Friday, May 31, 2013

[Videos] PSY’s Gentleman performances in Italy and Germany

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[Videos] PSY’s Gentleman performances in Italy and Germany

Immediately after the Italian promotion, he went to Germany, where he sung Gentleman at “Germany’s Next Top Model 2013″. There he met the beautiful Heidi Klum, who stopped by PSY’s green room and said “Thank you PSY”, as the singer let us know through his twitter account.

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[News] PSY at The Voice of Italy

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[News] PSY at The Voice of Italy

After the bad experience in Rome, PSY went to Milan in order to performe at the tv show “The Voice of Italy”.

The filming place were the Rai TV Studios in Milan, where many fans gathered in order to take parte at the program. In fact it was organized a tv flashmob for this occasion. Fans had learnt previously a simple choreography of “Gentleman” and danced it while PSY was singing and dancing live in the studios.

If you have the possibility, on May 30th at 9 p.m. on the Italian tv channel Rai 2, you can see the flashmob with the singer, who didn’t forget to remember it to us through his twitter account.

Moreover, Italian fans there managed to express their love and support for PSY, making him smile and feeling happy. They also prepared posters with drawings and supporting phrases and some presents for him, which touched his heart : he thanked fans on his twitter and retwetted some of the messages left after the show recording.

He’s now in Germany, in the city of Mannheim. Wish him good luck!

M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com



Wednesday, May 29, 2013

[News] Psy to join Jakarta concert

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[News] Psy to join Jakarta concert

World sensation Psy will be performing in Indonesia during a July concert celebrating 40 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Psy will perform at Glora Bung Karno Stadium located in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 6th. The concert will be sponsored by Korea Tourism Organization and City of Seoul, and Psy will be performing with a number of different Indonesian singers as well.

YG Entertainment said, “Psy was invited to the event to celebrate 40 years of close ties between Korea and Indonesia”, and added that the singer is not staging a solo concert.

 M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com



Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Japan Blames Psy For American Idol’s Low Ratings

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You know, denial is not just a river in Egypt…

Even though Psy‘s massive popularity is worldwide, the trend has not really reached Japan. Some even speculate that the Korean pop star’s overseas fame is a well maintained like and his YouTube views are a result of hired hands clicking refresh. Given this, it comes without a shock that some Japanese are blaming American Idol‘s finale’s lowest ratings, dropping below 20 million viewers.

A little bit over 14.3 million people watched this year’s finale, wich is 33 percent lover than las year’s 21.5 million. Psy performed his latest hit single, Gentleman. Some people commented:

Not surprising. He’s not so popular.

Or:

That’s lame, even for him.

And even:

It’s because you can’t refresh a TV program!

But Psy was not the only performer of the night, the roster included Marian Carey, The Band Perry, Frankie Valli and Jennifer Lopez. Still, Japanese anti-fans say that if the Korean singer was actually popular, the finale would’ve recorded billions of viewers.

SOURCE: Rocket News 24



PSY Gets Booed At Italian Soccer Cup Final

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Pretty harsh!

The boos started shortly after Korean rapper PSY took the stage at the half time show during the Italian Cup final soccer match between Roma and Lazio. To try and drown out the booing the organizers of the event made the decision to raise the volume of the music.The booing might have been racist in nature as fans of both clubs have been known to have a history of racist chanting.

In fact police ended up confiscating bags of weapons including knives, clubs, and rocks before kickoff. This did not deter violent clashes from occurring. Lazio ended up winning the final match with a score of 1-0 against Roma. I guess PSY wasn’t able to calm the already stirred up emotions of the crowd like the organizers were hoping when they booked the performer. Sports fans in any country are passionate to say the least.

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SOURCE: The Korea Herald, ForzaRomaINFO



[News] PSY booed by football fans at the derby Roma-Lazio

[News] PSY booed by football fans at the derby Roma-Lazio
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PSY performed on May 26th at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome for the Final Italian Cup.

The intention was to give the football fans an enjoyable moment before the beginning of the match, hoping it would calm down the two opposing groups of supporters.

It was his first time in Italy and he was really happy, so much so that he posted two photos of him on twitter, one when he had arrived in the city and the other before the performance.


Instead of cheers, PSY received boos from both Lazio and Roma fans, some of them also blew up a firecracker. For this reason, after the songs ended he said a “Grazie” (Thank you in Italian) and left the stage visibly embarassed.

As many of you may not know, Italian football fanatics cause everytime many accidents, before, during even after the matches. Boos, insults, racist chants, firecracker, violence, throwing of rocks or eggs, unfortunately the list can be longer, but there is not yet a resolution to it.

The reaction of Italian K-Pop fans as they received the news of PSY coming to Italy for the derby was of concern. Many of them had left comments saying “I’m happy PSY comes here, but I’m worried for the atmosphere that is going to welcome him” , “Surely football supporters are going to boo at him. This is not the occasion for a performance of PSY. Why did the organizers invite him?”, “I hope everything will go well, he’s a great artist”. Their reaction is caused by the fact that they already knew the behavior of people during footbal matches. In fact, after his performance, many of them posted status of anger,deep embarassment and excuses, even if they weren’t at the stadium and they were supporting him. Moreover they kept on trending “#psyneedsrespect” in order to show their support.

Football fans at the match were not K-Pop fans, interested only in the match. Of course this is not an excuse for their disrespectful behaviour. PSY was not the only artist booed at a football match and probably he won’t be the last.

Sources : ANSA.it and PSY official twitter.

M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com


Monday, May 27, 2013

Fake Psy Tricks His Way into Monaco Grand Prix

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Psy lookalike, Denis Carré, has tricked his way into yet another A-lister event just days after he worked his way into some A-list events in Cannes over the weekend.

The fake Psy seemed to have dupe some big names including Amanda Holden and David Hasselhoff, who both took pictures with Carré. The pictures were then uploaded onto their celebrity Twitter accounts.

Amanda Holden tweeted with the pictures, ‘Not sure if this guy is kosher?! Rumours circulating he was a fake? What do YOU think?!’.

The Hoff, however, was more convinced that it wasn’t the real Psy tweeting, ‘Was that really PSY ? I think not!!’.

Amanda Holden- Psy Fake