“Gangnam Style” remains an unparalleled pop phenomenon. The music video’s “universality” inspires questions about attributes that have resulted in such a crosscultural contagion. The visual and musical qualities of the “Gangnam Style” video exemplify conditions of liquid modernity and society’s obsession with speed.

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