More Angry Than Funny
Apr. 14th, 2013 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotI'm only two views in, but so far this seems way more angry than funny. I wasn't expecting it. The jokes appear mean, deliberately, like tacks on a chair, electric-shock handshakes. Maybe Psy's attitude is that the decorum he's throwing raspberries at is mean in itself, so he'll be mean to decorum.
Nine comments down I see:
As a dance track, it isn't as compelling in its maddening repetition as "Harlem Shake," but maybe that's beside the point, if there is one.
Btw, Ga-In, his partner in mischief here, the one who gets him back with the chair trick, was in the best K-pop video I've seen ("Irreversible"), and another that's in my top ten ("Abracadabra").
*Maybe I should've been. The only Psy track I knew other than "Gangnam Style" was "Right Now," which maybe isn't just about getting the commuters to shake and the secretaries to feel better; maybe it also harbors background dreams of giving a wrong time, stopping a traffic line. The gag in the "Gangnam Style" vid is something of a "what am I doing here?" in relation to the posh life of Gangnam; in this one the answer seems to be "I'm fucking everyone up."
Nine comments down I see:
cjua2803 6 seconds agoThe music is relentlessly nondevelopmental. Intentionally refuses to give us any release.
PSy is such a troll lmao
As a dance track, it isn't as compelling in its maddening repetition as "Harlem Shake," but maybe that's beside the point, if there is one.
Btw, Ga-In, his partner in mischief here, the one who gets him back with the chair trick, was in the best K-pop video I've seen ("Irreversible"), and another that's in my top ten ("Abracadabra").
*Maybe I should've been. The only Psy track I knew other than "Gangnam Style" was "Right Now," which maybe isn't just about getting the commuters to shake and the secretaries to feel better; maybe it also harbors background dreams of giving a wrong time, stopping a traffic line. The gag in the "Gangnam Style" vid is something of a "what am I doing here?" in relation to the posh life of Gangnam; in this one the answer seems to be "I'm fucking everyone up."
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Date: 2013-04-14 11:14 pm (UTC)Rather disappointed the intro didn't turn into Lovey Dovey.
The lack of progression, I think, is partially reflected by the dance. Whereas in Abracadabra it was used for the hook, and thus the chorus was able to achieve higher heights, in Gentlemen it's used for the chorus, which necessitates that the song never get too active, or it wouldn't fit keeping a wide stance and cool swaying.
I said before that Gangnam Style was more confidently passive compared to the manic energy of Right Now, but Gentlemen cools down even further in the name of the self-assured persona. Gentlemen's Psy doesn't even let loose as GS's Psy does because he never closes the valve. He exists in a state of low pressure from constant continual release. He indulges his asshole urges as soon as he gets them, instead of letting them build until he snaps and does something over the top. This also means that this Psy is so self-satisfied that he never invites anyone to join in on his fun. Right Now was call to party, Gangnam Style was an open invitation to his party, Gentlemen is telling you about what he did last night and didn't feel like inviting you to. Which wasn't partying. Because partying is for desperate saps, which Gentlemen Psy is just in his own one-man party ALL of the time. Hold on, he's got to go grope that hot waitress that passed by just now. For the lulz.