I am so excited to learn to dance this latest dance craze hitting the charts called the "Gangnam Style" by the Korean Dance Solo artist PSY. Its slowly creeping the dance charts in the USA. Even Britney Spears loved the video and the dance steps.
Here in the Philippines it was informally introduced to us through the ABS-CBN Channel 2's noontime show It's Showtime by the Unkaboggable Vice Ganda. I caught him dancing the steps and I was intrigued by it and the beat sounds excitingly dancable. Thank God for Google I discovered it is a new music from a then unknown Psy.
The uploaded video in youtube has already gone viral. According to VH1 when twitter head of music Tatiana Grace has tweeted this video, viewership rose up to 12 million in two weeks. And as of this writing the video has garnered almost 71 million hits already! It is now the No.1 most popular video on Youtube!
Psy is actually in the dance music business for over 5 years now since 2007 and Gangnam Style is included in their 6th album already entitled PSY6. In 2010 they took a 2 year break from the music biz and just July this year they are back. And this time they hit it big time with this hit Gangnam Style.
And as of this moment the dance hit has reached the No.44 rank in the US Itunes "Top 100 Song Chart" as of August 28th. This is the greatest advance by a Korean artist in all of history, and Psy was previously in No.56 just 2 days prior of August 26th. Wow, what a feat!
Well the question is who the hell is PSY and what on earth is Gangnam? According to wikipedia Psy or Park Jae Sang in real life is a South Korean K-Pop Star known for his sense of humor - during concerts he'll sometimes perform as a famous Female Korean Star. He graduated from Boston University and attended Berklee College of Music, but his music is considered somewhat controversial in his native Korea; He was fined for his first album, "Psy from the Psycho World" for promoting inappropriate content not suited for underage listeners. So his second album was banned. The Gangnam district is an upper-middle district in Seoul, Korea. The place Gangnam is the Plastic-Surgery Capital of Seoul, Korea. Celebrities frequent that place more often, and thus considered an overly-priced expensive place to go in Korea.
Well going back to the dance craze...I am as excited as Britney Spears to learn the basics of the dance step of this music! Since I am a teacher I sometimes teach my students some dance moves. Hey I am not a professional dancer but I have got the moves! Haha. So I am going to search some more dance steps and my students will be dancing the Gangnam Style dance moves soon!
So excited!
Here is a sample of that exciting dance step...okay let's do the Gangnam Style!!!
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It is so easy to do just watch the video and remember these positions.
okay?
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