i love the rhyme structure of this song, don't wanna break it down tediously but i love it i love it
― Why can't I be food? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
also there's no rhyming, the singalong parts boils down to two or three phrases, no?
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 dunno if you've ever seriously tried to sing along to a foreign language song but sometimes it's just easier to translate it into similar sounding English words and then just sing those. "Gangnam" is not really easy to sing. I agree it doesn't sound *that* much alike but, come on. Like there's a part in Rip Slyme's "Funkastic" that sounds an awful lot like "dynamite pig" and I don't think there's any "race condescension" if you choose to point that out
also, this guy isn't fat
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
he got a round face tho
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just scared of Walken in a poncho.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
you wanna get inside, Corno B?
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
idk I never thought it sounded like "condom" but I just tried listening to it without watching the video and it sounds close enough to "condom" that I'm willing to give "open condom style" a pass.
I think it is related to this sort of phenomenon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9FYxadPoQ
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
This guy's ironic playboy thing is kind of like an internet lol culture version of Falco, but with high-speed boom economics displacing the decadent old money euro aristocracy.
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
now I'm really wishing Falco was around for the internet era
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
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
― some dude, Friday, September 14, 2012 7:53 PM Bookmark
ha, that was exactly the response I suspected would have entailed. btw this "open condom" argument is the stupidest shit I have ever read in my life.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 15 September 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
thx for backing me up crut
― the show must goon (some dude), Sunday, 16 September 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
On SNL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp5O4scTpI
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 16 September 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
heard it on the radio this evening :D
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Sunday, 16 September 2012 07:14 (eleven years ago) link
saw a gangnam style flash mob in melb cbd st last week – ~40 people going for it in bourke st mall, people in passing trams utterly baffled
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 16 September 2012 07:18 (eleven years ago) link
ban australia
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 September 2012 09:09 (eleven years ago) link
About 119,000 video results for gangnam flash mob
― A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down (Sanpaku), Sunday, 16 September 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
it is the most potent dance in a long time
― ogmor, Sunday, 16 September 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
honestly this song rules
really want a PSY/LMFAO tour
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
haha, the other day I saw a poster for a "LMFAO-themed EDM night" and even as someone who likes LMFAO, I was like *rmde*
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Heard it on the radio on my hometown today. That's my pop culture parameter; if it blows up in this tiny hellhole, it's a hit pretty much everywhere.
― Moka, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Also the last time I saw the youtube vid it had 40M views and right now it's close to 200M.
Amazes me how it's obviosuly the video and not the song to blame for the popularity. Wrongly assumed people didn't really cared for music videos anymore.
― Moka, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Also noted: the reddit/9gag meme influencers hate pop music culture, its stupid lyrics and repetitive beats except when it's from Korea.
― Moka, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
the fact that the song is catchy as hell is obviously a good part of it. again comparing it to "Tunak Tunak Tun" I think the song was good enough that people were motivated to watch it a dozen-plus times
― frogbs, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, the song is currently #1 on US iTunes, so there's something to the song too. But surely this is the most music-video driven hit in the US since...maybe "Here It Goes Again"?
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 17 September 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't sure if anyone actually liked that song though
― frogbs, Monday, 17 September 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Discovering this song for the first time via SNL made me feel hella old.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 17 September 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
I really don't get why this is such a huge thing. Maybe we are currently in a meme vacuum or something and this is the funny video you watch on lunch break at the office?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 17 September 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
its hugeness derives from its huge awesomeness
― j., Monday, 17 September 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes things just miss you! like i had no idea that the "i like turtles" kid was even a thing seen 100 million times, and was similarly surprised that not everybody on earth knew and loved arthur the haitian weatherman.
― goole, Monday, 17 September 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
I for one am surprised that "Garbage Day!" does not have 200 million views, it just feels perfect to me
― frogbs, Monday, 17 September 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know either of these things.
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
may this reach 1 billion views. GOD BLESS
― marginal victory, Monday, 17 September 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Monday, 17 September 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
oh man i forgot about "garbage day!"
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 17 September 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
What was the last non-English language song to recieve this level of tv / radio airplay in the united states
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
this is the one internet meme-y thing that i always think is bigger than it is, but surprisingly few people seem to recognize it!
― fadanuf4erybody, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:57 AM (12 minutes ago)
Just brought up that question in the car upon hearing this song sandwiched between Drake and Rihanna. Is it as far back as 99 Luftballoons? Not too well versed in stuff like Enrique Iglesias, maybe that was on heavy rotation more recently.
― Oneohchex Point Charlie (Spectrist), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
has anyone posted a translation yet? http://koreanwavetimes.blogspot.com/2012/08/psy-gangnam-style-lyrics-translation-in.html
these translations are pretty terrible but still interesting. "a girl who looks virtuous but the time to play comes, then she can be willing to change in accordance with it"
― wk, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
You see she makes her own money, pays her own billsAlways stays fly, keeps it so realBut behind closed doors she a nasty girl
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how high this will go on the hot 100.
― wk, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
i just heard it in public for the first time today, r.i.p, america
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
It's been #1 on US iTunes for a few days now. That almost always presages a top 10 hit, at least.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
gtfo whiney
apparently this was on KISS FM today, I guess PSY has finally arrived
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
Citizens of the United States, you are paying for these dudes' college education:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xhHufV9g4k4
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
This translation seems a bit more normalised (despite the typo in the first line), plus there's an interesting explanation of the "oppa" concept at the top of the comments: http://www.kpoplyrics.net/psy-gangnam-style-lyrics-english-romanized.html
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:25 (eleven years ago) link
in the u.k. and pretty much everywhere else las ketchup 'asereje' was huge tho google says it only made 39 in the u.s. billboard top 40 (and 54 in the billboard hot 100, what's the difference?)
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Dragostea din tei" also massive in the UK and elsewhere a couple of years after that. "We No Speak Americano" was a US #29 in 2010 sung in Neopolitan.
― if, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
In the US, I honestly can't remember one since "Macarena"
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
"Gasolina"?
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
Also "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link