Gangnam Style Hallow lights

[Diggles]

I had a good laugh at this, because former neighbor & family friend has done programmed xmas lighting for nearly a decade. Too bad he isnt tapping into the pop youth!



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6t7oowAsGs[/youtube]

[Jakensama]

That might possibly be the worst song ever written.

[strife]

That might possibly be the worst song ever written.

I agree... but I still kind of like it.. then again, one of my favorite songs to listen to is Blue by Eiffel 65

[Jakensama]

Haha I haven't heard that song in forever. Normally I would just dismiss it as average pop garbage, but my secretary listens to the radio and I hear that shit like 17 times a day since apparently radios have 6 songs on auto-rotate.

[strife]

Haha I haven't heard that song in forever. Normally I would just dismiss it as average pop garbage, but my secretary listens to the radio and I hear that shit like 17 times a day since apparently radios have 6 songs on auto-rotate.

I had it as my ring tone for years(mostly to annoy my wife).

[Sebrent]

I hate the fact that most people don't have a clue what he's saying ... it isn't in English ... I'm curious how many actually know that ... I'm also curious how many of those think he's just making up words ...

A translation to English for you ...
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... given what I see there ... while likely not a "perfect" translation (though it does match translations on other sites) ... I can't help but feel it is another stupid pop song ... if the sound of it wasn't enough to give that away.

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@ OP ... cute use of the lights to "sing" the song.

[Slamz]

Pretty sure Gangnam style owes 95% of its popularity to the video. Anytime it comes on in any bar, someone is guaranteed to start dancing like the guy in the video (it's almost always slightly inebriated women in their 20s doing this so it all works out). I imagine you'd be mystified if you heard the song and hadn't seen the video. But then, with over 500,000,000 hits (no, really), I'm not sure how you managed to NOT see the video.

When I first saw it, I looked it up and Wikipedia already had a writeup on it that made it sound a lot more interesting. It's basically a satire. The singer, who is definitely not "Gangnam style", made a video about being Gangnam style and basically being a huge goofball. I can dig it.


I wonder if this is the first non-Spanish foreign language song to make it this big in America?

[Breand]

I just assumed like every fad it was based off the dance for the song and not the song itself.

[Jakensama]

German song hit #2 on the billboard in the 80s - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons</a><!-- m -->

[Sebrent]

So much better than Gangnam Style ... I'd be curious to see people's reactions to an English version of it.

[Snowreap]

this article does a pretty good job explaining what's going on behind the song:
Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation

-ken

[TinStar]

I wonder if this is the first non-Spanish foreign language song to make it this big in America?

"Du Hast" by Rammstein was pretty big when I was in highschool. It wasn't played at every public event or known by every 14 year old girl out there, but it was pretty popular for what it was.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CPE9kMhIvE[/youtube]