Music, music, music
I’ll be updating this page periodically to include music that’s piquing my interest at the moment. Song of the day: “Pretty Baby” by Blondie.
Tag: PSY
Go Away With … Jessi
Born in New York, Jessica Ho was 14 years old when she moved to South Korea by herself to jump-start her music career. Because of her young age, Jessi โ as sheโs known professionally โ lived with her grandmother, attended school and signed with a Korean music company. โMy father hadnโt wanted me to go, because I was so young,โ said the singer, rapper and on-air personality
The 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music
What follows is not only the story of Korean popular music, and how it birthed the K-pop business, but also how a small peninsula nation learned how to make art in the face of colonialism and political change, culled sonics from all corners of the globe, and keeps striving to find new ways of distilling the purest, most thrilling aspects of the human experience into four-minute packages of pop revelation.
Are you ready to get โLOUDโ with PSY & JYP?
Are you watching PSY and JYP’s new series, “Loud”? At the end of this competitive series, two new K-pop boy groups will be formed!
Latest News: Ji Chang-Wook & Kim Ji-Wonโs New K-Drama, BTS at the United Nations & More
BTS speak at the United Nations (again!); Shin Min-A talks about female empowerment; and Ji Chang-Wook and Kim Ji-Won will co-star in a new K-Drama!
Who’s the fat, little, unintelligible man? It’s not PSY, that’s for sure
Thereโs not much I can add to this that hasnโt already been said. But, the โBeavis and Butt-headโ part of me couldnโt help but chuckle when I saw that the doctorโs last name was โAblow.โ The fact that two old men who know next to nothing about music are critiquing and dismissing an โunintelligibleโ song because they canโt understand it. Wow. Just wow.
Racist idiots
So hey, did you know that only Americans โ i.e. white people, wink wink โ should be allowed to perform at the โAmerican Music Awardsโ? Should I be surprised at how stupid these people are?
I’m quoted in the U.K.’s GRAZIA about … PSY
Too bad they didn’t quote me correctly. The sentiment is there, but this isn’t exactly what I said. How do I know? They asked for my answers via e-mail. And I saved that e-mail.
Beyond funny horse-riding dance, PSYโs โGangnam Styleโ is sharp commentary on South Korean society
South Korean rapper PSY’s “Gangnam Style” video has more than 200 million YouTube views and counting, and it’s easy to see why. No Korean language skills are needed to enjoy the chubby, massively entertaining performer’s crazy horse-riding dance, the song’s addictive chorus and the video’s exquisitely odd series of misadventures.
Go Away With … PSY
What a difference two months make. For the past dozen years, PSY has been a popular rapper and entertainer in Korea. Then in July, he uploaded his video for โGangnam Styleโ on youtube.com, and the song went viral to the tune of more than 161 million views. Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Nelly Furtado tweeted about the song to their followers. โGangnam Styleโ charted at No. 1 on the iTunes Music Video Charts, topping Perry and Justin Bieber and cracked the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 64. PSY is now represented by Bieberโs manager, Scooter Braun.