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How Did I Just Learn About Gangnam Style?

Here's a lesson kids: The second you graduate college, you are immediately out of touch with what is "cool". 

Take for example the fact that I am just now, this very second, learning about "Gangnam Style."

According to KnowYourMeme:

"Gangnam Style (강남 스타일) is a 2012 dance pop single written and performed by Korean pop singer Park Jae Sung, better known by his stage name PSY. Since the release of the song and its highly entertaining music video in mid-July 2012, the video has gained more than 8 million views in the span of two weeks and spawned numerous parodies and copycat dance videos on YouTube."

Only it doesn't have 8 million, it has 45 million, so clearly I am late to the ship. But here is the video for anyone else who apparently has been living under a rock:

So is it safe to say Call Me Maybe is out? Seriously, I need to know before I make another lip-sync video. 

Like Call Me Maybe, Gangnam has already inspired a few copycats, with this one obviously being the best:

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