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By now, pretty much everyone has caught on to the Gangnam Style craze. Flashmobs, peformances, parodies - the song has it all. Psy, the genius behind the song, has grown exponentially in popularity, appearing on countless American talk shows and charming his way into more and more people’s hearts. For me, I might be one of the ones who is starting to just be a little bit ticked off at all the Gangnam Style craze that is going on. Note: I respect Psy as an artist. I think that he has done an amazing job of getting more people to know more about Korean culture and Korean music. My opinions are merely on the craze as a whole.

Quite simply - it’s getting on my nerves. When the song first launched into popularity and more people found out about it, I was sensing something on a bigger scale, more than what other K-Pop artists have tried to achieve in America. And bigger scale it was. But weeks after the release of the music video and hundreds of parodies out there, I honestly cannot stand it anymore. I feel as if the meaning behind the song is lost on people the more it grows. Which seems to be the case when things get popular - they deviate from their original meaning or intent or purpose. Now Gangnam Style seems that it’s a merely a dance song for anyone and everyone.

Another thing is the amount of people who think that they suddenly are K-Pop fans just from listening to this song. I have seen people who act high and mighty over their “love” for K-Pop when, really, all they really know is Gangnam Style. Gangnam Style is K-Pop but K-Pop is not Gangnam Style. I am not annoyed at the fact that people are starting to get into K-Pop more thanks to this song. What I am annoyed about is those individuals who think it’s appropriate to rub into long-time fans’ faces that they know anything and everything about K-Pop, when all their knowledge is based off of one song.

In all honesty, I sometimes question how long this is all going to last. I wonder what sort of music Psy is going to make here in America. Would he have to create another sort of song and dance similar to Gangnam Style for people to jump on it? My fear is that the popularity of this song might pigeonhole people’s thoughts about Psy into one image and what would happen if he does move away from that image. Would it be positively or negatively received?

As a K-Pop fan, I know that there is so much more to K-Pop. And I also know how big of an artist Psy is to K-Pop. But it makes me wonder if the whole craze is simply just due to the image that Psy portrays in the music video.

All in all, these are my thoughts. I know that this is the unpopular opinion and that I am completely in the minority. But there’s always got to be someone on the other side doesn’t there?


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I think so too.

People just want to be on the bandwagon because everyone knows and “loves” Psy’s Gangnam Style. I doubt they even checked out his other videos. They’re just like “OMG!!! I LOVE GANGNAM STYLE AND KPOP!!!!!!!!”

The song actually does have meaning. People just don’t bother to look it up.


Mm I think Psy meant for Gangnum style to be more of a dance song, it’s kind of pointless to force a deeper meaning into the song. I mean music is just entertainment. To be honest, a lot of kpop fanatics do not speak korean, and we believe that music is universal, right?  So as long as they like the music, there’s no such thing as a ‘wrong reason’. Plus, to enforce a kind of seniority among fans is just ridiculous. Just because we know more factual information about kpop doesn’t necessarily mean we get it as like, the spirit, or the msg the artist is trying to convey. So it is of my personal opinion that this unpopular opinion is just fans being jealous to share their kpop.


I agree. Last week at my school, the song gangnam style was playing on campus and people just started forming a circle dancing to the song at the center of the circle. Gangnam style is also heard on the radio daily and parodies are made by the navy, coast guards, to the parents and children of the United States. It seems as if it is now a trend to automatically dance to the song and not know what the song is talking about. 


i totally agree!~i mean im also glad people are getting into kpop but it kinda seems like for the wrong reasons. idk hopefully the craze will die down and kpop will get some new true kpop fans and the fake ones will get over the craze


I know! There are new fans who think DBSK are rookies copying EXO and GD is a PSY wannabe -___________-


this is actually what every kpop fan thinks tbh


Yeah me too :/


I understand. I also feel that people aren’t taking him seriously as an artist but just as “that funny Asian guy with the horse dance” :L


i totally understand. youre definitely not the very first to think this…
i totally agree with your ‘Gangnam Style is Kpop, but Kpop is not Gangnam Style’ statement…
when i first watched it, it was at 14 million views.. smile
now i’m seeing all these others like, “omg.. KPOPPPP.” and i couldve sworn that they used to be arrogant about Kpop before Gangnam Style… it’s kinda annoying how people just love what everyone else loves just to be part of the crowd… -.-

but other than that, overall, this i guess would be all a positive affect. although those newbie fans kind of annoy us long-term fans, let’s think of how PSY is now doing a spectacular job.. ^^


hey this is well-written, i kinda have the same opinion as u, the Gangnam Style craze seem like getting out of control. Im a little sick of the song now, honestly…



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