"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

i just don't get how people can attribute this song's popularity to american or western stereotypes of asians when it is blowing up everywhere: korea, SE asia, oceania, the caribbean.... everybody loves this song, the horsey dance, the guy's charisma, the inventive video, etc.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i love the caribbean and oceania being identified as places where stereotypes of asians don't exist

and we exist in a world where there are lots of nuanced, real representations of asian men in our media... so, it all balances out.

you missed three out of four words in that term tbf

i don't understand

LYRICS TRANSLATION

http://koreanwavetimes.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/psy-gangnam-style-lyrics-translation-in.html

(I would copy & paste but it is strictly prohibited and I should be ashamed of myself)

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/182vel2btc2kqgif/original.gif
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/182vfo16swz8zgif/original.gif

JPP's horsey dance was pretty epic

people really go nuts when this song is played in public places, huh?

*goes nuts at desk*

i just don't get how people can attribute this song's popularity to american or western stereotypes of asians when it is blowing up everywhere: korea, SE asia, oceania, the caribbean.... everybody loves this song, the horsey dance, the guy's charisma, the inventive video, etc.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i love the caribbean and oceania being identified as places where stereotypes of asians don't exist

― dylannn, Saturday, October 20, 2012 11:43 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

precisely the same stereotypes? in korea itself? i dunno, i don't think the "LOLasian" reaction is _not_ a factor, but to presume that it is the common denominator...?

I am a man whose thought is more rough and bumpy than muscles

http://io9.com/5953874/big-trouble-in-little-china-%252B-gangnam-style-john-carpenter-approves

For a real feeling for what the lyrics are about, try the english acoustic cover version by ytube user: peuyeumus (you didn't think anyone could do an acoustic version, but it has been done).

holy shit ai wei wei is in on it now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=4LAefTzSwWY

I hope Marina Abramovic is next.

she just sits there crying while james franco does the horsey dance in silence for 6 hours

naked

https://twitter.com/UN_Spokesperson/status/260885635651497984

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/120oqd/i_am_south_korean_singer_rapper_composer_dancer/

okay, win:

FahCough 1555 points 1 hour ago
Why were you so mad at that girl's ass?

PSY_Oppa 281 points 3 minutes ago
because her ass was so mad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ZSZbNfSpk

lol reddit

tijuanacarwash 103 points 3 hours ago
I am doing a report on Korean for a linguistics class. Do you find Korean to be difficult to rap in?

PSY_Oppa 69 points 3 minutes ago
not at all because i'm korean!
in the same way, it's kind of hard to eat scrambled eggs for breakfast.

ok, serious lols at the "no music" video

that's brilliant. love the hair-blower sound.

Ha, can't got wrong with explosion and screams!

the video is still good no matter what, whereas the song is way better with the video.

they played this at a party last night (that was mostly playing halloween/metal music) and people went nuts

lol at me being flabbergasted at the popularity of this thing when it had 5% of the views it has now

hup: http://static.echonest.com/InfiniteGangnamStyle/

description: http://musicmachinery.com/2012/10/28/infinite-gangnam-style/ or just play with the arrow keys and/or ctrl-clicking coloured blocks (more entertaining if you let the video images load first)

Sure I'm not the first person to notice this, but does anyone else remember Serbia's 2010 Eurovision entry? <a href="http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/eurovision-2010/eurovision-2010-final-serbia/785769/";>Op, op, op! Ovo je Balkans!</a> I finally heard the recorded version the other day, it is awesome, he's a bit nervous singing live.

Grr html. Pretend I did it the right way.

Written by Goran Bregovic! Excellent song.

never, ever need to hear this song again fyi

https://i.minus.com/iJJCCBwRiTt7J.gif

hahahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOyo7JD7hjo
hammer drops at 2.40
pans to the crowd are consistently terrifying

1. i don't understand any aspect of this phenomenon.it's shit.

2. i really loathe will.i.am

megalol at Hammer being brought out* only to guest-dance

*from the woods where he was hunting Jay-Z in that one video, presumably

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=nDP6oz3r1as

We had a dance party at my Uncle's house on Thanksgiving. I put on Gangnam Style and all my little pre-teen cousins were doing the dance move for it. It was pretty funny.

http://gawker.com/5963884/bill-oreilly-doesnt-get-the-psy-phenomenon-this-is-a-little-fat-guy-from-pyongyang-or-some-place

Um I wrote an article about Gangnam Style for a comics website a while back, now's as good a time as any to out myself as a supernerd and link to it: http://hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/11/hu-gangnam-style/

The best and only appropriate response to Bill O'Reilly on Gangnam Style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PIylQx892Ws

damn, this goes harrrd
VelvetHijiSuruStyle 4 hours ago

1. i don't understand any aspect of this phenomenon.it's shit.

2. i really loathe will.i.am

― jed_, Saturday, November 24, 2012 5:19 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/9/3/1283527666452/ITV-ARCHIVE-006.jpg

http://www.mediaite.com/online/gangnam-style-singer-psys-vitriolic-anti-american-past-revealed-outrage-ensues/

Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives
Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers
Kill them all slowly and painfully

this is amazing and awesome

Yeah, but it's a lot more innocuous in its original Korean.