12:30 pm - 12/07/2012
"Kill them all slowly and painfully," the artist rapped at a 2004 anti-U.S. protest concert.
South Korean pop sensation PSY, aka Park Jae-sang -- might have won Americans over with his infectious breakthrough single, "Gangnam Style," but has America won him over? The singer will be forced to face those kinds of questions as several anti-American protest performances from his past have begun to surface.
At a 2002 concert staged in opposition to 37,000 U.S. troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula, Mediate reports, PSY took to the stage in gold face paint and a glittery red outfit, then lifted a model U.S. tank over his head before smashing it to pieces on the ground. The performance was a response to the death of two Korean school girls, killed in an accident with an American military vehicle, according to Korean website BusanHaps.com.
Then, two years later, a South Korean missionary was executed in Iraq -- a revenge killing for the country's support of the U.S. war in Iraq. During a protest concert, PSY rapped on the song "Dear American," "Kill those f---ing Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives/Kill those f---ing Yankees who ordered them to torture/Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers/Kill them all slowly and painfully."
PSY has appeared on Ellen and the Today show in support of his smash hit song, which has been downloaded 3 million times on iTunes, is the most-viewed video in YouTube history and has earned him more than $8 million, according to some estimates.
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'Kill Those F---ing Yankees': PSY's Anti-U.S. Past Surfaces
"Kill them all slowly and painfully," the artist rapped at a 2004 anti-U.S. protest concert.
South Korean pop sensation PSY, aka Park Jae-sang -- might have won Americans over with his infectious breakthrough single, "Gangnam Style," but has America won him over? The singer will be forced to face those kinds of questions as several anti-American protest performances from his past have begun to surface.
At a 2002 concert staged in opposition to 37,000 U.S. troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula, Mediate reports, PSY took to the stage in gold face paint and a glittery red outfit, then lifted a model U.S. tank over his head before smashing it to pieces on the ground. The performance was a response to the death of two Korean school girls, killed in an accident with an American military vehicle, according to Korean website BusanHaps.com.
Then, two years later, a South Korean missionary was executed in Iraq -- a revenge killing for the country's support of the U.S. war in Iraq. During a protest concert, PSY rapped on the song "Dear American," "Kill those f---ing Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives/Kill those f---ing Yankees who ordered them to torture/Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers/Kill them all slowly and painfully."
PSY has appeared on Ellen and the Today show in support of his smash hit song, which has been downloaded 3 million times on iTunes, is the most-viewed video in YouTube history and has earned him more than $8 million, according to some estimates.
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yeah nope. the 'daughters, mothers etc' line may be a bit too far, but i can't blame for this one at all.
rme though. he's up for a grammy and suddenly people are looking for shit to make him look like awful. and now people are going to say he's anti-american without actually knowing/caring why he said those things. because hey, the foreign guy is criticising amurica!!!
Edited at 2012-12-07 06:12 pm (UTC)
as if his entire success in america wasn't already full of racist undertones this is like the icing on the cake for assholes
(because, lbr, if gangnam style hadn't been accompanied by a video of a ~goofy looking nonthreatening asian man doing funny dances, it wouldn't be as big over here as it is :\)
(i've accidentally used "oppa didn't mean it" jokingly when discussing celebrities with my irl friends and nobody knows what i'm talking about. oops)
he gets away with so much shit that other rappers can't get away with and we all know why
like i'm sorry but dueting with elton john (who is rich, white, famous, etc, so not exactly proof that em likes all gay people~) does not absolve him of all homophobia like people think it does
and, y'know, all his fucked up misogyny as well but yeah
I'm also not here for the floods of racists who will use this as an excuse to be racist though.
I suspect he's since changed his opinion, or his PR has changed his opinion and he's just doing all that work in America in a 'yes, give me all your money you dumbfucks' way.
I mean it's hardly the worst thing anyone's said about America. It's probably not even the worst thing someone has ever rapped about America.
He's super talented imo
I highly recommend it :)
Edited at 2012-12-07 06:21 pm (UTC)
But I do want to give Psy the benefit of the doubt, though. I want to believe that he did it for shock value (as tacky and gross as that is) and that he's not actually a hateful person.