Los Angeles: South Korean rapper Psy has been awarded an early 2012 American Music Awards, six days before the red carpet event here. The 34-year-old star, who shot to fame with his catchy tune 'Gangnam Style', has been awarded the New Media accolade for the most popular video in YouTube history, reported Ace Showbiz. Psy, who shares the same manager as Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, will be presented with the...
11:44 AM, Nov 15, 2012
The South Korean pop sensation Psy joined the queen of pop Madonna at Madison Square Garden in New York on Tuesday night. Take a look. ...
05:05 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Los Angeles: Scarlett Johansson, who stars in a biopic of Alfred Hitchcock, found recreating the shower scene from 'Psycho' the most difficult. The 27-year-old star plays Janet Leigh, the star of 'Psycho' in 'Hitchcock', being directed by Sacha Gervasi. "We only had the luxury to shoot the scene for a day, and everybody was feeling very nervous because it involved water and nobody wants the actor to get wet. They...
10:35 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Psy's 'Gangnam Style' is getting prominence through-out the world. The latest version of 'Gangnam Style' has come out in Punjabi, which is creating a lot of buzz on the internet. Have a look. ...
01:17 PM, Nov 07, 2012
PSY, whose stage name stems from the first three letters of the word psycho, has always styled himself as a quirky outsider. But he is from a wealthy family and was actually raised and educated south of the Han River, near Gangnam. He's an excellent dancer, a confident rapper and he's funny, but another reason for his breakthrough could be that less-than-polished image, said Jae-Ha Kim, a Chicago Tribune pop ...
10:30 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Beijing: The popular hit 'Gangnam Style' by South Korean rapper Psy, which has been viewed millions of times on YouTube in just two months, has been termed 'vulgar', and the singer 'pompous' by Chinese netizens. In the music video, Psy appeared 'pompous' in a beach, horse stable, and sauna, repeating the phrase 'Oppan Gangnam style', the People's Daily reported. It said the song's global popularity may be attributed to its...
06:24 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Gangnam is the most coveted address in Korea, but less than two generations ago it was little more than some forlorn homes surrounded by flat farmland and drainage ditches. The district of Gangnam, which literally means "south of the river," is about half the size of Manhattan. About 1 percent of Seoul's population lives there, but many of its residents are very rich. The average Gangnam apartment costs...
10:14 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: South Korean rapper PSY's 'Gangnam Style' video has 300 million YouTube views and counting, and it's easy to see why. No Korean language skills are needed to enjoy the chubby, massively entertaining performer's crazy horse-riding dance, the song's addictive chorus and the video's exquisitely odd series of misadventures.Beneath the antic, funny surface of his world-conquering song, however, is a sharp social commentary about the country's newly rich and...
12:23 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Seoul: A chubby South Korean singer who has taken the pop world by storm, topping Apple's iTunes downloads and getting 270 million Youtube views, has vowed to perform his 'Gangnam Style' hit topless if it reaches number one. The rapper who does the foot-stomping 'horse dance' and goes by the name Psy, returned on Tuesday to the upmarket Seoul suburb that he put on the world music map. "If it...
07:15 PM, Sep 26, 2012
'Gangnam Style', that was available for viewing on July 15, has more than 2,479,030 likes on YouTube. ...
11:42 PM, Sep 25, 2012
A chubby, rapping singer with slicked-back hair and a tacky suit is the latest musical sensation to burst upon the world from South Korea, via a YouTube music video that has been seen by over 260 million people in under a month.In a nation famed for the pretty-boy but often bland bands of K-Pop, nobody was more surprised by the success of the video 'Gangnam Style' than its creator, Psy,...
05:00 PM, Sep 25, 2012
If you have gotten over Kolaveri Di, here's some more craziness that's driving the Internet. It's South Korean star PSY's 'Gangnam style' video. The video has beaten Justin Bieber and has become the most liked video on YouTube. In fact, breaking records, the video has set the Guinness World Record for the most 'liked' video in YouTube history. Gangnam Style, that was available for viewing on July 15, has more...
08:20 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Washington: You can use Twitter postings to spot whether someone is a psychopath, especially if he frequently uses words such as 'die', 'kill' and 'bury', a new research has claimed. Researchers from the Florida Atlantic University conducted a study with the London-based Online Privacy Foundation that showed how users' word choices can indicate personality traits, the Sun Sentinel reported. Somebody who swears too much online or uses words like "die,"...
04:42 PM, Aug 27, 2012
A chubby, rapping singer with slicked-back hair and a tacky suit is the latest musical sensation to burst upon the world from South Korea, via a YouTube music video that has been seen by over 60 million people in under a month. In a nation famed for the pretty-boy but often bland bands of K-Pop, nobody was more surprised by the success of the video 'Gangnam Style' than its creator,...
12:24 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Pune: In the summer of 1999, Lt Col (Dr) Samir Rawat was injured in the right leg while fighting against the Pakistan Army in Ladakh during the Kargil war. It was a serious knee injury that put an end to his active soldiering career, but the die-hard Rawat never let his spirits sag. The former tank trooper, who was still in service, started studying psychology. He acquired global certification in...
04:08 PM, Aug 24, 2012
London: Relieved and satisfied at the imprisonment of 'Psycho' Stapleton for the killing of their son Anuj Bidve, his grieving parents on Friday said their "whole world was lost" when he was killed on 26 December last. Bidve's Pune-based parents, Subhash and Yogini Bidve, sat through the five-week trial at the Manchester Crown Court every day, listening to evidence and watching the remorseless Stapleton at times mock the justice system....
07:36 PM, Jul 27, 2012
