Folks on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and other meme factories are already mining the mondegreen for LOLs.įor those unfamiliar with the term, mondegreens are basically nonsensical, humorous phrases born from mishearing lyrics. You probably know some of the genre's classics. Paul McCartney's stab at French on "Michelle" is often mondegreenized as "Sunday monkey won't play piano song." Does Jimi Hendrix want to "kiss the sky" or " kiss this guy?" Recently, The New York Times ran a piece on the latest entry in the mondegreen cannon: "fanute," French Montana's unintelligible first utterance on Rick Ross' "Stay Schemin." But the reference seems lost on all the listeners who think PSY is saying "open condom style," which makes no sense, but sounds like a bad idea nonetheless. As The Atlantic's Max Fisher noted, the refrain "oppa Gangnam style" is a clever jab at Seoul's rich and idle.
It has 53 million Youtube hits as of this writing, it's the first K-pop single to top the iTunes video charts, and every news organization from The Washington Postto Time is gushing over it. But, as they do with most K-pop songs, Western listeners are hilariously mishearing its lyrics. Īmericans can't get enough of the bizarre hit " Gangnam Style" by Korean pop star PSY. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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