"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

are you guys done sucking the fun out of gangnam style yet

just curious

xxp that's different. first of all Los Del Rio wasn't the reason why that song was popular. secondly the Macarena was just a thing onto itself. nobody really knew who Los Del Rio was. you probably wouldn't have recognized them if you saw them on the street. PSY is on his way to becoming a celebrity here (at least on the level of, say, Ceelo Green). I dunno. I'd have thought someone would have combed their way through his other albums. I did have a listen to the first one and it's decent. Has Macho Man samples on it. Come on guys.

They should have PSY as a judge on next season of American Idol.

saw this guy last week, I was totally doing the psy ride-a-horsie move during his set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdWGUFSUv4

i do find it kind of weird that PSY has like 5-6 albums out and nobody's ever talked about any of his other songs
I saw this video posted by a friend on Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHdefsaL6I

i would recognize Los Del Rio if i saw them on the street! they were sharply dressed ethnic men who appeared in a very popular music video!

was walking past a college dorm this evening and glanced at a window: one college freshlady was gesticulating about and demonstrating the horsey dance to her pals

#1 in NZ this week.

and yet I still haven't heard it on the street (apart from that one flash mob), even in shops that sell korean stuff

Murray Head surely felt that the rest of his catalog went neglected as well.

They should have PSY as a judge on next season of American Idol.

has the fact that he's a judge on superstar k4, a korean 'idol'/'xfactor' equivalent, been mentioned here yet? (i caught it sunday morning of labor day weekend on mnet, for those of you who get that channel.)

inevitable meta moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XWdpl51n0U

i'm not trying to seduce you *chill-inducing laughter sample*

The comments on the Hyuna version of Gangnam Style are mostly of the "Pikachu I choose you lol" which is pretty grim.

i youtubed my way around to PSY's other stuff and found it a lot more middle of the road, heavily Eurocentric K-pop

which is not to say that Gangnam doesn't fit that description but lightning in a bottle and all that

a for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHdefsaL6I

Yeah, that just sounds like a Wisin y Yandel track in Korean.

this is probably the best case study of racism & overdetermined since the ronaldinho bottle opener thread

/overdetermination

sometimes i want to revive the ronaldinho bottle opener thread but the pretext never quite justifies it

Heard this for the second time on the radio today, only this time the kids were in the car.

Z: "Party Rockin'!"
A: Everyday I'm shuffling!
Z: Wait, is this Party Rockin?
A: This isn't Party Rockin'.
Z: What is this?
A: How did they make Party Rockin different?
Z: Wait, hat are they saying?

Etc.

I was cracking up the whole way home.

Uk #1 single (the RACISM charts)

I was at a party yesterday talking with someone who works with one of Gangnam's U.S. "sister cities." He stood around with cops and city officials watching this video below--saying, "Hey, wait, that's our fire station! That's our main street!" while at least one of these guys was locked up in the town jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ymhkIMj_d4

Do I have to watch all 3:20 to see what it has to do with Gangnam Style?

No. It's just that their local video doesn't match up to that of their sister city.

#1 in Australia.

and also being used as the music in the current big brother season ads iirc

and i've yet to hear it in the wild

Been to three weddings in past month and each time this was the absolute floor-filler without any single doubt.

saw some gangnam flyposters around soho yesterday

http://onemorelevel.com/game/gangnam_runner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5pB3p2TEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59LHEldJcDk

*Yells at stumps*

A work colleague of mind attended a function tonight (that I couldn't make)...and no other than PSY was there!

Mind is blown.

Been to three weddings in past month and each time this was the absolute floor-filler without any single doubt.

― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:22 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this might be a stupid question, but when this happens do all/most people do the horsey dance or do they pretty much dance the same way they do to a US pop hit with a similar tempo?

they do the horsey dance

Here's a question: you know it's been done, but has anyone heard a rock band cover this ironically yet?

would anyone who doesn't speak Korean have enough dedication to a stupid cover idea to learn all the words? i guess you could just do "hey sexy lady/ oppa gangnam style" and people would get it though.

i loved that acoustic cover maura posted upthread though

If there are people who learn Thai just to translate off-menu items at strip mall restaurants, or Japanese to watch anime with the original dialog, there are people who will learn Korean just to cover this.

At Orioles Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, they were rockin' it Camden Style the other night at the baseball playoff game versus the Yankeees. They have dubbed in words and show the Orioles Mascot cartoon-style on the telescreen dressed up Gangnam Style

there's already a gangnam style english rip-off version that has charted in the UK

excellent.

i just don't get how people can attribute this song's popularity to american or western stereotypes of asians when it is blowing up everywhere: korea, SE asia, oceania, the caribbean.... everybody loves this song, the horsey dance, the guy's charisma, the inventive video, etc.

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), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:43 PM (1 week ago)

it's not "omg so racist", it's "yeah, it is an awesome video and that is why it crossed over ... the question is why other songs did NOT cross over"

The synth line

Well, as a friend keeps pointing out to me, this is sort of the apotheosis of something that has been brewing for a long time. It's just hit maximum infectiousness after several other acts and songs laid the groundwork. There's a big piece in a recent New Yorker about this ...

i just don't get how people can attribute this song's popularity to american or western stereotypes of asians when it is blowing up everywhere: korea, SE asia, oceania, the caribbean.... everybody loves this song, the horsey dance, the guy's charisma, the inventive video, etc.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

people can like the same thing for different reasons

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.

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