"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

er meant to say "seriously underestimating"

i love the rhyme structure of this song, don't wanna break it down tediously but i love it i love it

also there's no rhyming, the singalong parts boils down to two or three phrases, no?

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

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

he got a round face tho

I'm just scared of Walken in a poncho.

you wanna get inside, Corno B?

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

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.

now I'm really wishing Falco was around for the internet era

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, 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.

thx for backing me up crut

On SNL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp5O4scTpI

heard it on the radio this evening :D

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

ban australia

About 119,000 video results for gangnam flash mob

it is the most potent dance in a long time

honestly this song rules

really want a PSY/LMFAO tour

haha, the other day I saw a poster for a "LMFAO-themed EDM night" and even as someone who likes LMFAO, I was like *rmde*

Heard it on the radio on my hometown today. That's my pop culture parameter; if it blows up in this tiny hellhole, it's a hit pretty much everywhere.

Also the last time I saw the youtube vid it had 40M views and right now it's close to 200M.

Amazes me how it's obviosuly the video and not the song to blame for the popularity. Wrongly assumed people didn't really cared for music videos anymore.

Also noted: the reddit/9gag meme influencers hate pop music culture, its stupid lyrics and repetitive beats except when it's from Korea.

the fact that the song is catchy as hell is obviously a good part of it. again comparing it to "Tunak Tunak Tun" I think the song was good enough that people were motivated to watch it a dozen-plus times

I mean, the song is currently #1 on US iTunes, so there's something to the song too. But surely this is the most music-video driven hit in the US since...maybe "Here It Goes Again"?

I wasn't sure if anyone actually liked that song though

Discovering this song for the first time via SNL made me feel hella old.

I really don't get why this is such a huge thing. Maybe we are currently in a meme vacuum or something and this is the funny video you watch on lunch break at the office?

its hugeness derives from its huge awesomeness

sometimes things just miss you! like i had no idea that the "i like turtles" kid was even a thing seen 100 million times, and was similarly surprised that not everybody on earth knew and loved arthur the haitian weatherman.

I for one am surprised that "Garbage Day!" does not have 200 million views, it just feels perfect to me

sometimes things just miss you! like i had no idea that the "i like turtles" kid was even a thing seen 100 million times, and was similarly surprised that not everybody on earth knew and loved arthur the haitian weatherman.

I don't know either of these things.

may this reach 1 billion views. GOD BLESS

otm

oh man i forgot about "garbage day!"

What was the last non-English language song to recieve this level of tv / radio airplay in the united states

sometimes things just miss you! like i had no idea that the "i like turtles" kid was even a thing seen 100 million times, and was similarly surprised that not everybody on earth knew and loved arthur the haitian weatherman.

this is the one internet meme-y thing that i always think is bigger than it is, but surprisingly few people seem to recognize it!

What was the last non-English language song to recieve this level of tv / radio airplay in the united states

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:57 AM (12 minutes ago)

Just brought up that question in the car upon hearing this song sandwiched between Drake and Rihanna. Is it as far back as 99 Luftballoons? Not too well versed in stuff like Enrique Iglesias, maybe that was on heavy rotation more recently.

has anyone posted a translation yet? http://koreanwavetimes.blogspot.com/2012/08/psy-gangnam-style-lyrics-translation-in.html

these translations are pretty terrible but still interesting. "a girl who looks virtuous but the time to play comes, then she can be willing to change in accordance with it"

You see she makes her own money, pays her own bills
Always stays fly, keeps it so real
But behind closed doors she a nasty girl

I wonder how high this will go on the hot 100.

i just heard it in public for the first time today, r.i.p, america

It's been #1 on US iTunes for a few days now. That almost always presages a top 10 hit, at least.

gtfo whiney

apparently this was on KISS FM today, I guess PSY has finally arrived

Citizens of the United States, you are paying for these dudes' college education:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xhHufV9g4k4