The new strain Gangnam Style from South Korean performer Psy is now a many renouned strain ever on YouTube, with some-more than 800 million views—that’s some-more than Justin Bieber ever garnered.  Celebrities and politicians and even eremite leaders around a universe have been swept adult by a strain with a familiar kick and dance moves that resemble roving an invisible horse. Â
Many folks consider a balance is only good fun, and an random grand impact success, though we consider Gangnam Style heralds something more, psychologically: Â Another page in a story of a enlightenment abandoning definition and feeling, in preference of mind-numbing, prosaic fun.
Gangnam Style refers to a ritzy lifestyle compared with a Gangnam District of Seoul.
For Americans, during least, many of a lyrics of Gangnam Style can’t be understood, given they are in Korean. Â Here’s a sample: Â ”Na je nun ta so ro un in gan jo solitaire yo ja . . . ” Â Psy himself performs (like many entertainers) underneath a pseudonym. Â His genuine name is Park Jae-sang.Â
He generally wears dim glasses, that he dons for a whole strain video, and that prevents even a apparition of eye strike with a entertainer.  Even a equine is blank from this romping float of a tune.  Speaking psychologically, Gangnam Style is a ideal diversion for a culture, that is already using  away from low suspicion and low feeling toward drugs, fake identities and fake friends of Facebook.
Gangnam Style might be only a ton of fun and zero more, though we trust it’s unequivocally extinction is what creates it so wildly, historically popular, and that a recognition says something concerning about a common psyche:  We wish diversion.  We wish anesthesia.  We wish not to be famous for who we unequivocally are–to be looked in a eye or called out by name on a ideas and ideals.  We want–to take a embellishment a bit far–to float horses that don’t even exist, by landscapes filled with flattering people we know zero about, conveyed by life by fun and an spreading beat, to nowhere special.  We wish to be drugged–whether by music, or technology, or Adderall–so that we are giveaway of those annoying things called emotion.
If a Blues and Soul spoke to a people in pain, struggling to find adore and freedom; and if Rock n’ Roll spoke to a era prepared for rebellion, afterwards Gangnam Style speaks to a era prepared for nothing–a psychological vacuum, a moody from reality, a fear of being a tellurian being with a ability to feel for oneself and others, with ideas and ideals that really, truly matter.
I know, we know: People will contend we am creation too many of a strike song. Â People will contend it means zero that people will have watched Gangnam Style 1 billion times by Christmas. Â That’s my point: Â It means accurately that–nothing. Â And it is a many renouned strain in history.
Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist and member of a Fox News Medical A-Team. Dr. Ablow can be reached during [email protected].