While up late working last night, waiting for stuff to load, I realized that I was probably going to hear Gangnam Style at the wedding I'm attending Friday and figured I'd better see if I can learn the dance (cheesy line dances reign supreme at receptions). I knew this was big, but had no idea - there are parodies all over the place! The artist is from Korea and there are 2 nice interviews by Ryan Seacrest with him (search YouTube and you'll find it). Smart, funny, down-to-earth person (he laughingly said he deliberately went for being a classy-dressed, cheesy dancing guy and the moves were all put together by him and his choreographer).
Apparently Gangnam means someone who's laid-back/normal during the day, then goes crazy at night. Psy wanted to portray a guy who goes crazy for a lady.
(After watching, I decided I will not attempt to learn this and dance it in the 3.5" heels I'm wearing, it's a twisted ankle waiting to happen) lol
The best parody!
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The original:
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No parody, just dancing. But the best dancing of all the ones I watched!
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
For fans of Big Trouble in Little China...Lo Pan Style parody (ignore the cartoon-looking screen shot below, that's at the very end. and the original Lo Pan is in this!)
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
PSY’s viral hit ‘Gangnam Style’ has overtaken Bieber’s ‘Baby’ with 805 million lifetime views against 803 million. What’s interesting to note here is that it took Gangnam Style just about four months while Baby has been around since February of 2010.
...Gangnam Style is being watched 7-10 million times a day!
I like this one from a previous album too:
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Though not the best parody, the geek in me loves it best! The time frame showing below is the best part of the video (@2min mark - check the guy in the background's expression!).
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Hugh Jackman needs to come to my house and teach me how to dance gangham style! :dance: :excited:
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Park Jaesang is an unlikely poster boy for South Korea's youth-obsessed, highly lucrative, and famously vacuous pop music. Park, who performs as Psy (short for psycho), is a relatively ancient 34, has been busted for marijuana and for avoiding the country's mandatory military service, and is not particularly good-looking. His first album got him fined for "inappropriate content" and the second was banned. He's mainstream in the way that South Korea's monolithically corporate media demands of its stars, who typically appear regularly on TV variety and even game shows, but as a harlequin, a performer known for his parodies, outrageous costumes, and jokey concerts. Still, there's a long history of fools and court jesters as society's most cutting social critics, and he might be one of them.
Now, Park has succeeded where the K-Pop entertainment-industrial-complex and its superstars have failed so many times before: he's made it in America. The opening track on his sixth album, "Gangnam Style" (watch it at right), has earned 49 million hits on YouTube since its mid-July release, but the viral spread was just the start.
"I have to admit I've watched it about 15 times," said a CNN anchor. "Of course, no one here in the U.S. has any idea what Psy is rapping about."
I certainly didn't, beyond the basics: Gangnam is a tony Seoul neighborhood, and Park's "Gangnam Style" video lampoons its self-importance and ostentatious wealth, with Psy playing a clownish caricature of a Gangnam man. That alone makes it practically operatic compared to most K-Pop. But I spoke with two regular observers of Korean culture to find out what I was missing, and it turns out that the video is rich with subtle references that, along with the song itself, suggest a subtext with a surprisingly subversive message about class and wealth in contemporary South Korean society.
In part 2, she translates PSY talking about the making of his video and how he "felt pathetic himself while filing each and every scene in the MV. In fact, the scenes were meant to show crazy, pathetic, and also pleasantly deviant behaviors of people." Korean Music: PSY's "Gangnam Style" and "Gangnam Oppa" in "Architecture 101" (2)
Making of the video:
The original (again, since the one I'd first posted back in 2012 has been deleted from YouTube):
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
