"Gasolina" only made it to #33 but "Oye Mi Canto" made it to number #12? Weird, the former felt like a much bigger deal.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
Agree w/that, tho maybe Nina Sky gave "Oye Mi Canto" a wider appeal?
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
I'm guessing "Gasolina" maybe had a crossover delay thing going on? Like by the time it hit English-language stations, Spanish-language stations had moved on?
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
Probably because Billboard was (is?) mainly payola driven, not actual sales. Gasolina was #1 or at least top 5 all across the world.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
Sukiyaki is so great btw. why doesn't it get played on the radio always?
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
I hear the Taste Of Honey cover on the radio from time to time.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:41 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
inevitable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4uDSnYQx3Q
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
btw the snl skit was really unfunny and embarrassing, but you know....snl!
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's to be expected at this point. "hey, we're aware of this thing that's supposed to be really funny, I'll bet it'd be even funnier if we did it with our cast of crazy goofs!!!"
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
i thought ppl yelling at butts was gonna be a thing like planking or tebowing but i can't find a tumblr for it.
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 08:53 (eleven years ago) link
they were yelling at butts in portland before it was cool
http://i.imgur.com/kKD5t.jpg?7736
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
eating money out of a butt != yelling at a butt
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
#11 in the US this week
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
Up to #2 on UK iTunes.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
they were yelling at butts in portland before it was cool― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:01 AM (8 hours ago)
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:01 AM (8 hours ago)
that is golden gate park, san francisco, california, son.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRwPRfYLWPE
Always going to happen.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 September 2012 08:45 (eleven years ago) link
surely that half arsed effort will be bettered by a player w/ more finesse soon
― ogmor, Thursday, 20 September 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, Balotelli tweeted yesterday that he was going to use that celebration, guess he got beaten to it.
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Thursday, 20 September 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
Balotelli would execute the horsey dance with much more verve.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 September 2012 09:17 (eleven years ago) link
That's Mario trying to emotionally blackmail Mancini into putting him in the team, that is..
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
been celebrating goals with gangnam dance since mid-august
― skrill xx (cozen), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
So I haven't seen this noted anywhere, but that makes it highest-charting foreign-language hit in the U.S. since "Macarena," right? I'm not counting "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)," which is mostly in English.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
what about Drake's hits?
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.com/img/imt-prd/pd-137299890145917137/isz-m/at-238560305421145726/realview.jpg?urbanimage_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urbandictionary.com%2Fproducts.image.php%3Fdefid%3D2387389%26greeting_card_outside%3D1&urbaninside_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urbandictionary.com%2Fproducts.image.php%3Fdefid%3D2387389%26greeting_card_inside%3D1&urbanword_txt=CHORTAL
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
I believe this video actually is the weaponized entertainment of Infinite jest. Just startled that the Entertainment turns out to include a dude yelling at a butt.
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still pondering how the ADD generation decided that the next best thing is a music video that lasts over 4 minutes. I still haven't watched the full video. Both the song and the video overwear their welcome by the middle.
― Moka, Friday, 21 September 2012 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm trying to unpack that challop and failing.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, 21 September 2012 08:36 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really thinking this might be the most important music video since OK Go treadmill time. I think its mix of gorgeous/inscrutable nails what the internet generation wants perfectly. AND it looks amazing because no one in America is spending this type of money on videos.
Gonna win all the VMAs next year if Scooter Braun can keep his name alive for 10 more months
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 September 2012 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
"inscrutable"
― c sharp major, Friday, 21 September 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
yes, the appeal of gangham style on the internet is due to its totally common and universal imagery of yelling at butts and rapping on the toilet
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:09 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen Eric Prydz style pervy house videos that are more inscrutable than Gangnam Style. I mean come on.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 September 2012 09:12 (eleven years ago) link
i agree! i'm just saying that the appeal for the first month of it, was a lot of people passing it around going "WTF is this even, hey check out this gif wtf right
http://awesomegifs.com/wp-content/uploads/psy-elevator-gangnam-style.gif
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
andycarrollthinking.jpg
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 September 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 September 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
Needs a Keith Lemon parody.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Friday, 21 September 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvVwylGte
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like this video was ready made for gifs in the way that modern political speeches are designed for news soundbites.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0wpMqEvfsA
Backwards it's a story of a Korean man who slowly loses all his friends in a freaky dance competition.
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like this video was ready made for gifs in the way that modern political speeches are designed for news soundbites.― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, September 24, 2012 5:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, September 24, 2012 5:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Countdown" got there first though, probably others too.
Not really sure what the point of this article is but hey: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/24/gangnam-style-south-korean-pop
― tish tosch (seandalai), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Starting your article about the song playing into stereotypes with North Korea lols, referring to his 'comical English' (where in the song is this?), calling him and Flo Rida fat and the scare quotes in the bit about hip-hop stars' "intellectual" property: all great moves! I mean, there is some obviously terrible shit happening in the reactions to the song - Saturday Night Live actually had someone playing him and saying 'sank you' - why not address that?
― if, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
'comical English' (where in the song is this?)
HEEYYYYYYY SEXY LADAY is pretty comical.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2012/09/gangnam-style-asian-masculinity%20
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm embarrassed to say that I wasn't even aware of this until a week ago
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
didn't want to get all identity politics when this was blowing up but I guess the discussion is trending towards that direction
my biggest problem w/ these kinds of articles in 2012 is that they kind of ignore stuff like 'like a g6' or the success of jeremy lin
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
lex was dismissing this as "comedy Asian" on twitter over the weekend, which really threw me because i was under the impression that this dude has a pretty serious career and there was some pretty interesting sociological background behind the lyrics.
yeah i was all twisted about that SNL skit because 1) thought it was awesome that they actually brought him out but 2) that damned "sank you" was so so awful
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
dude DOES has a pretty serious career, but as I understand it it's as a jester/trickster type of pop star rather than a heartthrob/pinup type of pop star
IOW there are more parallels to LMFAO than just the beat
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
haha I was trying to figure out why 'weird al' seemed like the most appropriate touchpoint for me personally
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
jon, I don't think the idea of psy being successful in Korea and Americans maybe taking this as "comedy Asian" are two ideas that are at odds
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
the backwards gangnam is astonishing, best bit of cheap process music since usmileambient
secret of success is clearly making a glitch record with 91 era euphoric ardkore stabs and then film a video designed to appeal to the latent genocidal racism of middle america
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
i had been trying to avoid this ever since i asked twitter what it was and whether it was "internet humour" and the answer was basically yes. and then i went to a wedding and couldn't avoid it. it's TOTALLY only popular because of the comedy asian. dislike this immensely.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link