nearly up to 28 million views and counting (in less than a month!!) single (or at least, video) of the year?
― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
so good
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 13 August 2012 21:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
a friend of mine living in korea sent me a link to this updating me on what's currently hot over there. it is...mesmerizing.
― arby's, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
It's a terrific single and easily my favourite video of the year. It might have more potential to be a viral hit outside of K-Pop's traditional markets than anything in recent memory.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Monday, 13 August 2012 21:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'd argue it's already a viral hit over here
― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
the dance move like you're simultaneously riding a horse and air drumming is
― arby's, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
not sure how to finish that sentence
don't forget the extended crab walk
― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
gangnam style
― contenderizer, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
is how you finish any sentence
sexy lady
and this bit from the youtube description
From 2 years of break, PSY is finally coming back with his 6th album 'PSY6甲'!The album's weighty title song 'Gangnam Style' is composed solely by PSY himself from lyrics to choreography. The song is characterized by its strongly addictive beats and lyrics, and is thus certain to penetrate the foundations of modern philosophy.
p OTM
― arby's, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
may i just say
― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
fitness chicks
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah this video is a gif potential goldmine
― arby's, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
i was gonna say that part when he was on the bus going OP! OP! at all the passengers was my favorite, but i forgot that he yells at a butt
― arby's, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
since you asked
― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
my favorite bits are when the girls do the dance with serious face, reminds me of the girls from smang it
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 13 August 2012 22:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
ps: hyuna is fine
I hope the TJ guys are watching, its time to step up their game
― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 23:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
You know how for a while there Pitbull was the guest on just about every song released? I think we need to fly this guy over to the US and have him do Korean-language guest verses on about eight dozen pop songs.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 01:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
And of course now there's a T-shirt.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 01:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
kinda love this, but there is a distinct lmfao vibe to it (not necessarily a bad thing, but it's there)
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 01:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
cute video but the song on its own is kind of a snooze
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 01:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt i forgot that he yells at a butt
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 01:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
i've heard people saying there is an lmfao vibe but it sounds more like 2NE1. the only lmfao song i know is party rocking and gangnam style sounds a lot more like i am the best than party rocking.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 14 August 2012 02:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
I hear the lfmao vibe too but it's like 5x catchier than anything they've done so there's that
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
i don't think "catchier than party rock" is a real thing
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
Nice interview http://10.asiae.co.kr/Articles/new_view.htm?sec=ent0&a_id=2012081310112383260
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
do starving peasants living in the grip of Kim Jong Un know they are missing out on this?
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
It might have more potential to be a viral hit outside of K-Pop's traditional markets than anything in recent memory.
definitely. a few days ago i brought this up to play to my 12 yo brother but of course he'd already seen it
― ogmor, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 09:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
i can't put a finger on why but i am hearing Pump Up The Jam in here
― smash sbros (Will M.), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 17:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
It's totally a "Jock Jams" song. He was smart to release it during the Olympics.
(My Jock Jams Kpop mix:
)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
And here's the sequel:
It's a parody, right? I mean, if "Gangnam Style" was supposed to be the opposite of everything Kpop is right now (flashy, closed-off, overly self-serious), this one is exactly all of those things. It even has the raining confetti/fireworks things they do at Kpop concerts to get the audience hyped up.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
Played this video (the original) for co-workers in a meeting yesterday. Reception was a mixture of laughs and bafflement (like "why did you show us this?"). Then I went to the 2NE1 show in Newark last night and they played the video on the big screen beforehand and everyone in the arena shouted "Oppa gangnam style!" (and sang the "Hey sexy lady" part) as one, and it was awesome.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 18 August 2012 13:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
i've been shouting "open condom style", myself.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 18 August 2012 16:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
― rent, Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
hammer time!
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
Hearing this everywhere these days, which is awesome. OTOH I was pretty much the only person stanning for "Party Rock Anthem" on last year's EOY singles list, so ...
― etc, Monday, 20 August 2012 06:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh my god just seen this.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
dodgers style
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
definitely reminds me of 2NE1 which is a good thing.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gangnam-style-dissected-the-subversive-message-within-south-koreas-music-video-sensation/261462/
― rayuela, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
Dance not too different from "The Bird," no?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
Somehow I preferred Daler Mehndi's "the song is about dancing, and I wanted the video to just be me dancing" explanation
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
a few thoughts:
1) I'm assuming the ppl who don't hear LMFAO in this never heard "Sexy and I Know It"?2) I keep mentally substituting Ricky Gervais in for PSY as the video goes on 3) i forgot that he yells at a butt4) this is fucking great
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
sad that the author of that atlantic piece couldn't talk about this without shitting on the rest of k-pop or without considering "american music" some kind of origin of satire
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
LA Dodgers video is lol
― dmr, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
3) i forgot that he yells at a butt
remembered this sentence in the shower this morning for no apparent reason too
― ʘ (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
okay the dodgers vid won me over
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
this song and video are like identical
― frogbs, Saturday, 13 April 2013 21:58 (2 months ago) Permalink
i saw the video a few hours ago but have already forgotten almost everything about it
― teddy dominatrix (dyl), Saturday, 13 April 2013 22:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
identical to wat? one another?
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Saturday, 13 April 2013 22:44 (2 months ago) Permalink
If I were Kim Jong Un, I would put my best men and women to work coming up with a song, dance and video that beats "Gangnam Style" on the charts, to show up South Korea (and everyone). I can totally imagine it. "We will launch a new single that will absolutely destroy the world. The Top 40 will be ours!"
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2013 00:01 (2 months ago) Permalink
And the can challenge Psy to a dance off. Or I guess crotch thrust off? Because that's pretty much Psy's dance.
No, the crotch thrust is (S. Korean comedian) Haha's signature move. The hip wiggle is (S. Korean idol group) Brown Eyed Girls' signature move from their 2009 hit "Abracadabra". The horse dance is Psy's signature move, and I gotta tell you, I've been in Zumba classes where both parts - the lassoing part and the trotting part - were a part of the routine, although not together at the same time.
Psy's "Happening" concert is on Youtube btw, and is pretty awesome. I support the hip wiggle and Ga In's extended cameo in the "Gentleman" video, also dude's attempts to break the sexless/harmless Asian dude stereotype, but it's never cool to push girls to the floor. That's unfunny jerk behavior.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 14 April 2013 01:21 (2 months ago) Permalink
No video could top "Gangnam Style", but I like "Gentlemen" the song more. Probably because it's PSY gone New Beat + Big Beat, both particularly hitting my buttons.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 14 April 2013 02:49 (2 months ago) Permalink
A Psy/Uffie collaboration would blow my mind.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 14 April 2013 02:55 (2 months ago) Permalink
also dude's attempts to break the sexless/harmless Asian dude stereotype
i dont think this stereotype needs breaking in s. korea tbf
― 乒乓, Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:23 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah but this is his first big video explicitly aimed at continuing his success in america/the west, right
― Rapper Boy (some dude), Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:25 (2 months ago) Permalink
to Gangnam style
― frogbs, Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:26 (2 months ago) Permalink
well having seen the video, it def still feels very much aimed at the s. korean market first, worldwide second xp
― 乒乓, Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:34 (2 months ago) Permalink
Even if it's aimed at home, Psy's spent the last year touring abroad under something like that misconception, I think.
But also I think if it were really aimed at the South Korean market, he wouldn't have recycled a dance craze everyone already knows from just a couple years ago.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
seems to be getting good us press/interest/attention
― gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 April 2013 20:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
It's already got 70 million youtube views and is currently top 20 on US iTunes. New Billboard rules regarding youtube views could let this be a hit with almost zero initial radio attention much like Harlem Shake was.
― Greer, Monday, 15 April 2013 20:49 (2 months ago) Permalink
something tells me that billboard is giving a little (= way) too much weight to youtube streaming
― teddy dominatrix (dyl), Monday, 15 April 2013 20:56 (2 months ago) Permalink
oh absolutely
― some dude, Monday, 15 April 2013 21:26 (2 months ago) Permalink
didn't know about the Billboard change regarding Youtube views, but their ignorance of Youtube et. al. until recently was a head scratcher. I mean, "Video Games" topped out at 91 on the Billboard charts despite being what everybody was listening to for a few weeks in the US, and not just on ILX.
― bowling for bitcoins (Lee626), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:09 (2 months ago) Permalink
define "everybody"
I'm not sure being mocked for a terrible SNL performance should get you a top 10 hit
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:13 (2 months ago) Permalink
Ashlee Simpson's comeback plan revealed
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:24 (2 months ago) Permalink
i think "Gentleman" will actually be a good test case in how YouTube views impact the Hot 100 now, since we'll see those first 70 mil or whatever views and negligible radio spins in one week (the "Harlem Shake" thing is hard to measure since it was a whole bunch of different videos with different view counts). in any case something like "Video Games" was kinda niche -- 40 million views total, which is not all that much on the scale we're talking about, doubt that would've pushed it into the top half of the Hot 100 if it was counted at the time.
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
video games peaked months before the snl appearance
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:29 (2 months ago) Permalink
i don't think anyone said otherwise (iirc the chart peak WAS around the time of the SNL appearance, but its subculture/youtube buzz obviously hit a tipping point well before that)
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:37 (2 months ago) Permalink
man, "gentleman" is awesome
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
both the song and the video feel pretty charmless to me compared to GS
― some dude, Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:59 (2 months ago) Permalink
The video features Psy wearing his signature glasses and playing practical jokes on women such as pulling their chairs away as they are about to sit down and increasing the speed on a treadmill while it's being used.
― Mark G, Friday, 19 April 2013 11:43 (2 months ago) Permalink
― Mark G, Friday, 19 April 2013 11:44 (2 months ago) Permalink
a yakkety sax sample definitely would've been a good way for Psy to keep up with Macklemore
― some dude, Friday, 19 April 2013 11:52 (2 months ago) Permalink
Got a text from my wife (belatedly) telling me there is a new Psy single, suggesting I play the video for the kids. Why the fuck would I invite that?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 April 2013 13:01 (2 months ago) Permalink
Off to a good start with the covers
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 20 April 2013 07:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
in at #12 on hot 100
― 乒乓, Saturday, 20 April 2013 14:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
<3 LEDApple
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 25 April 2013 02:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
Am I the only one who hears Psy sing "Na nun sa na ye" as "I am the son and heir," and wonders how awesome it would be to hear Morrissey sing Gangnam Style?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
yes
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
― 乒乓, Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:33 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
up to #5 now. i thought it was really dumb for PSY to wait so long to drop a follow-up, but it ended up being really fortunate that it came after the new YouTube/Hot 100 rules.
― some dude, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
Am I the only one who hears Psy sing "Na nun sa na ye" as "I am the son and heir,"
no, me too!
and wonders how awesome it would be to hear Morrissey sing Gangnam Style?
yeah, you're on your own there.
(might be amused to hear Psy sing the Smiths tho. but only one of the songs I am not particularly emotionally attached to.)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
Yeah, I guess I would rather here Psy do an album of K-Pop Smiths.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
Gentleman has been cleaning up at the weekly music show performance charts in Korea despite Psy not being around to perform the song. This absurd situation must have rankled the hearts of TV music show content programmers... not sure this was the best solution though:
Girl's Day (hot pink jackets) >>>>>>>>>>> Teen Top (tweed suits), although TT are competent enough in own element.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 27 April 2013 05:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
My bad, there's one plaid jacket and one marbled one but no tweed.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 27 April 2013 05:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://gaw.kr/KDCsiM8
― 乒乓, Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:19 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
hahaha i asked an ilxor who was at cannes if he saw any celebs and he said "i walked past psy on the sidewalk"
― ʎqןıs (gr8080), Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:35 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
he shoulda instagrammed it
― 乒乓, Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:39 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
South Korean rapper PSY has been met with boos and small firework explosions during his performance at the Stadio Olimpico ahead of the Italian Cup final and derby between Roma and Lazio.
Organizers responded by raising the volume during PSY's performance of his hit, ''Gangnam Style.''
The rapper appeared embarrassed but told fans afterward in Italian, ''I love Italy.''
It was unclear if the boos were of a racist nature, although fans for both clubs have come under attack this season for racist chanting.
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:25 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I don't see why people get so worked up about the Correspondents Dinner.
― clemenza, Monday, 27 May 2013 01:49 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 12:15 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
pretty happy that "Gentleman" has already disappeared
― some dude, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:29 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
it was terrible
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:32 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
and an total clone of GS (both song and video) but vastly inferior
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:37 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Apparently the PSY who was at Cannes was an impostor. Same guy showed up in Monaco lately.....
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 16:22 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Not an impostor, a professional Psy impersonator!
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-05/25/fake-psy-interview-denis-carre-cannes-gangnam-style
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:28 (2 weeks ago) Permalink