Sure he is making money, not really helping the whole “kpop going international” cause though.
Gotta love how anytime a kpop group does a non-korean interview these days the interviewers ask them to do the horse dance. Not really a representation of what kpop is.
Check out how mad this guy got because they wanted him to do the horse dance.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20120927-373991.html
His 15 minutes are nearly over, he better have some good follow up material before Future next year because pretty sure he is going to be forgotten just as quickly as he popped up.
I'd have to agree with that.
Gangnam Style brings off the wrong impression to others about K-Pop. It makes them think that K-Pop is just comic relief, when in fact, it's not.
I can certainly understand why Tiger JK got pissed at the audience members for repeatedly asking him to do the horse dance, though he could've gotten rid of the profanity and perhaps not yelled at them during the performance.
He came there to perform his songs, not other people's songs. He came there to dance his moves, not other people's moves. To have the audience members disrespect him like that by asking him several times to perform someone else's dance moves... I'd personally be rather pissed off too.
It's all, "Did you actually come to watch me perform, or did you just come to watch people dance the horse dance because you expected that all Koreans can do is dance the damn horse dance and sing damn Gangnam Style? Because if it's the latter, get out."
(And I'm saying this even though I like Gangnam Style. Think it's becoming a little too overrated and overused, but it's not bad.)
But yeah, he better come up with some new hit songs pretty soon. Otherwise he'll just remain a one time thing. That's the reason why foreign countries still don't give him real recognition yet. They treat him like a joke, and I'm hoping that he'll change that around. ;(