Gangnam Style
"Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일) is a K-pop song by South Korean singer PSY. The music video has been watched over 3.2 billion times on YouTube as of August 28, 2018[update].[7] It is the first video in the website's history that more than 1 billion people have seen. It has made people make many videos like it but in other locations, named "parodies". Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Ban Ki-moon tried the song's dance moves.[8]
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| Language | Korean | |||
| Released | July 15, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011–2012 | |||
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| Length | 3:39 | |||
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| Hangul | 강남스타일 | |||
| Hanja | 江南스타일 | |||
| RR | Gangnam seutail | |||
| MR | Kangnam sŭt'ail | |||
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Gangnam Style continued to be the most viewed YouTube video until August 4, 2017, months since the music video for Despacito was first released.[9]
Arrangement
According to the sheet music that was originally published on Musicnotes.com by the Universal Music Publishing Group, the song is set in the time signature of 4
4 common time, with a fast tempo of 132 beats per minute, while arranged in the key of B minor (with the pre-chorus in B Mixolydian). PSY's vocals span from B3 to F♯4.[10]
Gangnam Style Media
Search volume for K-pop since 2008 according to Google Trends
Dancers performing "Gangnam Style" at the Gimje Horizon Festival
Psy with the "Gangnam Style" logo in September 2012
NASA staff performing the "Gangnam Style" dance at the Johnson Space Center
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon performs the "Gangnam Style" dance with Psy.
"Gangnam Style" as parodied in a comic strip published by Dyess AFB, an airbase of the U.S. Air Force
Psy performing "Gangnam Style" during Future Music Festival Asia 2013 at Sepang
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fisher, Max. Visual music: How 'Gangnam Style' exploited K-pop's secret strength and overcame its biggest weakness. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/18/visual-music-how-gangnam-style-exploited-k-pops-secret-strength-and-overcame-its-biggest-weakness/. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cochrane, Greg. Gangnam Style the UK's first K-pop number one (October 1, 2012)BBC News. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ 'Gangnam Style' Sees Veteran Singer Psy Leapfrog K-Pop Bands. August 13, 2012. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/08/13/2012081300834.html. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ Wood, Mikael (December 31, 2012). Psy threatens to retire 'Gangnam Style' on New Year's Eve. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-dec-31-la-et-ms-psy-gangnam-style-new-years-eve-20121231-story.html. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ Psy (Gangnam Style) – 'kẻ tâm thần' một lần vụt sáng rồi chợt tắt (in vi). ZingNews.vn (November 27, 2018). Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ Rap Songs 2012-10-20. Billboard (October 1, 2012). Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ Popularity of Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Analyzed Realistically. KpopStarz (2012-09-02). Retrieved 2012-10-04.
- ↑ Couture, Pamela. Complex Identities in a Shifting World: One God, Many Stories (in en) (2015)LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-90509-3.
- ↑ 'Despacito' Just Became the First Video to Reach Three Billion Views on YouTube. Forbes.
- ↑ PSY – Gangnam Style Sheet Music (Digital Download). Musicnotes.com.
