PSY @ 130516 Fox American Idol 2013 Finale!
PSY @ 130516 Fox American Idol 2013 Finale (Red Carpet)!
PSY to perform at American Idol Season 12 Finale!
Psy will be mounting the stage at the finale of American Idol.
The finale of American Idol 12 will air on the evening of May 16 (local time).
The episode is expected to draw much interest as the winner of the season will be decided this day, and Psy will perform his new single Gentleman.
Only the most prominent singers are known to perform for the finale of the show. Beyonce and Lady Gaga have performed for its previous season.
American Idol first started up in 2002, and has since brought into the scene many well-known pop stars such as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Adam Lambert.
Source & Translated by: enewsworld
POTUS Obama says he does ‘a pretty good Gangnam Style’!
If you needed another sign that Psy’s “Gangnam Style” had jumped the shark, President Obama delivered it Tuesday.
That’s when he told reporters, “My daughters have taught me a pretty good Gangnam style.”
Sure, he mentioned it after his meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in what can only assume was intended to be a compliment to a nation that has spawned a pop culture sensation whose video has attracted more than a billion viewers.
Source: Washington Post
Harvard Arts Blog: “The Life of PSY-The K-Pop sensation on art and life”
Last summer, there was one song, one YouTube video and one dance routine everyone knew, from your baby brother to your aging grandmother. K-Pop sensation PSY’s dance tune Gangnam Style could be heard from speakers world-wide while partygoers learned to trot like a horse across the dance floor. A smash hit, the song garnered one billion views on YouTube, making it the first video on the Internet to reach that milestone. (It currently has 1.6 billion views.) On May 9 at Harvard’s Memorial Church, in an event co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Korea Institute, the Office for the Arts Learning from Performers Program and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the YouTube sensation addressed a crowd of about 800 Harvard students, faculty and community members. After introductions by professors Carter J. Eckert and Alexander Zahlten, PSY cracked jokes about his English language skills, reminisced about his failings as an undergraduate at Boston Universityand recalled how Madonna permitted him to “touch her anywhere” during their performance together at Madison Square Gardens last year. After the talk, while students enjoyed free Korean food (compliments of PSY) outside Mem Church, the Harvard Arts Blog had an exclusive backstage interview with the entertainment star about his career, his future plans and his advice for aspiring artists.
You were making music a decade before Gangnam Style became a YouTube sensation in America. How has the music you produce changed over your career?
PSY: Because of the Internet and because of YouTube we can share things with each other very easily at the same time. A lot of people compare [Gangnam Style] with the Macarena, but honestly I think the Macarena is a lot stronger than my song because they didn’t have any kind of sharing tools or platforms. That song was just famous, but [Gangnam Style] got a lot of help from these platforms.
Can you talk about your relationship with the Gangnam District, and how it came to inspire your song?
PSY: Honestly, we are making a joke about someone who says “I’m Gangnam style,” which is basically a fancy sense of fashion. It’s a joke when someone who doesn’t look like Gangnam style keeps saying “Gangnam style.” It’s very funny in my country. I lived in Gangnam, but I know I don’t look like Gangnam style. I wrote that song with this kind of twist, but I didn’t expect that twist to work in other countries.
Do you have a name for your style?
PSY: A name for my style? I guess: approaching my body shape.
Do you watch any of the Gangnam Style parodies on YouTube?
PSY: I saw the parody that MIT did. It was great. They were at their campus by the Charles River, which was so exciting because I am so familiar with all the scenery. I was also really excited that last Halloween in the United States there were all these tubby guys wearing a tux and sunglasses.
You talked about Madonna earlier. What other American artists would you like to collaborate with?
PSY: Of course there are a lot, but as a composer and a producer I don’t think about collaborating artists, first I think about making the track, and after that is done, if I can think of someone then I should ask him or her. I don’t do that before making music.
So there is no one dream artist you want to work with?
PSY: Everyone is a dream artist.
Tell us a bit about your newest song,Gentleman.
PSY: In Gentleman, he keeps saying he is a gentleman, but he doesn’t act like a gentleman. There’s a similar twist to Gangnam Style. If I had made a video with a real gentleman, it would have been really boring. In the video, he’s a real jerk. A lot of people in the YouTube comments are saying, “Hey, be respectful to ladies!”
What’s next for PSY?
PSY: I’ll be in America until the end of May promoting Gentleman. I have an offer from the U.K. to play at Capital FM Summer Ball in Wembley Stadium. The reason why that occasion is so special to me is that my first and last role model was Freddie Mercury from Queen. Their last concert footage is from Wembley Stadium, and I grew up with that specific scene at Wembley. Now I have a chance to be there as a singer. Wow! In the mean time, I’m making an album that will be my 7th in Korea, but my debut album in the rest of the world.
Finally, what advice do you have for Harvard students hoping to make music their life?
PSY: I really hate to regret, but honestly the only thing that I regret these days is that I tried too hard with Gentleman. There was a lot pressure after Gangnam Style. So what I can say to those who are making art, please do not try too hard. It’s got to be natural and it’s got to be casual.
Source: Harvard Arts Blog
Heidi Klum: “Driving the kids home from school…rocking out to @psy_oppa …with a caramel frappuccino #Gentleman”
(Source: twitter.com)
YG Family’s Flower Baskets for Lee Ha Yi’s ‘Re-Hi’ 1st Solo Concert (130512)!
“I’ll buy you meat soon, YG’s sweet maknae Lee Ha Yi Fighting! - FROM Gummy Unnie”
“I don’t know if you know (Gentleman Lyrics) I held a concert here too from Gentle PSY”
“Hayi! You too, need to do a world tour soon - BIGBANG”
“Hayi, love you babeh - EPIK HIGH”
“Hayi is the best! The unnies (2NE1) are the best too! from 2NE1”
(Source: ygladies.com)
Okay. Let me clear the fuck out of this shit, because it is REALLY pissing me off.
Psy was an extremely well-known, well-respected musician WELL before Gangnam Style was even fucking thought of. He’s one of the senior musicians of Korea and he gets a lot of respect for his fearless stages and the way he writes songs to say whatever the hell he wants and believes, regardless of the Korean public’s extremely judgmental eye. I’m so sick of the way he’s being treated all around the world ever since Gangnam Style went viral, he’s just being called here and there to do the dance and whatever and then being sent off like he’s just a comedy dud. When he came on Ellen, she didn’t even bother fucking introducing him, he had to interrupt and ask to introduce himself. He came out on stage and she literally just asked him to teach the dance before he even said anything. Like that is so flat out disrespectful are you kidding me.
Point being, before you ignorant ass little fucktards decided he was the new laughingstock of the world and decided all on your own that he was just some annoying, talentless little comedy figure, get your fucking facts straight. Learn some respect, especially to the people that deserve/have already earned it.
To add in, “herpes” in Korea is pronounced as ‘Heru-peseu’. So he definitely knows what “herpes” is, just not the English pronunciation of it.
(Source: tumblingmusical, via bbspazz)
