"GANGNAM STYLE" deserves its own thread

man, "gentleman" is awesome

both the song and the video feel pretty charmless to me compared to GS

The video features Psy wearing his signature glasses and playing practical jokes on women such as pulling their chairs away as they are about to sit down and increasing the speed on a treadmill while it's being used.

http://images.sodahead.com/blogs/000186827/blogs_BennyHill_4247_194453_poll_xlarge.jpeg

a yakkety sax sample definitely would've been a good way for Psy to keep up with Macklemore

Got a text from my wife (belatedly) telling me there is a new Psy single, suggesting I play the video for the kids. Why the fuck would I invite that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSb2UTCtUM

Off to a good start with the covers

in at #12 on hot 100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-4WDIe0s8

<3 LEDApple

Am I the only one who hears Psy sing "Na nun sa na ye" as "I am the son and heir," and wonders how awesome it would be to hear Morrissey sing Gangnam Style?

yes

in at #12 on hot 100

― 乒乓, Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:33 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

up to #5 now. i thought it was really dumb for PSY to wait so long to drop a follow-up, but it ended up being really fortunate that it came after the new YouTube/Hot 100 rules.

Am I the only one who hears Psy sing "Na nun sa na ye" as "I am the son and heir,"

no, me too!

and wonders how awesome it would be to hear Morrissey sing Gangnam Style?

yeah, you're on your own there.

(might be amused to hear Psy sing the Smiths tho. but only one of the songs I am not particularly emotionally attached to.)

Yeah, I guess I would rather here Psy do an album of K-Pop Smiths.

Gentleman has been cleaning up at the weekly music show performance charts in Korea despite Psy not being around to perform the song. This absurd situation must have rankled the hearts of TV music show content programmers... not sure this was the best solution though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_lB62cbfyo

Girl's Day (hot pink jackets) >>>>>>>>>>> Teen Top (tweed suits), although TT are competent enough in own element.

My bad, there's one plaid jacket and one marbled one but no tweed.

http://gaw.kr/KDCsiM8

hahaha i asked an ilxor who was at cannes if he saw any celebs and he said "i walked past psy on the sidewalk"

he shoulda instagrammed it

South Korean rapper PSY has been met with boos and small firework explosions during his performance at the Stadio Olimpico ahead of the Italian Cup final and derby between Roma and Lazio.

Organizers responded by raising the volume during PSY's performance of his hit, ''Gangnam Style.''

The rapper appeared embarrassed but told fans afterward in Italian, ''I love Italy.''

It was unclear if the boos were of a racist nature, although fans for both clubs have come under attack this season for racist chanting.

I don't see why people get so worked up about the Correspondents Dinner.

http://i2.wp.com/24-7KPOP.COM/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/psy-president-obama-639-121012.jpg?resize=639%2C399

http://i.imgur.com/wNOpf0r.png

pretty happy that "Gentleman" has already disappeared

it was terrible

and an total clone of GS (both song and video) but vastly inferior

Apparently the PSY who was at Cannes was an impostor. Same guy showed up in Monaco lately.....

Not an impostor, a professional Psy impersonator!

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-05/25/fake-psy-interview-denis-carre-cannes-gangnam-style

http://media.trafficfactory.biz//banners/875/df929eba711b708d436573f003f2bfb5.gif

you gotta be 24? that's some bullshit

On a more serious note, Psy just switched US agencies

http://www.tenasia.com/archives/65588

i don't blame him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORofBiAveO8

Hah!

Infinity Challenge (the sketch/reality show Psy's guest-comedians came from) is really hilarious, guys.

Bought one of these for a friend tonight:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-57964554255945_2271_16004920

$9.99, half-price. It dances, I think. Strange--it's almost like they wanted them off the shelf and out of the store.

(Speaking as someone who lived through the K-Tel epoch, I'm not sure there's been anyone the past 25 years as purely and as definitively K-Tel as PSY. I say that with the deepest admiration. Me to the cashier: "This is supposed to be a joke gift...please don't make fun of me." She didn't laugh.)

My eyes have been opened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Q9sFsa8cQ

Apologies if this was shared previously. It was too good not to share again.

that sure is something

Is PSY still a thing?

he's currently prominently featured in animated form in performing "Gangnam Style" in the trailer for the kids' movie The Nut Job -- i kinda raised my eyebrow at first like 'wow they really didn't anticipate that being considered old by the time the movie comes out' but apparently it's the first big expensive South Korean animated feature being geared toward America, so it makes sense they'd wanna involve him. still, you'd think they'd have PSY do a new song for it or something.

Even if PSY did a new song it would either A) be a Gangnam Style ripoff to capitalize on his public persona (like Gentleman) or B) a song that's different from GS and is thus met with a lukewarm response (or gets panned).

PSY is pretty much the Chubby Checker of the 21st century

Guess what guy it's 2014 and Psy has already done other songs you should check if your thesis is correct

has there been a bunch of non-"Gentleman" singles just for the K-pop market since "Gangnam Style"?

yeah man psy-heads know the score

So does that mean we can look forward to Psy releasing his own "Chequered!" a few years down the road? He could even call it "Psy-Chedelic!".

I could see him doing a team-up album like Chubby Checker & Bobby Rydell, but I'm not sure who's the 21st century equivalent of Bobby Rydell.

has there been a bunch of non-"Gentleman" singles just for the K-pop market since "Gangnam Style"?

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No- With a new release right around the corner he's been going around almost disowning Gentleman, which is a bit weird to me. Yeah it's pretty similar to GS but it's basically what he's been doing for the past four years in Korea. I can understand it if he really did wanted to do something different now, though - we'll see soon enough.

Sorry for not watching the latest PSY news on the K-POP channel, but as shown by somedude's post about PSY appearing in The Nut Job, his international reputation seems to be based on That One Song - a Checker-esque novelty-hit legacy that will probably haunt him forever, despite his efforts to produce new and interesting music (if only for the K-Pop market)

Anticipating the Europe-only release of "Psy-Chedelic!" though. (I actually enjoyed "Chequered!")

I'm weirded out by how he's been disowning Gentlemen too, which I like better than Gangnam Style.

The new album has a collaboration with Snoop Dogg and is supposed to be coming out late February/early March.