Gangnam Giddyup: Pop culture bewilderment

There are more than a few equestrian references in the video...

Insulated from teen pop culture as I am, this meme (circa summer 2012) is old news by now. Why is this post-worthy? Because:

1.  many of you may have missed it as well.
2.  it does sort of have an equestrian theme

Therefore,I bring you: my Gangnam style blog post. Gangnam style started as a video (check it out.)

The music is not my taste, and the dancing is not exactly Thriller--but there's a lot to like about a video that looks like it was fun to make and contains no violence or graphic anything. It does not try to be cool. There have been a lot of parodies of this video, which is funny because I thought the original was a parody. Here is the signature dance move which is repeated throughout the video. Many of us have performed this dance move, albeit in our childhood, and I guess the Korean word for this move is something like "ride a horse." Now that the election is over, I guess horse dancing is something we all now know about.

 

"The mass appeal of the music video has been attributed to its signature dance move known as
'the horse-riding dance,' which combines the stylistic elements of shuffle dancing
and hand movements resembling the posture of a horseback rider."