10-26-2012, 03:04 PM
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?
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?