I woke up with this song in my head this morning. Ai yi yi.
No. That song is Cielito Lindo. 
Otherwise known as the Frito Bandito song.
This brought a tear of joy to my eye. Isn’t the world beautiful.
Psy was on The Tonight Show on Thanksgiving, where the audience was all active service personnel in uniform. He came out and performed the song, and ran into the audience at one point to dance with them. A crowd of military personnel in dress uniform dancing the cowboy dance.
Deadpool vs. Gangnam Style was filmed in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
My life is now complete.
And now the internet’s most beloved “comedian”, Mr. Bill O’Reilly does a review of Gangnam Style in the most racially naive and insulting method ever.
Some choice quotes:
“At least Elvis could sing, this is just some little fat guy from Yongyang, or somewhere like that.”
“This doesn’t even have intelligible words…”
“Maybe the entire point is that it doesn’t have any meaning.”
He researched the song/video as much as he researches everything else. Just keep watching, it gets better and better the deeper he digs.
Jesus Christ. That is five minutes of pure ignorance.
Yeah, everyone knows that orientals don’t have words!
I think they mean it doesn’t have meaning to most of the people that view it, i.e. all the non-Korean speaking folks that drove it to success.
I mean, they said it like complete assholes, but that’s par for the course.
Edit: Though then I guess they’re also ignoring the inherent meaning that visuals, rhythm, aural music etc can have to a person even without words. I mean, by their logic half of the stuff classical musicians wrote have no meaning (actually all of it, because, you know most of it is in French, Italian, or Latin).
I think it was pretty clear that he meant to be dismissive of this random Asian guy from “Yongyang.” And if he meant that it’s weird that people who don’t understand Korean like the song so much, then he should have said so, instead of saying things like the song doesn’t have words or that it fulfills the masses’ need for meaningless fluff.
And what was that nonsequitur about how he knows a bunch of people named Cy that don’t even look like Psy?
The irony is that I personally think the song has been dissected to death by non-Korean people who keep saying it’s some deep and profound commentary on Korean society. It’s a satire, sure, but mostly it’s just a funny music video. If O’Reilly had been making the point that people are giving the song more meaning than it actually has, I’d agree with him.
Look, grumpy old men said the same thing about Elvis and The Beatles. These grumpy old men, without realizing it, also introduced some xenophobic comments. They can’t help it they’re grumpy old men. And they’re grumpy old Republicans.
I never thought I would start to get as polarized as Americans on the Republican/Democratic dichotomy, but Jesus Christ the right wing in the US are really getting out of touch with reality, with globalization, and with humanity.
In interviews, Psy strikes me as a very nice young man who is astounded by his sudden fame.
Yeah, he seemed like a really cool, nice guy in the interviews I saw him in.
The entire POINT to the song, and to the video, is that it’s soulless and empty. It’s literally what the guy is saying; it’s an indictment of shallowness and materialism. If Bill O’Reilly was hit by a Mack truck, he wouldn’t notice it.
And my daughters, who are into K-Pop, think he’s cute, in that traditional Korean, shaped like a refrigerator, manner that K-Pop singers aren’t.
I don’t know if Psy will turn out to be a one-hit wonder, but if you’re going to be a one-hit wonder, this is certainly the way to do it.
Yesterday was the Korean music awards, MAMA, where PSY performed Gangnam Style and I think he won best song and best video. Here’s a video of his performance:
Also, these 7 seconds are what I remembered most about MAMA:
[aside] Is there something about English that’s inherently higher pitched than East Asian languages? I notice my own voice dropping octaves when I switch into Japanese mode, and Psy’s is WAY higher when shouting to the crowd in English.