Centered on a maddeningly infectious musical hook (“Oppa Gangnam Style!”) and a preposterous phantom-horse-riding dance (seemingly adapted from Agnes DeMille’s “Rodeo” for a pre-school movement class), the video is ideally suited to the making of the parodies and mash-ups through which original works and user-generated content conspire to construct the early 21st-century version of hitdom. It’s tweeting in audio-visual form.Īlso, “Gangnam Style” is as easy to imitate as it is to grasp. The clip is made for multiple viewings in two-second bursts. At the same time, the sheer goofiness of its pleasures gives it a kind of short-term durability. There is no need to watch the clip to the end, and in fact, no incentive. It is instantly communicative one gets it within literally two seconds of viewing time. Goofy, obvious, and juvenile, “Gangnam Style” glories in the most ephemeral values of the social-media age. POSSIBLE ANSWER: PSY This crossword clue was last seen on LA Times Crossword September 30 2020. The reasons to hate the video are obvious and well documented in Youtube user rants. We found 1 possible solution for Gangnam Style performer crossword clue while searching our database that consists of 2.4 million crossword clues. More importantly, in the case of “Gangnam Style,” there is at least one reason to applaud the thing on intellectual grounds.
All of us driven by adolescent delusions of exceptionalism should welcome, rather than reject, phenomena of mass popularity we need them, if only to be able to define ourselves by our exclusion from their aura. But the mere fact of its popularity is not in itself proof of its loathesomeness, any more than the once-awesome popularity of my first high-school crush, Mary Ellen, was a legitimate justification of my resentment of her. As of the first day of this month, the Youtube clip of the song, in its original rendition by the until-recently obscure South Korean performer named Psy, had more than 600,000,000 views (or clicks). There are many good reasons to loathe “ Gangnam Style,” the music video that has become the most popular product of the global pop-culture industry.