Oppa oppa
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Gangnam style made me prefer North Korea to South Korea. No country devoted to the common good could ever unleash such cultural carnage upon the world.
Jokes, but I do hate gangnam style.
The statue is, unsurprisingly, in Gangnam. Personal judgement of the song aside, it made the district world-famous. That's enough reason to erect a monument.
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I dont believe one could be a millenial tween in 2012
No but the millennium itself was a tween
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I dont believe one could be a millenial tween in 2012
wrote last edited by [email protected]Millennium as in 2000-3000 not millennial as the generation.
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Millennium as in 2000-3000 not millennial as the generation.
Psst. 2001-3000
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Psst. 2001-3000
Of course, I never wrote anything different
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"Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일; pronounced [kaŋ.nam sɯ.tʰa.il]) is a K-pop song by South Korean singer Psy, released on July 15, 2012,
Gangham style is over a decade old
So are you
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So are you
I am even older
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So are you
Shots fired.
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I am even older
Impossible
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I'm not sure what level of sarcasm this operating on and if you think romances can't have symbolism or not
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Don’t worry. The sculptor made sure you can’t misinterpret their work.
Pack it up, "artists," the solution to viewer interpretation has been found.
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"Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일; pronounced [kaŋ.nam sɯ.tʰa.il]) is a K-pop song by South Korean singer Psy, released on July 15, 2012,
Gangham style is over a decade old
This is one of those times where I'm not surprised at all. I think I'd have guessed it's older than that.
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Sometimes you have to embrace Death Of The Artist and just enjoy things for what they are, rather than what they were intended to be. If you stand around thinking about the historical context of the Arc de Triomphe or the Great Wall of China or the Hoover Dam, you're going to have a bad time.
Empty Head. No Thoughts. Just be at peace and enjoy what is.
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Gangnam style made me prefer North Korea to South Korea. No country devoted to the common good could ever unleash such cultural carnage upon the world.
Jokes, but I do hate gangnam style.
No country devoted to the common good could ever unleash such cultural carnage upon the world.
The biter irony of Gangnam Style was in its original portrayal (embraced by the OG music video) mocking the faux-decadence and rampant conspicuous consumerism of the Gangnam district. Then Psy blows up, becomes the epitome of the Nouveau Riche he was parodying, hooks up with his lead dancer, and just shamelessly embraces the same Gangnam lifestyle.
Gangnam style made me prefer North Korea to South Korea.
I mean, North Korea has its own brand of conspicuous over-consumption. It's just couched in the language of Juche socio-economic policies. The two countries' leaders are trapped in a shameless cycle of one-upsmanship and its been toxic for them both in different ways.
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Heeey, sexy ladies
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So are you
So's your mom.
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Death of the author is a thing.
Whatever meaning you derive from a piece of art personally is just as valid as the intended meaning
Is it a sign that I have no artistic talent whatsoever that I hate this concept?
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I am even older
And now you're older still
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Fortunately in English classes (I learned English at school) we read Macbeth. There's a lot of layers to Shakespeare - for example a lot of allusions which you'll only understand when you know about the time it was written in. And our English teacher dragged in a native speaker to help out with conversation, who was a student living in my town.
In German (my native language) however, we were presented a poem without not enough context about the author and had to answer "what's the meaning of this". Most of the German teachers I had were boring, lazy or both.
Your literature problem - I had that in German, Thomas Mann's "Der Tod in Venedig". Yeah, I as a teenager was so eager to read about the homoerotic thoughts of an older man traveling to Venice and lusting about a young boy. Yes, of course it's symbolic but - fuuuuck me, really? Do I need to read that.
Mark Twain has written an essay about the "awful German Language" (I don't agree). Amongst other things he complained about long sentences.
Ha! He know NOTHING! He had not seen the works of Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann must have been hugely intelligent. He managed to write a single sentence that is too long for a single fucking book page. With a random number of subclauses in between. Exploiting all the cleartext encryption mechanisms the German language allows! With the most boring content a teenager in the height of puberty can not relate to.
I still have a visceral hate for Thomas Mann. In my 40s I thought I'd give that book another chance. Nope. Still hate it.
Ah, soon I'm 40 years past school and I still get PTSD about it.
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Someone told me that Oppa means 'Uncle', but in the particular district of Gangnam the word Oppa/Uncle also means Pimp.
So it's basically a song based on a pretty bad pun. I'll protect you like an uncle, and by Uncle I mean Pimp.
EDIT: English speakers likely would do better with the translation as 'Ill be like a Father to you, a real Las Vegas Pimp Daddy (where Daddy is a word that means Father but has more Pimp connotations, and Las Vegas being famous for legalized prostitution).
It's definitely debauchery. But we likely have memorials to Austin Powers and other such pop culture icons, so it's understandable.
