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Psy of 'Gangnam Style' Fame Has an Anti-American Past (VIDEO)
South Korean pop star PSY rocketed to international popularity over the summer with his surprise hit “Gangnam Style,” which recently became the most watched video on YouTube of all time.
How could it not? The video is AWESOME. The music is catchy and makes you want to dance, PSY’s giddy-up style dance moves are hilarious, and the whole thing just makes you smile. SNL even did a skit on the feel-good nature of the song, playing it whenever one of the characters felt sad. PSY has become such a sensation that he’s been scheduled to appear at a D.C. charity concert this month with President Obama in attendance.
It’s the song that just makes you happy. Which is why the following news just plain sucks: PSY might be profoundly anti-American.
Over the past ten years, PSY has been filmed on stage smashing a miniature U.S. tank, as well as singing about killing the “fucking Yankees.”
In 2004, he rapped as part of an anti-American protest against the war in Iraq:
Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives
Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers
Kill them all slowly and painfully
Kill them all slowly and painfully? Mothers and daughters? Regardless of your opinion on the Iraqi War, surely we don’t all need to die. Heck, we had our fair share of protesters over here!
Should President Obama reconsider PSY’s invitation? He is the commander-in-chief of our armed forces -- some of whom, by the way, keep South Koreans safe by keeping psycho North Korean dictators in check -- he doesn't need to be partying with an America-hater.
Maybe. Maybe not. After the news came out, PSY issued an apology for his “inflammatory and inappropriate language,” and praised American servicemen and women for their valor in protecting freedom South Korea and around the world. Party on, PSY! You’re ok in my book. Meanwhile, let this be a lesson to us all to choose our words carefully.
Do you think PSY's apology is sincere?
Photo via officialpsy/YouTube
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Nellie Athome
Surprise! A great many people in other countries do not like Americans or what they do.
The way in which America behaves in an oh so arrogant "America is above the law" manner is a reason people outside the US do not like America.
The way Americans behave when they are outside the US is another reason people do not like Americans. - I literally sat on a bus in Israel and heard an American say "Didi can you believe there are all the Jews around us?"
OH, and there are a lot of born Americans who do not like the behavior of America overseas in terms of torturing prisoners and trying to tell other nations how to conduct their internal affairs.
EmmaFromEire
You are absolutey shitting out the crazy articles lately. Is it some sort of bet?
billsfan1104
When I heard this, i was dissapointed. but he apologized. i believe it is sincere. if he does it again, then he wasnt truthful in his apology.
Crystal Foose
Nellie- there is a difference between thinking America is above the law and believing in American exceptionalism. We live in the best country in the world and we shouldn't have to apologize for it. I have seen people from other countries act crappy here and Americans act crappy here, but I am not about to make blanket statements about not liking all people from other countries or this country because of it. That is just silly! Using case-in-points to defend generalizations is fallacious. (If you don't know what that means, buy a logic book off Amazon.) The Jew example is also irrelevant because it has nothing to do with nationality, it is a matter of religion! There are a large number of Jewish Americans and that woman could have made the exact same comment on many a bus in America.
FellyScarlett
On another note, I could forgive him.
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EmmaFromEire
well @jessy, i'm not american, and i certainly don't view america as being the ''greatest country in the world''. I don't think any one country is the greatest, even my own, and i think that kind of mindset is rather childish. Every country has it's own merits and downfalls.