President Obama Tells People Magazine He Does 'Gangnam Style' Dance To Embarrass His Daughters
Posted: 12/20/2012 5:04 pm EST
It was only just before the election that Barack Obama first heard "Gangnam Style."
At the time, he noted tentatively: "I think I can do that move. But I'm not sure that the inauguration ball is the appropriate time to break that out."
Two months later, he's still reluctant to do the dance in public -- but he's apparently more than willing to do it at home.
"They're cooler than I am," the president says of his daughters in a new interview with People magazine. "There are things I like that they think are cheesy, like 'Gangnam Style.'" He adds that he "absolutely" does the now-internationally-famous "gallop" to embarrass his kids.
Obama has already expressed his appreciation of the mega-viral hit in person, according to an interview with Psy in The Hollywood Reporter. The South Korean singer explained: “He told me he’s good at ‘Gangnam Style’ but that the ladies at his house are embarrassed when he’s dancing so he’s not doing it.”
In the People interview, the president and Mrs. Obama also discussed their family life on a more serious level.
While Mrs. Obama said the girls have plenty of time to decide what they want to do when they grow up -- Malia's "a freshman, so she also knows she has years in college to explore her interest" and Sasha "doesn't even try and lay it out yet" -- the president waxed sentimental about how quickly the time goes.
"There's something about your daughters that just breaks your heart. ... The finite amount of time you have with your children, and the joy they bring on a minute-to-minute, day-by-day basis -- the idea that that's not there all the time is something that can hit me hard sometimes."
Read the full interview in the Dec. 31 issue of People.
Source without pictures or videos of Obama dancing to Gangham style :(
Barack Obama? More like Barock Obama.
Posted: 12/20/2012 5:04 pm EST
It was only just before the election that Barack Obama first heard "Gangnam Style."
At the time, he noted tentatively: "I think I can do that move. But I'm not sure that the inauguration ball is the appropriate time to break that out."
Two months later, he's still reluctant to do the dance in public -- but he's apparently more than willing to do it at home.
"They're cooler than I am," the president says of his daughters in a new interview with People magazine. "There are things I like that they think are cheesy, like 'Gangnam Style.'" He adds that he "absolutely" does the now-internationally-famous "gallop" to embarrass his kids.
Obama has already expressed his appreciation of the mega-viral hit in person, according to an interview with Psy in The Hollywood Reporter. The South Korean singer explained: “He told me he’s good at ‘Gangnam Style’ but that the ladies at his house are embarrassed when he’s dancing so he’s not doing it.”
In the People interview, the president and Mrs. Obama also discussed their family life on a more serious level.
While Mrs. Obama said the girls have plenty of time to decide what they want to do when they grow up -- Malia's "a freshman, so she also knows she has years in college to explore her interest" and Sasha "doesn't even try and lay it out yet" -- the president waxed sentimental about how quickly the time goes.
"There's something about your daughters that just breaks your heart. ... The finite amount of time you have with your children, and the joy they bring on a minute-to-minute, day-by-day basis -- the idea that that's not there all the time is something that can hit me hard sometimes."
Read the full interview in the Dec. 31 issue of People.
Source without pictures or videos of Obama dancing to Gangham style :(
Barack Obama? More like Barock Obama.
Gangnam Style: the perfect dance to embarrass your relatives.
/csb
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Edited at 2012-12-26 02:37 am (UTC)
Lighten up!
I hate that fucking song.
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My mother, everyone.
get it Mr. President
and to all the Bah Humbugs in here hating on this song:
It's going to become a wedding reception staple. Like the Electric Slide.
Doddering normals essaying to "cut loose" to the extent that they can in front of their families, lining up at the command of a DJ and shaking their crossed wrists in front them, all out of time with one another. For decades and decades to come.
Thank god my family (immediate and extended) doesn't subscribe to, or are aware of, this tradition (not white, therefore lol). I don't know how to do either the Chicken Dance or the Electric Slide, and I don't intend to learn. Still wondering why it became a wedding staple in white America.
Suddenly the looks on the girls' faces during PSY's performance at Christmas in Washington 2012 make so much sense.