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Today, you can visit a giant bronze sculpture in Seoul that's modeled after PSY’s hands, mid-pony move in the “Gangnam Style” video. In Korea, “Gangnam Style” was treated as a point of pride, highlighted by a massive PSY concert that attracted over 80,000 fans. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. “Gangnam Style,” however, looked and sounded nothing like the K-pop norm, its big EDM chorus poking fun at the upper-class Seoul neighborhood of Gangnam. K-pop, with its controlled star-grooming system and skilled performance groups, was starting to get attention internationally and inspire an avalanche of trend pieces. But nobody expected anyone abroad to notice. Released July 15, 2012, “Gangnam Style” immediately reached the top of South Korea’s music charts, as one would expect from PSY (real name Park Jae-sang), a rapper boasting nationwide success over the previous decade. Alas, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s plodding Fast & Furious ballad “ See You Again” finally leap-frogged over “Gangnam Style”-a changing of the guard that arrives just as PSY’s hit celebrates its fifth anniversary. Korean pop star PSY had held the title since November 2012, when he became the first person to reach 1 billion views, then 2 billion, breaking YouTube’s view counter in the process. "But I would like to show the world what Korean music and concerts are about.Earlier this week, “Gangnam Style” was knocked off its perch as the most viewed video on YouTube. "I don't want to open up the champagne yet," he said. He also starred in two movies, "Mongjunggi" (2002) and "Mongjunggi 2" (2005).įor now, though, he is overwhelmed by the global spotlight. The album he released in mid-July, which includes "Gangnam Style," marks his sixth album.Īs an entertainer, rapper, songwriter, producer and judge for a Korean-television talent show named "Superstar K," PSY has built his reputation in the domestic music industry with numerous famed titles. PSY's management company says Justin Bieber has also shown interest in collaborative work.Īlthough the U.S.-educated Jae-Sang Park seems to be a new kid on the block to many foreign viewers, he has actually been around for more than a decade now in Korea, after making his debut in 2001. Groban posted on Twitter: "It's a gangnam style world, we are just living in it." He later added a phrase from the song: "O….O….o…o…o….Oppa GANGNAM style!! Heeeeeeeeeyy sexy laaaadyyy." "Words cannot ever describe how amazing this video is," T-Pain tweeted. The snowballing popularity of the music video has been noticed by celebrities like rapper T-Pain and singer Josh Groban.
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The funny PSY repeats "Oppan Gangnam Style" throughout the video, which roughly means "Girls, your big brother is Gangnam Style." He says: "I can go crazy when the time is right, a man who is bulging with social life instead of bulging with muscles. He dances in a subway station, by the river, on top of a modern building, and even in a public bath, a far cry from a Beverly Hills lifestyle. He longs for a "radiant, electrifying girl" who is "tender and big-hearted" by day but, by night, her heart turns wild and fiery. The music video starts with PSY daydreaming in a beach chair at a children's playground.
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But he keeps saying I'm Beverly Hills style. And the situation in music video doesn't look like Beverly Hills. "But the guy doesn't look like Beverly Hills. "Gangnam means, it's like Beverly Hills of Korea," said PSY, or Jae-Sang Park. The video shows the move - now named the "horse-riding dance" on the Internet - as riding an invisible horse on a saddle in many different venues in the posh Gangnam district in Seoul. But it is the dance step that is drawing audiences around the world. Chubby with a round belly, PSY, 34, wears a tailored suit complete with chic sunglasses and different color bowties throughout the video.