"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

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.

lucky break for the sons and sons-in-law

he said what we were all thinking

I really hope someone has a copy of that vocal and is doing a mashup with "Gangnam Style" as I type this

how did it take so long for them to find this

Starting the conversation!

Ok, I'm not ready to call bullshit on this with 100% certainty, since it's possible some of this story is true—anti-American sentiment is rampant, and I can't find much information on Psy's 2002 performances—but the account of his 2004 rap is so poorly sourced right now that I can't believe credible media outlets are reporting it.

Reports insist that Korean media has known about this story for a long time. I can't confirm that, because I don't speak Korean (I suspect most American reporters writing about this don't either), but from what I see, all the Korean outlets linked to as a source are citing this CNN iReport from October:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-853509

It's written in broken English by a user who cites no sources, doesn't give his or her name, and has never written anything else for iReport. It's essentially an anonymous comment on a message board, and as best as I can tell without speaking Korean, all reports about the "fucking Yankees" rap eventually link back to it.

this is much better (and much better-sourced) article http://busanhaps.com/article/exclusive-psys-once-passionate-protesting-past

No, it's not. All of the links it cites as evidence for the 2004 incident all eventually link back to that same shady iReport.

uh? http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-26840321_ITM

oh sorry missed 2004 in your post

i stand by my assertion that its a much better and much better sourced article

Ah, shit, according to MTV Psy just apologized for the incident, which basically confirms the story. Still doesn't forgive the reckless sourcing by American media outlets up til now, but the story was true

The MTV story mentions there is still some lack of clarity over the exact words he used at the time.

Oddly, I remember that exact Korea Times article from 2002.

boo

he should have just been like "yup, I said that" and shrugged, then danced away

preferably will singing "heeeeeey, kill yr daughters"

yanqui pigdog style