Gangnam Style: Horsing Around Pop Culture

Amy: Pink came back to MTVLA screens when Stupid Girls became a hit in the US.
Rodrigo: I see. Well, I haven’t followed Pink’s career, but she recently did a song with Lily Allen called True Love, from The Truth About Love. Shame Allen only sang for 15 seconds, though.

Amy: But the complete opposite seems to happen to Aguilera, who has somehow lost favor in the US. Yet, it’s so easy to find comments in Spanish asking her to make a new Spanish album because “Latin America still loves you.
Rodrigo: Aguilera is now on The Voice and she’s gonna launch a new MV soon.
Amy: Yeah, I know. I don’t think she’s fully recovered from Bionic, though. I can’t really comment on the availability of her MVs on MTVLA any longer since I swore off it. I haven’t even seen if VH1LA or MTVLA is playing Psy’s MV. xD
Rodrigo: MTVLA is like MTV USA, but it took the channel a bit more time to go on the MTV television format.
Amy: MTVLA has sunken so low, VH1 is now showing what should have been on its MTV brand.
Rodrigo: I blame reality TV for MTV’s downfall.
Amy: It’s not the TV, we can complain… but people are sadly watching. The sooner 15 year olds realize that MTV isn’t about music any longer, then we can all move on.
Rodrigo: But the rest that are growing up will keep on watching it. People come and go. Plus, YouTube.
Amy: But we’re veering completely off-topic.
Rodrigo: I know… back to PSY.

Amy: What MTV does is broadcast what becomes hot music online… PSY… he’s been to the VMA, that’s a feat no other Kpop star has done. But then, the VMA isn’t exactly what it used to be… nor the Grammys.

Rodrigo

YAM Magazine contributor, has a B. Sc. degree in Science/Pharmacy and is a very lazy person.

10 Responses

  1. Mirella says:

    Considering I must be one of annoying friends that share all the Gangnam in facebook, yes I did like the song. It was catchy and funny, and that’s how I like my music lately (besides the music I already like or anime songs).
    I think all the social commentary people talk about, it’s mostly for its title, what with Gangnam being the most wealthy district in South Korea. But the lyrics of the song itself is about this (upper-class) guy who tells all what he wants in a (upper-class) woman, and then describes himself as a match for said woman?

    • amy says:

      @Mirella, hahaha and that’s in contrast to Rap and Hip Hop saying that they drink the most expensive booze, drive the coolest cars, but want them hos ? xD

    • Rodrigo says:

      @Mirella, The difference between you and the other friend that posts Gangman Style non-stop is that the other person I know is more of an “Asian pride” type of person and would probably like Gangman Style almost by default. You like it because it’s catchy and funny.

      Checking Facebook at the moment, now there’s like 6 persons that I know who like the GS song.

  2. amy says:

    I forgot to mention that some of the videos that turned “viral” lately have been Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s PONPONPON [MV] as well as Hyuna’s Bubble Pop [MV], but they never made it past the 50M views or never reached the status of “people that don’t listen to it have watched it”

  3. I remember that “Asereje” got quite a bit of airplay on the Latino outlets here in the US, but it never got as big as I heard it got in Europe. I think I saw something about it on the German news (Deutsche Welle)…

    anyways, Gangnam Style is fun and I hope that since it’s intentionally funny, that it doesn’t come across the same mean “make fun of the Asian guy” way as the William Hung business sort of turned out in the USA…

    • Rodrigo says:

      @chrryblssmninja, Aserejé got pretty popular among hispanic countries and Europe, yes. I remember one of my university teachers briefly singing a bit of the song and it was lulzy.

      I have no idea how long Gangman Style’s staying power will last in the States, but it’s catchy right now. Even members of my family talked about it briefly (they know it as “El Baile del Caballo”), and they know jackshit about Kpop (in my case, I am aware of Kpop thanks to YAM’s shoving promotion and talks about it).

      William Hung… lol, I forgot he existed until Amy and I chatted about GS.

  4. Rodrigo says:

    With the 2012 Emmy Awards airing tonight, does anyone thinks that the song will be used somehow and/or the song being danced by anyone? I guess Psy himself could do a cameo and teach it to Jimmy Fallon in the intro segment… or maybe Rex Lee or Ken Jeong imitate Psy.

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