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So yeah, unless you've been living in a cave, you've hopefully experienced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0As a long-term K-Pop fan(ten years and counting), never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd see a Korean artist performing in Rockefeller Plaza; in his native language no less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlhhfpFBTkGangnam Style is even being played on the radio, in South Florida at that.
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After all the efforts of Korea to get their music globalized, such as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0z4MakfRO4which barely made a blip in the US,
THIS:
has made K-Pop hit the big time.
So do you think this is a flash in the pan, or is Korean music really about to hit it big?
Also, PSY's been in the game for 10 years too.
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I think it is fascinating how far and how quickly it has spread across the globe and how infectious the song is. You have people who don't even know what K-pop is singing along to words they don't know because they song is just that catchy.
I think it's a wonderful thing and am very heartened to see such a widespread appreciation for a song.
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In my opinion? K-Pop tends to be more dance(i.e. techno) and hip-hop oriented. J-Pop tends to be (more) sugary and sometimes rock flavored.
There's a heck of a lot more Korean rappers for sure.
this was the first one that actually made me pay attention. I thought it was hilarious but didn't really think twice about the song. it's fun to see that it caught on though, specifically as a video. although it is catchy... when you hear it a bunch. They were playing it at a european starcraft tourney this weekend just because kpop is so ingrained in the scene in general and this song has exploded.
I think the Korean language itself sounds very similar to English in most of their songs where the Japanese language is pretty distinctive. I also hear a LOT of English words in K-pop songs compared to J-pop. I think there is something about the style of K-pop that translates very well to American pop from about 10 years ago.
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For me it's the elevator part. Everything else in the video is actually similar to western pop videos. But that dude in the elevator. He just looks so happy. Nobody should be that happy!
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I'm not sure if the vector to the west came through SC2, but I remember it hitting the scene at MLG summer arena. At GSL code S the next weekend it was also played a lot.
I doubt that this will mean k-pop hits it big in the west. I'm no expert, but most of what I have seen of it could just as easily come out of the European and US factories recording studios.
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More interesting is that when I went over to China recently, K-Pop was prevailent in all their stores. Its really surprising how popular K-pop is in other non-Korean countries, even though the language barriers still exist.
I wonder if people actually get that? Like, for all the people who love this video, are they aware that it's basically a satire of all the "look at me I'm so cool and rich" club dancing music videos that K-pop makes by the buttload? It reminds me of The Lonely Island, more than anything. Which, oddly enough, I heard bars playing Lonely Island songs un-ironically when I was in Korea.
I know that's why I love this video
I don't speak korean, don't really listen to k-pop at all, and haven't been to korea
but come on, everything in this video is ridiculous! like the elevator thing, or the part where he is in the sauna throwing up gang signs while leaning on some sweaty guy, or when he is literally yelling at some girl's butt, or when he is in a tux with the camera pulled in close and its intense and then the shot pulls out and he is on the toilet
how could this be anything but satirical?
I got that general impression from just how over the top it was.
But I'm not sure it's a permanent addition as a genre. It's a really catchy song but I know it's the first k-pop song to ever make it on to my radar.
This song was played during the DNC.
There's been Legend of Korra, MLP, and who knows what other versions of it made.
It's pretty amazing. This is the first I've seen the actual video tho. I'm always so late to memes.
As for him himself, I don't think he's ever going to get be looked at "seriously" in the U.S. market unfortunately (seeing how he's not from North America or the UK). I don't think he minds, seeing how his sense of humor seems to be a big part of his appeal even before this hit the US, and I think humor artists tend to come of drop in and out quite rapidly and just hang about for the laughs. I guess it's kind of like how when I first heard of MC Hammer (before I came stateside).
Catchy song all the same. Bought it on Zune, don't regret it. Naturally, it's already got a few covers in Korean.
I'm sure no one in the United States gets this (who wasn't a Korean national, an expat, or read this article). It'd be like asking a seagull if they understand the space shuttle by watching it, or my HIST 2112 students why Americans are marching in Red Square, or asking me to look at someone to dismantle a Hemi engine. That being said, you can clearly still enjoy the craziness of this video without any of that context (just like people outside the Anglosphere can enjoy a Lonely Island video, even if this is a tiny, tiny bit more subtle). You might very well think it was an entirely different kind of satire or joke. More likely, they'll come to their own conclusions and be convinced that they're absolutely correct (and have a good laugh), like how all international media is approached.
The article was fascinating. To my annoyance, you cannot find charts rating nations by credit card debt (or my google-fu sucks), but I have to admit, I wondered why South Korea always looked like a much nicer country (from an aesthetic standpoint), despite the fact that where I was born has a much higher GDP per capita. I kind of wonder if credit card debt might have something to do with it...
It apparently has the same BPM and key as a certain other song, so naturally...
I prefer the video edits myself.
Are you saying that if jack had done that caramel thing, none of that would've happened?
I started listening to other K-Pop because of this song and I wasn't a big fan, although I did like PSY's other songs I found on youtube.
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i'm like skfm though, I totally come into memes late. however i think it's awesome about him getting on the today show or whichever morning show it was and being able to sing in korean.
totes good!
now to go listen to some snsd to get that song out of my head.
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The funny thing is that the guy in the elevator, No HongChul, is actually more famous than Psy in Korea. He's a popular comedian and appears on the number one rated TV show here.
Also, the guy in the yellow suit that has the dance-off with Psy in the parking garage is the single most popular celebrity in Korea. His name is Yoo JaeSuk and he's probably more well known than the Korean president here.
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But the more that I watch it...
the more entranced I become.
The subway. That dramatic sort of slow, longing look he holds towards the girl in the midst of all that crazy music is just awesome.
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I like that they're old men that are largely ignored, they seem to be under an overpass, and they explode.
Subtle.
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The best part of that was when they showed half the video and then cut to the audience dancing along. Normally they just show the video. I didn't expect it to become an audience participation event.
Aside from the explosion of various _-pops that became huge on the forums a year or two back (mostly avatars, sigs and some youtube linking) none of it was really on my radar, but this has stuck. It's catchy, I enjoy the beat, and the video is just such a great mix of absurd (culturally different or truly absurd) and fun.
Edit: I see I was a few posts late on that one. Carry on.
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I wonder how North Korea feels overall about how much fun South Korea is having!