Pacland's Philippine Boxing Forum

"Hindi ako musikero pero si Freddie ay walang karapatang manghusga sa iba dahil Tsamba lang ang pagkagawa ng "Anak" at di sumikat ng matagal, internationally"......Mr. Sintunado



Di marunong magbasa si Mr Sintunado.

Para naman doon sa mga nagalit kay Freddie dahil sa pag-kukumpara sa unggoy.
Hindi siya ang unang nagsabi, kundi si Maraya. Bakit kay Maraya ay mukhang ok lang
pero pagdating kay Freddie ay talangka na ang bansag? Ang punto ni Freddie ay ganito:

Sa mga susunod na mga henerasyon ng kantang pang-internasyonal, maaalala pa kaya at
maipagmalaki ng mga Pinoy ang mga kanta ni Charice, Arnel o kahit ang fav kong si JM Chan,
kaysa mga kanta ni Freddie? Palagay ko "Anak" lang ang mangingibabaw, kung di na makagawa
ng kantang TANGNANG STYLE si Ogie Alcasid at Michael V.

may kinalaman yon sya ang nag translate ng english version ng anak ak ak ak

Mariah Carey is right...

Tayo-tayo nga lang nag-aaway na eh...
Mga unggoy...

+3d.......again, once more, for the 2nd time...I'm out

Background and release

"Gangnam Style" is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam district[16] of Seoul,[17] where people are trendy, hip and exude a certain supposed "class". The term was listed in Time's weekly vocabulary list as a manner associated with lavish lifestyles in Seoul's Gangnam district.[18] Psy likened the Gangnam District to Beverly Hills, California, and said in an interview that he intended a twisted sense of humor by claiming himself to be "Gangnam Style" when everything about the song, dance, looks, and the music video is far from being such a high class.[19]

People who are actually from Gangnam never proclaim that they are—it's only the posers and wannabes that put on these airs and say that they are "Gangnam Style"—so this song is actually poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying so hard to be something that they're not.
—Psy[20]

The song talks about "the perfect girlfriend who knows when to be refined and when to get wild."[21] The song's refrain "오빤 강남 스타일 (Oppan Gangnam style)" has been translated as "Big brother is Gangnam style", with Psy referring to himself;[22][23] "Oppa" is a Korean expression used by females to refer to an older male friend or older brother.[24] During an interview with The New York Times, Psy revealed that the Korean fans have huge expectations about his dancing, so he felt a lot of pressure. In order to keep up with expectations, he studied hard to find something new and stayed up late for about 30 nights to come up with the "Gangnam Style" dance.[25] Along the way, he had tested various "cheesy" animal-inspired dance moves with his choreographer, including panda and kangaroo moves,[26] before settling for the horse trot, which involves pretending to ride a horse, alternately holding the reins and spinning a lasso, and moving into a legs-shuffling side gallop.[27]

During an interview with Reuters, Psy claimed that "Gangnam Style" was originally produced only for local K-pop fans,[28] and he later said the same thing during a speech at Oxford University. On July 11, PSY and his music label YG Entertainment started releasing several promotional teasers for "Gangnam Style" to their subcribers on YouTube.[29][30][31] On July 15, 2012, the full music video of "Gangnam Style" was uploaded onto YouTube and received about 500,000 views on its first day.[32] However, in Germany, an ongoing dispute between YouTube and the GEMA (the country's performance rights organization) regarding copyright issues has led to thousands of music videos, including "Gangnam Style",[33] being blocked in the country.[34]
K-pop and the Korean Wave
Main articles: K-pop and Korean Wave

According to the news agency Agence France-Presse, the success of "Gangnam Style" could be considered as part of the Korean Wave,[35] a term coined by Chinese journalists to refer to the significant increase in the popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture since the late 1990s.[36]

Korean popular music (K-pop), considered by some to be the most important aspect of the Korean Wave,[37] is a music genre that relies on cultural technology to adapt to the tastes of foreign audiences and has now grown into a popular subculture among teenagers and young adults in many places around the world.[38] Although it has spread to the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and parts of South America,[39] its reception in the Western world has so far been lukewarm.[40] However, social media networks such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have made it easier for K-pop musicians to reach a wider audience in the West.[41] According to Mark James Russell from Foreign Policy, while the Korean wave "may not (yet) turn heads in Los Angeles or London", this could soon change because of the Gangnam Style phenomenon.[39]

The closest Western comparison that Kang can think of is Andy Samberg’s sketch troupe Lonely Island — but she notes, while they have big viral hits, they don’t actually sell a lot of records, and are seen as musical comedians rather than an actual pop act: “In Korea, gwang-dae actually top the music charts, perform on big music shows, and so on.”

The original gwang-dae were given a certain amount of license to critique the aristocracy, offering up satirical commentary on society through their dance, music and repartee. Modern gwang-dae performers are mostly distinguished by a tendency toward oddball costumes and outlandish pratfalls, but as others have pointed out — most thoughtfully Sukjong Hong on the blog Open City — “Gangnam Style” and its hilarious video are actually a subversive set of rips at Korea’s hypermaterialistic and increasingly inequitable society, in a time when the corruption of the nation’s elite is being placed in sharp relief.

Two weeks ago, Kim Seung-Yoon, the chairman of the $71 billion Hanwha Group industrial conglomerate, was fined $4.5 million and sentenced to four years in jail for embezzlement and tax avoidance. (The offenses were Kim’s second recent brush with the law; he was officially pardoned in 2008 by President Lee Myung-Bak after being convicted of beating a club bouncer with a steel pipe.)

Meanwhile, Chey Tae-Woo, the chairman of Korea’s third largest chaebol, SK Group, is currently awaiting judgment on charges that he embezzled $89 million in corporate funds.

Incidents like these have inflamed opinion away from the nation’s traditionally laissez-faire attitude toward misconduct by the superwealthy. A poll conducted recently by reformists in the ruling Saenuri has shown that three-quarters of Koreans believe that the chaebol are “immoral.”

So it’s hardly surprising that pop culture works are rising to the bait of the anti-tycoon wave. In May, cinematic provocateur Im Sang-Soo rode the wave of this discontent with his latest hit film, “The Taste of Money,” which takes a salacious look at a powerful chaebol family’s venality. Two months later, PSY unleashed “Gangnam Style,” and watched it debut at number one on the local charts as its video exploded on YouTube.