"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

re: fucking USA, that was about soccer/'fitba', or some olympics thing I forget which.

DJP's "heeeeeey, kill yr daughters" cracks me up every time i hear the song now

http://www.spin.com/articles/k-pop-2012-life-after-psy

Even in composition, "Gangnam Style" is a dance-floor number rooted in traditional Korean rhythms, a reason for its initial success at home, Kim says. "It's a folk song," he explains, "A perfect line and pattern. Koreans, a lot of times, scratch their heads: 'Why was that one song not so popular over there, when it's so big here? Or vice versa?' This, though, when it first came out in early summer, was already viral."

Traditional Korean rhythms, there you go.

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 (2 months ago)

The death of a father-of-three who collapsed while dancing to Gangnam Style has prompted a warning to middle-aged men not to attempt the vigorous dance from the hit video.

Eamonn Kilbride, 46, collapsed with chest pains at his office party in Blackburn last weekend after performing the dance moves made famous by the South Korean rapper Psy, who mimics riding a horse.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gangnam-style-death-prompts-warning-to-middleaged-men-not-to-attempt-the-vigorous-dance-8411905.html

And here's Ask a Korean on PSY/Gangnam Style:

PSY -- born Park Jae-sang -- debuted in 2000, which was a major inflection point in Korean pop music history. Prior to late 1990s, popular musicians of Korea could be divided largely into two categories: the entertainers and the artists. The entertainers were no better than singing clowns, driven to put on a good show to earn the public's adulation and another day's living. The artists were concerned with the quality and message of their music, endeavoring to create something new and meaningful. The two groups of people did not have much in common, and overlapped only infrequently. (When they did overlap, they are remembered as legends of Korean pop music. Shin Joong-hyeon was both an opening act at a USO show and pioneering rock musician. Seo Taiji was both a leader of a boy band and introducer of hiphop to Korea.)

But one thing did tie the groups together -- they were both serious people. The threat of poverty and hunger endowed the entertainers with a hardened edge, even if that edge would only be visible off the stage. It was the typical gravity of purpose that drove the artists into seriousness. Much of this was a function of the times they lived in Korea. There is nothing terribly fun about poverty, sweatshops, dictator rule and constant Red Scare -- the conditions that plagued Korea until late 1980s. It was not just Korean artists who were serious; all of Korea was serious.

It is too much to call these artists joyless -- surely, they must have felt deep-seated satisfaction derived from their life's work. But still, they were serious; more often than not, they didn't seem to be having fun. As Korea became wealthier and freer, that began to change. And PSY was one of the first Korean pop musician to lead the charge.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2012/10/aak-music-gangnam-style-by-psy.html

heyyyyyy sexy laaadaaay

nope still good

kind of tired of it now :(

has no major rapper done a gangname freestyle on a mix cd yet?
or is kanye just waiting till 2013?

i think i may end up in a workplace gangam style parody video

i warned you and warned you

i think i may end up in a workplace gangam style parody video

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, December 15, 2012 11:06 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if i were to guess which ilxors this would happen to, you would be number one

number two would be ned raggett

i was in a terrible mood and trying to fix my malfunctioning printer tray when the HR guy came in to my office w/ a camera rolling all "ok give us your best gangnam style!!!" and i was like no thanks thats cool until after more prodding i waved my arms in the air once or twice (still holding a broken paper tray).

this is going to be edited in to a video to be played at the holiday party on tuesday i think, at which all of the hotel's top managers will do a gangnam style flash mob which they have been rehearsing for weeks with a hired choreographer.

it was preceded by my co-worker i crush on coming in my office with tears in her eyes saying "they made me dance and i hate dancing-- i'm chinese" :-[

'professional gangnam style choreographer'

I sympathize very much with your co-worker

Meanwhile, my 50-something Puerto Rican coworker told me about a surprise she planned for a family member's birthday party. She donned a silver wig and did the Gangnam Style dance while someone (I forget who, another family member) comedy freaked her from behind.

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has no major rapper done a gangname freestyle on a mix cd yet?
or is kanye just waiting till 2013?

― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, December 15, 2012 3:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a week or two back there was talk of PSY being in the studio with Diplo and 2 Chainz, possibly for a "Gangnam Style" remix, but nothing's surfaced yet.

(Mayan Apocalypse Mix) i guess

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey 2 chainzZZZ

i dunno how there hasn't been a 'heyyy sexy gr80' post yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=2Sar5WT76kE

this is p good imo

Most of PSY's Youtube money comes from parodies, but he makes most of his money through endorsements.

WTF, the article is totally available. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlcpd0qGl9nCp3TCqM1DYdAgbzFQ?docId=b70ddece35724815a3fc351a7bb06c0b

@psy_oppa says: Still at 5th spot @itunes...WOW!!! #LongLiveGangnamStyle!!!! may be too long~!? lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2Xj8lvSTc

psy has been booked to perform at the 2019 gathering of the juggalos

'I'm into fashion mahself'

gonna hit 1bn views on 21st december 2012. gangnam style apocalypse.

"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Nervous.gif

Gangnam Style hits one billion views on YouTube

http://i.imgur.com/EpGc6.png

psy was like baby, baby, baby noooooo

So on that basis, the next YouTube sensation needs to go from zero to a billion views in about a month.

i think you're right.

Slightlý proud that I have still never seen this thing. I have heard bits of it and, horrifyingly, have seen parts of people trying to do the dance, but I have left the room or switched the device off asap in every case.

I've no intention of ever seeing it tbh

are you going to write a piece about never having watched the gangnam style video?

it's good lex; there's no reason to avoid it

i hate "fun", so yes there is

also i hate racism

rmde

gangnam style is fun even without quotation marks and there is zero inherent racism in the song that I'm aware of. The video's kinda fun but its joys are far secondary to that of the song itself... anyways i suppose we've done this a dozen times already.

yeah if songs/videos are to be held culpable for any racist thoughts they attract from racist people then lex needs to take a long hard look at most of the rap he listens to

loling at gr8080's workplace parody story.

gr80880's story pretty much encapsulates why everything about this gives me the chills. did i mention that i hate fun

"gangnam style flashmob" is such a horrifying phrase