‘xactly:
In an essay on her blog High Yellow, Anderson argues that PSY owes some of his newfound popularity to the racial stereotypes that Hollywood and the television media have long perpetuated: Think Long Duk Dong from 16 Candles or Leslie Chow from The Hangover. Like PSY, they epitomize the “comedic Asian male” trope: buffoonish, desexualized, and emasculated.
This articulates exactly why I could never fully get behind the thing. Yeah, I was mesmerized like everyone else by the initial “WTF did I just watch”-ness of it all. And a couple of the tribute videos were fun. I’m sure PSY is a nice guy, but the fact that it took something this foreign and weird to resonate with a mainstream American audience made it feel increasingly subversive the bigger it got. So fuck it.
Give me Hot Cheetos and Takis any day.
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fishbonedice said:
Aside from agreeing with you, here’s an added tidbit: PSY is on the YG label. Same management as BigBang, who I think has the move cross-cultural appeal.
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