{"id":26841,"date":"2022-05-14T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=26841"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:09:21","slug":"bts-suga-says-psy-paved-the-way-for-k-pop-in-the-us-with-gangnam-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-suga-says-psy-paved-the-way-for-k-pop-in-the-us-with-gangnam-style\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; Suga says PSY &#8216;paved the way for K-Pop in the US&#8217; with &#8216;Gangnam Style&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K-Pop fans regularly debate who &#8220;<em><strong>paved the way for K-Pop in the US<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. <strong>BTS<\/strong>, <strong>Bigbang<\/strong> or <strong>Super Junior<\/strong> are names that regularly come up in the debate. BTS&#8217; <strong>Suga<\/strong> has his say in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The idol praised <strong>PSY<\/strong>&#8216;s worldwide hit &#8220;<strong>Gangnam Style<\/strong>&#8220;, saying it &#8220;paved the way for K-Pop&#8221; worldwide. Released in 2012, the K-pop icon became the highest-ranking Korean pop artist on the<strong> Billboard Hot 100<\/strong> when &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; reached the number two spot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0\" title=\"PSY - GANGNAM STYLE(\uac15\ub0a8\uc2a4\ud0c0\uc77c) M\/V\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since then, only BTS has broken his record, reaching number one six times since 2020. Earlier this month, PSY released &#8220;<strong>That That<\/strong>&#8220;, the title track of the new album &#8220;<strong>PSY 9th<\/strong>&#8220;, produced by Suga. Now the pair reunited for an interview on PSY&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>C<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>He was always someone I was thankful for<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; Suga said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>With &#8216;Gangnam Style,&#8217; he paved the way for K-Pop in the U.S. so we could easily follow in his footsteps<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seulrene4_\/status\/1522560879354855424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/seulrene4_\/status\/1522560879354855424<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>During a press conference for his new album, PSY talked about the success that other Korean artists have enjoyed in the 10 years since the release of &#8220;Gangnam Style.&#8221; Psy said artists like BTS and <strong>BLACKPINK<\/strong> achieved the &#8220;opposite&#8221; of their viral fame because they gained &#8220;<em><strong>permanence and persistence<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>If (BTS) continues like this, even if they don&#8217;t make music to increase national prestige, I think they will give (Korea) many proud moments,&#8221; Psy added. &#8220;I&#8217;m very proud that I played a role as a trigger.<\/p>\n<p> BTS thanked me many times for this part, so I&#8217;m proud of it.<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-Pop fans regularly debate who &#8220;paved the way for K-Pop in the US&#8220;. BTS, Bigbang or Super Junior are names that regularly come up in the debate. BTS&#8217; Suga has his say in the matter. The idol praised PSY&#8216;s worldwide hit &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8220;, saying it &#8220;paved the way for K-Pop&#8221; worldwide. Released in 2012, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":26847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[935],"class_list":{"0":"post-26841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-suga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}