Gangnam Style (released August 1 2012) by Psy is popular because of its catchy rhythm and beat. Of course, while most Westerners cannot hope to comprehend the meaning of the lyrics, they will appreciate the chorus, which is very memorable (Oppa Gangnam Style!, and Eh- Sexy Lady!) and in English. We can also appreciate the dancing which is very easy to replicate.
It's a kpop song. In the genre Korean pop. So of course it's going to be in Korean. The singer, PSY, is from Korea.
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It's so popular because it has a lesson and it makes you think.....
You use color keying to switch the video signal in inplace of the green of the greenscreen so that the actors appear to be in the scene shown in the video.
It certainly wasn't the 'music'.
The "dance moves" in the South Korean Gangnam Video is of a horse trotting so horses are in the video to emphasis this. The artist, Psy, considered several animals including the kangaroo but the horse was chosen.
It was new, different, and caught on quickly.
Because it's catchy and it has a nice beat to it.
This is my theory: The song has a multicultural audience, which as a result, reaches a far larger group of people. This is the same reason why Gangnam Style was able to become so popular.
The number of downloads for the Gangnam Style music video on youtube changes every day as more and more download it. As of Oct 15, 2013, the number of downloads was 1,793,706,064 and counting with millions more every day -- that's nearly two billion downloads so far.Update: As of May 1, 2017 there are 2,826,462,032 views.Visit youtube to access the video and see the latest download count.Official Gangnam Style music video
Gangnam Style by PSY!
In Chinese definitions: it literally translates to Horse dance (hence the horses in beginning of the video and the dance style is kind of like riding a horse). However, Gangnam, is also a rich district in Korea, that is why he is wearing a tux. So a classy, but cheesy dance.
강남(Gangnam) is a county in Seoul where usually a lot of people who're rich lives there. So Psy is saying he has gangnam style, basically saying he's rich? or something?
The most viral and most watched video on YouTube was ‘Gangnam Style’, a Korean pop music video, by the artist PSY. The video, released on July 15, 2012, has over 2,141,811,976 views, as of writing this post. The video has been so popular that it earned PSY a nomination at the Guinness World Records for ‘Most Viewed Video on YouTube’. It is reported that the video earned PSY more than $870,000.
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