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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That's an extreme point. He fucking went too far. The end.
Edited at 2012-12-07 06:49 pm (UTC)
I totally understood it that way too.
But it wasn't so necessary, he could have worded it better.
And I am sure as hell not going to blame him completely.
(thanks for the reasonable comment :).
people will get up in arms more about fictional lyrics about violence against americans than the very real violence happening to other people. or even within america, with the whole "omg marilyn manson is why there are school shootings" panic instead of addressing why students might feel the urge to shoot up their schools in the first place
You're welcome. I don't understand why people feel the need to make comments like this. As if any other genre is any better with their messages and as if all rap songs are the same.
My point is that people are getting angry over some angry lyrics from 8 years ago. Because it's meant to America.
everyone jumps on rappers and conveniently forgets that the beatles have songs about killing a girl if they "catch her with another man," the rolling stones gloat about women being under their thumbs or raping slaves (at least i'm like 99% sure that's what brown sugar is about) or sweet little taylor swift thinks telling a boy's friends that he's gay is a totally acceptable form of revenge
i'm sorry for the tl;dr, this is one of those things that will always piss me off
I'm sure it's there, it's just not as obvious.
the korean history has involved south korea being essentially bullied by everyone around them and being told they were inferior to every other asian country, and then every western nation. we were often casualties in a war that wasn't our own, like the war between communism and america and between china and japan. so when the situation that psy was made happened, it was like reverting back to a time that we had thought we left behind so far long ago. so it's not for no reason that psy, who has been in the korean army twice, reacted so harshly
i also cannot find the korean lyrics to this song anywhere so i'm going to hold judgment
idk if you understand Korean, but this has the supposed lyrics near the end of the video.