DANCE

By Kelly Chen and Kenta Sakamoto

GANGNAM STYLE- PSY

Psy indirectly critiques societal values that prioritize wealth and status. While the satire may not have sparked significant social change, it did provide a lighthearted commentary on certain societal attitudes.

GENTLEMAN- PSY

The song's lyrics and visuals portray a man who is not necessarily polite or respectful in his interactions with women. While it can be argued that this challenges conventional gender stereotypes, it is important to note that the song's intent was primarily for entertainment rather than social commentary.

NEW FACE- PSY

The lyrics and visuals of "New Face" emphasize the idea of embracing one's unique appearance and personality. The song and visuals encourage listeners to be confident in their own skin and not conform to societal beauty standards. While this message is not revolutionary, it promotes self-acceptance and challenges the notion that there is only one ideal form of beauty.

The most famous song from PSY is Gangnam Style where people all across the world did the titled "horse dance" with your hands crossed in front of you while you galloped like a horse jumping up and down.
The catchy beat and lyrics made this song a globally recognizable sound everyone with the iconic line "Oppan Gangnam style"
Originally created to poke fun at the Gangnam, a wealthy district in Seoul, Korea. Joking that he has "Gangnam style" while the music video and dance is far from the perceived high class classifications that places like Gangnam has.
Originally targeting a local population this song within weeks went viral across the world.
Spread through major social media sources, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook at the time.
This crazy spread of the music video was the beginning of the streaming world today where artist have found a way to spread their work and become famous with. With how majority of artist today will use Youtube to share their music, Gangnam style was one of the first to ignite this source.
- This is largely how music artist make a living today, and its spread to newer social media platforms, like TikTok.
- Gangnam Style was the first Youtube video to reach billion views.
- Throwing away traditional methods to marketing artist's work.
This dance brought the world together with the viral dance, because of the spread due to the catchiness and the simplicity but excitement of the dance.
Dance groups from all over the world joined in on this dance. Massive flash mobs were created all over the world for example in 2012, Times Square in Manhattan was filled with a dance mob dancing the iconic dance.
The spread of the dance made huge social waves everywhere.
It also made a huge statement on the definition of K-pop. Where the opposite of what a Korean pop idol is suppose to do, look like, or dance like is the one to make the biggest breakthrough.
This dance also brought light to the amazing world of K-pop to the western world where today is a large industry outside of Korea. One artist can't be the reason for the large success K-pop has today but sure has a good deal in introducing the world to it.
This dance has also influenced political powers from Obama, to other political figures. Like the British Prime Minister David Cameron and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who hailed it as "a force for world peace. This dance became such a global icon that political leaders use this as an example.

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