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In other words, there are two variables at play when it comes to the misinterpretation of pop culture:
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Someone who actually believes that The Muppets is a liberal conspiracy to brainwash children is missing out on the positive themes of an entertaining movie and, more importantly, exhibits the lack of sound reasoning that goes along with being trapped in a nightmarish right-wing propaganda machine. The consequences of misinterpreting The Muppets, however are more severe. Sure, we’re missing out on some interesting social criticism, but it’s targeted at a different cultural context, and our not getting it is not some indicator of lack of intelligence or sensitivity on our part. The consequences of us not getting “Gangnam Style” aren’t particularly severe. The meaning of “Gangnam Style” is nearly impossible for a non-Korean to get, whereas the meaning of The Muppets should be obvious to anyone who isn’t trapped in a nightmarish right-wing propaganda machine. We missed the point, but not in the same way that Fox News missed the point when it saw a nefarious communist subtext in The Muppets.
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When thinking about our failure to fully understand “Gangnam Style,” I considered it in the context of these examples. We’ve traced the source of Ronald Reagan’s misappropriation of “ Born in the USA,” we’ve taken down Fox News’s allegation of communist ideology in The Muppets (with a Marxist interpretation of The Muppets, ‘natch), and we’ve written thousands upon thousands of words about how critics and audiences repeatedly fail to appreciate the critique of fascism in Starship Troopers. Here at Overthinking It, we’re no strangers to episodes of pop culture misinterpretation. It turns out I was just talking out of my ass.) In other words, we were all missing the point of the video, and we would have continued to have missed the point were it not for those articles that explained the meaning for us. I was mostly talking out of my ass just to be clever, but I thought it had a fighting chance of being accurate. (Using my thin-but-nonexistent knowledge of Korean culture, I wrote several paragraphs analyzing the symbology of the horses through the lens of Chinese astrology. But even with the help of translated lyrics, our interpretations were incomplete at best and laughably off base at worst. This is made a concerted attempt to decipher the video, starting with the visual aspects that aren’t dependent on understanding the lyrics. by CaptainSparklez: Gang-Plank Galleon - Super Smash Bros.This is not a horse from the video.Spongebob style by DoubleSwee: Theme of Dudley ~You Blow My Mind~ - Ultra Street Fighter IV.ORANGE NYA NYA STYLE by Annoying Orange: Theme of Dudley ~You Blow My Mind~ - Ultra Street Fighter IV, Cat Grill (OST Version) - Cat Girl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche.Scare Island, Natsuiro Egao de 1, 2, Jump! (MAKI Mix) - Love Live! School idol festival The Nightmare Woods (Run Run Rottytops!) (Collector's Edition) - Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, Reflected Laughter (House remix), Magikarp Festival - Pokémon Tekken DX Mitt Romney Style by CollegeHumor: Theme of Dudley ~You Blow My Mind~ - Ultra Street Fighter IV, Ridiculous Game (OST Version) - Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Unlocated Hell - Touhou 17: Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, BUSTER BEAT - Dead Heat Riders, DOKU LO CANdy♡ - Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session!, Menu - LEGO Racers, Spicy Calamari Inkantation - Splatoon 2, The Iceberg - Monsters, Inc.
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KIDZ BOP: Theme of Dudley ~You Blow My Mind~ - Ultra Street Fighter IV.Glee: Theme of Dudley ~You Blow My Mind~ - Ultra Street Fighter IV.As most rips in the category feature the original song, rips featuring only it are not listed here.