"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

Fuck it, someone else can fix it.

I think Weird Al's just going to leave this song alone like he did with the Macarena.

does "Gangnam Style" still deserve its own thread?

Just checked out the wiki on this for the first time:

Comedian/television personality, Noh Hongchul, who does his trademark pelvis-thrusting dance in an elevator while PSY raps underneath him

Trademark pelvis-thrusting dance? Answers a lot of questions while raising several more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FsfXel2qgM&feature=player_embedded

gangnam style

― contenderizer, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:01 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is how you finish any sentence

― contenderizer, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:01 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sexy lady

― contenderizer, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:01 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

90 seconds of the follow-up single "Gentleman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_NtjY7ypRg

not gonna go over very big i suspect

oh dear

Is he saying "motherfather"?

PSY should have learned from Lou Bega. Never follow up a big global smash hit with something called "Gentleman":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L74mqBSJdWQ

Despite easy nods to GS I will say this video is pretty funny, again. There's a story and not just 'crazy' moves.

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

The heroine of the story is a member of the girl group who actually launched this dance, actually: http://youtu.be/ofwFr8o8p0Y

-actually

it's definitely better than the lou bega song

xxp

Yes, it's Ga-In, who released this wonderful solo track last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K64mb5KUhhs

(the actual song starts at 2:06)

i'm in to this

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOivZKSO26QaQ3fCLDiTSu64MmYH-EBCldl4EyZfVHO4c9YESx

LOL @ that video hell yes this is funny. IRL LOLZ when dude makes the student smell his fart. Also i want that golden suit.

i love the hi-hats on this

this was probably the best move he could've made post-GS but i still don't see it getting much radio airplay or anything

(best wrt worldwide success)

LOL @ that video hell yes this is funny. IRL LOLZ when dude makes the student smell his fart. Also i want that golden suit.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, April 13, 2013 10:35 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha he totally butter-cupped her.

i feel like he could have played the hype wave better by going underground for a year or two first? idk

Tough to say really, but prob not a bad idea to strike while the iron is hot.

video is fun. song isn't as unstoppable, but what would be?

this song and video are like identical

i saw the video a few hours ago but have already forgotten almost everything about it

identical to wat? one another?

If I were Kim Jong Un, I would put my best men and women to work coming up with a song, dance and video that beats "Gangnam Style" on the charts, to show up South Korea (and everyone). I can totally imagine it. "We will launch a new single that will absolutely destroy the world. The Top 40 will be ours!"

And the can challenge Psy to a dance off. Or I guess crotch thrust off? Because that's pretty much Psy's dance.

No, the crotch thrust is (S. Korean comedian) Haha's signature move. The hip wiggle is (S. Korean idol group) Brown Eyed Girls' signature move from their 2009 hit "Abracadabra". The horse dance is Psy's signature move, and I gotta tell you, I've been in Zumba classes where both parts - the lassoing part and the trotting part - were a part of the routine, although not together at the same time.

Psy's "Happening" concert is on Youtube btw, and is pretty awesome. I support the hip wiggle and Ga In's extended cameo in the "Gentleman" video, also dude's attempts to break the sexless/harmless Asian dude stereotype, but it's never cool to push girls to the floor. That's unfunny jerk behavior.

No video could top "Gangnam Style", but I like "Gentlemen" the song more. Probably because it's PSY gone New Beat + Big Beat, both particularly hitting my buttons.

A Psy/Uffie collaboration would blow my mind.

also dude's attempts to break the sexless/harmless Asian dude stereotype

i dont think this stereotype needs breaking in s. korea tbf

yeah but this is his first big video explicitly aimed at continuing his success in america/the west, right

identical to wat? one another?

to Gangnam style

well having seen the video, it def still feels very much aimed at the s. korean market first, worldwide second xp

Even if it's aimed at home, Psy's spent the last year touring abroad under something like that misconception, I think.

But also I think if it were really aimed at the South Korean market, he wouldn't have recycled a dance craze everyone already knows from just a couple years ago.

seems to be getting good us press/interest/attention

It's already got 70 million youtube views and is currently top 20 on US iTunes. New Billboard rules regarding youtube views could let this be a hit with almost zero initial radio attention much like Harlem Shake was.

something tells me that billboard is giving a little (= way) too much weight to youtube streaming

oh absolutely

didn't know about the Billboard change regarding Youtube views, but their ignorance of Youtube et. al. until recently was a head scratcher. I mean, "Video Games" topped out at 91 on the Billboard charts despite being what everybody was listening to for a few weeks in the US, and not just on ILX.

define "everybody"

I'm not sure being mocked for a terrible SNL performance should get you a top 10 hit

Ashlee Simpson's comeback plan revealed

i think "Gentleman" will actually be a good test case in how YouTube views impact the Hot 100 now, since we'll see those first 70 mil or whatever views and negligible radio spins in one week (the "Harlem Shake" thing is hard to measure since it was a whole bunch of different videos with different view counts). in any case something like "Video Games" was kinda niche -- 40 million views total, which is not all that much on the scale we're talking about, doubt that would've pushed it into the top half of the Hot 100 if it was counted at the time.

video games peaked months before the snl appearance

i don't think anyone said otherwise (iirc the chart peak WAS around the time of the SNL appearance, but its subculture/youtube buzz obviously hit a tipping point well before that)

man, "gentleman" is awesome

both the song and the video feel pretty charmless to me compared to GS