Bill O'Reilly and Keith Ablow don't get "Gangnam Style."

[Archae]

I was my head off reading this, and immediately though, "Hey Bill, did you dance the Macarena?"

Bill O'Reilly brought on pseudo-psychiatrist Keith Ablow last night to explain the whole 'Gangnam Style' phenomenon to him. Or at least that was the purported reason. The result was the usual idiocy, mixed with a fair bit of xenophobia. In other words, regular fare for the old white farts who watch O'Reilly who are just as befuddled by modernity as O'Reilly seems to be. Why would Americans be listening to a song “without intelligible words", where they have no idea what the meaning is, sung mostly in a foreign language by a fat little Korean bouncing around like he was riding a horse?

O'Reilly asked "What's going on?"

Ablow responded, as only Fox News contributors can: "I think what this fellow is tapping into... is the fact that people don't want any meaning right now. It is just is sort of like a drug and that seems to be what most people seem to want right now. Not reality, not feeling, not meaning."

O'Reilly: "So it means nothing but it's got a nice upbeat to it but you can do the pony and ride around."

Ablow: "The meaning is that it means nothing."

So there you have it. A song has no meaning because a couple of middle-aged white guys says it doesn't.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/bill-oreilly-gangnam-style#comments

[ChoppinBroccoli]

1. Wonder If Billo Ever Listened To "Innagaddadavida"

There are TONS of songs out there, from every era, with unintelligible lyrics. Even worse, there are tons of songs with..........(gasp!)...........no words whatsoever!!!

Every time someone brings on this Keith Ablow joker, all I can think of is, "This is the 'psychologist' who claimed that having Chaz Bono on 'Dancing With The Stars' would turn children gay." Yeah, a real man of science, that one.

I better not catch Bill O'Reilly listening to "Feliz Navidad" this month. It has unintelligible lyrics and is sung by a guy who is probably an illegal immigrant (they all are, you know) who is also BLIND (which means he's probably suckling off the government teat too)!!!

[JaneyVee]

10. True, but I thought the lyrics translated to 'In The Garden of Eden'

[Archae]

11. It was supposed to orginally be that...

But the guy writing the song was drinking a great deal of wine while doing so, and it came out the weird way.

"Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen was the same way, their frontman was plowed when they recorded it.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Next up: They ponder Rama Lama Ding Dong and deconstruct 'Louis, Louis'

[enough]

7. +1 (nt)

[Bandit]

9. oo ee oo aa aa ting tang walla walla bing bang, oo ee oo aa aa ting tang walla walla bang bang.

How many remember that one?

[pinboy3niner]

13. Who could forget 'Witch Doctor'?

These could keep Billo and Ablow busy for a while.

And the original 'Louie Louie' and a version with on-screen lyrics...

And more...

[Hutzpa]

26. Nice collection you got there

you might need to email Bill'O these including this.

[Initech]

27. LMAO!!!! May I add:

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[RepublicansRZombies]

29. Has he seen Greece?

We go together like
rama lama lama
ke ding a de dinga a dong
remembered for ever like
shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yipitty boom de boom

We're one of a kind
Like dip di-dip di-dip
Doo-bop a doo-bee doo
Our names are signed
Boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy
boog-e-dy
Shoo-by doo-wop she-bop
Chang chang chang-it-ty chang
shoo-bop

[Initech]

42. How about this one:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Bill O'Reilly is truly the "Get Off My Lawn" guy.

Those kids with their long hair and their rock and roll, etc.

[Initech]

15. And he's entering full on Gran Torino mode.

[pinboy3niner]

21. They just don't write 'em today like they did in the old days...

[Blue_Tires]

45. I'd have thought if nothing else, he'd at least appreciate the girls' asses in that video...

[nolabear]

4. As a mental health professional I would like to apologize for Ablow's existence.

Please, please, PLEASE do not imagine him to generate anything but horror from the community. There are soulless hacks in all professions and sadly, he's psychiatry's. I fear to think the harm he's caused.

[lbrtbell]

5. It's a satire about rich people

That's why Billo & Co. don't get it, even though the translation and explanations are all over that newfangled web.

PSY (real name Park Jae-Sang) grew up in Gangnam, and his song/video is poking fun at the lifestyle and the type of people there.

It's amazing how a guy who grew up in such an affluent area turned out to be so humble and down-to-earth.

A quick, related news item: PSY was in the hospital recently for exhaustion resulting from his whirlwind, worldwide tour to promote GS. He's at home with his family to recuperate, but he's supposed to hit the road again on November 30.

Methinks Billo is jealous that he'll never be as rich or as cool as Park Jae-Sang.

[DetlefK]

6. Bad news: Meaningless song-texts were invented decades ago.

Please don't pin me down on this but IIRC it was invented by a jazz-singer in the 1920's when he lost his notes mid-song and began to make up nonsense-words as a "filler".

[seabeyond]

8. i dont know if there is anything to "get", but that it is fun. nt

[frylock]

12. to be perfectly honest, i don't either..

i finally got around to watching it a couple weeks ago and couldn't help wondering what was so special about gangnam style.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

17. “Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”

Charles Bukowski

[frylock]

20. i love buk!

[BarackTheVote]

33. My generation grew up on Joe Cartoon & Home Star Runner

That should be enough said.

[Codeine]

37. I'm old and I still loved Homestar Runner.

"Dear Strongbad. . ."

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Read the Wikipedia entry n/t

[Earth_First]

14. GET OFF MY LAWN!

[Comrade_McKenzie]

16. Like a broken clock... nt

[pinboy3niner]

19. Bye Bye Birdie - What's the Matter With Kids Today?

[MrSlayer]

22. It is a goofy song with zero substance.

All I hear is "I'm a condom star." when the kids play it. I don't hate it, I just think it's dumb. It's a one hit wonder and no one will remember it six months from now. Last year it was LMFAO, this year it's this dude, next year it will be someone else. Get what you can while it lasts I guess.

[biohazard9550]

40. good point

[Plaid Adder]

23. Maybe Bill would grok the Mitt Romney version better.

Always made me smile!

The Plaid Adder

[Matariki]

35. I LOVE this parody. I like the original though too.

[NashvilleLefty]

24. They don't get it because it satirizes everything they hold dear.

I'm an old fart, and even I get it!

[Matariki]

36. bingo.

and most (younger) Americans aren't as isolated from the rest of the world as they seem to be.

[davidn3600]

25. Old people complaining about modern music and entertainment is nothing new

[longship]

28. What the heck is "Gangnam style"?

Never heard of it until the last few weeks here on DU.

[pinboy3niner]

30. See the music video in Hutzpa's #26

That's the origninal viral video.

And here's one take on the real meaning behind the song:
http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/what-i-learned-living-gangnam-style

[longship]

32. Thanks. Article told me all I needed.

Can't stand anything remotely resembling rap, so I opted to forgo the video.

Thank you very much for your prompt response.

[Matariki]

38. Oh, but it's catchy! You should watch it, it's fun ;-)

[LTR]

31. THIS from the guy who likes sodomizing women with falafel?

[Matariki]

34. ROFLMAO

Talk about empty of meaning... talk about sort of like a drug - Fox News, meet Fox News

[ChisolmTrailDem]

39. I think it's just fun and that's why people like it and why

it's popular. It's also unique (for open-minded people) that it comes from South Korea. I'm encouraged and glad that our popular culture now includes Gangnam Style.

I haven't been to a dance club in years but I don't need to go to one to know that this song is being played in every venue with a dance floor and alcohol and the dance (I'm sure) has caught on like the Macarena and Electric Slide, etc. This may account for it's immense popularity here in the U.S.

[Buns_of_Fire]

43. I've found I can (almost) do it!

Almost, because I still dance like I've got a broomstick up my butt, but it's been that way for the last forty years, so that's nothing new.

(It took me almost a week to get The Three Amigos salute right, and I gave up on the Macarena because I could never remember what part of the body I was supposed to grab next.)

[ChisolmTrailDem]

47. Ha! Well, at least your shaking your bones! I used

to bump the beats nightly but I got settle down and now the only dancin' I do is here in my little home office. In fact, I confess that reading this thread was the first time I ever listened to the entire song and I jumped up and busted a move. It was terrible and I was winded half-way through, haha!

[MrScorpio]

41. If these two "experts" can't figure this out...

Why the hell are people watching THEM for any answers?

[pinboy3niner]

44. Good question

Apparently they decided to go with clueless and ignorant rather than bother with doing even a quick google search on the subject before bloviating.

[MrScorpio]

48. It's like as if I were to try to discuss a calculus, a trigonometry or an algebraic equation

I wouldn't know what the fuck I'm talking about, yet wouldn't I pretend to think that just because I don't know that there's no way to understand any of that stuff at all.

Billo and his quack headshrinker should be ashamed of themselves. But the fact that they have NO SHAME at all speaks volumes.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

46. I guess people didn't want any meaning in 1944 either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats