wow it's oxford. beautiful.
when i was 15, i saw a video of queen at the wembley stadium and
they sang Bohemian Rhapsody.
it was literally shocked. first of all, the song itself it was shocked.
because it was too long and it has too many changes.
so i was korean i didn't know what the lyrics is about and i was not familiar with the operant thing. so like slow things going on and then suddenly changed to the opera. and it says something GALILEO.
and then, rock goes on and slow goes on. and then song's done.
i was like 'what is that?'
after i saw that, for 1 year i didn't listen to the music. because it was so shocked
and a little bit of scary.
after graduating high school, i went to united states for collage.
and i spent 4 years at there , and at that time it was year of 1996 to 1999.
that was the first time. i did my best in something make tracks
and when i was young i was really good at dancing.
not like good looking dancing but you know, the dancing.
when i was young, my only interests and regarding was to be attractive to the girls. that was the only interest.
i know i'm not that good looking. so i tried to invent things hard like talking funny dancing singing funny and do some funny things.
i think laughing and smiling can be handsome guy. that's what i thought.
so i tried that kind of things for a long time.
and in the college, i dreamed about to be a composer and i wrote hundred of
songs in a year. and it was just for me. because i wanted some beats so that me and my friend can dance that was my first interest.
so i was 23, i gotta make a decision at that time. so what should i do next?
so go on to be composer or should i change?
at that year, i made my mind to sell my songs to myself.
that was the only way. that was the only way to be a composer.
so i decided to sell the songs to myself.
like british , united states, europe like all over the world, korea also,
singers and entertainers they are skinny. and they look good and handsome. and even they are guys but they are pretty.
most of all. so when i made my debut in korea, it was like a disaster.
people even didn't say 'who is that?' people said 'what is that?'
i made my debut and you can consider it as 12 years of younger version gangnam style.
because it used to have such a funny move, video, shape whatever.
and people saw it, what they thought was i think we can do it. we can do psy's dance just like u'r doing horse riding dance these days.
so what i thought was i can provide them participation instead of exhibition.
so that kind of thing happened 12 years ago, and i did cannabis(대마초) in korea.
korean's really conservative and strict.
and they have really high moral expectation to the artist i don't know why.
but it's really highly required moral expectation. but i'm not moral.
and i think that's not an artist.
so last year, what i thought was i gotta make this 6th album, i gotta go back to the first place.
when i debut with funny move, funny song and funny dance so that people can laugh.
because all over the world economy is horrible right now korean as well it's horrible these days.
so what i thought was as 12 years old artist, that was part of my job ,to just make fun by music , dance and video.
so i tried to make a song. honestly, i did my best to be as ridiculous as possible.
and finally i got the song. and the song called Gangnam style.
so me and my choreographer in korea spent more than 30 nights to make the horse dance
it's kind of funny but still we were so serious to make that dance.
so i released the song and video on 15th, july, 2012. and i uploaded this music video on the youtube.
just for korean users. some koreans used youtube too. so i uploaded for them. and after 10-15days later,
(i'm really huge fan of robin williams) R.W uploaded my video at his blog.
and he said to his fans like 'when you get tired or something, watch this.'
and in that kind of things happened again and again. so a lot of pop stars ,celebrities all over the world, they started twitter my video on their twitters. each and every celebrities has huge followers.
and the followers came to the video and they started make discussion about 'what is this guy'.
honestly, what i said at that time was 'WTF(WHAT THE FUCK)' 'what's going one'
so what funny thing is whenever i performed the song everytime, when i saw the people,
i feel happy and sorry.
i feel happy because they look so happy.
and i feel sorry because they don't have any idea about the lyrics.
isn't this great?
they don't need to know what the lyrics about. i'm standing at the oxford union.
and u guys are listening to me.
so let me say shit happens right?