Yeah I've heard the satire is that PSY doesn't actually represent or live the rich, snobbish Gangnam style, he's just copping off it for the song. Not really a powerful message.
Yeah I've heard the satire is that PSY doesn't actually represent or live the rich, snobbish Gangnam style, he's just copping off it for the song. Not really a powerful message.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Here's the article I read awhile back concerning the satire, although it's not just in the lyrics. The video's important to it as well.
Gangnam Style satirizes a subset of korean culture.
The article mentions that the satire is indeed gentle and nowhere near as subversive as you'd expect from artists here in the states or England. At the same time though, Korea is very different and even this level of satire is something to take note of, particularly because of how popular the video's become. I remember seeing a video of Psy himself mentioning some of these points. If I can find it again I'll link it in here.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
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