{"id":342,"date":"2012-11-28T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whywesuckblog.wordpress.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2012-11-28T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:29:00","slug":"gangnam-style-still-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/2012\/11\/gangnam-style-still-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangnam Style. Still a thing."},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times<\/a> \u201cGangnam Style,\u201d the surprise hit by the South Korean rapper Psy, has now been viewed on YouTube more than 805 million times<\/b><\/i>, making it the channel\u2019s most-watched video of all time, according to a post on YouTube\u2019s Trends blog.<\/i><\/p>\n

After first appearing on YouTube in July, \u201cGangnam Style\u201d<\/a> has now overtaken the previous leader, Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cBaby,\u201d which was originally uploaded in February 2010.
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\u201cPsy\u2019s official channel now has over 1 billion views, a considerable number,\u201d the Trends post said. \u201cViews on Bieber\u2019s Vevo channel alone, however, still total over 3 billion.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

My New York Times colleague Melena Ryzik interviewed<\/a> Psy last month, and she wrote that \u201cafter posting compliments on Twitter about the song, Justin Bieber\u2019s manager, Scooter Braun, signed Psy, and an English-language track may be their first collaboration.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

People have been watching Gangnam style for a combined 6,630 years worth of time- a four minute and thirteen second video over 800 million times. If this number doesn\u2019t mean anything to you the wheel was invented 6,000 years ago and agriculture was still a thousand years away. If \u201cPsy\u201d would have just opened a dry cleaner or ruined the curve<\/a> like any other South Korean who knows what kind of progress we could have made in the last few months.<\/p>\n

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Nope none of that matters. It’s good we’re wasting our lives away- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called the song a \u201cforce for world peace.\u201d I guess nothing unites mankind like realizing that we are all dumb enough to listen to a song we don\u2019t understand over and over and over again. Hear that terrorists? We\u2019re not so different. We\u2019ve all stopped caring. Everyone has so little self-respect\/ is drunk enough to ride an imaginary horse<\/a> in what I can only assume is not the technically<\/a> correct nor a safe manner.<\/p>\n

But of course the story can\u2019t end there. Bieber just couldn\u2019t keep his hands out his fans\u2019 pockets and training bras. I\u2019m just spitballing here but maybe this Mayan 2012 Apocalypse thing is beginning to unfold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ready?<\/p>\n

Psy and Bieber drop their English collabo Gangnam style December 1 in time for musical Christmas cards, iPad mini commercials, and Hanukah parodies<\/a> so the Jews don\u2019t feel left out. Shit explodes. 4 billion views the first week. Teenage girls go nuts, bewitched by that damn rock music they all get knocked up grinding at their Middle School Snowball Dances. Abortions everywhere. Our political system goes into gridlock with Republicans threatening more hurricanes and everyone\u2019s sons turning gay until abortions are outlawed<\/a>. Discos and nightclubs around the world cave in. People get murdered if they do the dance wrong. Grandparents trying to show their grandchildren what they learned on \u201cThe Facebook\u201d break bones and flood hospitals. Obamacare gives every single one of them $14 trillion each sending our economy into the tank. But ultimately, on December 21st<\/sup> of course, someone smuggles a laptop into North Korea<\/a> where the Internet is illegal. Having never seen Justin Bieber before and realizing just how fucking stupid the world\u2019s population is, Kim Jong-Un<\/a> is outraged. He\u2019s had enough. Nukes the crap out of everything. Rewards Psy for his dutiful service in Death to America. Oh wait Psy\u2019s South Korean? He wouldn\u2019t help the North Koreans? Yeah maybe, but don\u2019t forget- they\u2019re both Chinese.<\/p>\n

PS- I\u2019d like to formally apologize to all my Asian readers. I\u2019m rearry, rearry sorry.<\/p>\n

EDIT: This picture made the front page of Reddit the day after I wrote the post. I was close.<\/p>\n

Too close…<\/p>\n

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