[Bangla Daily Star] South Korean megastar singer Psy, famed for his runaway hit "Gangnam Style", apologised yesterday for anti-American performances a decade ago, ahead of a planned show before US President Barack Obama.In 2002 the singer smashed a model US tank at a protest over the American military presence in South Korea and the death of two South Korean teenagers who were struck by a US military vehicle. Two years later he joined a performance of a song where he used controversial expletive-laden lyrics calling for the killing of "Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives".
"Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers. Kill them all slowly and painfully," he rapped.
Psy performed the lyrics at a concert after a South Korean evangelist was beheaded by Islamist militants in Iraq during the US-led conflict, after Seoul rejected their demand to halt a troop deployment to the country.
"I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused by those words," the 34-year-old singer said in a statement. He said the performance and lyrics were part of a "deeply emotional reaction" to the war in Iraq and the death of the two schoolgirls that was "part of the overall anti-war sentiment shared by others around the world".
| "But everyone is doing it, Ma!" "If everyone was going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, would you do that, too?" |
| How about we skip all that interpretation stuff -- one needs a PhD in English lit. to do it right, anyway, with all the proper Jungian references -- and stick with the literal meaning of the words. That, my dear, is quite enough to get you hung in certain precincts, and thoroughly beaten with a tire iron in others. You'll fit in perfectly with the current White House crowd. |