Lets go “Gangnam Style”!
With the latest dance craze “Gangnam style” making its rounds worldwide and really becoming a crossover breakout hit for the K-Pop artist named Psy, really proves that the language barrier isn’t a problem.
As long as the song provides a happy tune, a VERY catchy chorus mixed in with a few English words for people to clearly remember the title of the song – an old trick, by the way, used for advertising – and an infectious beat that practically contains no actual instruments and only the use of digital technology, it will easily fly off the charts.
How can you go wrong with this song??? It can be a song that almost everyone can enjoy regardless of race and age from young kids to full grown adults.
I may not be a huge fan of K-Pop, but I can recognize something truly phenomenal that this song has done. It is the ability to make people happy! And as simple as that may sound, it is what it is all about and we don’t have to give a complex reason why, because it is a good thing.
With all the problems all of us face in our daily lives and the tensions that exist in the world, we do need songs like this from time to time—it automatically puts all who watch the music video in a joyful, carefree and even in an almost silly childish mode and laughing at themselves.
Now when it comes to the direction and concept of the music video itself, one may find the video absurd. But if you can’t take a joke and what satire means, then you are missing the whole point of songs like “Gangnam Style”.
Not everything has to be ultra-serious, devoid of any semblance of humor in it, and boring because many people just want to relax and enjoy. But it is hard to not categorize it as a fad because any way you look at it, it really is one. A fad can be deemed either good or bad. The good really outweighs the bad here by a landslide. But because of the advances in social media and the internet, music has gotten a lot easier to get across to people from every far corner of the world with access to the Internet.
Internet is one of the most powerful tools anyone can use responsibly– or recklessly. It has literally worked wonders, built careers for many unknown artists and will open doors for many others still.
Now with “Gangnam Style” becoming the most liked music video in Youtube history and as long as people still find a reason to watch it and like it, I don’t see the song fading away into obscurity anytime soon. It is pretty much cemented into the minds of a lot of people. Next thing you know, people now may be diagnosed as having “Gangnam Fever”!
That song is so damn catchy to the point it is annoying and hard to get out of the head. It has been some time since a song this popular and loved by many has made such major waves as it has done in a short span. It has really sky rocketed a relatively unknown artist outside K-pop into a name we all now know.
And perhaps that kind of meteoric rise to fame Psy has earned and achieved is what I will remember the most. Good for him to break the mold by proving it is never too late to make it to the BIG TIME!
