Psy returns with two new music videos

True to his usual weirdness, the video for “Daddy” features PSY playing himself as a child, while seemingly casting himself in the role of his own father as well.

He released a new nine-track album Chiljip Psy-da yesterday, along with music videos for the two lead tracks, breaking a hiatus of three years and five months since his sixth album Psy 6-gap, which contained worldwide 2012 hit Gangnam Style.

The song – a satire of the luxury lifestyle of residents in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district – remains the most-watched video of all time on YouTube, with more than 2.4 billion views. Adding up to the humor are random shots of the Korean rapper appearing on a toilet.

Combined with Psy starting as a baby, into school and later onto adult and senile life – all in insane dance moves with obnoxious gestures and outrageous costumes reminiscent of the bespoke vividly coloured suits he used to wear in his previous hit video “Gangnam Style”.

When he first sat down to write a follow up album, each song represented a psychological block that he had never experienced in the past.

Psy admitted that he had found himself trying too hard to please a global audience and vowed that his new album – his seventh – marked a return to “his roots”. Since Dember 1, 7 AM KST, “Bell Bottoms” was number one on Melon, Genie, Naver Music, Olleh Music, Mnet, Soribada, Bugs, and Monkey3 music charts. “Now let me just do some weird dance move, eight million views, boom!”