The statue is, unsurprisingly, in Gangnam. Personal judgement of the song aside, it made the district world-famous. That’s enough reason to erect a monument.
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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Gangnam style made me prefer North Korea to South Korea. No country devoted to the common good could ever unleash such cultural carnage upon the world.
Jokes, but I do hate gangnam style.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No country devoted to the common good could ever unleash such cultural carnage upon the world.
The biter irony of Gangnam Style was in its original portrayal (embraced by the OG music video) mocking the faux-decadence and rampant conspicuous consumerism of the Gangnam district. Then Psy blows up, becomes the epitome of the Nouveau Riche he was parodying, hooks up with his lead dancer, and just shamelessly embraces the same Gangnam lifestyle.
Gangnam style made me prefer North Korea to South Korea.
I mean, North Korea has its own brand of conspicuous over-consumption. It’s just couched in the language of Juche socio-economic policies. The two countries’ leaders are trapped in a shameless cycle of one-upsmanship and its been toxic for them both in different ways.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll hear nothing bad about that song, it was fun af. It was Kpop before Kpop was cool.
ethaver@kbin.earth 4 weeks ago
It was a fucking banger you tasteless, joyless, spork sharpener.
optissima@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I dont believe one could be a millenial tween in 2012
lemmyman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No but the millennium itself was a tween
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Millennium as in 2000-2100 not millennial as the generation.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Psst. 2001-3000