I just didn’t find any thing great about the Gangnam style video, even after watching it many times.
It crossed a billion hits on you tube.
There must be something wrong with me.
Yep!
Comic genius, I tells ya.
“There must be something wrong with me” = my answer: “YEP!”
It had some mildly amusing moments, but I’m with you for the most part.
The “Mitt Romney Style” parody video was solid gold, though.
I detest all things Gangnam.
Well, maybe not detest, but it all gets a giant :rolleyes: from me.
I like it. It’s a combination of things; An amusing video, a catchy song, a silly dance. I’m not sure if it deserves worldwide super-phenomenon, but it’s one of those “right things at the right time” events that can’t be satisfyingly explained.
I also like many of the parodies, some of which have been of outstanding quality.
A dancing video becomes an internet phenomena. Who would have thought? Would I be showing my age if I mention how long it took to download Dancing Baby on dial-up?
I’ve actually never seen the video for Gangnam Style, only short excerpts that have made it onto TV. I’ll go watch it now, so I at least will have an informed opinion, but I can’t imagine that it’s any more brilliant than Tunak Tunak Tun.
It is to Tunak Tunak Tun what the Theory of Relativity is to Jell-o.
General Relativity, or Special?
Having just watched the video, I can say (1) I agree with the YouTube commenter that said it sounds like he’s saying “Open Condom Style” throughout, which I find much more entertaining and (2) Tunak Tunak Tun is still better, IMO.
The video is neat, but no big deal, IMO. I disliked the song at first, but it grew on me. It’s catchy, what can I say?
what is this i don’t even
I happen to like Gangnam Style but frankly, there’s plenty of videos that I don’t care for on youtube. So, once I watched them once, if I bothered to finish them at all, I never watched them again. Try this strategy next time.
I never could make it through the whole video.
Sometimes you get something after multiple viewings. I have appreciated movies this way.
You’re watching the wrong video.
It’s gotta be Klingon Style or nothing!
I liked it just fine, it strikes me as smart and funny, but not necessarily a work of genius. Sometimes things just hit the cultural zeitgeist just right and go nuclear because they were the right thing at the right time. Fifty Shades of Grey is another example: it’s just a good erotic romance, but women were READY for some kinky erotic romance and it filled the bill. Oppa Gangnam Style and Fifty Shades both did the equivalent of winning the cultural lottery, proving once again that success in the arts is not a matter of meritocracy ( in case the fact that Snooki’s book made the New York Times bestseller strictly on manufactured publicity didn’t tell you that – at least Fifty Shades’ and Oppa Gangnam’s success was an honest public response and not astroturf).
Parody videos have much better dancing.
There’s a lot of things with a lot of views on YouTube that are terrible, judging the quality of a video by it’s hits isn’t the best way to see whether it’s good. I think it was about a year ago when the song Friday got like half a billion hits and I don’t think anyone thought it was a good song; a lot of those hits were people who were just curious about what the phenomenon was all about or watching it just to down vote it or make fun of it.
I’ll tell you why I think it’s popular. It is catchy, which helps with popularity of any song. It’s got it’s own dance, which can make just about anything catch on. It’s got the whole confusing cultural references thing, which helps draw attention to it. And, perhaps most importantly, it’s just full of ammo for internet memes, mocking, and rip-offs; for example look up Mitt Romney Style.
Personally, I don’t like it either. I’m generally not very interested in hip-hop or rap, and even less so with popular music. I started seeing a bunch of references to it around the internet and looked up the video. It was amusing at first, for many of the reasons I mentioned above, but I had to turn it off before the video even finished because the novelty wore off and it started to just get annoying. It’s got more going for it than the aforementioned Friday and a lot of other random internet phenomenon songs, like Chocolate Rain and What What, but I also suspect it’s star will fade pretty quickly too as soon as the next thing comes along in a few weeks.
I have a theory that there is a large gap in the reaction to Gangnam Style based on age. Older generations, especially those who watched MIT in the 80’s and early 90’s, have seen hundreds of music videos in roughly the same style (and many that are better) so it is hard for us to see why it is so popular. However, MIT doesn’t really show music videos anymore and younger people get their music from Ipods. It turns out they are a potential audience for absurdist music videos just like we were nobody made many old-style music videos for them so they responded strongly when someone finally did.