"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

has no major rapper done a gangname freestyle on a mix cd yet?
or is kanye just waiting till 2013?

i think i may end up in a workplace gangam style parody video

i warned you and warned you

i think i may end up in a workplace gangam style parody video

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, December 15, 2012 11:06 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if i were to guess which ilxors this would happen to, you would be number one

number two would be ned raggett

i was in a terrible mood and trying to fix my malfunctioning printer tray when the HR guy came in to my office w/ a camera rolling all "ok give us your best gangnam style!!!" and i was like no thanks thats cool until after more prodding i waved my arms in the air once or twice (still holding a broken paper tray).

this is going to be edited in to a video to be played at the holiday party on tuesday i think, at which all of the hotel's top managers will do a gangnam style flash mob which they have been rehearsing for weeks with a hired choreographer.

it was preceded by my co-worker i crush on coming in my office with tears in her eyes saying "they made me dance and i hate dancing-- i'm chinese" :-[

'professional gangnam style choreographer'

I sympathize very much with your co-worker

Meanwhile, my 50-something Puerto Rican coworker told me about a surprise she planned for a family member's birthday party. She donned a silver wig and did the Gangnam Style dance while someone (I forget who, another family member) comedy freaked her from behind.

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has no major rapper done a gangname freestyle on a mix cd yet?
or is kanye just waiting till 2013?

― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, December 15, 2012 3:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a week or two back there was talk of PSY being in the studio with Diplo and 2 Chainz, possibly for a "Gangnam Style" remix, but nothing's surfaced yet.

(Mayan Apocalypse Mix) i guess

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey 2 chainzZZZ

i dunno how there hasn't been a 'heyyy sexy gr80' post yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=2Sar5WT76kE

this is p good imo

Most of PSY's Youtube money comes from parodies, but he makes most of his money through endorsements.

WTF, the article is totally available. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlcpd0qGl9nCp3TCqM1DYdAgbzFQ?docId=b70ddece35724815a3fc351a7bb06c0b

@psy_oppa says: Still at 5th spot @itunes...WOW!!! #LongLiveGangnamStyle!!!! may be too long~!? lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2Xj8lvSTc

psy has been booked to perform at the 2019 gathering of the juggalos

'I'm into fashion mahself'

gonna hit 1bn views on 21st december 2012. gangnam style apocalypse.

"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Nervous.gif

Gangnam Style hits one billion views on YouTube

http://i.imgur.com/EpGc6.png

psy was like baby, baby, baby noooooo

So on that basis, the next YouTube sensation needs to go from zero to a billion views in about a month.

i think you're right.

Slightlý proud that I have still never seen this thing. I have heard bits of it and, horrifyingly, have seen parts of people trying to do the dance, but I have left the room or switched the device off asap in every case.

I've no intention of ever seeing it tbh

are you going to write a piece about never having watched the gangnam style video?

it's good lex; there's no reason to avoid it

i hate "fun", so yes there is

also i hate racism

rmde

gangnam style is fun even without quotation marks and there is zero inherent racism in the song that I'm aware of. The video's kinda fun but its joys are far secondary to that of the song itself... anyways i suppose we've done this a dozen times already.

yeah if songs/videos are to be held culpable for any racist thoughts they attract from racist people then lex needs to take a long hard look at most of the rap he listens to

loling at gr8080's workplace parody story.

gr80880's story pretty much encapsulates why everything about this gives me the chills. did i mention that i hate fun

"gangnam style flashmob" is such a horrifying phrase

haa I agree with that at least.

But forks otm - it's a great song and I usually hate novelty "lolfunny dance" stuff like the Macarena or the Ketchup Song.

the flashmobs were great back when nobody knew what they were

There was an item on the news the other day about troops in Afghanistan doing a Gangnam Style parody video, called Afghan Style - the dance they were doing bore very little approximation to Psy's, and Fiona Bruce was doing her forced 'light-hearted story' chuckle the whole way through. Excruciating.

this video hits me at a v v deep level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbgo9md11E

it makes me sad

a brave new world of global lowest-common-denominator pop

still loving this record, had a group of kids going mental to it at work the other day and it still sounds great to me, as for all the "lol look at the funny Korean guy" bullshit well y'know idiots will always be with us

I was in a restaurant in Goa and it had a dancefloor as well and the place was full of local families who were actually up and dancing post-dinner and then at the end of the evening the DJ played Gangnam Style and everyone over the age of like 12 left the dancefloor and it was full of kids doing the horsey dance and it was one of the most endearing things I have ever seen.

^^^ THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE. Unfortunately as I said upthread these moments are going to be crowded out forever by the sight of Finchy from The Office types doing the dance at terrible office parties. Obviously this is ageist but I am happily excluding myself and many people younger than me from the demographic where this is acceptable.

Generally speaking its interest for me is as a meme first, a global cultural phenomenon second and as a record a very distant third.