Gentleman

"Gentleman" arrived as the impossible sequel — the song PSY had to make after "Gangnam Style" turned a Seoul satirist into the most-watched human on the internet. It leans on a Yoo Gun-hyeong beat built from that same brass-stab electro-house DNA but pitched darker and more sexual, the synth bassline sawing in a lower register, hand-claps landing with a swagger rather than a gallop. PSY delivers in a rasp that sits between rap and shouted hook, the English catchphrase "I'm a mother-father gentleman" deliberately mangled to slip past propriety. Lyrically it's the opposite of an apology: a portrait of a man who calls himself a gentleman while yanking chairs away, popping bra straps, and behaving with cheerful boorishness — Korean satire aimed at the strutting older male who mistakes entitlement for charm. The video pushed it further with the arrogant-dance borrowed from Brown Eyed Girls' "Abracadabra," a wink to the Korean audience that global viewers mostly missed. It sold as a novelty and was received as a decline, but heard now it's sharper than its predecessor and less lovable, which is exactly the point. It plays best on a crowded floor near closing, when everyone knows the moves and nobody's asking what the words mean.