Being older than dirt, all I knew about “Gangnam Style” is that it had something to do with a viral music video on YouTube. Because the video has fueled various takeoffs and parodies, some of them political, I figured it was time to see what it was all about.
PSY – GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일) M/V
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PSY – Gangnam Style (강남스타일)
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From Wiki:
“Gangnam Style” (Korean: 강남스타일, IPA: [kaŋnam sɯtʰail]) is a K-pop single by South Korean musician PSY. The song was released on July 15, 2012, as the lead single of his sixth studio album PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1. “Gangnam Style” debuted at number one on the Gaon Chart, the national record chart of South Korea. As of December 4, 2012, the music video has been viewed over 884 million times on YouTube, and is the site’s most watched video after surpassing Justin Bieber’s single “Baby.”
The phrase “Gangnam Style” is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District of Seoul. The song and its accompanying music video went viral in August 2012 and have influenced popular culture since then.
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“Gangnam Style” is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam district of Seoul, where people are trendy, hip and exude a certain supposed “class.” The term was listed in Time‘s weekly vocabulary list as a manner associated with lavish lifestyles in Seoul’s Gangnam district. Psy likened the Gangnam District to Beverly Hills, California, and said in an interview that he intended in a twisted sense of humor by claiming himself to be “Gangnam Style” when everything about the song, dance, looks, and the music video is far from being such a high class.People who are actually from Gangnam never proclaim that they are—it’s only the posers and wannabes that put on these airs and say that they are “Gangnam Style”—so this song is actually poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying so hard to be something that they’re not.—Psy
The song talks about “the perfect girlfriend who knows when to be refined and when to get wild.” The song’s refrain “오빤 강남 스타일 (Oppan Gangnam style)” has been translated as “Big brother is Gangnam style,” with Psy referring to himself; “Oppa” is a Korean expression used by females to refer to an older male friend or older brother. During an interview with The New York Times, Psy revealed that the Korean fans have huge expectations about his dancing, so he felt a lot of pressure. In order to keep up with expectations, he studied hard to find something new and stayed up late for about 30 nights to come up with the “Gangnam Style” dance. Along the way, he had tested various “cheesy” animal-inspired dance moves with his choreographer, including panda and kangaroo moves, before settling for the horse trot, which involves pretending to ride a horse, alternately holding the reins and spinning a lasso, and moving into a legs-shuffling side gallop.
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More here.
From Urban Dictionary:
(Warning: Urban Dictionary is NSFW because of over-the-top language on the site.)
- A Korean song written by Korean singer Psy.
- “Gangnam” means “south(nam) of the river(gang)” in Korean. In this song, the “river(gang)” is the Han River, which penetrates the City of Seoul, capital of South Korea. The northern part of Seoul(gangbuk) has been the capital of Korea since the early 15th century. Development of Gangnam and expansion of Seoul started in 1970s. Gangnam is the icon of the rapid economic development of South Korea in 1970s and 80s. Mostly benefited from skyrocketing real estate price followed by planned economic development, Gangnam has become the most wealthy area in the entire South Korea. “Gangnam” is being regarded as the place where people are rich, girls are pretty and everything is supposed to be cool.
I’m not rich enough to have fun in Gangnam Style.
Also see:
Tags: Dancing, Gangnam Style, Open thread, South Korea
Great. Now that I know, I could still not care less. But thanks for saving a lot of us from having to bother looking it up ourselves. Not that I would have, mind you.
I was pretty good doin the Twist
@ Mike C.:
Well, excuuuuuse me.
If you think the thread is that useless, why did you comment on it?
*facepalm*
As an old school movie lover, my favorite version is Lo-Pan style. Even features James Hong in it.
Mike C. wrote:
Ditto
I HATE THAT MUSIC
Already 3 people hate the thread?
It’s an open thread. Go ahead and post your own music, videos, links, and so forth here.
It’s the Korean version of a Macarena type song.
heysoos wrote:
Me too.
My hamstrings would shatter if I tried that now. I’m just not flexible enough to do stuff like that. And after the brain surgery I didn’t have enough coordination to dance at all.
“do the Locomotion”…the greatest dance song evah
somebody post it
1389AD wrote:
heysoos wrote:
I’m 61 and can still bust a move…my kids are always asking me to do it
Mars wrote:
Found this on YouTube. No idea what it means:
@ 1389AD:
Nobody said that they hate the thread.
We just hate the stupid song.
1389AD wrote:
I don’t hate the thread! It’s interesting info.
1389AD wrote:
OK
As a lover of dance and song(music), I’ve been watching vids like this with what is called dubstep music.
heysoos wrote:
heysoos wrote:
Kudos to you!
I come from a long line of musicians, whistlers, singers and hummers, dancers, and all around expressive people…my dad used to burst out in song and dance, anytime/anyplace…I’d do a hula if you asked me nice
heysoos wrote:
Grand Funk Railroad
@ 1389AD:
ahhh yes!
thanx
Kylie Minogue is better looking:
song_and_dance_man wrote:
why is it called that?
signed
clueless
1389AD wrote:
Uh, didn’t I thank you for bothering to look the term up and report on it? I think I did…. Now I know. I don’t care, but at least I know.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think because the music is dubbed from existing music, sorta like what the early rappers and re-mixers did and do, and there are steps in what they produce musically and in the dance. That’s why it has that sort of robotic sound to it.
Here’s another cool one.
From downthread.
heysoos wrote:
I’ve been doing that all my life, and still do it at work almost everyday.
Looks like some colons require stick extraction
Mike C. wrote:
Well, okay, you’re welcome!
eaglesoars wrote:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110208114917AAQorXg
Not much of an answer, to be sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep
Still not clear where the name came from.
Dance, eh? Okay. Still cracks me up every time I see it. And the younger daughter, who used to teach Irish step dancing, assures me the moves are correct.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Well I don’t like that sound but I DO like the moves. Remember that scene in Flashdance where that kid in the park was dancing? What was it called? ‘vogueing’ or something?
my older sister was a huge Elvis fan…she’s five years older than me and probably my best friend to this day, she got me into the blues and r/r…anyway I was about 7-8 years old and her and another sis dressed me up like Elvis for Halloween…I remember they taught me how to thrust my hips in circles, put all this mascara or black stuff on me for sideburns, Marney ‘borrowed’ a whig, the chopped it and slathered it and sprayed it with SuperNet or whatever it was…then they both took me out to trick or treat…two older sisters and their kid brother…who does that anymore…my dad got it on film with his old 8mm Kodak movie camera and that film is sitting not twenty feet from me as I type….needless to say, even tho most of it went over head at the time, I was a sensation
@ 7 1389AD: Not hate the thread i think, but hate the musical idea of it. The same way a person hates a car wreck. I have been wanting to know this but never spent any time looking it up. Makes more sense now.
Still not sure why it is popular outside of Korea?
Mike C. wrote:
Apparently so. It looks like a satire of Riverdance
@ heysoos: Little Eva? Chubby Checker?
@ Mike C.:
That was great. America’s Got Talent and all the other nations versions are a great place to find some of the most entertaining vids.
There are some great Youtube gangnam parodies. I like the “Singaporean style” one.
darkwords wrote:
I think mainly because it’s silly, and so a good stand-in for “rickrolling”.
My 60′s dance music was Ballad of the Green Beret in the Eastside Cafe eating potato chips with ketchup. Imaginations of jungle fighting heorics.
eaglesoars wrote:
If you mean the old version I don’t recall having not seen it since it was released. If it’s the newer one, I haven’t seen that one. Vogueing was a dance style where the dancers would dance in the round and one by one they would come out and try to out dance each other. Poses woud be struck in a competitive way. We used to dance like that in the 80′s.
darkwords wrote:
cause he has a freakin fantastic PR team, and that’s the only reason
@ 41 brookly red: Let’s run him for POTUS in 2016 then. More than enough time to perfect a few new moves.
Time to get beer. bbl
My sense of humor goes up and down with how tight the girlfriend is making the budget by buying shoes. I have a pair of tennis shoes and a pair of loafers. She’ll have a gangnam style pair here before long.
An old favorite dance scene from a pretty good movie…
darkwords wrote:
awwww don’t be silly to be president you have to be a natural bor…
never mind.
eaglesoars wrote:
My younger daughter says the later ones were spot-on parodies of RiverDance, and she’s seen RiverDance and Flatley many a time.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
The original and I found it -- it’s breakdancing
Also if you start a new dance move to go with your catchy song, you can get people to “ironically” dance to it in da club.
@ 49 Zimriel: In college they made up a dance called the alligator. It seemed to catch on like a mass hysteria. You couldn’t get a date without doing the alligator first.
I never watch dance. But have seen it done very well a few times. Makes me jealous that someone can take their body and twist it to a song like that and make an emotion.
Here, we call it “Berkeley.”
Carolina Girl wrote:
http://www.webpronews.com/rubio-age-of-the-earth-is-4-5-billion-years-2012-12
A prime example of how we are always running defense in interviews.
This should have been a straight no interview with a charismatic up and coming superstar. Instead it’s an article and interview about how the evil republicans are religious fanatics and science deniers.
Any bets that their next attack will be the AGW hoax.
Good Zimmmerman news to me.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh yeah, I remember that now.
darkwords wrote:
I’m glad he’s still fighting. The media is the enemy of all free men and women.
Cripes, see what this started? Probably the second-best dance scene in a movie…
The best? Don’t be silly…
I think here in Redneck country we call that sub urban style. Not to be confused with suburban either btw.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/BaN8xkYUl4Y
darkwords wrote:
I got to see Barisnikov and the ABT perform the Sleeping Beauty. Amazing to watch up close. Dancers at this level are like Olympians. At the top of physical power and performance.
Gene, and Fred before him, took dancing into the stratosphere…everything since is a result of them
@ darkwords:
It’s popular in the US because at least 52% of the American people are friggin’ morons, as shown on November 6th.
darkwords wrote:
Thats what happens when you beat a defenseless black choirboy and mercilessly shoot him.
Oh wait…
lobo91 wrote:
dancing is apolitical….show some humor bro
Me Ole Bamboo. Dike van Dyke
@ heysoos:
I have no sense of humor.
I had to sell it to pay my share of someone’s Obamaphone bill.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I saw him in the Nutcracker.
gulp
lobo91 wrote:
I wonder if they come with pre-loaded numbers to every entitlement dept. the Fed has to offer.
eaglesoars wrote:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090319/fullcredits
I saw him in this. lol.
REM0TEKONTROL
@ Prebanned:
I love that show. Did you catch this guy from this last season. Again, more dubstep.
Mars wrote:
That was a great movie -- but it was a movie. I saw him in person.
Best
Body
On
An
Adult
eaglesoars wrote:
He was freaking amazing. Being close to the stage, maybe six rows, we could slightly hear their foot fall on the floor and see the extraordinary ability to maintain balance. It’s the only ballet I’ve ever been to, but it was worth the price. Which IIRC was considerable and far above the price to see a concert from a rock band.
I wish O’Reilly would shut up about Bob Costas
I wish Bob Costas would shut up about Bob Costas
Mars wrote:
he has a very strong case, I don’t see how they could let it cone to trial. here is my interesting case of the day…http://freebeacon.com/bailout-on-the-brink/
song_and_dance_man wrote:
The acoustics in your venue were a hell of a lot better than mine -- at Kennedy Center. We were in nose bleed and it was distracting
I think the main reason I have no sense of humor at the moment is that I was just listening to Mark Levin in the car on my way back from the bank.
He started taking calls from liberals, hoping that one of them could explain what the “fair” tax rate is, and what they would cut.
The last person he talked to before I got home was so math-challenged that he could only have been a member of Congress. The guy kept insisting that increasing the top marginal rate from 36 to 39.6% was only a 3.6% increase, rather than the 10% increase that it actually represents.
And then, he claimed that it would only mean that someone earning $300,000 would have to pay $300 more a year.
No wonder these idiots voted for Obama…
@ Prebanned:
That was tough.
@ brookly red:
It’s called being a state employee. There’s no downside to losing for the prosecutor, after all.
eaglesoars wrote:
I wish Bill would have said to Bob, ‘bite me’ and then say…oh wait.
lobo91 wrote:
I like it because it is fun and takes my mind off of the stupid 52%.
lobo91 wrote:
They don’t understand marginal tax rates
@ Prebanned:
I go to the range for that.
eaglesoars wrote:
For some odd reason if someones nic here doesn’t suggest gender, like Carolina Girl etc., I assume they are male. The ‘GULP’ was a tell, but that last comment is solid. Now I know.
lobo91 wrote:
that too but I was referring to his law suite against NBC
eaglesoars wrote:
They don’t seem to understand much of anything. Another guy was yapping about the Iraq war, as if that’s why Obama is borrowing $4 billion a day.
Mars wrote:
I never got tap dance. It’s cool, but if I go out to dance I can’t see myself breaking out tap shoes.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
You must’ve missed all the times I’ve said something about ‘Hubby’, but yeah, I’m a girl. A rather old one but………
lobo91 wrote:
All Levin had to do was ask if they know what baseline budgeting is -- aside from a ripoff.
eaglesoars wrote:
maybe that was it. I think I saw it at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion which was constructed for such things. Plus, the orchestra was in a deep pit. Being close was a plus.
lobo91 wrote:
At least the ballot box stuffers are.
Sad, but true.
lobo91 wrote:
If they’re smart, they’ll go after that prosecutor for prescutorial misconduct. I can’t believe Pam Bondi assigned her to the case.
As long as music is the topic my “Barenaked Powergrab” Barenaked Ladies parody, “One Month,” is being reprised at PJM Tatler.
Folks are invited to revisit and comment.
lobo91 wrote:
OK 4B? I must go for beer now…
lobo91 wrote:
Funny -- going to the range focuses me on the 52 %.
My gun nut BiL lives on the east side of the Shenandoah river and when I saw him a couple of weeks back, I told him that just before he goes down in a pile of brass as the FSA crosses the mountain to give us a call so we can be ready. We’re on the western side of the valley. If he can slow them down and thin them out, we’ll get the rest of them.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
On stage, it lets you pound out an almost hypnotic rhythm.
It’s out of fashion, but I like it.
darkwords wrote:
Good for him.
@ eaglesoars:
I heard that Baryshnikov was quite the womanizer.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, I wanna kill the boosh tax cuts so they get a better idea.
After giving everything that costs money up, I am making real money again.
I feel like I should save a bunch so I can cover the next slump, soooo.
lobo91 wrote:
Not all of them are idiots. Some are with the Chair in ruining this country. But they don’t see it that way. The Liberelese they use is code for equalization.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
They’re still idiots if they think their plans will cause anything but disaster.
@ song_and_dance_man:
I like the music, makes me want to put the system back in the mustang.
I had to get a police duty alternator to keep from running the batteries down, when the bass hit it was so pure your vision would blur.
1389AD wrote:
Honey, back in the day, he could have womanized me to his [insert body part's] content.
heysoos wrote:
Yup.
@ Mars:
Wow, that was great! Those guys do some great stuff.
I like the Navy’s Gangnam Style dancer. I really like the tune too, before I even knew what it was about. I thought he was saying gangsta style with an oriental accent. My son set me strait.
eaglesoars wrote:
/uhhh, isn’t that the general idea or did I miss something?
Prebanned wrote:
So do I. I think it’s a hell of a lot better than what the MC’s did. It’s taken to a whole new level. What I found interesting about it, is it’s usually done by just two guys with a bunch of electronic gadgets. They do this stuff live.
@ Rancher:
linky no worky
brookly red wrote:
well 1389AD’s emoticon was
song_and_dance_man wrote:
/they make pills for that now
eaglesoars wrote:
OK I guess I missed something…
@ song_and_dance_man:
cool
This may have been covered already.
I took an infrequent trip to LGF today.
This is from the stranger than fiction file.
Johnson was on a rant about some guy on Brietbart who
did a negative piece on Ashley Judd who may run for the Senate
in Kentucky.
The guy posted a suggestive pic of her & Charlie went all morally superior
calling the guy a sleaze and a misogynist.
Here’s the kicker, Johnson posted the same picture.
1389AD wrote:
Welcome to the GOP 2012,a party of scolds! As for me I like this song. It has a very sick electro beat. But I am more of a Libertarian, so I am evil because I like Rap and Electro-House according to some Conservatives.
I’m out.
RIX wrote:
Nah. It’s from the Standard Operating Procedure file -- aka Double Standard
RIX wrote:
There was a time, long gone now, when Foster foisted those terms on those who deserve it most.
RIX wrote:
So, you have a woman best known for flashing her breasts in movies. And it’s a no/no to point out that she flashes here breasts in movies?
eaglesoars wrote:
Terrific double standard when you consider all of the vile things
that Johnson has said about women.
Smart , attractive women freak him out.
@ Rodan:
NO FUN FOR YOU!!!
Mars wrote:
I thought that was Demi Moore
@ Mars:
Apparently, but for me the best part is that that dolt Johnson
turns around and posts the same pic.
@ coldwarrior:
/
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Actually, it best fits him, Pam Geller, Michelle Malkin, Dana Loesh. He
sleazes them all.
Good night all.
nite Rix
nite all
RIX wrote:
Wow. And here I am living a normal healthy, productive life with meaningful work and relationships, trying to maintain a fellowship with my Lord and walking in his light, seeking to find good in all men, and then someone brings up CJ… WTF
@ Philip_Daniel:
*Hug* Thanks, PD.
Prayers for {{{Lily}}}
brookly red wrote:
In some men there’s no good to be found, regardless of how long and hard one looks for it.
1389AD wrote:
i feel your pain.
Rodan wrote:
I hear ya’.