Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably heard
South Korean rapper Psy’s infectiously catchy hit song “Gangnam Style,” seen
the awesomely entertaining and popular music video, and maybe even busted some
of his signature horse-riding dance moves.
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| Patrick "Psy" Kelly poses with Steins designer Jennifer, video editor and director, and our mystery yellow suited dancer. |
Gangnam is a district of Seoul, Korea that Psy has likened
to Beverly Hills, CA, with lavish lifestyles and posh people. The music video
is a comical antithesis of Gangnam’s actual swag with its humorous dance, fashion
and lyrics. The song is about the perfect girlfriend who knows when to be
refined and when to get wild.
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| "Psy" with one of his supporting actors |
After seeing Psy’s live performance on the Today Show we
found ourselves constantly dancing and singing around the shops (the English
words as well what we are sure was an unfortunate butchering of the Korean ones).
A week after catching the Gangnam Style fever with no cure in sight, we decided
to film our own “Gangnam Style” parody, “Oppa Stein Your Florist Style!” Our
flowers have a certain swag ;-)
The original video features scenes around the Gangnam
district, while ours features our shops, staff, and, of course, flowers.
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| Patrick gets his unruly Elvis wig Gangnam styled. |
Patrick, Stein’s owner and operator, took on the role of
Psy, donning an Elvis style wig and some funky colored suit jackets from the
local thrift stores. While his dance moves aren’t nearly as on point as Psy’s,
he made up for it with lots of energy and beautiful flowers.
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| "Psy" posing with some of his dance crew. |
The rest of the Steins crew was excited to fill the
supporting roles, help behind the scenes, design bouquets, film and edit our
spoof. It’s amazing we captured any footage where we weren’t laughing!
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| Our mystery yellow suited dancer. |
One of our top designers, who asked to remain nameless,
dressed as the yellow suited dancer. The disguise was so good that people that
know her didn’t even recognize her and passers-by stopped in their cars to take pictures.
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| "Christine" models with the other ladies while "Psy" screams at his favorite thing... flowers. |
We were short one female dancer the day we filmed our
version of Psy’s yoga scene, so we convinced Chris, one of our newest
employees, to dress as “Christine” in a cute black dress and big curly black
wig to do a little bouquet modeling and dancing for us. He’s such a good sport!
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| Elevator dancer Pat C. |
We would like to thank the extra dancers from the
community that showed up on the scene while we were filming to do the horsey
dance with us… We found ourselves to be attracting quite a crowd while dancing outside
the store on the corner of Frankford and Princeton, we must have looked like a
flash mob!
We had an amazing time filming our parody and we hope you
enjoy watching it!! And be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, you never
know what we’ll be up to next!
