"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

it was pretty uncomf when psy was on ellen to teach britney spears how to do the dance and he actually had to stop and interrupt them to say hello and introduce himself to the audience

SEOUL - A pop star whose song Gangnam Style became the first Korean hit to top Apple’s music download charts has also worked his magic on his father’s software firm, helping it double in value since singer and dancer Psy burst onto the global scene in July.

Psy’s father, Park Won-ho, is the chairman and controlling shareholder of South Korean semiconductor company D I Corp and its market capitalisation has surged to 113.5 billion won ($101.29 million) on the main Seoul bourse, making it as of Tuesday the 459th most valuable stock measured by size.

“The positive sentiment from ’Gangnam Style’ has attracted investors just because of the fact that the company is owned by Psy’s father and uncle,” said Lee Sun-tae, a researcher at NH Investment and Securities, who added Psy is not a shareholder in the company.

“The popularity will slowly dissolve in time, naturally.”

South Korea’s legion of retail investors, mainly middle-aged people, tend to jump on speculative stocks.

find it ironic that tiger jk ended up apologizing to vice magazine over an outburst over 'racism'

it's called reverse racism and it's a growing problem for the embattled white community, barthes

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

right, this is totally true, i think i misread what lex was saying about this song. the way Americans treat this song is (mostly) ridiculous and (often) sahmeful. i thought lex was saying that the song itself was "comedy Asian", not the reactions. i get it now and, yeah, lex is right wrt the way Psy is getting treated for the most part.

wrt the Ellen thing, isn't her schtick at this point all about stupid/silly dances? kinda makes sense in that context i guess, but she still should've like at least given him a proper introduction.

wow a vice party got racist i'm shocked

fuck that dance, i'm still moving it like bernie

could combine the two for a sweet new dance

wow a vice party got racist i'm shocked

hahahaha

lol @ "got"

i think the "ha ha look at that funny asian" reaction is definitely happening but the song sounds great on the radio in the same way that "party rock anthem" sounded great... it seems to me that the song would prob win over many people who haven't seen the video (rare as they are, i guess)

i guess this argument is invalid if you hate lmfao

Elevator scene is the best.

you forgot that he yells at a butt

why would that be funny?

i could never get away with yelling at butts. ergo, it's awesome.

why would you want to?

I am in Seoul airport and all the local papers are trumpeting psy's triumphant return after horsey dancing across the states.

dunno why anyone would want to. psy clearly wanted to, and he just went for it. he plays it like it's just the thing to do in that situation. the funny part, imo, is that there's a video of a guy yelling at a butt and it didn't particularly register until someone pointed it out. in retrospect it seemed odd that someone would actually do that because, you know who does that? but there it is, a guy yelling at a butt.

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seriously trying to unpack my reactions to the video, though. feel like it takes a certain panache to pull off silly horsey dances and there's a joyousness in that perhaps.

in other news this thread is now the top google search result for "yelling at butts."

the yelling at a butt thing is one of the funniest things I have seen all year

(bearing in mind ~the whole clip~ is a pisstake of gangnam)

btw, my "you forgot that he yells at a butt" remark was a response to eazy's "elevator scene is the best" comment in this vein:

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, August 13, 2012 6:07 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

re-reading makes me think lex thought i was following up on the previous comment, given the "why would that be funny?" response:

i think the "ha ha look at that funny asian" reaction is definitely happening but the song sounds great on the radio in the same way that "party rock anthem" sounded great... it seems to me that the song would prob win over many people who haven't seen the video (rare as they are, i guess)

i guess this argument is invalid if you hate lmfao

― teledyldonix, Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The brief period when this was fun is going to be forgotten by the time it's slipped into its infinitely longer lifespan of middle-aged regional sales managers doing the horsey dance at office Christmas parties. For ever. While stamping on a human face.

tearful otm

Yep, enjoy it while you can.

every day I'm shufflin'

http://askakorean.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-obligatory-gangnam-style-post.html

That's a good piece. It's hilarious how many articles have been written by people with zero background knowledge of Korean culture or K-pop providing an 'in depth insight' into what's going on in the video.

ogmor otm, sharivari otm. i liked the track before i saw the video and still keep it on spotify play. it's a good time.

새가 날아든다 왠갖 짭새가 날아든다
Birds fly in, all kinds of dirty birds fly in
새중에 넌 씨방새~ 날지 못하는 새 짭새
Among the birds you are a fuckshit bird, a flightless dirty bird
새가 날아든다 짭새가 날아든다
Birds fly in, the dirty birds fly in
문제야 문제 우리나라 경제 좆같은 짭새와 꼰대가 문제
It's a problem, it's problem, the economy is a problem, the dickhead dirty birds and the assholes are the problem
새가 날아든다 짭새가 날아든다
Birds fly in, the dirty birds fly in
짭짭짭짭짭짭 짭새가 문제
D-d-d-d-d-dirty birds are the problem

^would listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxmUTkHb2Tk
^did listen. it's good!

AMONG THE BIRDS, YOU ARE A FUCKSHIT BIRD

THE ASSHOLES ARE THE PROBLEM

it occurs to me at this late date that i haven't seen any translations of this song

i haven't really looked tho

Jumps up to #2 on the Hot 100 this week.

#1 in the UK this w/e fo sho

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/89074/Gangnam-Style-Rappers-Outrageous-Vow-If-Single-Hits-Number-One?
"If it ranks number one in the Billboard chart, then I will perform Gangnam Style topless in a place where everyone can watch," Psy said in a conference on his return from the United States.

more pop stars should do this

That AAK article was very good.

This DJ Doc song sounds like Coolio. I'm down with that.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_0P-A79gT9w/UGIjKSAQyPI/AAAAAAAAAb4/jSu2CnV2xhA/s640/page33.jpg

^ enjoying this glimpse of a parallel world w/ a t-paincentric cosmology. askakorean article is excellent.

There is a dark side of this code of humor as well. In the current day American pop culture, it is ok to laugh at Asians doing strange things. (Think Ken Jeong's character in the Hangover series.) On a certain level, PSY -- a pudgy, funnily-dressed Korean man -- is a comfortable target to laugh at. This is not to say that people who enjoy Gangnam Style all have a sinister, racist motive. This is only to say that people's motives as they approach a certain phenomenon are complex and multitudinous, and not all of them are necessarily positive.

this is a blazing otm and apparently difficult for people to understand

That last sentence hedges so much it's difficult for me to understand how it could be blazingly right or wrong.

it is more the general idea of the thing -- it is possible for individuals to enjoy this, but the nature of cultural phenomena demands introspection

chubby dorky guy doing silly dance is funny. pretty sure of zach galifinakis had done same song, it'd still be equally (and equivalently) funny and the greeks wouldn't be upset. of course, they probably can't afford to get upset right now.

because zach galifinakis definitely codes as nonwhite, and is a greek native?

i mean he's basically a minotaur

because americans have a history of stereotyping greek men as asexual clowns?

I don't think Psy comes across as asexual in the video - clownish, I guess, in that ridiculous things happen, but otoh he seems to be in control of the chaos around him.

don't get trolled, zach

the point doesn't lie in what's literally in the video but in how the video is treated by the same masses of americans who consider ken jeong in the hangover to represent the height of what asian men can offer the west

xp