PSY
(Park Jea-Sang) as a novelty act. In his homeland of South Korea, he has a 12-year career and string of top 10 singles to his name – he is the author not merely of Gangnam Style, but Blue Frog, I Love Sex, Psycho Party and the intriguingly titled Dwarf By Blues.
Long before Gangnam Style achieved 1.5bn YouTube views, went to No 1 in more than 30 countries and was hailed by Ban Ki-moon as "a force for world peace", Psy was famous enough for the Seoul media to pry into his background and childhood: "I remember Psy making a lot of sexual jokes in class," offered one former teacher. "I disliked him at the time."
And it's perhaps unfair to call Gangnam Style a novelty single, given that it started life as a satire of the sneering entitlement of South Korea's super-rich: something that got a little lost in translation abroad. But a novelty single is precisely what it became. Indeed, it's arguably the biggest novelty single in history, both in terms of sales and cultural impact; Black Lace were never invited to perform Agadoo before the president of the United States of America, and the United Nations secretary Ggeneral having kept any thoughts he might have g
(Park Jea-Sang) as a novelty act. In his homeland of South Korea, he has a 12-year career and string of top 10 singles to his name – he is the author not merely of Gangnam Style, but Blue Frog, I Love Sex, Psycho Party and the intriguingly titled Dwarf By Blues.
Long before Gangnam Style achieved 1.5bn YouTube views, went to No 1 in more than 30 countries and was hailed by Ban Ki-moon as "a force for world peace", Psy was famous enough for the Seoul media to pry into his background and childhood: "I remember Psy making a lot of sexual jokes in class," offered one former teacher. "I disliked him at the time."
And it's perhaps unfair to call Gangnam Style a novelty single, given that it started life as a satire of the sneering entitlement of South Korea's super-rich: something that got a little lost in translation abroad. But a novelty single is precisely what it became. Indeed, it's arguably the biggest novelty single in history, both in terms of sales and cultural impact; Black Lace were never invited to perform Agadoo before the president of the United States of America, and the United Nations secretary Ggeneral having kept any thoughts he might have g
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