It might Break Your Pinky Heart is a a playful, innuendo-laden mockery of China’s unappeasable, triumphalist and xenophobic ‘Pink Culture’ and its champions, known as ‘pinkies’ by Namewee 黃明志Ft.Kimberley Chen 陳芳語 . Here’s some context.
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