"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

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

Definitely over this whole thing now. I think that commercial was when I realized it.

My two-year-old woke up in the middle of the night this weekend begging for Gangnam Style.

will Psy have another hit?

I don't see it. "Gangam Style" is a novelty hit. Hell, it embodies the very idea of novelty hit.

Psy is a huge star in his home country pregangnam tho

cant he just pay StarGate $100k to write him something? I dunno this stuff always confuses me; for example why Michael Jackson was so shit on the tail end of his career despite having access to literally any songwriter he wanted

Because he was deeply unwell

He could still be amazing on his old material though; watch "This Is It" sometime and prepare to be shocked/amazed

frogbs you have a p lazy understanding of how pop works

thank god for GIS tho

http://i.imgur.com/GLALEVs.jpg

i do, tell me how i'm wrong

Watching Beyonce, I was struck by how closely linked her hits are to the attendant dances and poses from the videos (right down to the "good morning, Charlie" line in "Independent Woman," a movie tie-in reference that surely has long outlived its purpose). So basically, if Psy can come up with another memorable dance, he'll have another hit.

Or another memorable butt to yell at.

I was talking US, by the by. Psy's career in South Korea is a completely other thing.

Note that Chubby Checker was able to a singular dance into a couple, if not several, hits. Not sure GS can enjoy that kind of success.

*Psy*