello Kitty Guitars that have been made and my wife is considering which (or all if she can find the money) to add to her collection:
Hello Kitty Fernandes Collectors’ Edition
Hello Kitty Fender Stratocaster Limited Edition
Hello Kitty Fender Stratocaster (pink)
Hello Kitty Fender Stratocaster (black)
Hello Kitty Fender Mini (pink)
Hello Kitty Fender Mini (black)
Too many readers to list sent me photos of these guitars - may you all have to listen to Hello Kitty theme songs played on the guitar each day for the rest of your lives…
Posted: April 15th, 2007 under Hello Kitty Music.
Comments: 32
Comments
Comment from TANk GiRL
Time: April 15, 2007, 11:44 pm
Now I am REALLY envious.
Comment from Angi
Time: April 16, 2007, 4:43 am
Oh, I’m so jealous! I also want to have a Hello Kitty guitar 
Comment from Mrs Muffle
Time: April 16, 2007, 6:57 am
You should come in France with your wife, it is very hard to found that much Hello Kitty products. Here, I only saw one type of guitar whereas you have a dozen of models in the United States…
Comment from Siouxie
Time: April 16, 2007, 7:04 am
I don’t play guitar so my obsession with HK is limited to things I find useful (but won’t use)…do they have a HK piano? or keyboard?
Comment from moi_même
Time: April 16, 2007, 7:19 am
I actually got to see some of those live the other day, and I nearly cried. I’m not a guitar fanatic, but I respect the instrument. And all that pink hurt even my girlish eyes. If it was intended for kids, then it would be ok… but no kid would handle that Fender.
About your wife… Man, how can I put it without offending her? ……… I can’t, can I? :-X Ok, so I won’t say anything.
I’ll just keep on having fun with this site, and wondering if you really think this is hell… Because if I were a man living with such a woman, I’d get the divorce way before I made a site out of my misery. 
So she’s gotta be something spectacular in some aspect we don’t know. Hope she is.
*shite, I said it. sorry*
Comment from equinox
Time: April 16, 2007, 2:31 pm
“You don’t have to play to hear the music that Hello Kitty brings to everyone. All you have to do is look at it and you can hear the music.â€?
That is the best quote EVER.
Comment from Ying
Time: April 16, 2007, 3:13 pm
I know you secretly love Hello Kitty, it’s ok, you can release and not hide your inner cute, you love Hello Kitty, embrace her for she loves you too!
Did I freak you out? 
But seriously, for a guy who seems to not like Kitty-chan, you really spend a *lot* of time on your posts ne?
Comment from Creatively Evil
Time: April 16, 2007, 4:00 pm
My husband and I got my daughter the Hello Kitty black Fender Strat. It rules. She practices more than she did with her starter guitar, so it was worth it. Just sayin’. =D
Comment from Jennifer
Time: April 18, 2007, 6:01 am
Man, the Fernandeses are both REALLY pretty.
Last Christmas Santa brought me the Badtz Maru Fender Bronco bass, which isn’t bad really for an entry-level 3/4 size instrument. And man do I ever love that cranky penguin.
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Comment from Chick_to_take_the_mick
Time: May 15, 2007, 2:43 pm
YOU’RE ALL JEALOUS!!!!!
Hello Kitty Fender In Pink BELONGS TO ME!!
I got it as an early birthday present =]]]]]]]]]
I’m so so SO happy
Comment from Margaret
Time: June 12, 2007, 12:39 pm
“You don’t have to play to hear the music that Hello Kitty brings to everyone. All you have to do is look at it and you can hear the music.�
Okay, I think this has officially crossed the line into cult status. I’m suddenly having visions of her white and pink clad acolytes, and it’s pretty damn scary.
Comment from izzy
Time: July 19, 2007, 7:05 am
Coming from a female guitarist who has been playing for 12 years:
That is the most revolting thing I have ever seen. I wouldn’t be seen dead playing it for fear of my artistic integrity.
Having a guitar purely for decoration sounds like the biggest waste of money ever. She should be ashamed of herself. They are made to be played. Some dedicated impoverished child musician somewhere would love a guitar they could play and your wife goes and buys one she will never play. That is stupid.
Not that I blame her for not playing it though. As I said..I wouldn’t be seen dead playing it.
Comment from Pika
Time: August 7, 2007, 7:07 am
Here in Finland we have had those guitars for few years now.
I almost died when i saw my first one, it was that black fender - and when i saw the picture of pink i started to squel.. in front of a music shop in Finland’s capital Helsinki.. Ppl were looking me like.. Well you know..
Then i dragged all my friends to see it and some of them cried out loud too. and now that i live here in middle Finland they havo come here too in this last year, and always they put them to the window for some wierd reason. (i’m guessing it’s because we have a still rising anime and manga maddness going on) here will be a lots of girls who will bui those guitars and basses because they have HK.
Yes, and i was thinking the same. But i think it went out of my mind, because i saw them more, so i know that there won’t be just one. or two but several, and one can order more.
Comment from BerryGirl
Time: August 12, 2007, 3:27 am
COOOOLLL! I am goin to buy it right now! ^_______^
Comment from BerryGirl
Time: August 12, 2007, 3:28 am
I’m talkin about da guitar of course da pink one…
Comment from Carla
Time: September 28, 2007, 8:30 am
I have the black hello kitty fender and it is the best guitar. I don’t think they have many being sold here though. I like the
Comment from deidre statts hello kitty fan
Time: November 7, 2007, 9:17 am
i would actually but this gutar and i don’t even know how to play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment from Jo M
Time: January 8, 2008, 10:16 am
That is one ugly ass guitar.
Comment from Mr T
Time: January 12, 2008, 10:19 pm
they actually have a few of these at my favorite music store. it’s absolutely sad. what kind of self respecting musician would play it? I know I wouldn’t touch that thing with a 10 ft. pole. if you want to learn how to play though, get a guitar of your own. just so the mrs. can’t bug you about it.
Comment from Commander J
Time: January 30, 2008, 3:28 am
I am a guitarist, and I love the Hello Kitty Stratocaster. Of course I just HAD to upgrade the pickup and tuning machines besides completely rewiring it (and a failed Bigsby mounting, haha!) but at this point it is the only guitar I play. Seriously. My theory is that the guitar world is so completely corporatized at this point, why try to cover it up? Have fun AND consume…conspicuously.
Comment from circuitben
Time: February 5, 2008, 4:04 am
I once left a girl because she told me to “stop playing guitar please, I want to watch television.”, just walked upstairs, packed my things and moved out without saying a word.
I’ve just bought a hello kitty strat, and rest assured, i’m not going to be careful with it.
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Comment from Susan
Time: February 21, 2008, 1:58 am
A stratocaster. They actually made a Hello Kitty stratocaster. The person who did that, deserve to have it smacked into his/hers head. Repeatedly.
Comment from Kittynator
Time: March 1, 2008, 5:18 am
Really Susan?
I almost bought one, but was talked out of it. Might later go back and buy it for laughs.
Comment from soNOTintoHELLOpussy
Time: March 2, 2008, 12:49 pm
if you only emigrated to Malta, you won’t ever find hello kitty stuff here unless you get it from ebay ofcourse… So nice to be able to live in a HK-free world 
Comment from Rod
Time: March 12, 2008, 5:44 pm
Say what you want, but Hello Kitty has transcended kitsch, cute, and all to achieve “All your bases are belong to us” stature. I got a Hello, Kitty mini-strat and couldn’t be more pleased.
Comment from Margrét
Time: May 15, 2008, 7:03 am
I sort of have to say this.
Even though I do understand the horrors you go trough in everyday life .(By the way, does your wife ever do anything that doesn’t involve annoying you with Hello Kitty?)
I own a black Fender Strat Hello Kitty electric guitar and am not ashamed. It’s a fine guitar (I have another Fender Strat so I’m used to them) and, awful as it is, something needs to bring girls into the guitar community. If it takes Hello Kitty then we’ll just have to deal with that. More girls have to play guitar.
But not the pink ones. They just disgust me. And do nothing in terms of making anyone take female guitarists seriously. Ick.
Comment from Wendy
Time: May 22, 2008, 12:35 am
I agree with Margret– more girls need to put down the clarinets and pick up some strings.
I also have the black HK strat and it sounds GREAT for the price. Well, anything sounds great with a Marshal amp (forget the HK/Fender personal amp, it’s cute but unreliable) I could be playing the HK toaster through that amp and it would sound awesome.
Artistic integrity be damned, I play for fun and the HK strats are FUN.
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