Babies far and wide are getting down to the âGangnam Style.â In fact, YouTubeâs summer smash hit may be the newest generationâs greatest pacifier.
Thanks to a New York Daily News report, the world has now been tipped to the fact that PSYâs âGangnam Styleââthat intergalactically awesome, techno-infused K-pop hit thatâs received more than 300 million YouTube viewsâhas legitimate pacifying powers. The report points to two different videos in which babies straight up stop crying every time the hard-charging beat starts playing.
The first case found involves a West Virginian baby named Claire Bowman, who canât seem to chill out until her fatherâs buddy Eric Ramsey queues up âGangnam Styleâ on his computer.
âI had the idea to play the song to calm her down,â Ramsey told the NYDN. âWhen I turned it off, she started crying again. So I turned it back on.â
The second instance finds 10-month-old Benjamin Tsai crying in his father Andrewâs face while Andrew tries to feed him some mushed vegetables that I surely wouldnât want to eat if I was him, either.
Heâs crying, freaking out, denying the spoon from getting anywhere near his mouth. That is, until his dad decides to press press play on âGangnam Style.â
After that, little Benjaminâs as peaceful as they come, and more than content to eat all the mush his dad wants to throw in his face.
Whatâs this mean for âGangnam Style?â Hard to tell.
Whatâs it mean for babies? It means itâs time to stop crying. âGangnam Styleââs going nowhere.
The real question, however, is what does this new revelation mean for the lullabies adults grew up on? Like âRock-a-bye Babyâ and âTwinkle Twinkle Little Star.â
It means thereâs a new song in town, PSYâs âGangnam Style,â and that songâs gonna horsey-ride its way all the way to the top of the baby-soothing charts.
Photo via Andrew Tsai/YouTube