"Gangnam Style"- a "force for world peace"-Ban ki-Moon.

A great force, that bind President Obama, the mayor of London, Eric Schmidt, China's renowned dissident artist Ai Weiwei together.

Recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson performed a joint Gangnam Style dance spectacular for their wives in September during a private gathering in the premier's country retreat Chequers. Johnson went on to reference the event in his keynote speech to the ruling conservative party's annual conference. Google chairman Eric Schmidt gave a rather awkward horse-riding performance ala Gangnam style, during a visit to Seoul. On the morning of the US presidential election, Barack Obama told a local radio station that he was confident he could match Psy's dance moves.


"Gangnam Style" has started ‘hypnotizing’ the attraction and attention of several business and political leaders, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon who recognized the song as a "force for world peace". During his meeting with PSY(Park Jae-Sang from South Korea) at the United Nations Headquarters, he commented, "We have tough negotiations in the United Nations. In such a case I was also thinking of playing Gangnam Style-dance so that everybody would stop and dance. Maybe you can bring UN style."


The song has as its signature "invisible horse dance" or a comical horse-riding dance.


Funny enough, the song is just like any satirical piece, and this is because, the song is said to actually be poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying so hard to be something that they're not. But, now it has now become a source of parodies and reaction videos by many different groups including :The Oregon Duck, midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy, and the North Korean government.
By the end of October 2012, the song reached the number one position in more than 30 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In China, the song has been labeled by state-controlled media as a "divine melody".


From July 15, when the music video was uploaded on YouTube, to September 28, the video was accessed by people in 222 countries, more than the 193 member countries of the U.N. By November 18, 2012, the music video has been viewed over 750 million times on YouTube. "Gangnam Style" increased to an average of over 9 million views per day within just 2 months.


Guinness World Records has listed it as -Most liked video in YouTube history. And has won Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards held later that year. Deborah Netburn of the Los Angeles Times called it "one of the greatest videos ever to be uploaded to YouTube”.


Recently, Psy, had be noted to be teaching Britney Spears how to "pretend to bounce like riding on an invisible horse". And in November 13, would be joining Madonna on stage during her concert at Madison square Garden in New York City, a gig that he later said "topped his list of accomplishments".

While, he later acted as ambassador of the Formula One Korean Grand Prix, where he taught Formula One drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel how do perform the dance. In October, Psy was in Sydney, Australia, to perform "Gangnam Style" on The X Factor, a reality TV music competition. And, Psy had performed the dance at the recent 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Meanwhile, the power of Psy's influence has spread to some of the world's most famous academic institutions. Earlier November, PSY was invited to follow the likes of Ronald Reagan and the Dalai Lama in addressing the 189-year-old Oxford Union club at Oxford University.


The phrase "Gangnam Style" is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District of Seoul. The song and its accompanying music video went viral in August 2012 and have influenced popular culture since then. "Gangnam Style" was praised for its catchy beat and PSY's amusing, funny and cerebral dance moves in the music video and during live performances in various locations such as Madison Square Garden, The Today Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Samsung commercials.


As the song continued to gain popularity, its dance moves were performed by a few business and political leaders including Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt, the British Prime Minister David Cameron, the President of the U.S, Barrack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who hailed the song as a "force for world peace". According to the United Nations, PSY has become an "international sensation" through his song "Gangnam Style".

-The U.N hailed PSY as an "international sensation" because of his "satirical" video clip and its "horse-riding-like dance moves" which have been viewed "more than half a billion times since its release in July".

Meanwhile, the U.N Banki-moon expressed his desire to work with PSy because of his ‘unlimited global reach’


PSY has suddenly gained unprecedented showbiz accolade ever in world history ala Mona Lisa. But I wonder, if these guys ever listened or watch Makkossa(Olomide) ,or Afro beat (Fela) before…Oh,I remember ,Michelle watched Jay –Z’s Fela! ON BROADWAYs with her daughters,but Obama and Osama were missing then!

Lolsss.