"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

that clip is p great

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it doesn't sound anything like "open condom style" also that doesn't even make sense

more importantly

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this guy is incredible

finding out the story behind this made it way more interesting 2 me.

i know when i heard that he had yelled at a butt, everything really clicked

what's the story behind the jockey dance? is it just a send-up of rich people in gangnam owning horses and such?

or is it just that it look ridiculous

it is fun to do, try it

dude turned an 8:30 am performance to moms at the today show into like a closing set at glastonbury

it totally sounds like "open condom style"

damn he totally killed The Today Show

the only two things i really thought when i finally watched this were a) at least the new "Macarena" is better than the old one, and b) this is totally the first time in 3 years that a video has upped the ante visually from "Bad Romance"

2 Thoughtz:

Those synth stabs that punctuate every so often are totally "Pump Up The Jam", without directly ripping them off like "I'm A Slave 4 U".

I feel like there's a real underdog dynamic at work. It's like... there's this chubby 30-something Korean dude (not by any means your typical pop star) taking the world by storm with a song that everybody loves, you can't help but root for him.

Oh yeah, and I had made the mental connection with the Macarena, but yeah, "Gangnam Style" is way better. The dance is better too.

I feel like there's a real underdog dynamic at work. It's like... there's this chubby 30-something Korean dude (not by any means your typical pop star) taking the world by storm with a song that everybody loves, you can't help but root for him.

― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, September 14, 2012 10:17 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah

yeah i sorta had a slight sickening feeling in my stomach when i imagined this getting played at some wedding i'm at in three years but fuck it

I did a wedding a couple weekends ago and thought about playing it but decided not enough people would know it yet.

yeah prob not

you shoulda done it just on the off chance that 2 or 3 people would be really pumped about it and everyone else would be totally confused

I feel like there's a real underdog dynamic at work. It's like... there's this chubby 30-something Korean dude (not by any means your typical pop star) taking the world by storm with a song that everybody loves, you can't help but root for him.

― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, September 14, 2012 10:17 PM

it's absolutely amazing, he utterly owned that crowd. and they were primed for it because of... a satirical foreign-language rap for a dance-pop number with a video where everyone dances a horsey dance

i heard it a wedding a couple weeks ago! the bride requested it, i think

going to a wedding in a couple weeks1!! stoked

are there gonna be a lot of ppl dressed up as Psy on halloween? prolly right? electric blue blazer, blowtie, sunglasses, part the hair....

do the horsey dance all nice

the thing about the today show thing that amazed me is that he kept dropping the mic to let the audience sing the last word of the line or whatev, and they seemingly always knew the line?

seeing exuberant koreans singing along is awesome too

yeah i was wondering if he was surprised. like in the first 15 secs he got the sense that the crowd just knew every word so he started letting them come in.

also that pause before "oppa gangnam style" is even doper in the live setting

Well when the line is "SA DA HEY" every single time it's pretty easy to remember. I've had that stuck in my head for like weeks now.

the thing about the today show thing that amazed me is that he kept dropping the mic to let the audience sing the last word of the line or whatev, and they seemingly always knew the line?

the whole thing is giving me sort of a Linsanity vibe - I can't imagine how surreal it is for Koreans over here to see one of their own basically become a star overnight

maybe a lot of the audience did know the words to begin with but c'mon they definitely rehearsed for it to be that on point

the youtube description is pretty hilar

The song is characterized by its strongly addictive beats and lyrics, and is thus certain to penetrate the foundations of modern philosophy.

open condom style will definitely penetrate

doesn't sound anything like "open condom style" also that doesn't even make sense

I don't know what they've done to the colours in the video but it's so bright and crisp and clean. It's like the anti teal & orange.

if you pronounce "gangam" as Psy does in the song & "condom" as you would in daily conversation they do not sound at all alike any further than they both scan trochaic & end with the letter m.

don't fight the mondegreen, guys

ha ha fat korean said 'condom', so hilarious amirite guys

i love weddings

what kind of weddings do you go to where that's what happens man

i really don't see how mishearing a lyric implies some kind of racist condescension that's way beyond the general "ha ha fat korean said 'hey sexy lady'" reactions to the song

It has a kind of additional air of suggesting that words that aren't familiar to English speakers aren't valid and meaningful. Especially when the correct word is there in the title.

Sorry, aren't familiar to you and the other open condom style people, I should have said, there are plenty of people who speak Korean and English.

i mean, i read the atlantic thing, i appreciate that the words are meaningful, but sometimes people's ears trick them and they hear different things. happens when it's all the same language, happens when you know what the words really are, etc.

yeah but to hear what he's saying as "condom" you have to do a preemptive "Korean guys might pronounce it like this!" move which is p. gross. It does not sound like "condom" as pronounced by people who use the word "condom." so, that is how "mishearing" a lyric gives off a little race condescension whiff imo

i think you're seriously understanding how a hard "g" can sometimes sound like a hard "c," and how a western ear that is not used to hearing "n" after "ng" might imagine a "d" somewhere in there. but whatever, it doesn't matter, point is the first time i heard the phrase i didn't know what the song was called or what it was really saying and the person who played it suggested their mishearing that i now can't unhear.

like i probably wouldn't have heard those words on my own, it's not uncanny or anything. but once someone suggested it it's in my brain, and the sound is close enough that i can't easily shake it.

er meant to say "seriously underestimating"

i love the rhyme structure of this song, don't wanna break it down tediously but i love it i love it