Psy: Gangnam Style

[rostasi]

Hey, it's already over two months old, but it's still pretty funny!

There's also an Ai Weiwei version (in handcuffs - )

Gangnam Style, the Ai Weiwei way

[Stereojack]

SNL spoof was pretty funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne1EaiqbfQA&feature=related

[JSngry]

My daughter claims she tried to get me to look at this four months ago. I don't recall. If she did, she probably led with "K-Pop" and lost me right there. But yes, this is funny, and supposedly a satire of supposedly he "Beverly Hills of Korea", or so she says.

But she also says that it's known in her circles as "Baby's First K-Pop", like everybody (meaning "Westerners") is AMAZED that there this Korean Pop music (I know you're not, Rod, hell, you know every music that has ever been made, even the stuff that's not there to be heard!) which I thought was pretty funny, even though I myself have nothing to laugh about in that regard.

I do know, though, Mnet is the only Asian station we can get now on Time Warner now without getting some kind of special package (which is a drag, because we used to get both ZeeTV & TV Asia as part of the basic package + ImaginAsain which is no longer available at all, BIG drag, that, as the programming there was often aimed towards first generation English-speaking children of immigrants, which is a TOTALLY different perspective, kinda like New School Old School, very interesting), and Mnet is pretty much 24/7 K-Pop in some form or fashion, so it's like, it's there if you want it, but I'll just let my daughter show me videos from now on, and hope for mostly J-Pop (which is quite often enjoyably quirky) instead of K-Pop (which is pounding in a way that is not fun to me).

Either that or wait for them to show up on Organissimo.

[rostasi]

Well, it's just another young culture that leaves its parent's music world

and marries their culture to the Western ideas that they know their parents

won't like. So, in Japan, old boring Enka is dropped for J-Pop and in Korea

the kids wouldn't be caught listening to Trot when you can have K-Pop

while Indian teens leave Filmi or Thumri and join the Indi-Pop or Bhangra crowd.

Most of K-Pop is more fashion than music - even fun music - but I think this

PSY guy's motto is something like dress classy and dance cheesy which is

what is REALLY needed everywhere now - hell, I think it's always been needed.

...and that SNL skit has it right on: it doesn't matter that you're dancing like a jackass -

it's OK - it's fun(ny) and you NEED that - and surely there's the subtext of making fun

of the serious fashion necessity of other K-Pop where these kids go to serious lengths

at altering their looks for this kind of thing.

"Didn't he just scream at her butt?"

"You're damn right he did...we're gonna live forever!"

I think that just about says it all. Doncha?

[Shawn]

I work at a Korean hotel and heard this song prior to it going global on youtube. It gets played at just about every wedding, usually with the groom and his posse doing all the dance moves. It was funny at first but I've heard it WAY too many damn times.

[Swinging Swede]

Gangnam Style hit one billion views on 21st December - the first YouTube video ever to achieve that!