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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill O'Reilly and Keith Ablow don't get "Gangnam Style."
I was my head off reading this, and immediately though, "Hey Bill, did you dance the Macarena?"
Bill O'Reilly brought on pseudo-psychiatrist Keith Ablow last night to explain the whole 'Gangnam Style' phenomenon to him. Or at least that was the purported reason. The result was the usual idiocy, mixed with a fair bit of xenophobia. In other words, regular fare for the old white farts who watch O'Reilly who are just as befuddled by modernity as O'Reilly seems to be. Why would Americans be listening to a song without intelligible words", where they have no idea what the meaning is, sung mostly in a foreign language by a fat little Korean bouncing around like he was riding a horse?
O'Reilly asked "What's going on?"
Ablow responded, as only Fox News contributors can: "I think what this fellow is tapping into... is the fact that people don't want any meaning right now. It is just is sort of like a drug and that seems to be what most people seem to want right now. Not reality, not feeling, not meaning."
O'Reilly: "So it means nothing but it's got a nice upbeat to it but you can do the pony and ride around."
Ablow: "The meaning is that it means nothing."
So there you have it. A song has no meaning because a couple of middle-aged white guys says it doesn't.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/bill-oreilly-gangnam-style#comments
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,781 posts)There are TONS of songs out there, from every era, with unintelligible lyrics. Even worse, there are tons of songs with..........(gasp!)...........no words whatsoever!!!
Every time someone brings on this Keith Ablow joker, all I can think of is, "This is the 'psychologist' who claimed that having Chaz Bono on 'Dancing With The Stars' would turn children gay." Yeah, a real man of science, that one.
I better not catch Bill O'Reilly listening to "Feliz Navidad" this month. It has unintelligible lyrics and is sung by a guy who is probably an illegal immigrant (they all are, you know) who is also BLIND (which means he's probably suckling off the government teat too)!!!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Archae
(46,297 posts)But the guy writing the song was drinking a great deal of wine while doing so, and it came out the weird way.
"Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen was the same way, their frontman was plowed when they recorded it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)enough
(13,254 posts)Bandit
(21,475 posts)How many remember that one?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)These could keep Billo and Ablow busy for a while.
And the original 'Louie Louie' and a version with on-screen lyrics...
And more...
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)you might need to email Bill'O these including this.
Initech
(100,028 posts)RepublicansRZombies
(982 posts)We go together like
rama lama lama
ke ding a de dinga a dong
remembered for ever like
shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yipitty boom de boom
We're one of a kind
Like dip di-dip di-dip
Doo-bop a doo-bee doo
Our names are signed
Boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy
boog-e-dy
Shoo-by doo-wop she-bop
Chang chang chang-it-ty chang
shoo-bop
Initech
(100,028 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,144 posts)Those kids with their long hair and their rock and roll, etc.
Initech
(100,028 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)Please, please, PLEASE do not imagine him to generate anything but horror from the community. There are soulless hacks in all professions and sadly, he's psychiatry's. I fear to think the harm he's caused.
lbrtbell
(2,389 posts)That's why Billo & Co. don't get it, even though the translation and explanations are all over that newfangled web.
PSY (real name Park Jae-Sang) grew up in Gangnam, and his song/video is poking fun at the lifestyle and the type of people there.
It's amazing how a guy who grew up in such an affluent area turned out to be so humble and down-to-earth.
A quick, related news item: PSY was in the hospital recently for exhaustion resulting from his whirlwind, worldwide tour to promote GS. He's at home with his family to recuperate, but he's supposed to hit the road again on November 30.
Methinks Billo is jealous that he'll never be as rich or as cool as Park Jae-Sang.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Please don't pin me down on this but IIRC it was invented by a jazz-singer in the 1920's when he lost his notes mid-song and began to make up nonsense-words as a "filler".
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)i finally got around to watching it a couple weeks ago and couldn't help wondering what was so special about gangnam style.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)Charles Bukowski
frylock
(34,825 posts)BarackTheVote
(938 posts)That should be enough said.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)"Dear Strongbad. . ."
A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)All I hear is "I'm a condom star." when the kids play it. I don't hate it, I just think it's dumb. It's a one hit wonder and no one will remember it six months from now. Last year it was LMFAO, this year it's this dude, next year it will be someone else. Get what you can while it lasts I guess.
biohazard9550
(12 posts)Plaid Adder
(5,518 posts)Always made me smile!
The Plaid Adder
Matariki
(18,775 posts)NashvilleLefty
(811 posts)I'm an old fart, and even I get it!
Matariki
(18,775 posts)and most (younger) Americans aren't as isolated from the rest of the world as they seem to be.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Never heard of it until the last few weeks here on DU.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)That's the origninal viral video.
And here's one take on the real meaning behind the song:
http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/what-i-learned-living-gangnam-style
longship
(40,416 posts)Can't stand anything remotely resembling rap, so I opted to forgo the video.
Thank you very much for your prompt response.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)LTR
(13,227 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)Talk about empty of meaning... talk about sort of like a drug - Fox News, meet Fox News
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)it's popular. It's also unique (for open-minded people) that it comes from South Korea. I'm encouraged and glad that our popular culture now includes Gangnam Style.
I haven't been to a dance club in years but I don't need to go to one to know that this song is being played in every venue with a dance floor and alcohol and the dance (I'm sure) has caught on like the Macarena and Electric Slide, etc. This may account for it's immense popularity here in the U.S.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,148 posts)(It took me almost a week to get The Three Amigos salute right, and I gave up on the Macarena because I could never remember what part of the body I was supposed to grab next.)
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)to bump the beats nightly but I got settle down and now the only dancin' I do is here in my little home office. In fact, I confess that reading this thread was the first time I ever listened to the entire song and I jumped up and busted a move. It was terrible and I was winded half-way through, haha!
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Why the hell are people watching THEM for any answers?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Apparently they decided to go with clueless and ignorant rather than bother with doing even a quick google search on the subject before bloviating.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)I wouldn't know what the fuck I'm talking about, yet wouldn't I pretend to think that just because I don't know that there's no way to understand any of that stuff at all.
Billo and his quack headshrinker should be ashamed of themselves. But the fact that they have NO SHAME at all speaks volumes.