'I'm into fashion mahself'
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
gonna hit 1bn views on 21st december 2012. gangnam style apocalypse.
― jabba hands, Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own threadNot all messages are displayed: show all messages (666 of them)
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Nervous.gif
― jabba hands, Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Gangnam Style hits one billion views on YouTube
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Friday, 21 December 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EpGc6.png
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 21 December 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
psy was like baby, baby, baby noooooo
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Friday, 21 December 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
So on that basis, the next YouTube sensation needs to go from zero to a billion views in about a month.
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Friday, 21 December 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
i think you're right.
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 December 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 December 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
I've no intention of ever seeing it tbh
are you going to write a piece about never having watched the gangnam style video?
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 21 December 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
it's good lex; there's no reason to avoid it
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 December 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
i hate "fun", so yes there is
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
also i hate racism
rmde
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 December 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 December 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
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
― nobody's bitch speaks again (some dude), Saturday, 22 December 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
loling at gr8080's workplace parody story.
― Cunga, Saturday, 22 December 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
gr80880's story pretty much encapsulates why everything about this gives me the chills. did i mention that i hate fun
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 December 2012 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
"gangnam style flashmob" is such a horrifying phrase
haa I agree with that at least.
But forks otm - it's a great song and I usually hate novelty "lolfunny dance" stuff like the Macarena or the Ketchup Song.
― Roz, Saturday, 22 December 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
the flashmobs were great back when nobody knew what they were
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 22 December 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
There was an item on the news the other day about troops in Afghanistan doing a Gangnam Style parody video, called Afghan Style - the dance they were doing bore very little approximation to Psy's, and Fiona Bruce was doing her forced 'light-hearted story' chuckle the whole way through. Excruciating.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
this video hits me at a v v deep level
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbgo9md11E
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 22 December 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
it makes me sad
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 December 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
a brave new world of global lowest-common-denominator pop
― ogmor, Sunday, 23 December 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
still loving this record, had a group of kids going mental to it at work the other day and it still sounds great to me, as for all the "lol look at the funny Korean guy" bullshit well y'know idiots will always be with us
― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 December 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
I was in a restaurant in Goa and it had a dancefloor as well and the place was full of local families who were actually up and dancing post-dinner and then at the end of the evening the DJ played Gangnam Style and everyone over the age of like 12 left the dancefloor and it was full of kids doing the horsey dance and it was one of the most endearing things I have ever seen.
^^^ THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE. Unfortunately as I said upthread these moments are going to be crowded out forever by the sight of Finchy from The Office types doing the dance at terrible office parties. Obviously this is ageist but I am happily excluding myself and many people younger than me from the demographic where this is acceptable.
Generally speaking its interest for me is as a meme first, a global cultural phenomenon second and as a record a very distant third.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 December 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
Also y'know the One Pound Fish guy might beat the X-Factor dude to the Christmas Number 1 and if that happens we probably have Psy to thank.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 December 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 13 December 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Traditional Korean rhythms, there you go.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 13 December 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not hearing it in this killer record.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 December 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
something really grim about finding that fish seller had become even a mid-size internet thing let alone an actual thing
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 23 December 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
will it be necessary to evaluate the racial implications of this
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 23 December 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
the racial implications of One Pound Fish Guy are pretty much all there on the surface
― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
He has apparently just been deported.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
is that joeks?
― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
One Pound Fish was something like #37 in the midweeks, no chance of being number 1 at all
― if, Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
thank god, i was worried that the small-faced crying cunt off the telly or some shit charity recording of one of the worst songs ever written wdn't be number 1
― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
There is an issue with his visa so he has been told to leave the country immediately, xxp.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
best immigration controls in the world
― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
lmao
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
No results found for "one found pish"
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
My knowledge of Korean folk music is thin, really thin (um the album Record of Changes by Samulnori) and the only place I hear much of it in "Gangnam Style" is the syncopated "Op....Op...Op..Op.Oppa GS".
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=632_1353833370
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
don't miss the third world forcefield gangnam at 3.00
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
i've been shouting "open condom style", myself.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:17 PM (3 weeks ago)
it totally sounds like "open condom style"
― some dude, Saturday, 15 September 2012 01:58 (3 months ago)
The complete misheard lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8X0HxVBR4
― Lee626, Sunday, 23 December 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
If "Korean folk music" means trot, then that sounds like Central European folk music to me. And in that case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xKeYFkB9Pw
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
I think I said this somewhere else upthread, but Ov, Ov, Ov, Ovo Je Balkans!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:59 (eleven years ago) link
OPPA
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
lex's posts itt are so stupid