So...what's your thoughts on Gangnam style?
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This is why pop music sucks. Apparently the video is meant to be clever and 'ironic', criticising the South Korean upper class. But 99% of the audience will not get the critique nor would they be interested if they were capable of understanding it. But I doubt it was ever anything more than a cash-grab anyway.Lugbzurg said:
It's also not 'odd' in the slightest, musically or visually - expressionist painting, psychedelic music of the 70s, minimalist classical, Japanese performance art and Dada art is odd, not this.
I have, 'twas awesome. Graham Gangnam'd like a boss.Noetherian said:That said, the single best thing to come out of the Gangnam Style trend (in my opinion) has to be the glory that happens around minute 50 of the Escapist Q&A panel Day 2 [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escapist-expo/6310-Q-A-With-The-Escapists-Day-2] from this year's Escapist Expo. Tell me you guys have seen this. It makes my day every time.
OT: It's hilarious, what more is there to say?
It's fun and catchy, and I like the goofy dance. There is a degree of comic self-depreciation which you don't tend to see in pop music these days. I mean, how often do you see a diminuitive fat man dance in an updraught of trash and fake snow? The fact that he plays it so straight all the way through, makes it a winner.
Also I like this one, for different reasons. Shame the red power ranger can't dance.
EDIT: shit, where have all the inbedded videos gone?
Also I like this one, for different reasons. Shame the red power ranger can't dance.
EDIT: shit, where have all the inbedded videos gone?
Catchy song and the video is great too... usually I'd be opposed to this kind of thing... but The Electric Six have shown time and time again, that no matter what the actual song sounds like, as long as it's delivered with enough charisma, personality, bravado, and weirdness, it'll at least be entertaining...<.<
Uh god, that ad was painful. Look at us, we're young and hip with the internetz. Come watch our show, which is fucking stupid and should die. Why Channel Nine revived it is beyond me. Then again, they do call Gangnam Style the "beating the dead horse dance"...StBishop said:
OT: Its OK, I watched it a few times and its funny enough, not something I would want to listen to repeatedly though. It's a meme that will die out soon, though. I mean, look at "planking" and such, in less than four months every video displaying Gangnam Style will be declared as old and out of fashion.
I guess I've just never been partial to living in cities, really. It's kind of like Chelsea.Lord Garnaat said:
I already edited my post.Shadie777 said:
We're always trying to copy America anyway. We usually take a lot of their hit songs and they transfer over to our charts a few months later and sometimes vice versa. So it's safe to say if it hadn't been there first my original post would still apply.
Not to mention 2 songs very like it (beat wise) have already been hits here. "Party Rock Anthem" and "I'm In Essex Girl"
For a nation of migrants our charts certainly don't reflect it very often.
HIPSTER! Kill it with fire!AetherWolf said:
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Kidding
OT: I find it pretty catchy but it definitely is overplayed. The video is pretty funny too.
They played it not once, not twice but 10 times at the beer garden at my university yesterday! Admittedly, there was a beer garden for a regatta but still! It was kind of fun the last time it came on though. It was clean-up time, and we had to sweep up all the beer cups in the parking lot. When the chorus came, I literally dropped what I was doing and did the dance.
For a parody, it certainly comes off as a failure to appear as any form of satire.Dangit2019 said:
Just look at something like Duty calls, for example. That's obviously a parody; a work of satire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTtsezso4Q
Or going into the greater relevance of music, Picture-Perfect Pony. This too is a work of satire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDdL4z5qfr4
Gangnam Style gives off no implication of the sort. It's just being like all the other crap without a hint of irony. Actually, no. It reeks of irony. Because, if it was an attempt at being a parody, it certainly didn't come out that way.
The song itself is actually not bad. I understand this kind of repetitive dancy pseudo pop house crap is really unhealthy in large doses as the American pop music industry has indicated in the past 2 or 3 years, but I actually like the song. And the video is pretty impressive. Simple but impressive. Don't wanna hear too much of it though. It's the kind of stuff that's fun at first, but too much of it, and you'll regret it later. Like LMFAO.