PSY - GANGNAM STYLE Reaction!!
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I'm actually quite surprised you've never heard of gangnam style considering how HUGE it was back in 2012. As in it was EVERYWHERE. Not to mention it was the first youtube video to ever reach a Billion Views.
They are living in a cave. A Christian cave ;)
they've literally never heard of anything thats even slightly mainstream, so nothing surprising here
Oh boy that time things were so nasty 2012! Lol😂 plenty babies that year
@Treva Land They didn't know Muse and Sori never heard Madonna's Like a virgin...
@@sarakaster To be fair to Sori, she's mentioned not being allowed to listen to secular music growing up, and Vin's like me and stuck to certain metal bands when Muse were big and just ignored them.
The guy is known to make fun of the South Korean elite. He often got into trouble for it too. This song is just one of many songs in which he ridicules the typical upper class living in the Gangnam region of Seoul. He sees them as empty people without any real originality or morals. They just do whatever seems to be trendy at that time. Much like Hollywood and silicon valley, actually. We all know those type of people all too well, right? People who value virtue signalling far more than possessing actual virtues.
Gangnam is the affluent rich part of Seoul. With a plastic surgeon or two on every street. Gangnam Style is a satire of the typical upper class Seoulite life. Yoga, horses, luxury cars. Psy wants to portray himself as a resident of Gangnam, living the high life, but is most likely faking it. Psy has been a big star in Korea since the early 2000s, mixing humour and social commentary, but Gangnam Style went viral and became a phenomena in 2012.
The girl was Hyuna, one of the biggest Korean female popstars. A lot of the features in the video are various famous Korean comedians and artists.
i honestly think Hyuna was a big reason why this song got so big. before gangnam style came out, her song bubble pop became main stream in western culture but not at the same level as this song obviously. it was featured a lot as break music in video game tournaments, namely league of legends and starcraft 2. thats also where i heard gangnam style first, when the music video on yt only had about 1 mil views. it was in the midst of league of legends explosion onto the competitive scene where it went from backyard tournaments to filling stadiums so there were hundreds of thousands of ppl watching the live stream and everyone heard these odd k-pop songs played and got hooked.
hyuna opened the door with bubble pop and then psy came crashing through with gangnam style and took the world by storm
@@thekillingtomat No
Hyuna has a girl version of Gangnam style.
I'm speechless. I have no idea how you could escape this during all those years, it's surreal to me. The amount of memes and remakes that were done to this are endless. You would hear this anywhere, for years.
I envy you...
They’re boomers, what do you expect?
Gotta be in a bubble somewhere.
" I didnt know those guys had beaches", its a peninsula...
1.3 billion views and you’ve never heard this... 😂 I understand being secular from music but geez this was played at department stores, sporting events etc.. it was inescapable lol this was funny!
Speaks to how isolated these poor people are.
Really? You never heard this before? It was all over the World in 2012.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
World??
Dude, there is official NASA footage of alien life form doing this dance on Mars!
True Story.
I'll admit that I never hear it until I intentionally looked it up in December 2012 after reading about it but not knowing what it was. I'd also never heard a Taylor Swift song until 2017 and didn't know what she looked like until that same year.
Oddly enough it was popular before it hit the world...just the band wagon followers came a long..for a short time..
Been into Kpop for several years before Psy song lol
@ battoosh. , ???
Were you living in a cave in a parallel dimension in 2012?? How is it possible to have avoided this?
This reaction was priceless! Love the metal and rock reactions ALOT but this was kinda a breath of fresh air 😂
this is a roast of the rich people in seoul (gangnam district) who think they are better then everyone and at night - every moral gets lost.
Also a parody of Mtv rap videos
Music has no language.....what an amazing song...enjoying every frames and every lines...this guy is beast...😍😍😍😍
This is perhaps the only mainstream mega hit, that I've ever enjoyed. It's of course extremely catchy, but on top of that very silly and self ironic. The song and video is a joke in such a blatant manner that nobody could ever take seriously, which helped a lot when it came to tolerating it's massive success :>
This shit is fire. Period
This is hilarious. How come you've never heard of it? It was huge back in 2012.
Gangnam is a place in South Korea.
Next for some real metal: Maximum The Hormone - Let's Talk about Menkata Cotelee
yup
IT is literally impossible that you haven't heard it since 2012...Or maybe you were on a moon for such time...
Every heard of "Happy Birthday"?
Just wondering....
This was really fun to watch! Thanks! I'm surprised you never saw this, it was really big when it came out.
"Gangnam Style" is a South Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District of Seoul, where people are trendy, hip and exude a certain supposed "class".
North Korea is just South Korea with a Boston accent. - Conan o'Brien
Oh my god I haven’t heard this song since high school! WTF!? 😂👏🏽
This brought back memories for sure! Thank you to whoever requested this!😂👏🏽
omg this video make my day better thx
One of my favorite reactions from you guys.
May as well react to YLVES - What Does the Fox Say, if you're gonna react to this type of video. Lol!
No please no keep that filth away from us
Man, I could see this reaction release coming out on April 1st. About the closest you can get to Rick Rolling Vin and Sori.
Someone already disliked the hell 😂
"Never heard of Gangnam style".
Are you serious? o.o Have you been living under a rock or something?
Psy's greatness is undeniable.
I completely forgot about this video! It came out during the summer of 2012. I was about to go into my 3rd year of college. I remember this being played at every single party and every single person was doing that dance. Thanks for bringing back weird memories.
Being metal and all...I still cant sit still listening to this. The video is just great fun!
Oh it only gets better! You two should check out his other videos "Gentleman" and "Daddy"
It’s so interesting to see a recent reaction . Nice to know it leaves an impression 8 years later.
wow that was a trip down memory lane, still a banger in 2020. cant believe they never have heard of this. this was playing EVErywhere, I think I just graduated from school
Yasss!! I love this song so much! I love Psy so much! I love you guys so much!🤗☺️🥰💞
Moonspell - Full Moon Madness
Moonspell - Night Eternal
About time
Hahahaha! What the hell? This is like "Elders react to"! Did he say sexy lady? But what it is about?
That's like 2 boomer totally missing the point. It's fun! Easy listening that works across all cultures hence the 2 billion views.
How often do you listen to an Al Yankovic song again?? None existing gods please have mercy with us!
What's next, a lyrical analysis of I Wanna Dance WIth Somebody? Lol
@@Rollotomassi099 hahaha! this lol!
@@Rollotomassi099 OMG do you actually know what the Macarena is about though? It's about a woman who cheats on her soldier boyfriend while he's at war lmao I can't believe all the kids danced on that 😂🤣😭💀
Over here wondering how the hell yall just heard this for the first time.
Watch. It on American music awards, M.C. Hammer joins him and the combine Too Legit and this song, FREAKIN AWESOME, the whole building 's shaken' . Dance moves get crazy!
Okay so i know a little bit korea, so here is why this song became popular, and a few interesting facts
- Gangnam is the trendy and chic/rich part of Seoul. The song is a satyre of the rich people
- The lyrics is also a play on words with "Oppa" means either daddy, or "big brother" but it's a term females will use to call their older biggest friend (only one) who is usually also their crush and they could still call their love this way. It's not a gross term for them it's not a fetish related term it's literally a strong affection term and indeed is different from the english term. It's often a first step to call someone your boyfriend, and these kind of steps are taken very seriously in eastern countries where appelations to call someone are very codified. So "oppa gangnam's style" means in a nutshell if you take into account the song and the character "my sugar daddy from gangnam". Oppa is normally an emotional appelation but in this context it's used satyrically. The first line means "i have" but also sounds like "daddy gangnam style"
- Psy has made a success of himself by not taking himself seriously while, actually, producing quality content. His full shows are remarkably long for kpop artists and suprisingly enjoyable
- He was the first with this video to breach the billion views, and it was the highest viewed video of all times until Despacito was released, for many several years which is insane considering how tiny korea is
- He made several even better and more hilarious videos
- He has earned the highest revenues as a kpop artist by breaking the codes and reaching the world, also he happened to be successful at the moment kpop really exploded which helped
- The girl in the metro he meets is actually a VERY famous korean artist named Hyuna. The fact she's only a dancer in the video is huge because she was and is still huge in korea
- With this money, and the fact a lot of kpop artists are abused in the kpop industries, Psy created his own label which is probably preparing the first releases now. Supposedly he wants to give more fair contracts and pretty much everyone who empathise with those artists hope this turns out to be true. P Nation (the label Psy created) also recruited her boyfriend who also got sacked for this "scandal". They're both signed by Psy now.
- incidently, Hyuna gave the finger to her label when they created a scandal out of the fact she has a relationship (a lot of artists have abusive clauses in their contracts including not touching the money for many years, not being allowed to date anyone in order to bank on the crazy fans who are more attracted to their artists if they are single officially). She was big enough to drop the contract and "not care", also she has a very strong character and was "old" enough to probably be financially safe and with a good and strong public image to be able to pull that off in korea
- She is actually now I believe with Psy's label together with a few other groups or solo artists who had similar sttories and probably some newcomers
- Ultimately this song was an entry song for the 2010s generation to kpop which is booming at the moment
- women in korea are very thin, men too, it's just how they are, you have to take it into consideration when watching their videos. A video talking about beauty in kpop will relate to their own view of what is beautiful : a thin person with a very very strong emphasize on face beauty which is extremely codified in korea leading to incredible amount of surgery at low age to meet this unattainable beauty standards.
- if you find "man to man" attraction in KR videos/stories, you have to know showing affection to your male friend even physically is normal in korea. Men holding hands when friends or being close physically is a normal thing in korea and is not conneted either romantically sexually while in some countries you'll hear people say "ew superr gay". The video doesn't really tackle this, I think this part of the video is just showing another "stupid rich mama boy and his sportscar". so you're correct in saying they were having fun, physical proximity between male friends in korea is normal. Being physically close between a man and a female is a BIG thing there though. It's more normal to see two people of the same sex hold hands than say, people holding hands when they're still at the flirt stage.
- korea is obsessed with being clean. You can bet the metro's poles are cleaner than parts of your house like your door handle. I just wanted to point that out ! That's cultural in their country to be healthy, fit, clean, and helped their corona confinement because they are already prepared with tests and have social behaviours engraved in their life for whenever you get sick.
- Hyuna is the main kpop feature here (she even has her own version of the song available) but partts of the video are satyres of previous kpop videos that took themselves very seriously portraying rich lifestyles.
That's why this song is a landmark in modern pop history IMO because of how it impacted the world of music, its repercussions and what its success represented for a whole country's industry. I didn't expand on it, but the satyre on the rich is an important thematic in korea because the country is highly divided between the rich and the poor because capitalism was introduced after its de facto occupation by america and its transformation after their civil war. The country is full of corruption stories from their biggest companies, all while some people literally live in dumps. The success of the first movie oscar for Parasite is also a consequence of it and shows what is unfortunately a reality in the country. It helped the song resonate in korea first, launching it in the world as a second effect.
Some good info... Yeah the cultures are very different, so it can be odd for westerners. And most of the Eastern countries have their own unique cultural aspects, even if outwardly they have a lot of similarities. Many do share the aspect of having strict codes of behavior regarding certain aspects of life, especially concerning relations between men and women. The details may be a bit different though.
My favorite thing about this video are that guys highlighter yellow Adidas 💛💛💛
Vin.....dude....I was having kind of a bad day and just the look on your face for a good portion of this video was cracking me up! Haha
this song was like the song here in Miami in 2012, I was still in high school but even my school would still play this stuff everywhere for no reason. Also I think V&S have never seen an asian person in their life before
Nah, Maine has about 4 Chinese restaurants on every corner.
"They look like children to me."
Wow!
This was hilarious when it first came out (2012), made by Psy (Singer) and Yoo Gun-hyung (Producer), the song is about the Beverley Hills of South Korea called the Gangnam District and the style or lifestyle they lead. Psy was saying in an interview that the song Gangnam Style is all about nothing, which upon hearng that I laughed my ass off, because at the time people were theorizing about what it all meant, coming up with all sorts of weird and crazy ideas.
3:32 is literally what I said after coming back from primary skl/elementary school back in 2012 lol
5:40 “they look like 14”
Welcome to East Asia where we stop growing after 14.
Forgot how entertaining that video is.
I didn't see this one coming
Hahahaha what a classic, this was fun to watch.
Even school bells of many elemantary schools in Turkey were playing this song in the day. It was so huge for some reason.
OMG☺ ENERGY
Gangnam Style is a reference to a fashion style in South Korea, like being super modern and "hip"
Your reaction to this was hilarious. 😆
Now u gotta do Ladybaby nippon manju
Wow.. I never thought I would ever hear this song again.. Lol
It's actually impossible that you did not heard this song, this was the most popular youtube video
@@slushfilm oh...
This is his fifth album. This dance was familiar about 7 or 8yrs ago.
It still baffles me why this was such a huge hit worldwide.
Most didn't know about the satire... Which makes it more amusing, as many who liked the song fall into the groups the song makes fun of. Upper class or those that want to be like them and try to pretend.
I'm surprised you haven't of this, I'm a headbanger and I have but mostly because of my nieces back then lol. They did play it constantly at sporting events to though.
Jebus! What rock having you guys been living under, this song and dance are part of pop culture. Besides being the first video to get over 1 and 2 billion views on CZcams as you read.
Now look what you've gone and done. It had taken me years to get that damn song out of my head.
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EPICA - Kingdom of Heaven
They might be ready for Spinal Tap now
All the CZcamsrs were doing this dance the song came out it was soo popular
Believe me, this thing was fun back in the day. I'm a metalhead as you probably know by now but we even did a tournament dance in my workplace. Now nobody remembers him.
How could you not have heard of Gangnam style before 2020? that the real question..
How haven’t you heard this
To think that there were some people who hadn't seen this before! And I could be with them for their first viewing; I feel blessed :D :D :D
This version seemed all over the place from what I remember. The one on his Psy site with over 1 billion views is different. SO different. I think he attended Boston University too before coming out with Gangam Style
This is known to everyone in the world from 5 - 95 years old. How can you not know it? It was all over the news and in every pop culture outlet available.
At last ..
A reaction video where you play the whole song right through and then talk about it afterwards
rather than constantly pausing it 😉
Year 2020, 21st century, a pandemic is hitting the world and there's still people getting triggered by a video like this, really? This was hella fun, I don't get the amount of dislikes.
Because bare minimum research (first page on google) will prove that this is obvious satire about South Korean middle-class and all they did was throw the lyrics into Google translate and guess and made some racist remarks about southeast asians. Furthermore, Vin laughing almost throughout the whole song and still giving it a 2 when it's clearly meant to be satirical and funny seems odd, that would be like him headbanging through the entirety of master of puppet and then giving it a 4/10. This song is meant to be funny, not good. He agreed that it was funny and didn't reflect on that, their children had seen it. Whenever a music video makes it big across the younger generations it's usually a very good indicator that it's something with humorous elements.
Cause its horrible, really bad , what more do you want .
Only video of theirs that I clicked like on.
someone make them do more of this :D
Gangnam is a district in Seoul if memory serves. Kinda upscale, horse racing goes on there etc.
This was totally unexpected
It's pure satire... Making fun of the self absorbed lifestyle of the rich, and those that want to be like them. He also throws in the trappings of typical music video tropes that attempt to convey the person as being of the more affluent type. We have all seen these types of videos... Even a previously unknown artist may have their first single and video fit the mold of this style.
That is why all the various shots of the video emulate things you may see in a music video that is un-ironically trying to portray such a lifestyle... But they end up being shown as fake cheap knockoffs.
He looks like he is on a beach, nope it's a playground. The whole wind blown thing, it's actually trash. He is on a plane... Sitting on the toilet. None of the shoot locations are anywhere that is actually up-scale. Even the part with the horses is shot in the barn, where the workers are, and the rich owners never go.
This is definitely not my style of music, but due to the satire and true message of the song, I can appreciate it more, even if I don't want to actively seek it out for a listen.
The amusing part of this, is that the USA helped drive the popularity of the song to the level that it did... And this subtext floated over the heads of many of those that liked the song the most. And many of those people fall into the American version of people this song satirizes.
I would say that a lot of people who enjoyed this, but missed the message were probably also fans of the group LMFAO. While LMFAO were not afraid to poke fun at themselves, I believe they were genuine in promoting the posh and partying lifestyle. I mean one of them is Quincy Jones' nephew or some shit, so it's not like they ever had to figure out how the hell they were going to pay their light bill or rent. I think the majority of the people in the US took it the same way they took LMFAO.
I never looked into the meaning of the song so I learnt something in this comment section lol sounds like pretty cool satire!
Based psy
The most viral video to ever viral.
Didn't think I would see THIS here :P
I remember the craze. I got into it also. Was fun.
The other thing that made it popular was the 3 specific dance moves used. Everyone was trying to imitate them. And I'm sure the few billion views were from people watching it more than once. It was just a fun song. And I like them small bodied ladies you see in asian countries.
Live version of this song is more interesting to watch,everybody goes nuts
King PSY
Nice t shirt.
Gentleman is another song of his that the video went viral in the U.S.
LOL.. You have never heard of this. You are among the lucky ones. 😅😅😅
Time for Vin and Sori to learn some SWAG ....😅😎👍
Y'all need to watch the mashup with Gangnam Style and Ghostbusters.
Now you have to do gentlemen and daddy
You guys been living under a rock?
I mean cmon the guy ruled the world for a moment lol
3.5 billion views and you never heard of it. That's amazing.
I'm a bit late but Gangnam is an affluent district in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It's basically like the Beverly Hills of Seoul.
I'm sorry you guys had to hear that. I thought that song had died away and was long gone.
Of all the songs.... really 😂😂😂
You watched youtube 10 years ago. XD
(and I liked it!)
You want to see another video fro. Him that us odd is Gentlemen.
3.5 billions views by now. :o
Have you guys done the Macarena yet?
My computer science professor from South Korea said Gangnam is basically SK's most upscale and stylish part of the country and it's basically like Vegas or LA where the rush of the city makes you do crazy things
Cheap apartment in Gangnam I found listed was for $20,000 per month back in 2012.
Finally! Greatest song ever made🎉
Edit: 🤣 just realized the reaction is almost 20 minutes long. How?
Next y’all should do Damage inc by METALLICA