Hip hop star Lauryn Hill gets three months for tax evasion

Last Monday, U.S. magistrate judge sentenced Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lauryn Hill to three months in prison, three months in home confinement and a $60,000 fine for federal tax evasion. 

Last year Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million of income between 2005 and 2007 and faced up to three years in prison.

Hill has credited her failure to pay taxes to years of pressure she practiced as a recording star all at the same time with raising six children, causing her to go underground and shut away from the public eye.

On the eve of her scheduled sentencing, Hill paid $504,000 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service and another $420,000 to the state of New Jersey, her attorney told the court. She still owes another $285,000 in interest and penalties.

“When the government is asking for 36 months and the judge gives three months, I think the judge gave a fair and reasonable sentence,” Hill’s attorney Nathan Hochman told reporters.

Thirty months to the maximum of 36 months was asked by the prosecutors for a sentence.

Hill’s lack of a criminal record, her six children and her repayment of the back taxes as mitigating factors in the sentence, cited U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo.

Hill, native of South Orange, New Jersey, must report on or before July 8.  Her attorney asked the court to assign her a facility close to home.  Part of one year of supervised probation is the three months of home confinement following the prison stay.

Hill told the court she pulled away from society because her life was in crisis, received veiled threats and was blacklisted because she did not conform to the norms of the music industry.

“I was being perceived as a cash cow, not a person,” Hill said.

Just this Friday, a new single by Hill, her first in several years, called “Neurotic Society,” was posted on iTunes.

“Here is a link to a piece that I was ‘required’ to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline,” her Tumblr social media page said on Saturday.

She signed a new contract with Sony Worldwide Entertainment and was working on her first album of new material in more than a decade, her lawyers attest.

Hill’s seminal 1998 solo album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” won the singer five Grammy awards.  She was a former member of the Fugees rap trio.

Music Effects to Prenatal Babies

Babies can hear sounds from the outside world as early as when they are still in the womb.  Music is one type of noise that gets a lot of attention.  According to preliminary researches it appears to indicate that your unborn child might enjoy and benefit slightly from a daily dose of music although the jury is still out on the true impact of prenatal exposure to Mozart and Bach.

More or less at 17 weeks gestation a baby can start to hear sounds, normally just about the condition when the mother starts on feeling the first tiny flutters of movement and prior to the baby’s sex is clearly identifiable.  At the time when the baby is on his 26 weeks, his heartbeat will rate rapidly in response to sounds, including music that comes from outside the womb. Babies have been observed breathing simultaneously with the music, signifying consciousness of the beat happening during 33 weeks gestation and by 38 weeks, a baby in the womb responds in a different way to different types of music, showing different rates of fetal movement

 

According to Baby Center, the true effect of music on prenatal development remains unknown.  A loosely-controlled preliminary study in the “Music Educators Journal” in 1985 found that babies exposed to music before birth had longer attention spans than expected for their age and imitated adult sounds better.  One more small study in 1997 in “Pre- & Peri-Natal Psychology Journal” looked at babies enrolled in a program called FirstStart, which exposed unborn babies to musical stimulation. These babies demonstrated better motor skills, language development and cognitive skills from birth to six months comparing to the control group of babies.  On the other hand, since these studies were minute and have not been recurring, the query of whether and how much music influences unborn babies stays under investigation.

Back in 1991, a study concerning six pregnant women and a broader follow-up study in 1993 both examined at whether babies could be familiar with music they had heard in the womb after birth.  Music includes: Classical piano music, vocal music and rock music were all played through headphones on the mother’s belly.  Babies who heard music in the womb reacted with more awareness and physical actions during six weeks after birth, demonstrating that they have known the music they had heard in the womb. According to the BBC, this recognition of prenatal music experiences might actually last 12 months or more after birth. Letting babies listen to familiar music after birth might aid to calm a restless child who identifies the tune.

Mothers should remember that if they want to expose their unborn baby to music should not turn the volume up too loud.  The too loud music could over stimulate the fetus or even damage the developing ear.

Black Hawk Mines Music: Rocker Jack White's Nashville store offer "do-it-yourself" records

Last Saturday, Rock musician Jack White celebrated Record Store Day by giving customers a opportunity to record their own voices on vinyl on a vintage machine at his record shop near downtown Nashville.

Voice-O-Graph, a record booth from 1947 was used by White, who has embraced vinyl over digital both as an artist and as the head of Third Man Records in Nashville to treat their costumers.

“We’ll have the record booth open and available for people to come in, sing a song and get a copy of it on record,” Third Man Records executive Ben Blackwell said in an interview on Wednesday.

“It’s a refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph record booth,” Blackwell said. “As far as we can tell, it will be the only functioning record booth open to the public in the world.”

Every third Saturday of each April Record Store Day is marked internationally that aims to encourage people to visit independent record stores.

Third Man Records will be staging in-house performances by some of the music label’s artists adding up to the recording booth in the store’s “Novelties Lounge”.

Blackwell said record booths were popular in the 1940s and 1950s and could be found in public places, like train stations, along with photo booths.

“They were used as a way to record an audio postcard and send it to someone you love or to go in and sing a little song so you can hear what your voice sounds like,” he said.

The Voice-O-Graph is about the size of a telephone booth.  The idea is fans will pay a fee to produce their own record.

“Just think of it as a blank vinyl record and when you are singing, it is making the grooves into the record,” Blackwell said.

White’s Third Man Records has been recognized for experimenting with vinyl, having in the previous few months added a record lathe that allows live acts performing in the Blue Room.  The Blue Room is the company concert venue, to be recorded directly to discs.

The contemporary music fan has “never been faced with the technology to put their voice and their thoughts on a record” and take it home Blackwell said.

“Jack has been looking for a long time for one of these machines,” Blackwell said. “After years and years and years he finally crossed paths with one. It was a no-brainer to get it up and running for our Novelties Lounge.”

The booth will remain after Record Store Day, and he expects it to be a popular attraction to the store, which sells exclusively Third Man recordings - albums by various artists as well as by White and his three group configurations: The White Stripes, Dead Weather and The Raconteurs Blackwell added.

Black Hawk Mines Music: How Music Benefits the Brain

Persons with no musical background were not only visibly more skilled after completing two weeks of regular exercise on a piano keyboard, their brains also changed measurably according to the studies by the University Hospital San Raffaele (Milan, Italy), presented at the 22nd Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Prague.

The study also endow with evidence that even a diminutive episode of ambidextrous exercise directs to improved organization and more objective action between the left and right brain hemisphere.  The training also leads to better reactions to the nerve impulses in the fingers musculature.

In addition, the musical stimuli also provoked a structural rebuilding of gray matter in those brain regions that are implicated in harmonized movement.  The study exposed that the harder the task was, the better. 

The brains ‘neuroplasticity’ a process in which the brain automatically reconstructs itself in response to a given task so that its internal structure and organization are best suited to a demand, scientists have only just researched about this.  Neuroplasticity works by automatically establishing enhanced interconnection of regularly used areas of the brain, at the same time as resources are wan down from those not oftenly used. 

As two studies demonstrated Practicing music radically and efficiently speed up self-optimization of definite brain activities.

Researchers requested 12 musically inexpert accomplices to inishf ten 35-minute practice sessions on an electronic piano keyboard within a two-week period, in the first study.  They scrutinized the participants’ hand movement method before and after the training was done, demeanor neurophysiological tests by means of a 32-channel EEG (electroencephalogram) and a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

All participants achieved a dramatic increase in their motor skills dramatically through training, yet the most surprising result was the harmonization in which both hands were able to perform, the results revealed. 

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“Our results show that two-handed exercise training among right-handers is associated with a significant improvement in the dexterity of the left hand. Ten days of a competently controlled exercise training can apparently suffice to trigger changes in cortical plasticity similar to results reported for professional musicians,” declared by Dr Elise Houdayer from the University Hospital San Raffaele in Milan.

Prof Massimo Filippi at the Neuroimaging Research Unit le the second study at Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital, 45 musically inexperienced participants who were divided into 3 dissimilar groups.  Every participants were ask to use their right hand for playing a specific succession of notes on a computer-modified keyboard, at the same time as subsequent the rhythm of a metronome for 30 minutes per exercise session.  The study stage concerned ten sessions throughout a two-week period. 

The results were: One group was only able to listen to the metronome, whilst the second group listened to another piece of music with the same rhythm as the metronome. The third group was given the most complicated task of performing the given task whilst listening to music with a faster pace than the metronome.  All participants underwent agility and brain tests using the latest imaging techniques prior to the study and at study end.

The findings revealed an improved dexterity in all three groups, and although there was no impact observed on “white matter” architecture of the brain following the exercises, the team did notice substantial changes in gray matter volume in brain regions, which are vital for coordinating movement. The findings also showed that the brain’s gray mass changed to an even greater extent in those who performed the most complicated task (Group 3). 

Prof. Filippi concluded: “Musical stimulation during exercise training thus improves motor performance and affects the structural plasticity of the gray matter.” 

Dr. Rocca added: “The complexity of the task is also associated with different pattern of cortical activations as measured with functional MRI.”

She Can't Pay says the Woman Who Lost Downloading Case

Pirates are not just hunting oceans’ floor but also the music industry.  There’s still no way she can pay record companies the $222,000 judgment she owes said the Minnesota woman at the center of a long-running court fight over the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal Monday.

 

The justices did not give remark on their decision.  The amount was excessive argued by the attorneys of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, of Brainerd.

 

In the early to mid-2000s, the music industry filed thousands of lawsuits in opposition to people it charged of downloading music without authorization and without paying for it.  Most of these cases were settled for about $3,500 apiece.  Only two defendants refused to pay and went to trial one of them is Thomas-Rasset while the other was former Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum.  The later also lost and was ordered to pay $675,000.

 

 

Back in 2006, the initial case was file against Thomas-Rasset.  Ever since the case was filed has gone through three trials and several appeals.  According to the evidences presented by the industry, Thomas-Rasset made available over 1,700 songs to other computer uses via the file-sharing service Kazaa, though the lawsuit targeted only 24 songs.

 

“I’m assuming that since they declined to hear the case it’s probably done at this point,” she said. But she also said she needed to consult with her attorneys to determine what happens next.

 

Thomas-Rasset at the age of 35 and who works for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal government, maintained her claim that as she has all along can’t afford to pay.

 

“There’s no way that they can collect,” she said. “Right now, I get energy assistance because I have four kids. It’s just the one income. My husband isn’t working. It’s not possible for them to collect even if they wanted to. I have no assets.”

 

She became a grandmother in June, Thomas-Rasset added.

 

She refused both times when the Recording Industry Association of America offered to settle for $5,000 when it first sued, and offered to settle for a $25,000 donation to a charity for music industry people in need after her second trial.

 

“We appreciate the Court’s decision and are pleased that the legal case is finally over,” the trade group said in a statement. “We’ve been willing to settle this case from day one and remain willing to do so.”

 

Kiwi Camara, of Houston, Thomas-Rasset’s attorney, uttered displeasure in the result but oblique in an email that the legal options may still carry out.  He noted that Tenenbaum’s case will still live before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.  Tenenbaum is still demanding the size of the judgment against him.  His attorneys, including Camara, dispute that it’s “grossly disproportionate” to his offense.

Music Industry and Piracy Law

The music industry has given a judicious endorsement to European Union moves intended at limiting Internet piracy.

 

The copyright directive was “a workable proposal”, said the industry’s umbrella group, the International Federation of Phonographic Industries.

 

IFPI, representing around 1400 major and independent record companies worldwide, said the newly-adopted UK legislation, requiring measures from ISPs to curb piracy on their networks, sets a powerful example to other countries.

 

IFPI chairman John Kennedy said: “The passing of the Digital Economy Act in the UK recognizes that if a country is to have world-class creative industries, then it also needs laws that will effectively protect their rights from the crippling problem of digital piracy.

 

“The new UK legislation is a decisive step towards dealing with P2P and other forms of illegal distribution in a way that can substantially reduce the problem.  Most importantly, it recognizes that effectively addressing piracy needs active cooperation from internet service providers, in helping curb infringements on their networks.

 

“The move by the UK creates momentum for the graduated response approach to tackling piracy internationally. Governments increasingly understand that, in the digital economy, creative industries like music, film, books and games can drive growth and jobs for many years to come if they are provided with the right legal environment and with a modern system of enforcement in which ISPs actively cooperate.

 

“The UK has today joined the ranks of those countries who have taken decisive and well-considered steps to address the issue. We hope this will prompt more focus and urgency for similar measures in other countries where debate is underway.”

 

“There are enough elements here for the music industry to speed up the offering of music to consumers in a wider range of ways,” IFPI Chairman Jay Berman said soon after the result was announced.

 

“The directive recognizes that copyright is an essential part of the Information Society.”

With members made up of more than 1,400 record producers and distributors in over 70 countries IFPI represents the recording industry worldwide.

 

“We appreciate all the work the European Parliament has put into making it possible for our companies to do business. This will be to the benefit of artists and consumers alike,” Berman said.

 

This has become vague problem for the music industry; it will make their profits go down.  This draft proposal permits rights’ holders in the music and film industries to prevent illegal replication of their works using advanced technology.

 

“Authors, performers, producers and broadcasting organizations will in principle enjoy exclusive rights regarding the reproduction, communication and dissemination of their work,” this is what under the text of the directive.

 

However, individual European countries have their own exceptions or limitations to the rules.

 

The limitations include when they regard to it to be in the public interest.   An example is to assist certain categories of people, such as the disabled, and reproduction for press purposes.  Nevertheless in several instances the exceptions will be on the circumstance that the copyright holder receives fair compensation and in others that the source, including the author’s name, is indicated.

 

Private individuals can produce a copy as long as it is solely for private use and non-commercial use.  This is an amendment designed to strike a balance between the rights of artists and the public.

International Black Hawk Mines News Arizona Mining Project Wins Crucial Permit

A Canadian mining company has come one step closer to building a mile-wide, half-mile-deep open-pit copper mine on public land 30 miles south of Tucson. On Thursday, Arizona’s Department of Environmental Quality granted Rosemont Copper, a subsidiary of Augusta Resource of Vancouver, a crucial air quality permit, saying emissions from the proposed mine would not violate federal standards for carbon monoxide, nitrogen and sulfur dioxide, or fine and large particles.

Rosemont Copper plans to build a mine on the east side of the Santa Rita mountains south of Tuscon.

As I reported here last month, the mine would occupy 4,750 acres of land in the Coronado National Forest, home to 10 endangered species in one the most biologically diverse areas in the country.

Opponents of the mine include the mayor of Tucson and dozens of citizens’ groups. The Environmental Protection Agency has also raised serious objections, saying the project “would eliminate and/or significantly degrade hundreds of acres of aquatic and riparian resources,” including federal waters and critical springs and wetlands.

That Rosemont has made it this far has led critics to argue that the General Mining Law of 1872, which governs hard-rock mining, is woefully outdated and needs to be altered.

The law gave anyone with a hard-rock mining claim “the right to mine” regardless of any alternative use of federal land. Claimants pay a fee of $2.50 to $5 an acre and do not pay royalty taxes on the minerals mined.

Randy Serragio of the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, asserts that every attempt to enact significant changes of the law has failed because of campaign contributions to lawmakers from the mining companies. He said Rosemont might be described as “the poster child” for the law because “the potential impacts are so egregious.”

In this bone-dry region of southern Arizona, opponents worry most about the effect on water supplies. Stanley Hart, a geochemist and scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who opposes the mine, said he spent six months full time reviewing 3,000 pages of environmental studies on the project. Rosemont “did not come close to proving that it wouldn’t pollute groundwater,” he said. “If the aquifers get screwed up, there’s not enough money in the world to fix it.”

Mining officials say they have pioneered advanced technology to conserve water and to mitigate contamination. Conventional tailings, or the materials that are left over once ore is extracted from the rock, are mixed with water and stored in a slurry. Rosemont will use a “dry-stack” method to store tailings, squeezing out the water and recycling it, a company spokeswoman said.

“Our footprint is less than one-third the size of a traditional mine, with one-half of the water use,” Letitia Cornacchia, vice president for investor relations and corporate communications at Augusta Resource, wrote in an e-mail.

Dr. Hart counters that Rosemont will be dumping “exactly the same amount of waste rock and tailings as a traditional mine.” In a legal appeal of one of the mine’s water permits, he testified that the tailings, to be stored at the mining site in perpetuity, are likely to be infiltrated by rainwater and leach toxic elements like arsenic, mercury and lead into the ground and eventually the aquifers.

Ms. Cornacchia confirmed that the tailings would contain those substances, but at levels below the regulatory limits.

Rosemont Copper still has hurdles to clear. It needs final approval of its environmental impact statement, which received 25,000 public comments, from the Forest Service, and it faces current and probable court challenges to permits. The only remaining permit the company needs to obtain is the Clean Water Act Section 404 permit, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers. The E.P.A. has the ability to veto the corps decision, however.

The proposed mining site, in hills east of the Santa Rita Mountains, was once the stomping ground of the Apache warrior Geronimo. Jaguars once roamed the hills as well. In the late 1800s, the government made a concerted effort to tame the Wild West by promoting mining, ranching and other industries in the region, which mining officials point out still provide jobs and resources today.

Michael Hill, a tribal attorney for the San Carlos Apache tribe, said that a massive copper mine would threaten sites important to several Indian nations and continue a “cycle of destruction” for a fragile ecosystem. “That land is held in trust by the U.S. government for every single American,” he said.

Kanye West: Excited Father-to-be | My BlackHawk Mines Music

Kanye West’s series of concerts in Atlantic City last December 30, 2012 came to be a surprise for everyone.  Every night he managed to surprise everyone, on the first night he played dress-up, second night he ranted.  But the third and final night was the night he shocked everyone, he declared that he is a father-to-be.  This was the first time we ever saw him with a genuine happiness on his face, he couldn’t take that smile off.

At 35, Kanye is as excited as a kid on his Christmas presents.  During a freestyle of “Lost in the World” he revealed that Kim kardashan, 32, will going to be his “baby’s mama.”

Kanye was really happy when he heard about the news.  “He’s known this for some time now,” according to reliable source.  “You don’t even know how f**king excited this [guy] is about being a father.”  So blackmail is not a question here because he is genuinely happy.

Kanye was overcome with emotion when Kim told him the good news, the source added.

The sorce also revealed, “He’s like really on one right now and I don’t know if I should say this, but [Kanye] was crying when Kim told him she was knocked up.”

The source also adds, “I heard he got on his knees in front of Kim, she rubbed his head while he was crying and he was kissing her stomach. Guess he was overwhelmed at that point and couldn’t believe he’s about to be a father.”

This is all maybe because Kanye in fact grew up without his father by his side.  His parents got divorced and Kanye and his mother moved to Chicago when he was 3.  He will only go and see his father on Christmas, spring break and summer.  He considers his father as his everything although most of the time his mother was his everything.  He once said to an interview, “It gets to the point that when you go to high school and you wasn’t out in the streets like that, and you ain’t have no father figure, or you wasn’t around your father all the time, who you gonna act like? You gonna act like your mother. … And then everybody in high school be like, “Yo, you actin’ like a f–. Dog, you gay?” And I used to deal with that when I was in high school.”  Maybe this is exactly his reason why he is excited to become a dad.

Although Kardashian’s family was as excited as Kanye, latter’s family reacted negatively.  Kim’s family even tweeted about her pregnancy with Kanye.

Kanye’s family was the first ones to learn about Kim’s pregnancy and let us just say that they did not react like Kim’s family.  Tony Williams, Kanye’s cousin, said that Kanye’s baby announcement wasn’t met with champagne showers by his family.

He said that when Kanye spilled the news when he flew in the day after Christmas without Kim, they were quite and shocked.

The family did not respond so Kanye had to ask Tony for his reaction and he said, “You are 35 years old.  You have to have a kid eventually.”

But eventually the family came around and said that they are all really excited for him and Kim.    Yes, excited but shocked.

As we all know Kim is still technically married to Kris Humphries, so marriage was still not in the way for the two.  And blackmail is out of the question because the couple looks happy in their situation.

They have been quite about it.  And the family did not ask about it too according to Tony that is because Kanye did not say anything about it.

What will be the Music Trends this 2013?

Let’s predict the future by analyzing culture and trends today.  Last year has been the year for the solo female pop vocalists like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, etc.  Solo male vocals were also hit last year like Psy, Eminen, Bruno Mars, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, etc.  These guys churning out all Top 20 hits all over the world.  There has been much collaboration with featured singers, with all the rapping, dub step and dance music.  But what genre or style of music will be dominant this 2013.

 

If 2012 meant to the dub step it is not the case this year because 2013 cannot come quick enough.  Although it will just be a passing phase this year because the lasting strong points of the year seem to be turning to the indie alternative gone pop.  It seems that 2013 will focus more on the artist which made 2012 only its transition.

 

Some made the prediction that guitar music may return to radio playlist in the near future.  It is expected that new guitar music is to be a fusion of something that will be playing in the radio stations this year.  This is actually already been starting.  More attention seems to be leaning towards the young singer-songwriter who plays the instrument and the hot tween pre-made dance talent is slowly vanishing.

 

This could mean Justin Bieber may be on his way out sooner than expected.  May this be a warning for him so that he can mature in terms of his music.  Songs like his built trend for the next wave and pop music could use some wake-up call wit more artist that could make a mainstream impact.

 

90’s R&B will go even more mainstream, this is due to almost every artist feels compelled to reel off their R&B influences.  When you go night out, you will never fail to endure repeated plays of R Kelly’s She’s Got That Vibe.  With many artists sprouting in every corner, attention span grows short regarding the choice or artist that listeners will listen to.  Those who cannot reinvent themselves will be quick to fall of the radar.

Warning: do not buy pirated CDs.  This will affect the music industry.  How we listen and how we purchase will affect these artists and the future trends.

Black Hawk Mines Music: Psy Takes Over The World

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There is no doubt that Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has taken over the world, it is a Phenomenon!  It has been topping the hit charts of every country.  Psy’s quirky dance moves and the songs upbeat music make the whole world addicted to the song.  Although the song is in Korean it is so catchy with its sing-a-long chorus making the whole world sing and dance to it.

In a span of merely few weeks, Psy (real name Park Jae-Sang), a chubby 34-year-old, made everyone a Gangnam Stylists.  South Korean singer   has become an overnight international sensation with his bizarre-but-amazing ‘Gangnam Style’ clip, in which he does a “horse dance” in toilets, saunas, elevators, carparks and even a horse stable.  The catchy tune, an endearing, if hopelessly draft, dance became an overnight viral sensation.  Instead of feeling aggrieved at his rapid, effortless rise, appearances on the US TV chatshow circuit and myriad copycat routines, they must thank Psybecause he shoved open the door for other Korean pop artists hoping to make it to US market as well.

Gangnam Style breaks Guiness world book of records, when this viral song smashed a world record, it became the most popular video in YouTube history.  The singer was presented with a certificate by Guinness World Records in London on Thursday for the achievement.

Singer even signed with Justine Bieber’s manager.  Racking up nearly 48 million Youtube streams Psy beats up Justine Bieber’s “As Long as You Love me”   to number 1 on the US iTunes chart, and spawning internet cover versions and flash mobs, this surprise Korean singer because he didn’t think that the song would be a smash.  English speaking listeners handled the song very passionately even though the lyrics contain only one English line “Hey, sexy lady!”

Gangnam is a hipster district in South Korea’s capital city, Seoul.  Here is part of the song translated in English:  “Girls, your big brother is Gangnam Style”.
A girl who looks quiet but plays when she plays
A girl who puts her hair down when the right time comes
A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all
A sensible girl like that

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

Very sensible indeed, far from what the video is portraying.  Psy said that his goal in the video is to look uncool and he achieved it.  But the message is quite poetic and very sane.  Some accuse Kpop as shallow in content.  This has proved that they aren’t.  Everyone is singing and dancing to Gangnam Style like crazy.  He may achieve looking uncool but sure he is one of the hottest in the world today!

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