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A secret asian man has spoofed his way into numerous VIP parties in Cannes pretending to be PSY of Gangnam Style fame. Now revealed as a French Korean adoptee living in Ireland, Denis Carré gave a short interview to GQ.
posted by Iteki on May 27, 2013 - 37 comments

Psy follows up Gangnam Style's horse dance with Gentleman's hip-swaying dance, aka "arrogant dance" from the Brown Eyed Girls' Abracadabra. Psy is helped along by Gain from Brown Eyed Girls and the cast from Korean variety show Infinite Challenge.
posted by needled on Apr 13, 2013 - 90 comments

The video for "Gangnam Style" is the first to reach one billion views (short scale) on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by Wordshore on Dec 21, 2012 - 143 comments

81-year-old Senator Alan Simpson does a decent gangnam while encouraging you to do something better with your time and social web skills.
posted by anothermug on Dec 5, 2012 - 21 comments

PSY (with Special Guest MC Hammer) live at the 2012 American Music Awards. [slyt] No further explanation necessary. [more inside]
posted by phaedon on Nov 19, 2012 - 118 comments

Can't get enough Gangam Style? This will fix that.
posted by egypturnash on Oct 28, 2012 - 51 comments

MIT Gangnam Style feat. Sadoway and Chomsky
posted by d. z. wang on Oct 27, 2012 - 42 comments

Gangnam style without music. [SLYT via Reddit]
posted by metaplectic on Sep 29, 2012 - 44 comments

If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become Deadpool vs. Gangnam Style [more inside]
posted by jason's_planet on Sep 16, 2012 - 44 comments

Wired talks to William Gibson: on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong, on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions, and and on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and ‘Gangnam Style’.
posted by Artw on Sep 15, 2012 - 55 comments

Though the 'Gangnam Style' music video and the reactions it creates have been mentioned before on MetaFilter, with the video analysed for the deeper socio-economic meanings and context within, to the bafflement of some Koreans and Australian journalists Psy's comeback track continues to climb various music video and song charts while 30,000 fans enthusiastically, and soakingly, sing and do that dance.
posted by Wordshore on Aug 28, 2012 - 90 comments

Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation [more inside]
posted by the young rope-rider on Aug 25, 2012 - 55 comments

PSY (Park Jae Sang) is a Korean singer, previously graduating from Boston University and Berklee College of Music. His latest, Gangnam Style, parodies K-pop videos and features several singers from that genre, plus Korean tv stars. Gangnam itself is a wealthy region of Seoul. The lyrics are perhaps standard for pop songs, while reactions to the video [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] show that a visually engaging video and a catchy tune are often fun the world over, irrespective of the language.
posted by Wordshore on Jul 24, 2012 - 44 comments