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
i've barely posted anything itt except how i hate fun
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
well i think holding the gangnam craze against the song when you've never even heard it is pretty stupid
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
I have heard bits of it
― lex pretend, Friday, December 21, 2012 11:34 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Calling the act of enjoying it racist was pretty stupid, though.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i seriously doubt if anybody in the world likes this record cos they think the Korean man is funny
― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
I don't see how that's relevant.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
saying you hate racism hence why you won't listen to this
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― some dude, Monday, 31 December 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
never needed to see hear or read anything about this ever again but this is neathttps://vimeo.com/58411146
― katz itt (cozen), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
saw vid for the first time last week
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
once heard, cannot be unheard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR4zcmF_UzQ
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE6iiiDdTNY
'twas unveiled during the Super Bowl
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely over this whole thing now. I think that commercial was when I realized it.
― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
My two-year-old woke up in the middle of the night this weekend begging for Gangnam Style.
― mbvgz (how's life), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 08:42 (eleven years ago) link
will Psy have another hit?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
I don't see it. "Gangam Style" is a novelty hit. Hell, it embodies the very idea of novelty hit.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Psy is a huge star in his home country pregangnam tho
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Because he was deeply unwell
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
He could still be amazing on his old material though; watch "This Is It" sometime and prepare to be shocked/amazed
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
frogbs you have a p lazy understanding of how pop works
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
thank god for GIS tho
http://i.imgur.com/GLALEVs.jpg
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
i do, tell me how i'm wrong
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Or another memorable butt to yell at.
― mbvgz (how's life), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
*Psy*
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/pokemon-blue-version/b/b2/Psyduck.gif
― mbvgz (how's life), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
― Matt M., Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Let's Horsedance Yet Again"
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
the kidzbop version of this song has all of the korean rapping but changes "hey sexy lady" to "hey, hey lady" which gives it a kinda jerry lewis feel. i like to think about them drilling all the obnoxious kidzbop kid singers in rapping in korean.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
i'd imagine Weird Al is getting pretty nervous right now
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Horsedance Like We Did Last Summer.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
it's a humorous night for a horsedance
― mbvgz (how's life), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, there's got to be some sort of Weird Al law. Like, the closer pop music comes to an actual Weird Al parody, the closer we are too armageddon. Like the Doomsday Clock.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
what I mean is, pretty much every parody that could exist of this song is on Youtube already, so he's going to have to mine that space even further. maybe even turn it into a song about getting lots of Youtube views. or, maybe about eating food.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
You mean, like turn it into a song about eating pistachios?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
Next level would be Weird Al turning Gangnam Style into a food parody in Korean
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=psy+curve
― ☏ (am0n), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=_Z_y3y5yqDQ#!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Crap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_Z_y3y5yqDQ#!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck it, someone else can fix it.