In
Geneva,
Switzerland, about 300 people gathered at the
International Monument to the Reformation for a parody of "Gangnam Style" organized by a local radio station. According to
The Christian Post, "Gangnam Style" was parodied by
Inri Cristo, a self-proclaimed reincarnation of
Jesus Christ, to attract the public's attention. Another noteworthy parody is "Jerusalem Syndrome Gangnam Style", which is shot at the
Old City of Jerusalem and includes important heritage sites such as
Mahane Yehuda Market,
Western Wall,
Zion Square, and the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It also includes a special
cameo appearance by the
Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat.
The Times of Israel described the parody as "a unique Jerusalem twist to the song".
Obama Gangnam Style! is a parody by
Barack Obama impersonator
Reggie Brown. The
musical television series
Glee covers the song in their
season 4 episode "
Thanksgiving" with
Jenna Ushkowitz on lead vocals. The rapidly growing popularity and international recognition of "
Gangnam Style" has spawned many
user generated videos, some of them have received international media recognition, such as: atrium in
West Yorkshire, England • According to
The Wall Street Journal, the Canadian couple Simon and Martina Stawski from the video blog
Eatyourkimchi were among the first to review and do a parody of "Gangnam Style" on July 23, 2012, before
T-Pain's tweet produced by the
Fine Brothers. Jeff Yang of the
Wall Street Journal wrote, "Ha ha, the Fine Bros. got around to exposing PSY on their panel of unsuspecting adolescents. Turns out, however, that most of them already listen to K-pop." •
Condom Style (from
Bart Baker) • Gangnam Style (
Pentatonix Cover) Featuring the
band singing the song in Korean lyrics. • '''Gangnam Style' Also Calms Fussy Babies
, Meredith Bennett-Smith of The Huffington Post'' wrote, ""Gangnam Style" may have broken a
Guinness World Record for being the most "liked" video in online history, but it seems the tune and its "horsey-style" choreography also calms down fussy babies...The first video, which was posted on September 23, has already gone viral, amassing more than 400,000 views. It features Claire, a rather unhappy baby, who only calms down when the Korean pop song is played." •
Orange Nya Nya Style (from
Annoying Orange) features the food parodying and dancing to Gangnam Style by PSY. •
NASA Johnson Style (from
Johnson Space Center) •
Brony Style (Ima Pedophile) (from
Rucka Rucka Ali) (featuring every character from the
My Little Pony franchise and the characters from
Family Guy, except
Stewie) while the 1st video was uploaded by
YouTuber HellBronyXendor. •
Hongdae Style, a parody by Trend Factory, was mentioned by
The Wall Street Journal as one of five must-see Gangnam Style response videos. • o "Lucky Fun Time Party"). •
PSY Gangnam Style MV Reaction, by K-Pop bloggers Katie and Mindy Anderson. Evan Ramstad of
The Wall Street Journal writes that "The Andersons’ reaction video is fun because of their spontaneity, laughter and creeping realization of what’s going on." •
Gangnam Style Meets Metal, by Eric Calderone, was mentioned in the
Daily Mirror, a British national newspaper. performing the final scene of
Gangnam Style • A Chilean parody made by students from the
Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, featuring historic places of
Pichilemu,
O'Higgins Region, was published on YouTube under the title of
Gangnam Style (강남스타일) - ALIANZA ROJA CPS PICHILEMU 2012. •
Bomba Style – Parody of the Iranian nuke, by Tal Talmon, was mentioned in
The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli newspaper. •
Gangnam Style สามัคคีนาวีอันดามัน produced by
Royal Thai Navy, was featured in the
Associated Press. • Sukkos Style, published by Jewish-American band "
The Maccabeats" •
CPDRC Inmates Gangnam Style (2012) performed by the
Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center Dancing Inmates was featured in
Agence France-Presse. •
Mitt Romney Style produced by
CollegeHumor, was featured in
The Huffington Post. •
INRI CRISTO – Versão Mística de Gangnam Style by
Inri Cristo, a self-proclaimed reincarnation of
Jesus Christ, was featured in
The Christian Post. •
Minecraft Style is a parody of "Gangnam Style" released on October 26, 2012 by
Jordan Maron, who goes by the username Captain Sparklez. It received over a million views in its first day of release. It is a shot-by-shot remake of the original "Gangnam Style" using
Minecraft, a video game about building with blocks and objects. •
Like An Enderman is a parody of "Gangnam Style" released on November 13, 2012 by British
YouTuber ThnxCya, while it got 492K likes on
YouTube, with 0 dislikes, while there is no scenes like the
K-pop song, but the Enderman is like the Elevator Cowboy, while it's created in
Minecraft, while "Eh, sexy lady" is changed, "Hey, hey Stevie" and "Hey, I Am Creepy" is changed. • The Filipino comedian duo
Moymoy Palaboy developed a "Gangnam Style" parody featuring actors
Michael V. (
Pepito Manaloto),
Paolo Contis, Brad Pete and the Dating Doon Gang. It was featured on the Philippine Entertainment Portal. •
Gundam Style by KatsuhonoProduction, is a parody of "Gangnam Style", where it plays on people's mistaken interpretation that Psy is talking about the iconic
mecha of the
Gundam franchise. The parody video utilizes the heads of various
Mobile Suits seen in the Gundam franchise pasted onto many of the people seen in the video. The video parody was noted by
Kotaku and
G4TV. • '
Rangrezz Gangnam Style was a parody that featured
Jackky Bhagnani for the 2013 Bollywood film
Rangrezz. It was shown towards the end of the film. • A YouTube video named
Irish Paddy Style was uploaded as a parody of "Gangnam Style". It replaces the original lyrics with words about popular Irish culture. It has been featured on
Uploaded, a programme shown on 3e.
Asia •
Gangnam Afghanistyle was produced by servicemembers from an undisclosed unit and location in Afghanistan. According to the American military newspaper
Stars and Stripes which operates from inside the
Department of Defense, the troops seemed to be "enjoying" PSY's horse-riding dance while driving large forklifts and on an
AH-64 Apache helicopter. In an interview with
Reuters, Ai Weiwei remarked, "After we had uploaded it, a few hours later...we found that a lot of people, tens of thousands, had already watched it. Now, in China, it has already been totally removed, deleted entirely, and you can't see it in China". •
转账style (literally, "Transfer Style" ), is an anti-scam video produced by local police in
Shanghai to raise public awareness of various tools and techniques used by telecom swindlers. According to the
Shanghai Daily, "The whole story is reenacted in a humorous manner, similar to South Korean phenom Psy's global hit". The newspaper also wrote that this particular adaptation of "Gangnam Style" has garnered almost as much attention in China's
blogosphere as the original "Gangnam Style" music video. •
中國風, (literally, "China Style") provided by
Youku.com, ft. a girl singing it, like
Hyuna from
Oppa Is Just My Style by
Psy and
Hyuna. •
消防style (literally, "Firefighting Style" ), was produced by firefighters from
Yulin, Guangxi. A spokesman from Yulin's firefighting department told
China News Service that their version of "Gangnam Style" was produced to inform the public about their daily activities, responsibilities, and also to attract more people to join the firefighting service. •
蚌埠列车员style (literally, "
Bengbu Train Conductor Style") is a controversial version of "Gangnam Style" in which a man in train conductor's uniform is seen performing "Gangnam Style" while pointing his middle finger at the camera and spewing vulgarities. Although a significant portion of China's blogosphere described the train conductor as "talented" and "fun", others felt that he had tarnished the image of his occupation. According to the
Shanghai Railway Bureau, the train conductor was subsequently suspended from service because of this video. •
Original Painting is a music video (MV) inspired by "Gangnam Style" and produced by
Christopher Doyle and the Chinese singer Uta. The English language daily newspaper
China Daily described it as a "Gangnam Style-like MV". • ''
is a parody of "Gangnam Style" and refers to the crouching and pointing position taken by two technicians on the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning to give the green light to the fighter pilots. On November 25, 2012, the first Chinese flight landing on an aircraft carrier was successfully conducted on the Liaoning'' with the
Shenyang J-15. An official photo showed two technicians on the carrier crouching and pointing to give the green light to the fighter pilots. Many photos of web users positioning themselves similarly can be found online, making aircraft carrier style an
internet meme. The people in the pictures are usually in bedrooms and wearing a sticker with the Chinese characters 起飞 (meaning flight) on their backs, just like the
Chinese Navy personnel. The pose was referenced at the end of the skit 《你摊上事儿了》 (meaning, roughly, you're in trouble) which was performed at the 2013
CCTV New Year's Gala. produced by
5 Para A Meia-Noite, is a "Gangnam Style" parody which mocks the
Prime Minister of Portugal Pedro Passos Coelho and was featured on
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. •
Badass Gangnam Style, by the German rock band
Start A Revolution is a dark homage to the song in heavy metal style. It was Editor's Choice on German
MTV and
VIVA web sites and featured in the national German television channel ZDF and in many other countries. It was shot at three locations, one of them the oldest German
BDSM club in Hamburg. •
Eastern Europe Style was uploaded by "TheVujanic" and has more than 2 million views. According to the British newspaper
Daily Mirror,
Eastern Europe Style is about a character called Bricka Bricka who draws upon familiar qualities such as getting lashed through heavy vodka consumption, a fondness for undertaking manual labour for low wages and a perceived propensity for misogyny. •
Tad Gram Style was created by teachers from
Tadcaster Grammar School in
North Yorkshire, England to raise money for the charity programme
Children in Need. The video was featured in the
BBC and
The Daily Telegraph. •
Pocoyo Gangnam Style, published by Spanish
YouTuber lacomunidaddigital, features the characters dancing from the children's comedy animated television series
Pocoyo. •
Eton Style was produced by students from the British elite boarding school
Eton College. It has more than 2 million views and caught the attention of international media outlets including the
International Business Times and
Time magazine. Sam Leith from the
London Evening Standard wrote, "The thing that took many by surprise in Eton Style, the recent viral hit spoofing Gangnam Style, was the line: "We may be awkward, frustrated, lonely and insecure"" and labelled it as part of the "Eton Disorder" that has affected many of the college's famous alumni. •
Mas Style, on
TV 3 Polònia, a comedy program about
Catalan politics, was broadcast the
Catalan public television. The parody features Bruno Ono who plays president
Artur Mas. •
PSY - Gangnam Style - French version by "TheGreenGuys" was shot at many cultural sites in
Paris, including the
Eiffel Tower. It garnered almost a million hits and was featured in the French newspaper
La Dépêche du Midi. •
Opplà Silvio Style was performed by the Italian television presenter
Maurizio Crozza during the seventh episode of
Crozza nel Paese delle Meraviglie, which aired on
La7 on November 30, 2012, where he imitates the Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi in an hypothetical
campaign song for Berlusconi's return to politics. •
Gangnam Policeman - Officers from the
Falmouth Sector of
Devon and Cornwall Police made a video dancing to "Gangnam Style" on January 7, 2013, to raise funds for Joshua Wilson from
Bury, Greater Manchester who suffers with multiple disabilities after having a brain tumour.
Middle East •
Gamba Style (גמבה סטייל) was uploaded by the Israeli content and production company Srutonim in September 2012. The parody talks about a man who eats too much meat (played by Yuval Binder), and
Moses (played by Moshe Ferster) tells him to stop his cravings and eat more
bell peppers. As of march 2024, the parody has 66 million views. •
Saudi Gangnam Style ابو سروال وفنيلة, a video uploaded by six
Saudi Arabian young men dressed in
Keffiyeh, was shot in the city of
Riyadh. It attracted more than three million views within a few days, but was criticized by Douglas Ernst from
The Washington Times for its omission of women in the video. Ernst wrote, "Now we can add 'Gangnam Style' dancing to the list of things the ladies miss out on while the men have all the fun." •
Disalata: Hobba Egyptian Style/ هوبا ايجيبشان ستايل, a video shot at various places in
Egypt features notable cultural sites such as the
Great Pyramid of Giza and has almost a million views. •
Jewish style – Official parody to PSY – Gangnam Style (강남스타일), by Agent K, has more than 5 million views and was featured in
The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli newspaper. The lyrics of the parody address topics related to the Jewish culture such as
circumcision,
bar mitzvah,
Mazal Tov and Jewish festivals. The parody mainly features Agent K's member Roman Buchatsky, who is an Israeli Jew of Russian origin. It was recorded in the city of
Tel Aviv. •
Jerusalem Syndrome Gangnam Style, was shot in the
Old City of Jerusalem and includes heritage sites such as
Mahane Yehuda Market,
Western Wall,
Zion Square, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a special cameo appearance by the
Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat.
The Times of Israel described the parody as "a unique Jerusalem twist to the song". •
Elkin Style was uploaded by
Ze'ev Elkin, an
Israeli politician from the
Likud centre-right conservative party. It was deliberately released just after the end of Israel's
Operation Pillar of Defense, and the video lists different bills which Ze'ev Elkin helped pass as well as his "unprecedented" success as coalition's leader. •
Mangal Style by "Hayrettin" is a parody of "Gangnam Style" widely shared around social networks in
Turkey. It was also featured in
CNN Türk, the Turkish version of
CNN.
United States •
Gangnam Style – USNA Spirit Spot was made by midshipmen from the
United States Naval Academy. A spokesman from the United States Naval Academy said that "The video is creative and humorous, but it also took a lot of planning and teamwork", and added that although it was filmed at the academy and several participants wore their uniforms, the production did not violate any rules or regulations. Commander William Marks, Public Information Officer at the Naval Academy, said that "Even in the demanding environment of the Naval Academy, it's good to see that the midshipmen have struck a chord with the American public". •
Psy Gangnam Style GW Lacrosse, by members of the women's lacrosse team from
George Washington University, was considered a "solid effort" by Sarah Kogod of
The Washington Post. •
Lifeguard Style, performed by a group of lifeguards from
El Monte, California. They were released from official duties after they did a parody of "Gangnam Style" using the city's swimming pool, but were subsequently rehired. • ''Captain Fear and The
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders version of PSY's "Gangnam Style"
was noted by Ben Chew of NBC Sports because it "even throws in a classic moment featuring Captain Fear pursuing a Tampa Bay cheerleader on the Raymond James pirate ship as she dances rather seductively." Tim McGarry of USA Today'' speculates whether it will rival the
Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders's parody of "
Call Me Maybe". • The
Houston Independent School District staff uploaded a "Gangnam Style" video which, according to Chris Gray from the
Houston Press, was produced to encourage the community to vote early. •
The Oregon Duck – Gangnam Style Parody was featured in
USA Today. •
LIPA Style was produced by John Mingione, a correspondent for the
Long Island radio station
WBLI. Jilian Mincer from
Reuters reported that the parody was created as an answer to the
Long Island Power Authority's slow response to restore electricity after residents were cut off without power as a result of the
Hurricane Sandy disaster and subsequently sent thousands of complaints to Mingione's WBLI radio station. •
Obama Gangnam Style! is a parody by
Barack Obama impersonator
Reggie Brown. •
Jabari Parker Style was produced by four fans of the
BYU Cougars men's basketball team. The parody was created in advance of the expected visit of
Jabari Parker, one of the top basketball
recruits of the class of 2013, to the
Brigham Young University campus on November 24, 2012. •
"Weird Al" Yankovic included the verse "Polka Gangnam Style", as part of his parody medley "
NOW That's What I Call Polka!" for his 2014 album
Mandatory Fun. •
Stephen Quire does the Gangnam Style dance while watching the Gangnam Style video in the video
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