1 billion served: PSY's 'Gangnam Style' reaches unprecedented level on YouTube
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One million computers that are playing one playlist with one song ~ PSY - Gangnam Style. Over and over and over......
PSY can thank MC Hammer and "U Can't Touch This". From 1990 no less.... so many fucking years ago.
Wait! He did!
PSY had Hammer as part of his act at the 2012 American Music Awards.
PSY's "Gangham Style" and Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit" (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1WU0x9pBw
Wait! He did!
PSY had Hammer as part of his act at the 2012 American Music Awards.
PSY's "Gangham Style" and Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit" (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1WU0x9pBw
It was cool to see that video. Who would have thought black Americans sharing the stage with a Korean cast?
As most all pop phenomenon goes, it's just a silly song not to be taken seriously. People will poo-poo it anyway.
But what is interesting is that this is a song in a foreign language that has not only become a hit in North America, but in all of Asia, Europe, South America, etc. You should see all the imitations and people doing flashmob dances on Youtube the world over.
It's a sign of the times. We're at the dusk of European predominance and a new world order is emerging.
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It's all marketing dude. Once you get any random thing past a critical point, it takes on a life of it's own with every Tom, Dick and Harry imitating it. That is the problem with monkeys
You could make a video about balancing a rotten egg on your head, and as long as you can create the impression through marketing that enough other people are doing it, half the world will try as well.
The whole Gangnam Style thing demonstrates that so perfectly.
But the point is that this time, it's Korean marketing that the world is buying. It's always been English-speaking marketing that has an effect on the world, it's never anything in a foreign language. And the degree of the effect is saying something too - and that is, the world has changed from being Euro-centric to something else.
The video is about a wierd fat dude dancing funny with some hot girls. That is basically it's selling point, because no one knows what the fuck he is saying. Like I said, once enough people watch something, it becomes hip for everyone else to as well. It has nothing to do with the music, or Korean marketing.
Btw, it does have English in it, he keeps repeating Gangnam style.....without that it would probably have remained local.
Btw, it does have English in it, he keeps repeating Gangnam style.....without that it would probably have remained local.
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20 years ago, even the most clever marketing in the world would not have made it a hit anywhere except in Korea. You're ignoring the most significant thing about this. It may be the same old marketing gimmick as ever before, but its that the world is changed that has made that marketing accepted the world over.
No, you haven't. This video is one of the reasons I sometimes hate the internet. 20 years ago this song would have been a wonder for 3 weeks, and you would have never heard it again until VH1 did a countdown special on 1 hit wonders. Now, with Youtube, it can be played ad nauseum.I am not one of the one billion who's viewed the video. I've never even heard the whole song, only seen bits and pieces of it that have been on the news.
Hope I haven't missed out on something really important ...
And nauseous is what it makes me...
Neither have I. The trillions of bytes used to view that video could of used to view so many better things. Like thisI am not one of the one billion who's viewed the video. I've never even heard the whole song, only seen bits and pieces of it that have been on the news.
Hope I haven't missed out on something really important ...
