Saturday, October 6, 2012

One Hit Wonders

Some musical artists have a long career and they are forever changing up their music.  Love her or hate her, Madonna is a good example.  She's been around for a very long time.  

Then there are the one hit wonders.  Basically one hit that hits the world big time and then we either don't hear from them anymore or they just have a string of crappy hits.   So many examples, so little time to list them out. 

Right now, the big hit is Gangnam Style.  I'm impressed by Psy as he's broken into an English market with his K-pop.  They have left the song in his Korean language...that's huge!  Of course, everybody is horse hopping everywhere and singing "hey, sexy lady..." and whooping in all the right places. 

In Korean culture, he's not a one hit wonder as he's been around for a while.  For the English market maybe.  But even if he is, I'm totally impressed at how he has amazing crowds watching him and totally cheering him on.  

Don't believe me?  Check out this video of 80,000 strong singing Gangnam Style with Psy at a free concert.  Yeah...wait until you get to the 50 to 59 second mark.  That crowd is big.  

I'm sure with all that horse hopping that night, Koreans thought they were having an earthquake.  




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