Another Gangnam Style-sort success? No chance, says Psy

Ahead of the release on Tuesday of his new album titled Cider, Psy said that there was no chance of repeating his Gangnam Style success. He said after its success, the expectations that came with it, had, sometimes, been difficult to cope with.

Gangnam Style star Psy has said that it would be impossible to replicate the phenomenal success of his 2012 surprise hit. He added that he was quite happy being “just another” K-pop artist. The quirky South Korean singer was catapulted to unlikely international stardom after the Gangnam Style music video, with its invisible horse-riding dance, went viral.

The song Gangnam Style is a satire of the luxury lifestyle of residents in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district. It remains the most-watched video of all time on YouTube, with more than 2.4 billion views.(Officialpsy/Facebook)

The song -- a satire of the luxury lifestyle of residents in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district -- remains the most-watched video of all time on YouTube, with more than 2.4 billion views.

The 37-year-old singer said the success of the song and the expectations that came with it had sometimes been difficult to cope with. “The pressure and stress was simply too huge,” he told a press conference in Seoul ahead of the release on Tuesday of his new album. Asked if he imagined another worldwide hit, Psy shook his head.

Watch Daddy from his latest album Cider here:

“No chance,” he said. “I don’t think something like ‘Gangnam Style’ will ever happen again.” “The sheer weight of Gangnam was so heavy, I don’t even go to Gangnam anymore,” he joked. Before Gangnam Style conquered the globe, Psy had already been an established star at home for more than a decade, famous for provocative lyrics and rambunctious stage performances.

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Some fans at home felt that the singer lost his edge after travelling the world. Psy admitted that he had found himself trying too hard to please a global audience and vowed that his new album -- his seventh -- marked a return to “his roots”.

“While I was writing songs, I often found myself wondering, ‘will this be as good as Gangnam Style? Or what if foreign fans don’t understand this lyric?’” he said.

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“It took me a while to force such thoughts out of my mind,” he said, adding he would be perfectly content being “just another K-pop artist” for a while.

The new album, titled Cider, contains nine songs including the double-titles Daddy and Bell Bottoms -- both dance tunes.