![]() Folks on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and other meme factories are already mining the mondegreen for LOLs. But the reference seems lost on all the listeners who think PSY is saying "open condom style," which makes no sense, but sounds like a bad idea nonetheless. As The Atlantic's Max Fisher noted, the refrain "oppa Gangnam style" is a clever jab at Seoul's rich and idle. It has 53 million Youtube hits as of this writing, it's the first K-pop single to top the iTunes video charts, and every news organization from The Washington Post to Time is gushing over it. But, as they do with most K-pop songs, Western listeners are hilariously mishearing its lyrics. ![]() Americans can't get enough of the bizarre hit "Gangnam Style" by Korean pop star PSY. ![]()
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