Rypro 525

someone on twiltter pointed out this song was number 32 on the US itunes chart. it has 102 million views in only 1 month (which is even better then what Bieber does)
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manicsounds

What ISN'T going on in Korean Pop? They are taking over the charts everywhere...

But my real question is, there seem to be hundreds of pop idol groups or solo singers from Korea, but where are the actual "good" musicians? I still have yet to find a single musically talented group from there.

Are these K-pop superstars just burying them somewhere?

The Black

You can't take this serious.
People that call this their favorite music also say their favorite food is candy. Dimwits.

Dan

K-pop frightens me.
That said, this video is meant to be as absurd as possible. The song is nothing special (like 99.9% of K-pop, or any genre, really...), so they made an absurd video to get attention. It worked. Congrats to them.

sotra

Frikin hellhole hilarious!

Groucho

No shortage of good-looking women in that video.

DonnachaOne

Already a thread on it from two weeks ago, and it was already past the crest of its fame by then anyway.

Hiro11

Gentlemen: welcome to the internet three weeks ago.

Also, the song is making fun of status/bling obsessed Korean yuppies. It's a satire.

The Bus

OP:

Supermallet

Satire or not, the dude in the elevator is fucking hilarious.

I was at a party last night and someone put on this video and half the party danced along to it. It was awesome and scary at the same time. It would have been more impressive if people knew more than the horse-riding bit.

Traxan

The Koreans are only slightly obsessive... I mean, when 70,000 people cram into an arena to watch a StarCraft game between 2 players, you know they need some hobbies.

On the subject of K-Pop, whatever happened to that idiot who tried to kidnap Taeyeon from SNSD while she was on stage?

Traxan

Wikipedia has a whole entry on the song. It identified the dude in the elevator:

Comedian/television personality Noh Hong-cheol dancing in an elevator with his trademark pelvis-thrusting with Psy rapping underneath him. It is a particularly well noted scene that has captured the attention of many viewers due to its unusual nature

And here's a BTS on the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HPiBJBCOq8

Traxan

This is priceless. Ellen DeGeneres had Britney Spears on to talk X Factor and Ellen brought out Psy to teach Britney the dance.

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Traxan

Psy on TMZ. Starts about 19 minutes in.

sharkstank

Yea saw the video a couple weeks ago and its fun. Definitely gets stuck in your head, but I enjoy it. I guess Psy has been around in S. Korea for a while with stuff like this and Gangnam Style just blew up

The Black

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Dr Mabuse

I laughed my ass off when Seth said 'we are going to live forever!'

Hader as the elevator guy.

bralph

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Larry C.

There's Kate McKinnon in the background making stupid faces again. Why does she do that????

OutRun2

I am proud to say I was COMPLETELY oblivious to this song/video until I entered this thread a few moments ago. Thank God....

Traxan

100,000 fans showed up for a live show. Bet the Dear Leader wishes he could get a crowd like this. They put even the Rock in Rio audiences to shame.

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bubba111

That's a whole lot of people! The video clearly says 80k, not 100k, however. Not that I could tell.