#GANGNAM STYLE MEANING TV#

Meadow Run: Played for laughs when PSY and HyunA do this.

Male Gaze: When the camera zooms in on the assets of women exercising.

Lighter and Softer: Bright and happy compared to PSY's older works, which were dark and gritty, with a lot of sarcastic jabs and Black Comedy.

Informed Attribute: The subway station in the video is repeatedly stated (even on this very page) to be 'dirty' and 'dingy.' Perhaps this is the case by Korean standards, but it's relatively tame by western standards.

Even the little boy at the beginning is from Korea's got Talent!.

The massive disco crowd at the end are various K-POP stars.

note PSY later returned the favor by appearing in the video for her song 'Ice Cream'

The girl dancing on the subway is Korean singer Kim Hyun-A.

The pelvis-thrusting elevator dude is actor Noh Hong-chul.

#GANGNAM STYLE MEANING TV#

The yellow-suit-wearing guy from the parking lot is TV host and comedian Yoo Jae-Suk.The two chess-playing *cough* old men are Daesung and Seungri from Big Bang.The Cameo: 'Gangnam Style' includes several Korean celebrities, naturally lost on international viewers.The narrator brags about his luxurious lifestyle, while the music video reveals him to be trying waaay too hard. This song - and the accompanying music video - provides examples of the following:

Fitting, since Psy himself is actually from there. So basically, he is referring to himself in the third person, and telling the ladies to come check him out because he 'has Gangnam style', meaning that he is wealthy and spectacular, like the inhabitants of the Gangnam District. Therefore, when Psy is saying 'oppa Gangnam style', he is really saying ' Big Brother has Gangnam style'. In Korean, the term 'oppa' means 'big brother', and it is a term of endearment used by women to refer to their boyfriend.

The title of the song refers to the Gangnam District, a neighborhood in the South Korean capital Seoul that is well-known for being affluent and extravagant. On December 1, 2014, it forced YouTube to rewrite its view systems by reaching 2,147,483,647 views. Just a year and a half later, on May 31, 2014, it reached 2 billion views. On December 21, 2012, it became the first YouTube video in history to reach 1 billion views. From Novemto Januit was the #1 most viewed video on YouTube (surpassing 'Baby' by Justin Bieber and replaced by 'See You Again' by Wiz Khalifa). The song was released in July 2012, and soon became ridiculously popular. 'Gangnam Style' is a 2012 song by South Korean recording artist PSY.

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