Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 22, 2013 12:27:55 GMT 2
It does seem like it's novelty single week here at the Fortress, with a discussion about the idiotic hysteria over the Harlem Shake and now this, a discussion about that other ubiquitous novelty hit.
Now, this isn't the out of touch Curmudgeon saying, "hey, have you heard this crazy new song?" I'm not Bill O'Reilly. I'm merely looking back, now the hype has died down, at what is truly a modern day musical phenomenon.
I've no idea how Gangnam Style, a K-Pop song sung almost entirely in Korean, managed to become SO big. Not just a hit song, but a global smash that had THE most cross-over appeal to any song in recent memory. My fucking parents like this song.
So whether it was the silly dance, the inventive video, the beat.. whatever, that shit exploded and hey, if the most watched Youtube video is now this over Bieber, that's something I can live with.
So anyway, now it's faded into pop culture forever, bound to be played forever at parties alongside other novelty staples like YMCA and Kung Fu Fighting, what do WE think of the song? What did we think of the insane success it achieved?
Personally, I like it. I wouldn't go so far as, say, Dave Grohl, who described it as "one of his favourite songs of the past decade", but I would agree with Liam Gallagher, who labelled it "an absolute classic." Classic in the sense its success will never be repeated and it is a true one of a kind hit. In the West, at least. We've got a very limited attention span when it comes to songs sung in funny languages, right Bill?
In case you've been living on the moon or you just want to refresh your memory if you've not heard it in the last two days, here's the video;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
So, Gangnam Style. Your verdict?
Now, this isn't the out of touch Curmudgeon saying, "hey, have you heard this crazy new song?" I'm not Bill O'Reilly. I'm merely looking back, now the hype has died down, at what is truly a modern day musical phenomenon.
I've no idea how Gangnam Style, a K-Pop song sung almost entirely in Korean, managed to become SO big. Not just a hit song, but a global smash that had THE most cross-over appeal to any song in recent memory. My fucking parents like this song.
So whether it was the silly dance, the inventive video, the beat.. whatever, that shit exploded and hey, if the most watched Youtube video is now this over Bieber, that's something I can live with.
So anyway, now it's faded into pop culture forever, bound to be played forever at parties alongside other novelty staples like YMCA and Kung Fu Fighting, what do WE think of the song? What did we think of the insane success it achieved?
Personally, I like it. I wouldn't go so far as, say, Dave Grohl, who described it as "one of his favourite songs of the past decade", but I would agree with Liam Gallagher, who labelled it "an absolute classic." Classic in the sense its success will never be repeated and it is a true one of a kind hit. In the West, at least. We've got a very limited attention span when it comes to songs sung in funny languages, right Bill?
In case you've been living on the moon or you just want to refresh your memory if you've not heard it in the last two days, here's the video;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
So, Gangnam Style. Your verdict?
