Gangnam Style, by PSY, is the number one hit all over the world. He has over tronned Justin Bieber in YouTube and he each day breaks another record. The pop song, release in July 15, 2012, debut at number one at the national record chart of South Korea, Gaon Chart. The phrase, Gangnam Style, is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gagnam Districk of Seoul. On September 20, 2012, the song was recognises by Guinness World Records as the most liked video in YouTube history.
In Portugal, as since we create music to express everything, Gangnam Style has already a new version: Gamar com Style – which is, in Portuguese, to rob with style.
In these lyrics by Pedro Fernandes, a TV host from a public show – 5 para a Meia Noite – created a little sketch. Here, we can read thinks like “What beef? Forget it. Eat soybeans”, or “If alcohol were not so expensive, I drank to forget”.
The lyrics state all of what has happened in the last few years in the country: he talks about the mystery university degree that our last prime Minister has – or not, who know -, or the latest news about the college degree of Miguel Relvas – from the current government, the Assistant Minister and Parliamentary Affairs. We can also read some verses about Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, “without subsidies and more taxes, Merkel told (hey) and he (hey) submit – here, submit is the translation of “amochou”, an expression that in Portugal is used to say that someone bend for someone, submit to the willing of somebody. The work austerity here also takes a place. “Austerity, give me more austerity. Passos you can do it with easy.”
And if you want to know more about the situation in Portugal, “adjustments plans I just adjust the waist, thet sent me emigrate as if that were healing”, which refers to the brilliant suggestion that Pedro Passos Coelhos, our prime Minister, gave the young Portuguese that completed all their studies and find no job in the country. “I’m going to Greece, where life is sweet, toil six days, it’s fucking crazy!”.
This expresses how the Portuguese feel with the new budget cuts and with the increasing poverty all around the country. Of course that the song is a success in Portugal.
