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Watch This: Shopping Hy-Vee Style, Marion Hy-Vee Gangnam Style Video Parody
Marion Hy-Vee employee Lee Neverman spearheads an all Marion Hy-Vee video parody production of the worldwide phenomenon.

So you just got the song "Gangnam Style" out of your head did you? Well, sorry about this.
In proof that old memes never die, they just go to the Midwest where we make them better, Marion Hy-Vee employees are shown in the video above starring in a parody of the popular 2012 song "Gangnam Style" that has spawned numerous parodies worldwide and has more than a billion views on YouTube.
Here's a little bit about Gagnam Style if you hadn't heard of it yet.
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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 its release in mid-July 2012, the highly entertaining music video has spawned hundreds of parodies and copycat dance videos on YouTube and surpassed Justin Bieber’s single “Baby” as the most watched video on YouTube with over one billion views, as of December 21st, 2012.
Fronted by Hy-Vee employee and soon to be local star Lee Neverman, the Marion Hyvee song goes on to exhort all the virtues of Marion Hy-Vee, of which there are numerous. Marion Hy-Vee shared it on its Facebook page Sunday, and while it has not hit one billion views, yet, it still has already been shared 114 times and viewed more than 70,000 times as of Tuesday morning.
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The video also garnered a post on the Hy-Vee blog.
Wade Chalstrom at Marion Hy-Vee thinks his employees are top-notch — and the feeling is definitely mutual. Check out the video they made for him to help celebrate at their end-of-they-year party:
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