Death of the author is a thing.
Whatever meaning you derive from a piece of art personally is just as valid as the intended meaning
Don’t worry. The sculptor made sure you can’t misinterpret their work.
No no no.
In school in higher education we had to interpret poems.
I am definitely sure, that neither the author’s opinion or my opinion are relevant. It is only the teacher’s opinion that is relevant.
(Do I need the /s?)
Be me, a literal reading scifi fan in 11th grade English having to read Jane Eyre and find all the damn symbolism. When all I saw was a 19th century romance novel. Blech.
Fortunately in English classes (I learned English at school) we read Macbeth. There’s a lot of layers to Shakespeare - for example a lot of allusions which you’ll only understand when you know about the time it was written in. And our English teacher dragged in a native speaker to help out with conversation, who was a student living in my town.
In German (my native language) however, we were presented a poem without not enough context about the author and had to answer “what’s the meaning of this”. Most of the German teachers I had were boring, lazy or both.
Your literature problem - I had that in German, Thomas Mann’s “Der Tod in Venedig”. Yeah, I as a teenager was so eager to read about the homoerotic thoughts of an older man traveling to Venice and lusting about a young boy. Yes, of course it’s symbolic but - fuuuuck me, really? Do I need to read that.
Mark Twain has written an essay about the “awful German Language” (I don’t agree). Amongst other things he complained about long sentences.
Ha! He know NOTHING! He had not seen the works of Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann must have been hugely intelligent. He managed to write a single sentence that is too long for a single fucking book page. With a random number of subclauses in between. Exploiting all the cleartext encryption mechanisms the German language allows! With the most boring content a teenager in the height of puberty can not relate to.
I still have a visceral hate for Thomas Mann. In my 40s I thought I’d give that book another chance. Nope. Still hate it.
Ah, soon I’m 40 years past school and I still get PTSD about it.
I was going to comment the same. The best art is where each person can derive their own meaning. Even better when you find new significance every time you see it.
Loss.
Except that
Is it a sign that I have no artistic talent whatsoever that I hate this concept?
No, it just means that you believe that the artist’s intentions are more important than your own interpretation of a given work. It’s the other side of a philosophical debate about the meaning of “art” as a whole.
“Gangnam Style” (Korean: 강남스타일; pronounced [kaŋ.nam sɯ.tʰa.il]) is a K-pop song by South Korean singer Psy, released on July 15, 2012,
Gangham style is over a decade old
So are you
I am even older
Impossible
And now you’re older still
…TIIIIIIIIIIMMME!
Is marching on
And TIIIIIIIIIIME…
Shots fired.
So’s your mom.
Incorrect
This is one of those times where I’m not surprised at all. I think I’d have guessed it’s older than that.
Sometimes you have to embrace Death Of The Artist and just enjoy things for what they are, rather than what they were intended to be. If you stand around thinking about the historical context of the Arc de Triomphe or the Great Wall of China or the Hoover Dam, you’re going to have a bad time.
Empty Head. No Thoughts. Just be at peace and enjoy what is.
Someone told me that Oppa means ‘Uncle’, but in the particular district of Gangnam the word Oppa/Uncle also means Pimp.
So it’s basically a song based on a pretty bad pun. I’ll protect you like an uncle, and by Uncle I mean Pimp.
EDIT: English speakers likely would do better with the translation as 'Ill be like a Father to you, a real Las Vegas Pimp Daddy (where Daddy is a word that means Father but has more Pimp connotations, and Las Vegas being famous for legalized prostitution).
It’s definitely debauchery. But we likely have memorials to Austin Powers and other such pop culture icons, so it’s understandable.
I don’t speak Korean but most sources I could find say Oppa means ‘older brother’ but also women call their boyfriend oppa. Also Gangnam is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Seoul. Oppa Gangnam Style would mean Gangnam boyfriend or rich boyfriend or sugar daddy.
Thanks for the clarification.
It could be 10+ years of me misremembering the explanation. The person who told me this was Korean, so it seems more likely that I misremembered than them explaining it wrong.
There’s also little speaker next to it that plays Gangnam Style on repeat 24/7
🎵hey, sexy lady🎵
There was a particular statue of two pairs of arms hugging representing MLK Jr and his wife Corretta that inspired the exact opposite feelings, apparently, as many onlookers mistakenly thought it was something more obscene.
Uh…
No. Completely different statue.
This statue of King was also thought to be an improper depiction.
“We don’t even see his feet. He is embedded in the rock like something not yet fully born, suited and stern, rising from its roughly chiseled surface. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance, not far from where Jefferson stands across the water. But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?”
-Edward Rothstein
Okay but people thought the arms thing was a depiction of fellatio, so not remotely similar in reception.
Well they are in the category of bad MLK statues but yeah I agree oral sex is not very similar to a stern expression
I remember the dude showing me Gangnam style. I remember Gangnam style hitting the billion views as the first video ever. And it did that in 6 months. Good times.
Not to mention the fact youtube had to raise their viewcount integer, I believe, from 32 bit to 64 bit
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