Elevator scene is the best.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 06:36 (eleven years ago) link
you forgot that he yells at a butt
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 07:47 (eleven years ago) link
why would that be funny?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 07:59 (eleven years ago) link
i could never get away with yelling at butts. ergo, it's awesome.
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
why would you want to?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:09 (eleven years ago) link
I am in Seoul airport and all the local papers are trumpeting psy's triumphant return after horsey dancing across the states.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:50 (eleven years ago) link
in other news this thread is now the top google search result for "yelling at butts."
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
the yelling at a butt thing is one of the funniest things I have seen all year
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
(bearing in mind ~the whole clip~ is a pisstake of gangnam)
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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
i guess this argument is invalid if you hate lmfao
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
tearful otm
― tish tosch (seandalai), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, enjoy it while you can.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
every day I'm shufflin'
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://askakorean.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-obligatory-gangnam-style-post.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
새가 날아든다 왠갖 짭새가 날아든다Birds fly in, all kinds of dirty birds fly in새중에 넌 씨방새~ 날지 못하는 새 짭새Among the birds you are a fuckshit bird, a flightless dirty bird새가 날아든다 짭새가 날아든다Birds fly in, the dirty birds fly in문제야 문제 우리나라 경제 좆같은 짭새와 꼰대가 문제It's a problem, it's problem, the economy is a problem, the dickhead dirty birds and the assholes are the problem새가 날아든다 짭새가 날아든다Birds fly in, the dirty birds fly in 짭짭짭짭짭짭 짭새가 문제D-d-d-d-d-dirty birds are the problem
^would listenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxmUTkHb2Tk^did listen. it's good!
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
AMONG THE BIRDS, YOU ARE A FUCKSHIT BIRD
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
THE ASSHOLES ARE THE PROBLEM
it occurs to me at this late date that i haven't seen any translations of this song
― goole, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't really looked tho
Jumps up to #2 on the Hot 100 this week.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
#1 in the UK this w/e fo sho
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
more pop stars should do this
That AAK article was very good.
This DJ Doc song sounds like Coolio. I'm down with that.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
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
― zachylon (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
That last sentence hedges so much it's difficult for me to understand how it could be blazingly right or wrong.
― boxall, Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― zachylon (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― cherry (soda), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
because zach galifinakis definitely codes as nonwhite, and is a greek native?
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
i mean he's basically a minotaur
― cherry (soda), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
because americans have a history of stereotyping greek men as asexual clowns?
― zachylon (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― boxall, Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
don't get trolled, zach
― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
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
― zachylon (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
again, the idea is that it's ok to find gangnam style awesome and funny, but it's important to wonder why IT is the k-pop song that crossed over rather than any of the previous of k-pop songs that went out of their way try to cross over. it sort of further cements the idea that asian men can't have success in the west unless they're making us laugh.
― zachylon (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
look, i'm being glib but not outright trolling –
the song is popular, as far as i can tell, because
1) it's got a funny, replicable, and immediately identifiable dance move2) it's a sprightly song very much in the same (albeit non-greco but hanguk-in-ian) vein as 'party rock'3) the accompanying video is bouncy, confectionary, surprising, and oddly lavish4) the character is a delightfully doughy korean man-child surrounded by models, expensive cars, and gorgeous vistas that clash with his everyman/everyboy affect5) as far as i can tell, it's entirely, unmistakably parodic.
― cherry (soda), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
<i>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.</i>
Well we did have this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2bCc0EGP6U
― MarkoP, Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if Daniel Dae-Kim is sitting in Hawaii on set going "fuck you, Ken Jeong"
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
nobody looks at zach galifniakis and thinks "hey look at this greek dude"
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
Greek ppl do
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
DD-K is a pretty exceptiony exception, no?
― zachylon (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
what i'm saying, maybe ineptly, is it's hard for me to believe that the HAHA SILLY ASIAN laughs trump (in cultural currency, or in ranking of people's motivating factors in watching the video) the HAHA SILLY CHUBBO laughs or the HAHA STUPID DANCING or the HAHA WTF ODDBALL laughs or the HAHA I ACTUALLY KIND OF LIKE THIS SONG audience
― cherry (soda), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I have no doubt that "lol funny Asian" is the cornerstone of this song's success; the important part is that this impulse is generating money for Psy and leading to a recognition of the song as a piece of cultural trivia that's going to be a hallmark of future VH-1 broadcasts for decades to come
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure it's analytically separable xp
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
― goole, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:27 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
gonna be a bummer when it turns out to be "BEVERLY HILLS, THAT'S WHERE I WANNA BE"
― Liberian Girlkeeper (some dude), Thursday, 27 September 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link