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Interview: PSY on 'Gangnam Style,' posers and that hysterical little boy
CNN ^ | 08/17/12 | Frances Cha

Posted on 08/19/2012 9:06:55 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Interview: PSY on 'Gangnam Style,' posers and that hysterical little boy

He's 34, slightly rotund, and happy to laugh at himself and others -- this is the K-Pop star seemingly taking over the world

It’s been a hell of a week for PSY, the K-Pop sensation of the moment.

From a hit music video, a spectacular concert stage fire in front of 33,000 people last weekend, a spontaneous 'guerrilla' gig at Gangnam Station on Tuesday, to flying to LA following a call from Justin Bieber’s label, the comic hip-hop/rap star is riding one high-flying rocket to international stardom.

The 34-year-old rapper's "Gangnam Style" music video has gone mega-viral since its release a month ago -- clocking in at around 34 million YouTube hits as of the time of writing.

Thanks to PSY (real name Park Jae-Sang), the whole world is talking about Gangnam, Seoul's ritziest district, and wondering where -- or what -- it could possibly be.

And over on Facebook, feeds continue to be peppered with posts about the comic K-Pop singer-songwriter’s frenzied “horse dance,” which foreign media is calling “the second Macarena" because of its catchiness.

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CNNGo: Where on earth did you find that little boy in the video? He’s hysterical.

PSY: Isn’t he great? His name is Hwang Min-woo and he’s five. The night before the music video shoot, I was watching Korea’s Got Talent and saw him dance to Michael Jackson. His moves were ridiculous. So we called him up and asked him to be in the music video, which was shooting the very next day, and he came and it all worked out.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnngo.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: gangnamstyle; psy

1 posted on 08/19/2012 9:07:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 08/19/2012 9:08:45 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Oh Lord.

America has destroyed the world by exporting it's culture.

3 posted on 08/19/2012 9:37:08 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
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My 1-year-old loves this video.

His momma is Korean, so he sees a lot of K-pop vids.

4 posted on 08/19/2012 9:41:52 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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Holy Crap.

Apparently, the CIA was so busy watching North Korea, no one saw South Korea weaponize the Horse Rider Dance and launch it our direction.


5 posted on 08/19/2012 10:09:58 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
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