"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

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

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.

the flashmobs were great back when nobody knew what they were

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.

this video hits me at a v v deep level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbgo9md11E

it makes me sad

a brave new world of global lowest-common-denominator pop

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

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.

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.

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

Not hearing it in this killer record.

something really grim about finding that fish seller had become even a mid-size internet thing let alone an actual thing

will it be necessary to evaluate the racial implications of this

the racial implications of One Pound Fish Guy are pretty much all there on the surface

He has apparently just been deported.

is that joeks?

One Pound Fish was something like #37 in the midweeks, no chance of being number 1 at all

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

There is an issue with his visa so he has been told to leave the country immediately, xxp.

best immigration controls in the world

lmao

No results found for "one found pish"

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".

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=632_1353833370

don't miss the third world forcefield gangnam at 3.00

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

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

I think I said this somewhere else upthread, but Ov, Ov, Ov, Ovo Je Balkans!

OPPA

lex's posts itt are so stupid

i've barely posted anything itt except how i hate fun

well i think holding the gangnam craze against the song when you've never even heard it is pretty stupid

I have heard bits of it

― lex pretend, Friday, December 21, 2012 11:34 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Calling the act of enjoying it racist was pretty stupid, though.

yeah i seriously doubt if anybody in the world likes this record cos they think the Korean man is funny

I don't see how that's relevant.

saying you hate racism hence why you won't listen to this

http://www.billboard.com/news/psy-plots-the-ending-of-gangnam-style-for-1008064202.story?utm_source=most_recent#/news/psy-plots-the-ending-of-gangnam-style-for-1008064202.story?utm_source=most_recent

as smart and about his business as the guy seems, it's surprising to see him just now months after the song peaked say something like "in America I need a new single because 'Gangnam Style' got too popular, so I've got to write a new single." maybe you should've been working on one for a while if you want any chance of having 2 hits here, dude!

never needed to see hear or read anything about this ever again but this is neat
https://vimeo.com/58411146

saw vid for the first time last week

once heard, cannot be unheard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR4zcmF_UzQ

I love how you can see people (OK, kids) doing the dance from several blocks away.

My older daughter can sing along with half of it in Korean!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE6iiiDdTNY

'twas unveiled during the Super Bowl