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Bicoastal

(12,645 posts)
9. I dunno if that's QUITE accurate.
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 03:17 PM
Dec 2012

You're right about the "Beverly Hills" of Seoul stuff, and you're right about plugging Romney in, BUT--

I wouldn't call it a socialist satire on the corruption of the ruling class, though. I think it's more akin to Weird Al's "White & Nerdy." In the music video, he's a declasse goofball attempting to be a Jay-Z-like playah.

Here's what he said in an interview:
"People who are actually from Gangnam never proclaim that they are—it's only the posers and wannabes that put on these airs and say that they are "Gangnam Style"—so this song is actually poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying so hard to be something that they're not."

There's no criticism of the wealthy going on--the sloth and lust are all part of the "wannabe" act, and as far as I can see the anger you describe doesn't really exist. Add to this the fact that Psy biographically actually IS a rich kid who made good, and I'd say it's not the stinging critique of social morays you may think it is.

But art can be interpreted anyway you like, so who am I to judge?

I think there actually is a parody video using a mitt look-alike. (nt) Kurovski Dec 2012 #1
Why yes. Yes there is. Hong Kong Cavalier Dec 2012 #4
Hee-dilly-hoo Kurovski Dec 2012 #8
Here you go... SidDithers Dec 2012 #2
The Internet always delivers slackmaster Dec 2012 #5
ALWAYS. n/t Earth_First Dec 2012 #6
you really realy like that tune, huh dionysus Dec 2012 #3
Wow demwing Dec 2012 #7
I dunno if that's QUITE accurate. Bicoastal Dec 2012 #9
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