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Those synth stabs that punctuate every so often are totally "Pump Up The Jam", without directly ripping them off like "I'm A Slave 4 U".
I feel like there's a real underdog dynamic at work. It's like... there's this chubby 30-something Korean dude (not by any means your typical pop star) taking the world by storm with a song that everybody loves, you can't help but root for him.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, and I had made the mental connection with the Macarena, but yeah, "Gangnam Style" is way better. The dance is better too.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, September 14, 2012 10:17 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i sorta had a slight sickening feeling in my stomach when i imagined this getting played at some wedding i'm at in three years but fuck it
I did a wedding a couple weekends ago and thought about playing it but decided not enough people would know it yet.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah prob not
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
you shoulda done it just on the off chance that 2 or 3 people would be really pumped about it and everyone else would be totally confused
― some dude, Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, September 14, 2012 10:17 PM
it's absolutely amazing, he utterly owned that crowd. and they were primed for it because of... a satirical foreign-language rap for a dance-pop number with a video where everyone dances a horsey dance
― j., Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
i heard it a wedding a couple weeks ago! the bride requested it, i think
― running like a young deer (symsymsym), Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
going to a wedding in a couple weeks1!! stoked
― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
are there gonna be a lot of ppl dressed up as Psy on halloween? prolly right? electric blue blazer, blowtie, sunglasses, part the hair....
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
do the horsey dance all nice
the thing about the today show thing that amazed me is that he kept dropping the mic to let the audience sing the last word of the line or whatev, and they seemingly always knew the line?
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
seeing exuberant koreans singing along is awesome too
― j., Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was wondering if he was surprised. like in the first 15 secs he got the sense that the crowd just knew every word so he started letting them come in.
also that pause before "oppa gangnam style" is even doper in the live setting
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
Well when the line is "SA DA HEY" every single time it's pretty easy to remember. I've had that stuck in my head for like weeks now.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
the whole thing is giving me sort of a Linsanity vibe - I can't imagine how surreal it is for Koreans over here to see one of their own basically become a star overnight
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 September 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
maybe a lot of the audience did know the words to begin with but c'mon they definitely rehearsed for it to be that on point
― some dude, Saturday, 15 September 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
the youtube description is pretty hilar
The song is characterized by its strongly addictive beats and lyrics, and is thus certain to penetrate the foundations of modern philosophy.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 September 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
open condom style will definitely penetrate
― some dude, Saturday, 15 September 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
doesn't sound anything like "open condom style" also that doesn't even make sense
― boxall, Saturday, 15 September 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what they've done to the colours in the video but it's so bright and crisp and clean. It's like the anti teal & orange.
― ledge, Saturday, 15 September 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
if you pronounce "gangam" as Psy does in the song & "condom" as you would in daily conversation they do not sound at all alike any further than they both scan trochaic & end with the letter m.
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 15 September 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
don't fight the mondegreen, guys
― the show must goon (some dude), Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
ha ha fat korean said 'condom', so hilarious amirite guys
― barthes simpson, Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
i love weddings
― max, Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
what kind of weddings do you go to where that's what happens man
― the show must goon (some dude), Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
i really don't see how mishearing a lyric implies some kind of racist condescension that's way beyond the general "ha ha fat korean said 'hey sexy lady'" reactions to the song
― the show must goon (some dude), Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
It has a kind of additional air of suggesting that words that aren't familiar to English speakers aren't valid and meaningful. Especially when the correct word is there in the title.
― if, Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, aren't familiar to you and the other open condom style people, I should have said, there are plenty of people who speak Korean and English.
― if, Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, i read the atlantic thing, i appreciate that the words are meaningful, but sometimes people's ears trick them and they hear different things. happens when it's all the same language, happens when you know what the words really are, etc.
― the show must goon (some dude), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but to hear what he's saying as "condom" you have to do a preemptive "Korean guys might pronounce it like this!" move which is p. gross. It does not sound like "condom" as pronounced by people who use the word "condom." so, that is how "mishearing" a lyric gives off a little race condescension whiff imo
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
i think you're seriously understanding how a hard "g" can sometimes sound like a hard "c," and how a western ear that is not used to hearing "n" after "ng" might imagine a "d" somewhere in there. but whatever, it doesn't matter, point is the first time i heard the phrase i didn't know what the song was called or what it was really saying and the person who played it suggested their mishearing that i now can't unhear.
― the show must goon (some dude), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
like i probably wouldn't have heard those words on my own, it's not uncanny or anything. but once someone suggested it it's in my brain, and the sound is close enough that i can't easily shake it.
― the show must goon (some dude), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
er meant to say "seriously underestimating"
― the show must goon (some dude), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
i love the rhyme structure of this song, don't wanna break it down tediously but i love it i love it
― Why can't I be food? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
also there's no rhyming, the singalong parts boils down to two or three phrases, no?
I dunno if you've ever seriously tried to sing along to a foreign language song but sometimes it's just easier to translate it into similar sounding English words and then just sing those. "Gangnam" is not really easy to sing. I agree it doesn't sound *that* much alike but, come on. Like there's a part in Rip Slyme's "Funkastic" that sounds an awful lot like "dynamite pig" and I don't think there's any "race condescension" if you choose to point that out
also, this guy isn't fat
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
he got a round face tho
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just scared of Walken in a poncho.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
you wanna get inside, Corno B?
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
idk I never thought it sounded like "condom" but I just tried listening to it without watching the video and it sounds close enough to "condom" that I'm willing to give "open condom style" a pass.
I think it is related to this sort of phenomenon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9FYxadPoQ
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
This guy's ironic playboy thing is kind of like an internet lol culture version of Falco, but with high-speed boom economics displacing the decadent old money euro aristocracy.
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
now I'm really wishing Falco was around for the internet era
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 September 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
― some dude, Friday, September 14, 2012 7:53 PM Bookmark
ha, that was exactly the response I suspected would have entailed. btw this "open condom" argument is the stupidest shit I have ever read in my life.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 15 September 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
thx for backing me up crut
― the show must goon (some dude), Sunday, 16 September 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
On SNL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp5O4scTpI
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 16 September 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
heard it on the radio this evening :D
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Sunday, 16 September 2012 07:14 (eleven years ago) link
saw a gangnam style flash mob in melb cbd st last week – ~40 people going for it in bourke st mall, people in passing trams utterly baffled
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 16 September 2012 07:18 (eleven years ago) link
ban australia
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 September 2012 09:09 (eleven years ago) link