Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Monday, October 29, 2012

Gangnam Style




 Gangnam (강남; 江南 Gangnam, literally "South of the River"), is one of the 25 local government districts which make up the city of Seoul in South Korea.

it has recently hosted the G-20 summit in 2010 and Nuclear Security Summit in 2012.

Gangnam and its neighboring areas had remained the least developed in Seoul city, but over the last 30 years it has earned a reputation of being the most affluent, dynamic, and influential area in both Seoul or in fact whole of South Korea,which has been compared to city areas such as Beverly Hills, California or Manhattan, New york.


PSY dancing on the tunes of gangnam style
according to Wikipedia "Gangnam Style is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam district of Seoul  where people are trendy, hip and exude a certain supposed class"

There is a significant increase in the popularity of South Korean culture and entertainment scene, since the late part of Decade of 1990.K-pop (Korean popular music) is considered to be the most important aspect of the Korean Wave.

Korean Wave is a music genre that is  popular subculture among Korean teenagers and young adults which talks about cultural technology to adapt to the tastes of foreign audiences. it has already Popularised around the world like Middle East, Eastern Europe and parts of South America.

Park Jae-sang better known by his stage name PSY is a popular artist of K-POP in south Korea.he is a singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and record producer combined in one and PSY has also appeared on numerous television programs in south Korea.

He is the Son of Park Won-Ho,the executive chairman of DI Corporation a manufacturer of semiconductors listed as one of the most valuable companies on the Korea Exchange.he has been brought up in the Gangnam District of Seoul.

In January 2001, PSY debuted with his full-length album PSY from the PSYcho World! His second album Sa 2 released in 2002, His third Album 3 PSY released in the same year.His fourth and Fifth albums had been Sa Jib (2006) and PSY Five (2010) respectively.

In July 2012, PSY released his 6th album PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1, Gangnam Style is the Single from this album.This music video has been viewed over 580 million times on YouTube (as of October 28, 2012) and is the site's third most watched video ever.By the end of October 2012, the song reached the number one position in 33 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.













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Friday, September 28, 2012

Superwoman - the punjabi humor on Youtube


Lilly Singh, aka Superwoman!is an in-your-face, fearless, hip-hop artist with a knack for humor. Her IISuperwomanII YouTube channel is creating quite the ruckus.With her comedy and hip-hop videos receiving thousands of hits, it’s no wonder why Superwoman is getting everyone talking.




Born to Punjabi parents settled in  Canada, she loves going to gurudwara and doing service there.She credits her cultural and religious pride to growing up in multicultural Toronto, Canada.

 The city art scene allowed Superwoman to be influenced by diverse styles of art without forgetting her roots. Her videos are laced with Punjabi dialogues and give reference to her Sikh upbringing.

She always had a passion for the arts. Even as a child, she would love entertaining audiences through dance, music, and comedy.It wasn’t until recently that Superwoman realized that she wanted to pursue a career in music. And so, Superwoman Productions was established to publicize her work.

She has over 1.25 lakh Subscribers and her videos have been watched by around 2 crore times.

Watch few of her great videos available on her YouTube channel, address of which as follows http://www.youtube.com/user/IISuperwomanII


















Excerpts from :-http://www.kaurista.com/2011/04/08/they-call-me-superwoman/
Video Embedded from official channel of Superwomen at YouTube.