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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Underwaterbob wrote: |
nero wrote: |
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This thread is lasting longer than his popularity. |
This is the first time CC has made me lol. |
The sad part is: I made the same joke five or six pages back... |
Doh!
I'm not sure which is worse... the fact that I stole your joke, or that this thread is still going on and the joke is still applicable. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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PSY just drew 20,000 at Champ du Mar. It's high time for Three Tenors: Gangnam Style. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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As another person here has pointed out, Adele has similar album sales yet hasn't come close to the youtube views. |
Well, it certainly can't be that people want to LISTEN to Adele's beautiful voice versus WATCHING a fat guy do a funny dance could it? |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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Captain Corea wrote: |
Underwaterbob wrote: |
nero wrote: |
Captain Corea wrote: |
This thread is lasting longer than his popularity. |
This is the first time CC has made me lol. |
The sad part is: I made the same joke five or six pages back... |
Doh!
I'm not sure which is worse... the fact that I stole your joke, or that this thread is still going on and the joke is still applicable. |
Most certainly the latter. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it certainly can't be that people want to LISTEN to Adele's beautiful voice versus WATCHING a fat guy do a funny dance could it? |
I'm not sure that's necessarily how it works. Personally I use YouTube to LISTEN to stuff for free at home and download it if I like it enough to want to listen to it on the way to work etc...I rarely watch the videos at all. Don't know what other people do. I suppose if you're into k pop and the like the videos would be more important. |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Location: Insert witty remark HERE
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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madoka wrote: |
Mr. BlackCat wrote: |
As another person here has pointed out, Adele has similar album sales yet hasn't come close to the youtube views. |
Well, it certainly can't be that people want to LISTEN to Adele's beautiful voice versus WATCHING a fat guy do a funny dance could it? |
Yup, which is pretty much what I said the very next sentence after the one you quoted when I said Steelrails brings up some points to explain that disparity. Nice try, though. |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Location: Insert witty remark HERE
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Underwaterbob wrote: |
Captain Corea wrote: |
Underwaterbob wrote: |
nero wrote: |
Captain Corea wrote: |
This thread is lasting longer than his popularity. |
This is the first time CC has made me lol. |
The sad part is: I made the same joke five or six pages back... |
Doh!
I'm not sure which is worse... the fact that I stole your joke, or that this thread is still going on and the joke is still applicable. |
Most certainly the latter. |
Guilty as charged! I'm being unreasonable in thinking I can squash all the cockroaches. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Mr. BlackCat wrote: |
TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Yep MUST be a conspiracy by those evil Koreans....everyone buying 10-20 copies of the song just to push it to the top....
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First I never accused anyone of calling Koreans evil.
And for the last time...WILL YOU STOP CLAIMING THAT I SAID STUFF I NEVER SAID? |
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Do you not know the difference between MYSELF making a hyperbolic statement as opposed to ACCUSING someone else of making said statement? Really?
You're digging yourself a pretty deep hole here. Either you don't understand the difference OR you were dishonestly twisting my words. Neither one is a good option.
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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edwardcatflap wrote: |
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Well, it certainly can't be that people want to LISTEN to Adele's beautiful voice versus WATCHING a fat guy do a funny dance could it? |
I'm not sure that's necessarily how it works. Personally I use YouTube to LISTEN to stuff for free at home and download it if I like it enough to want to listen to it on the way to work etc...I rarely watch the videos at all. Don't know what other people do. I suppose if you're into k pop and the like the videos would be more important. |
The thing is that Psy's song caught on specifically because of the zaniness of the video and the dance, both visual elements.
That's the problem, there really isn't a song that you can quite compare it to. I mean, what was the last big dance to come out? What was the last music video that was big because of the video? |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:10 am Post subject: |
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Maybe something from LMFAO? |
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gforce645
Joined: 02 May 2011
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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An article/editorial from Chosun Ilbo from last week. Some pretty interesting quotes, not what I expected.
"But I am not too excited about explaining the meaning of the lyrics to Gangnam Style" because I am not convinced that they are worth it."
"The problem is not restricted to Psy. "Gee" by Girls' Generation, "I Am the Best" by 2NE1 and "Fantastic Baby" by Big Bang rank among the 10 most-viewed Korean songs on YouTube and their lyrics are also excruciatingly banal."
Heres the rest of the article
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/11/01/2012110101373.html |
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drydell
Joined: 01 Oct 2009
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:05 am Post subject: |
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gforce645 wrote: |
An article/editorial from Chosun Ilbo from last week. Some pretty interesting quotes, not what I expected.
"But I am not too excited about explaining the meaning of the lyrics to Gangnam Style" because I am not convinced that they are worth it."
"The problem is not restricted to Psy. "Gee" by Girls' Generation, "I Am the Best" by 2NE1 and "Fantastic Baby" by Big Bang rank among the 10 most-viewed Korean songs on YouTube and their lyrics are also excruciatingly banal."
Heres the rest of the article
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/11/01/2012110101373.html |
Exactly!.. That's what I've been saying all along!.. Psy isn't mocking the rich gangnam elite- he IS the gangnam rich!.. Ask some clued up Koreans about it.. Makes me laugh all the foreigners who thought that daft song had some kind of left-leaning social commentary about it |
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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:39 am Post subject: |
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drydell wrote: |
gforce645 wrote: |
An article/editorial from Chosun Ilbo from last week. Some pretty interesting quotes, not what I expected.
"But I am not too excited about explaining the meaning of the lyrics to Gangnam Style" because I am not convinced that they are worth it."
"The problem is not restricted to Psy. "Gee" by Girls' Generation, "I Am the Best" by 2NE1 and "Fantastic Baby" by Big Bang rank among the 10 most-viewed Korean songs on YouTube and their lyrics are also excruciatingly banal."
Heres the rest of the article
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/11/01/2012110101373.html |
Exactly!.. That's what I've been saying all along!.. Psy isn't mocking the rich gangnam elite- he IS the gangnam rich!.. Ask some clued up Koreans about it.. Makes me laugh all the foreigners who thought that daft song had some kind of left-leaning social commentary about it |
That was all started by an east coast publication called The Atlantic.
Interesting how the writer went to extreme lengths to argue that the song was lefty commentary...almost unnatural levels of enthusiasm to do so |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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Not that anyone cares, but PSY 820 mil Beaver Baby 802 mil. |
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gforce645
Joined: 02 May 2011
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Those F5 bot programs have been running non stop. I wonder if people will catch on when the views reach over 1 billion and the Psy fad has long passed. Even as of now I still wonder if any real people are watching it and who they are. Maybe tribes in Papua New Guinea are just finally catching on. |
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