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Episode #421 · PSYOctober 2012 · 00:05:35

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0:00Hey, it's Matt with MSN.CO. We've got SID here. How are you? How are you? I'm good. I'm going to say, oh, Bungap, Sunita. Oh, yeah. Trying. There you go. Learning a little bit. Oh, yeah. You got your English down pat, though. So, how have things been? This must be the craziest year of your life. Yeah, ever. Yeah, craziest ever. Fastest ever. And way too far.

0:49What do you mean way too far? More than you could have imagined? Yeah, and from my country. You're from the front of the air. Now, Jan, it's not my country. Six rules, part one. You're talking English on almost every track at some point. How come? Because that amount of English is convenient for me. Not this amount. Not this amount. No, you're doing very well, though. But does it resonate with the audience? The audience in Korea expect a little English? Does that happen in most music over there? Well, so when I write the lyrics, you know, I don't, you know, market or target anything. I'm just, you know, thinking and doing it because I want to do, I want to use the word at that time at the right spot.

1:39So that was all. I hear the song is blown up around the world. And you're meeting with UN leaders now and you're becoming, for someone who is so controversial in South Korea, you're becoming like a saint over there. Yeah, so, you know, before departing from Korea, I placed a huge show to celebrate myself. You know, they allow me some salt plaza and the place only allowed for official issues, such as like Olympic sharing, World Cup sharing, and some government events. So they allow me to use the space to my private concert.

2:25So I did with, you know, like 100, you know, like a thousand people. So I was huge. Yeah. And I departed from there. And I went to Australia, LA Vegas, New York, LA here. And now, Toronto, how come you're here, Toronto? What's going on? I had like lots of interviews this morning, right after arriving. And then I have like performance tonight at like Cool House. Mm-hmm. For Samsung event? Yeah, Samsung event. Nice. What, why Samsung? Because Samsung's Korean too. I wanted to talk a little bit about the dance. Everyone's talking about the dance.

3:10We might get you to show me the dance in a little bit. I'm sure you're, I'm like the 1500th person that is good. I'm sorry. Okay. Maybe we don't need to do that. Wopan, Gangnam Style. I'm part two coming out. When are we going to hear it? Oh, you know that. I do know that. I was originally supposed to be in a couple of weeks. Yeah. So, you know, I don't know yet because part one, it was just part one. But it came out this big. So maybe I'm not going to release part two at all. Not really.

3:56Yeah. Just release another seventh album. Yeah. Maybe. You know, but there was like already, there was already some tracks for part two. So maybe I'm working on like some tracks for a new album for the worldwide right now. So, you know, maybe you can meet my first album and that's going to release part two in Korea. Maybe. Do some call five questions, five quick questions, one word answers. All right. Road or studio? Road. Leninger McCartney. McCartney. When you hear a song, what usually hits you first? Lyric's Melody or Rhythm?

4:43Rhythm. Song you've written you're most proud of. It's art. It's not called it's art. It's art. And in one word, Si. Korean. Oppenkundam star.

5:29Oppenkundam star.

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