Author Topic: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..  (Read 5453 times)

Flux

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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2012, 08:48:15 pm »
stupid social networks creating a hivemind of sheep

Nux

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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2012, 09:05:55 pm »
It's funny how people see something that openly mocks it's own genre and then they crudely reference it and call the result a parody. Like how Scary Movie was a "parody" (note the scare quotes) of Scream.

That's not parody: It's just imitation.

Flux

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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2012, 11:31:58 pm »
And yet wikipedia states that parody is just that, imitation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody

Nux

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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2012, 02:30:04 am »
That's not parody: It's just imitation.

Though some definitions of the word 'parody' might reduce it to simply a synonym of 'imitation' I'm using the more particular definition that the first sentence of that page you linked to uses where it is 'created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target'. Not just mere imitation.

Also note that mocking the same thing the work was mocking and mocking the work itself are two different kinds of 'imitation' (see figure 1).


fig.1 - Ducky Diagram

A mocks the ducky first. Did B see the ducky and mock it too? Or is B just copying A, without even noticing the ducky?

Yes, I can see that maybe this video just meant imitation (which it clearly is) but I just get frustrated when people seem to miss that the original thing was a joke because it's somehow less blatant than their brand of humour.
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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2012, 06:29:31 pm »
An african or a european duck?

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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2012, 06:56:25 pm »
Look Flux, I don't care how many YouTube videos you post, you still owe me some turrets.

Flux

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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2012, 11:21:30 pm »
I don't know why, but I can't give turrets any more :(

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Re: That PSY Gangnam style song going around..
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2012, 12:43:47 am »
I think the song is actually the Chemo to the cancer known as Bustin Jeiber.

Sorry Bustin yo jieber somewhere elsez.