How so?
According to common sense, the expectation for a new song from a singer who sang "Gangnam Style" must be very, very high. Some people need an equally hot song to prove that Bird's breakout hit is not a coincidence, while others hope that the guardian fox reveals its tail and that the last breakout hit was a lottery ticket that you picked up.
Meeting the needs of the first group is too hard, too hard, just too hard. The first time you got 100 points, maybe the second time you need to get 300 points 400 points before they will be satisfied, and, you must need to change, do not change is eating the old money, do not change you change, degenerate 。。。。
What song has Bieber reached the heights he once did after Baby?
Which song by the singer was more popular after call me maybe?
Was Adele's new song more strongly received than SLY RITD?
How hard is it to break through and how hard is it to change. How many groups singers and actors have died horrible deaths because their transformations failed miserably. For example, last year's Beast was one step short of the top but chose the wrong song, for example, 2PM's choice of hands up the year before sucked and fans didn't buy it, for example, a certain torrent giant, for example, a certain sports brand, for example, XXX ，，，， this thing Bird Uncle surely knows, as a very awesome Korean musician, a person who has been on the Dream Concert since his debut in 2000, to write a slightly different It's too easy to write a slightly different song. Others laughed at me too crazy, I laughed at others can not see through, bird uncle previously in South Korea basically belongs to such a different frequency with other people in the state, each singer's most basic idea is to choose to break through after the success of the self, to change the self, that bird uncle chose to make fun of you, still along the road of satirical songs wildly running is not surprising, relative to other people in the music as a career, bird uncle is more music as a toy, right? , playing music. Commercially need to do the expected level, then the safest way is inevitably to have a similar song, if still can be related to Gangnam Style, more talk about how good it should be? Since there is still surplus value, in a capitalist society, why don't they extract it? In addition, Jiangnan Faner itself is a very spoof of the song, the popularity of these songs is very accidental, even if the next song is even better, it may not be able to reach the Jiangnan Faner's god-level performance, with the end of the world, why the pain?
So Uncle Bird (and company YG) made a decision, and I do admire his courage, though it's probably a result of his lack of time for creativity: keep spoofing, keep satirizing.
I'm actually here to vindicate Bird, since all his hit songs are basically in this key
For example, my favorite: RIGHT NOW
And then on the song itself, if Gangnam Style is about losers pretending to be handsome and rich, then Gentleman is about gangsters pretending to be svelte gentlemen. Even Birdie himself said that this song is a sequel to Gangnam Style, the follow-up song I previously talked about inside other questions, so it's not surprising that the two songs are very uniform. This is all too common in Korea, for example, it took two hits to make a complete story, T-ara's BLACK EYES hit Cry Cry and FUNKY TOWN hit Lovey Dovey.
T-ARA Cry Cry MV (Ji Yeon) [Korean Double] (Cha Seung Won, Park Ji Yeon, Park Hyo Min, Ji Chang Wook)
But this song is still different from the others, after all, the chorus part of the dance inside is already there for many years to take it over and use it directly, and is not an original of Bird Uncle, but is from the hottest dance in South Korea in 2009 - the Pride Dance. -The Pride Dance. This dance, how to say, although it can not catch up with the horseback riding dance, but, most of the Koreans are going to dance. Abracadabra is from the Brown Eyed Girls' 2009 hit song Abracadabra, which was a hit to what extent? "The BEG's representative song 'Abracadabra' that hit the songwriting scene in 2009 was 10 billion won just in audio revenue."
Isn't there someone in there who looks familiar? Yes, it's the gentleman heroine, the hostess of popular variety show "We Got Married's" national couple "Mr. and Mrs. Adam," the busybody with the eyes, and the queen of the short-bodied sexies -- Son Ga-in (who is also known as a sexy starlet, but is also known as a "sexy starlet," but is also known as an actress. (Although she is also known as a sexy actress, this trait is only shown on stage, but off stage she is quite a person).
So do you think Birdie was deliberately trying to challenge the intelligence of Koreans by copying a dance that everyone would instantly recognize, or did he do this dance on purpose? It's self-explanatory, right? Called on the original singer to dance, dance is not something else but very suitable for the theme of the gentleman dance "arrogant dance" to show the arrogance of the gentleman, this is also very dedicated spoof it, the general public can not come up with this kind of two birds with one stone thing ah. So I can't say that the new song is superficial, but at least it's a lot of brain power. And with the rest of the MV's supporting cast, Yoo Jae Suk, Roh Hong Chul, etc., basically the funny hosts of Infinite Challenge are almost here, so it's hard to be serious. The song will still be a hit in Korea, and abroad, there's a lot of skepticism, but I think it's a result of not understanding the current state of the Korean entertainment industry.