...in thinking a head teacher and staff taking part in a Gangnam YouTube effort is inappropriate at best?

[QueenieLovesEels]

Or am I getting crusty?

I just don't understand how you can hold yourself up as a figure respected in the local community and performance a jiggy dance like a kangaroo chucking a lasoo- along with other 'mature' members of staff.

It is a Boys Grammar School and yet female members of staff are jiggying around to 'sexy lady' lyrics.

Purlease. It is in no way cool but more cringe making than David Brent.

Can't link from iPad but it's Boston Grammar School Gangnam.

Maybe I am just a bit of an old fart but I can't help feel standards are at an all time low when you feel the need to debase yourself this much to 'get down wid da kidz'

Background and release

"Gangnam Style" is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District[23] of Seoul,[24] where people are trendy, hip and exude a certain supposed "class". The term was listed in Time's weekly vocabulary list as a manner associated with lavish lifestyles in Seoul's Gangnam district.[25] PSY likened the Gangnam District to Beverly Hills, California, and said in an interview that he intended in a twisted sense of humor by claiming himself to be "Gangnam Style" when everything about the song, dance, looks, and the music video is far from being such a high class.[26]
People who are actually from Gangnam never proclaim that they are?it's only the posers and wannabes that put on these airs and say that they are "Gangnam Style"?so this song is actually poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying so hard to be something that they're not.
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Crusty, joyless, miserable, dementor-like fun sapping. HTH.

Kids are really not that fuddy duddy as a rule.

For every kid 'mocking' them I'm sure there'll be far more who thought it was brilliant and a lot of fun.

It's like the newsreaders on children in need.

Supposedly serious professionals doing something lighthearted and a bit silly.

It doesn't damaged their reputations. It's just tongue in cheek and amusing.

YABVU to try and bring feminist principles into it.

It's just a bit of fun.

Years ago our HT got up at the school talent show and did a version of Tom Jones "Sex Bomb". It was both awful and hilarious and all the kids respected him for being able to get up & have a laugh and make a fool of himself.

But it would have been better if he hadn't also been my dad.

Oh fgs, it is a bit of fun.

Streuth.

The head of our primary school is a real hair glued into place, sharp suited leader who runs a really tight ship. At the year 5-6 disco last week she apparently did some sort of gangnam thing (don't really know what gangnam is ) and the kids thought it was great. Nothing to do with respect or authority, she is extremely well respected by all. It just doesn't hurt to show your softer side once in a while when the situation allows.

Oh my goodness. Your father did that?

Beyond mortifying.

Also deeply inappropriate to sing sex bomb to a group of teenagers.

Yea gods I've heard it all now.

I think you need to loosen your knicker elastic as it is clearly too tight and cutting off the blood supply to your brain.

I think you are a knob cantspel to make a comment like that.

It's a bit of fun. Funnily enough DD, having seen and loved the Eton schoolboys' version, immediately started suggesting a version for DS's grammar school.

I think it's amazing that there's a song out there that unites people of different generations to have fun and a laugh together!

YABU. Both my dd's came home singing Gangnam Style after their School Christmas Parties yesterday. And It is a funny song.

But it would have been better if he hadn't also been my dad.

Brilliant!

My parents had 5 of us and there was always lots of fun in our family when we were growing up.

We're a big Irish family and I have brilliant memories of my Uncles and Aunts doing all manner of silly things at family gatherings.

As a result, we all have a sense of humour and are not afraid to laugh at ourselves and each other.

Life really is too short to be stuck with a cat's bum for a mouth, clutching a string of worn out pearls.

It's just a bit of fun...

OP I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the song and the meaning behind it.

Have you noticed that you are on your own with your outrage?

Feminist from the perspective that professional female teachers are dancing/prancing to a song with lyrics 'sexy lady' for the entertainment of adolescent boys and to be mocked accordingly.

What about the male teachers?

I don't agree with the feminist argument here. There's nothing inappropriate in the song or in the video they've produced. This is a secondary school! There's no crotch shots, there's nothing in there that could possibly inflame the adolescent male.

If the teenagers at the school think the teachers are a bunch of saddos then they've missed the point. I wonder where that view came from because the teachers look like a lot of fun

I agree with cantspel actually. (wonders if I am a knob?!)

Double po alert at chucking in "it's like feminism never happened" as an attempt at argument top trumps.

No I haven't misunderstood it. It's about a man telling a woman how he likes her to behave dressed up as a song about trying to be something you are not.

< enjoys rich irony>

I am a teacher at a very expensive Grammar school. We did Gangnam style with the head of school included.
The girls roared with approval. Was just a bit of fun. The students really appreciate it when we do little things like that for them.

So the irony is that the teachers have dressed up and behaved like something they're not.

It is called humour.

Something sadly lacking on this thread.

I don't feel it is an appropriate display of humour considering the participants and the audience. I think the teachers just look rather awkward and they are going to be laughed at rather than with IYSWIM.

It is all rather unsavoury and sad that teachers feel the need to do this sort of thing in order to relate to their pupils.

I will leave it there.

However I liked the Eton one. Done by pupils. Very slick.

This songs translated lyrics are about him searching for a girlfriend who is lovable and fun like he is. I have just searched them and can't see anything that suggests he wants her to be something she's not.

You're really boring, OP.