{"id":629,"date":"2012-08-29T02:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T07:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2012-08-29T02:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T07:25:39","slug":"musical-nonsense-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/29\/musical-nonsense-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical nonsense phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month saw PSY&#8217;s &#8216;Gangnam Style&#8217; video break big online. If you&#8217;ve not seen it, you should. The music&#8217;s catchy, and they clearly had far too much fun making the music video.  Go on, watch it.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After a few days&#8217; trouble keeping it out of my head, I took a look into some of his other tracks and found those amusing enough to prompt me to grab his album. And I discovered something interesting: rap other languages is way catchier than rap in English. Because I can&#8217;t understand the lyrics, the vocals become rhythmic instrumentation and, again because I can&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s going on, I&#8217;m not distracted or offended by the drivel that sometimes passes for lyrics in rap. That&#8217;s not to say PSY&#8217;s lyrics are drivel &#8211; I haven&#8217;t the foggiest what he&#8217;s saying. All I know is that I have trouble excising from my mind what seems to me to be musical nonsense phrases. <\/p>\n<p>For kicks, here&#8217;s another of his videos. Again, having too much fun.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UmHdefsaL6I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month saw PSY&#8217;s &#8216;Gangnam Style&#8217; video break big online. If you&#8217;ve not seen it, you should. The music&#8217;s catchy, and they clearly had far too much fun making the music video. Go on, watch it. After a few days&#8217; trouble keeping it out of my head, I took a look into some of his\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/29\/musical-nonsense-phrases\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}