Saturday, December 8, 2012

Non-American Psy expresses extremely popular worldwide Anti-American opinion, Americans surprised

those explosions don't seem so goofy now do they?

Congratulations to everyone who was looking for yet another reason to hate "Gangam Style" by South Korea's Ricky Martin, Psy, because, as you've no doubt heard by now, it's come to light that he performed an explicitly anti-American song in 2004 with the lyrics:

"Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives. Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture. Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers. Kill them all slowly and painfully."  

Allow me to be among the many to blow your minds by saying this "Kill American" schtick is the first thing I've heard Psy do that actually makes me like him. Too bad, much like we did when we stopped listening to Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, Public Enemy, Eminem, M.I.A., Bruce Springsteen, Green Day, The Dixie Chicks, and on and on, we're going to have to now express extremely well-thought-out and in no way reactionary opinions about his anti-war rhetoric to prove how much we love the homeland and support the troops. 

As has been widely reported, the song was performed was done at a time of widespread protest for the Iraq war in South Korea: 
The concert was held after the decapitation of Korean missionary by Islamic militants in Iraq helped crystallize anti-U.S. military sentiment in South Korea. Two years earlier, two American soldiers had been acquitted of negligent homicide in the case of two 13-year-old Korean girls who were struck and killed by an American military vehicle. At the time, Psy was "among the most outspoken" pop stars in protesting the acquittal and the U.S. status of forces military agreement, according Korea Times (as quoted in Busan Haps); a YouTube video of Psy, face painted gold, smashing a miniature American tank model during a 2002 concert, was recently removed over "copyright claims."
The singer, who did not actually write the song, and is still set to perform as part of the "Christmas in Washington" concert at which President Obama and his family will be in attendance, (I wonder if conservatives are going to have anything to say about that?), issued an apology today, saying, in part "While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted...I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused by those words."

Naturally, many Americans are up in arms about the news anyway, but did you know this? Psy is actually not an American? And many, many people in countries around the world don't support every fucking thing that this country's military does? Weird, right? 

I'm not saying don't stop listening to his music, which you were probably already going to do anyway, but don't do it because of this, otherwise here's a list of other anti-war songs and musicians you're going to have to cut out as well: 



 




 

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

A masterful list, and yet no "Masters of War"?

said...

well, I didn't compile it myself, in case that wasn't clear, but yes, that's pretty much the gold standard isn't it?

Anonymous said...

Refreshing blast of truth in this. Unfortunately like most anti-murica truth, this will no doubt fall on deaf ears.

said...

thanks, appreciate the comment, and I agree it won't matter.

Anonymous said...

The concert was held after the decapitation of Korean missionary by Islamic militants in Iraq helped crystallize anti-U.S. military sentiment in South Korea.

You'd think it would crystallize anti-Islamic militant sentiment. Missionaries are pretty high atop the noncombatant list, no? I come to help the poor Iraqis. No water boarding, no random killings, just compassion for the fellow man. Then some shithead lopped off the guy's grape.

Frankly if the song is half as catchy as Gangnam Style I don't care what the message is. Psy is so fucking cute and happy and I don't understand a single word of Korean anyway. I don't care if an entertainer's beliefs differ from mine. The sole exception is Nicolas Cage and I just hate him for being shitty in general.

Look for him in Guantanamo or getting smoked by a drone in the near future. Itunes profits were directly channeled to the Taliban says a top US official.

said...

Sorry, but I'm with the foaming-mouthed retards on this one. It's actually ironic because Psy's in this mess for pandering to (Korean) foaming-mouthed retards in the first place. He wants one thing and one thing only: money. The easiest way for entertainers to make bank in the early 00s in Korea was by expressing nationalist/borderline racist anti-American sentiments because in 2002 two little Korean girls were tragically killed by a US tank which ran them over (accidentally). There were some safety oversights by the army which probably contributed to the girls' deaths and Koreans were furious when the soldiers manning the tanks were found to be immune from prosecution under Korean law and were tried by a US military tribunal instead. There were massive street protests and quite a few whiteys in Korea at the time were beaten up by crowds of demonstrators (one French guy was hospitalised). No Mu-hyeon won the presidency in 2003 on the back of all this with some pretty racist anti-westerner sentiments and a vow to reduce the US military presence in South Korea. In 2004 Psy was just chasing anti-US dollars (or won) by making this pathetic song. He studied in the US for a long time so I doubt he personally harbours strong anti-American sentiments; he was just doing whatever he saw as the best way to make money (which possibly makes it worse). Then for the last six months he's been kissing ass all over US television telling delightful anecdotes about the wonderful time he spent at Berklee. I think it's fine to call him out on his hypocrisy.

said...

Very interesting. Would be into hearing more about that sort of thing from over there.

said...

Oh man, there's a lot to be said about Koreans' love-hate relationship with the US and intertwined ideas of racial purity and stuff. I'm trying to get a few end-of-year music interviews together for ya, then I'll write something on this topic.

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