(The song’s lyrics probably do, too, but having no clue what they say is part of the fun.) Several parodies of Psy’s version have taken up the theme of skewering the rich or powerful, as in “ Mitt Romney Style,” made by the site College Humor, and “ Kim Jong Style” (Un, not Il, “sorry for the confusion”), by the YouTube channel Barely Political. Psy’s original video is, itself, a sort of parody-“Gangnam” is the name of a district known as the Beverly Hills of Seoul, and Psy’s video, with its snippets of horse stables, girls in yoga class, and dudes in a sauna and jacuzzi, pokes fun at the luxurious lifestyle of the South Korean élite. With over half a billion views on YouTube (and, according to the Guinness World Records, the most “likes” of any video in the history of the site), Psy’s loony, frenetic, infectious dance video has spawned a Jepsenesque number of knockoffs since its release last July. Ai’s was far from the first video of its kind. The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei horse-trot danced across the Internet yesterday in a parody video, recorded in his Beijing studio and posted Wednesday on YouTube, of the K-pop artist Psy’s “ Gangnam Style” music video.
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