There are nearly five credit cards for every adult. average just before the sub-prime crisis was 138 percent). In 2010, the average household carried credit card debt worth a staggering 155 percent of their disposable income (for comparison, the U.S. As Max Fischer points out in his analysis of the video on, plenty of Koreans are spending like they’re rich: Of course, Psy’s character isn’t the only wannabe Gangnamite in South Korea. (Thanks to the blog My Dear Korea for pointing out the cultural significance of various scenes in the video.) Instead of dancing in an exclusive club, Psy boogies in the aisle of a tourist bus. ( MORE: Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Is the Best Invisible-Horse-Riding Rap Video You’ll See All Week)ĭespite his flashy clothes and his preening and strutting, Psy’s Gangnam-style life is distinctly unglamorous: he sweats in a sauna alongside low-ranking gangsters, goes for a swim in a public bathhouse and joins a couple of elderly pensioners playing a board game on a bench underneath a highway overpass. The video starts off with Psy luxuriating on a sunny beach, being fanned by a beautiful woman - at least until the camera pulls out to reveal that he’s actually on a children’s playground and the woman is a figment of his imagination. Gangnam, you see, is Seoul’s richest and flashiest neighborhood, what one commenter describes as the Korean equivalent of “ Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Beverly Hills, Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Miami Beach all rolled into one.” The video depicts Psy’s comically inept attempts to live large in Gangnam style, offering a satirical take on South Korea’s burgeoning culture of consumer excess. The song is catchy enough, and the video ridiculous enough, that you may not have realized that “Gangnam Style” mixes its silliness with social satire. You may have even tried to teach yourself Psy’s “Gangnam Style” horse dance. You may have watched some of the many parodies, like this video combining the song with clips from the film Downfall featuring an apoplectic Adolf Hitler. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Follow you have access to the Internet - and you sort of have to in order to read this - then chances are good that you’ve seen the over-the-top music video for South Korean pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” which has racked up more than 250 million views on YouTube.
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She knows just how to always leave you wanting moreīro, bro, bro, bro, bro got Gangnam styleīro, bro, bro, bro, brother got Gangnam styleīaby, baby, you know I know how to get aheadīaby, baby, you know I know how to get it She lets her hair down and you see that she's got something in store Lets just pretend that it won't end until it ends Walking down the street he stuns all of the passers by He's all kinds of fly, drinks his coffee scalding hot
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