hmmmmmm........well, at least we don't have to worry about this being the next big thing (YIKES!!)

3rdeyedude said:

hmmmmmm........well, at least we don't have to worry about this being the next big thing (YIKES!!)

What do you mean? It was put up yesterday and already has 14,054,004 views.

MickyDolenz said:

3rdeyedude said:

hmmmmmm........well, at least we don't have to worry about this being the next big thing (YIKES!!)

What do you mean? It was put up yesterday and already has 14,054,004 views.

just hard to picture this becoming a hit song

maybe it's just me

What happened to "Snoop Lion" though?

I don't get it....is fugly becoming trendy or something?

Am I a bad person if I actually kinda like it??

Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Reaches Two Billion YouTube Views

By Jon Blistein - Rolling Stone

May 31, 2014 11:29 AM ET

It's one small step for man, one giant horse-y dance for mankind. K-Pop sensation Psy's viral smash "Gangnam Style" has become the first video to hit 2 billion views on YouTube. Yup, that means a viewership equivalent to just under one-third of the global population has spent a combined 504 billion seconds — or, 15,971.1 years — watching "Gangnam Style." We did it!

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"2 billion views; they are very honorable and very burdensome numbers," Psy said in a statement. "With the appreciation, I will come back soon with more joyful contents!!"

Psy's "Gangnam Style" entered our collective consciousness back in the halcyon days of 2012, infiltrating every aspect of our culture from Today to a Madonna show at Madison Square Garden to the White House. On the day he was elected to his second term as President of the United States of America, Barack Obama told a New H...io station, "I just saw that video for the first time, and I think I can do that move."

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Within four months of its debut, "Gangnam Style" topped Justin Bieber's "Baby" as the most watched video on YouTube, and by Christmas 2012 it became the first video to be watched over ...lion times. Psy announced he would "retire" the song after helping ring in 2013 on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, but the K-Pop sensation wasn't able to recreate that viral magic with his follow-up single, "Gentleman M/V," which currently boasts a paltry 687 million views on YouTube.

You know how people that work in the creative industries, or freelancers in general, say they're pleased when they reach the stage in their career where they actually can turn down work (i.e. the shit stuff)? Do you reckon Snoop will ever get to that stage?

deebee said:

You know how people that work in the creative industries, or freelancers in general, say they're pleased when they reach the stage in their career where they actually can turn down work (i.e. the shit stuff)? Do you reckon Snoop will ever get to that stage?

lol..........Snoop Dogg will work for food

hard to say who is more talented - PSY or Snoop

MickyDolenz said:

What happened to "Snoop Lion" though?

Whatever happened to that asshole. I actually thought he got into reggae for good as the blessings from The Marleys were very promising... He dutch that name & look & era eventually, shows how untrue he is to music.

Snoop is fairly an overrated piece of crap, was once a great rapper, is now a garbage who doesn't know where to go or what to maintain.

3rdeyedude said:

deebee said:

You know how people that work in the creative industries, or freelancers in general, say they're pleased when they reach the stage in their career where they actually can turn down work (i.e. the shit stuff)? Do you reckon Snoop will ever get to that stage?

lol..........Snoop Dogg will work for food

hard to say who is more talented - PSY or Snoop

My fear is that all this novelty stuff may eventually overshadow the credible, era-defining hip hop he did earlier in his career with Big Time Rush.
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I think Billboard now counts Youtube views at part of their chart criteria. If so, then Hangover looks like it's on it's way cause it's now at 28,897,714.

MickyDolenz said:

Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Reaches Two Billion YouTube Views

By Jon Blistein - Rolling Stone

May 31, 2014 11:29 AM ET

It's one small step for man, one giant horse-y dance for mankind. K-Pop sensation Psy's viral smash "Gangnam Style" has become the first video to hit 2 billion views on YouTube. Yup, that means a viewership equivalent to just under one-third of the global population has spent a combined 504 billion seconds — or, 15,971.1 years — watching "Gangnam Style." We did it!

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"2 billion views; they are very honorable and very burdensome numbers," Psy said in a statement. "With the appreciation, I will come back soon with more joyful contents!!"

Psy's "Gangnam Style" entered our collective consciousness back in the halcyon days of 2012, infiltrating every aspect of our culture from Today to a Madonna show at Madison Square Garden to the White House. On the day he was elected to his second term as President of the United States of America, Barack Obama told a New H...io station, "I just saw that video for the first time, and I think I can do that move."

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Within four months of its debut, "Gangnam Style" topped Justin Bieber's "Baby" as the most watched video on YouTube, and by Christmas 2012 it became the first video to be watched over ...lion times. Psy announced he would "retire" the song after helping ring in 2013 on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, but the K-Pop sensation wasn't able to recreate that viral magic with his follow-up single, "Gentleman M/V," which currently boasts a paltry 687 million views on YouTube.

Not only that, the unofficial Gangnam Style video also has 2 billion views. So videos of this song has been viewed over 4billion times.

wildgoldenhoney said:

Not only that, the unofficial Gangnam Style video also has 2 billion views. So videos of this song has been viewed over 4billion times.

Didn't they say that a few years ago a cat video had the most views on Youtube?

What will Snoop not do? i think dude will work with anybody

Gunsnhalen said:

What will Snoop not do? i think dude will work with anybody

There's dimminishing returns on anything he puts out now as rapper, so I can't blame him. If I were him I'd start branching out into other areas to keep the revenue streams going. Just keep him away from acting, the 3 minutes he was in Scary Movie 5 were so bad the rest of the acting in that horrible piece of trash of a movie actually felt oscar worthy..

well, now thanks to youtube generation we can see what random people think of videos

not sure what is worse, the video or watching random people react to it

3rdeyedude said:

well, now thanks to youtube generation we can see what random people think of videos

not sure what is worse, the video or watching random people react to it

we live in an amazing time!

This is actually part 3! Gangnam style part 2 was 'Gentleman' haha I recommend you do not look it up.

I think he will go away soon, the reason he is not getting as harsh comments as towards Justin Bieber I think is that he has an Asian-foreigner pass, and also he takes himself not too seriously, that he knows his videos are silly and meant to be sort of a tool that takes advantage of this generation. From the beginning his goal was to be known world-wide, make viral videos..even his past music in Korea was nothing but silly songs like this...(but slightly better) Personally I just cannot take another guy come up to me and do Psy dance moves as soon as they find out Im Korean any more...so hopefully he goes away and the whole thing fades away soon...

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