‘Right Now’: The Next ‘Gangnam Style’?

When Psy told MTV that he would retire "Gangnam Style" on New Year's Eve - his performance at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in Times Square may have been the final time he performed his smash hit in the U.S. - many fans and pundits asked: What will Psy do for an encore in 2013?

Of course, the only person who can answer that question is Psy himself. However, he has yet to offer any clues, other than an evasive, "I'm really working hard on a new single right now." While this means that we'll probably just have to wait and see, several media outlets have been reporting that "Right Now," a song from Psy's fifth album PSYFIVE, which was released in South Korea in 2010, could be his next big song. Buzzfeed has even gone so far as to endorse "Right Now" as Psy's next single. "'Now' is arguably stylistically better than 'Gangnam Style,'" it wrote in a recent article.

Psy fans seem to agree. The "Right Now" music video is currently the third most-viewed video on Psy's official YouTube channel, not counting the six Gangnam-related clips. The song has also been receiving mostly positive feedback, which may offer some proof that Psy's worldwide success in 2012 was not just a fluke.

In the "Right Now" music video, Psy is up to his usual antics: dancing on top of cars and inside an empty office building while wearing a clip-on six pack. His music has an infectious energy that makes people want to start dancing, which is what we see in the music video. Officer workers, pedestrians, commuters, and shoppers all start busting a move when they hear the music.

Buzzfeed called the song, "Psy's declaration of self-defiance, to remain crazy and not to submit because he is cool like that." Despite its positive message, South Korea's Ministry of Gender Equality and Family gave "Right Now" a R-19 rating over the lyric, "Life is like toxic alcohol." As a result, the song was banned from broadcast and promotions, and the video received the "age-restricted" label on YouTube. The ban was finally lifted in October 2012.

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