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My mistake.
This is not his first album. I confused this song with his breakout album 'Bolo Ta Ra Ra'. Needless to say, I am not a big fan of Bhangra type music.
A lot of North Indians are into bhangra, however, to the extent that 'Bhangra Night's are popular wherever there is a sizeable Punjabi/North Indian population in US universities.
I think too much is being made of this. Daler has not released an album for over two years now, and of late there were some allegations that he was involved, albeit indirectly, in trafficking illegal immigrants into Canada. Personally, I think his career's over.
This is not his first album. I confused this song with his breakout album 'Bolo Ta Ra Ra'. Needless to say, I am not a big fan of Bhangra type music.
A lot of North Indians are into bhangra, however, to the extent that 'Bhangra Night's are popular wherever there is a sizeable Punjabi/North Indian population in US universities.
I think too much is being made of this. Daler has not released an album for over two years now, and of late there were some allegations that he was involved, albeit indirectly, in trafficking illegal immigrants into Canada. Personally, I think his career's over.
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I'm Indian, and I think the air needs to be cleared on this one.
Daler Mehndi is NOT Bollywood. There is a music scene in India that is completely independent of Bollywood, though most music in India invariably comes from Bollywood, which churns out a whopping 3000 songs every year, many of them utter crap.
Daler Mehndi took India by storm with this song. One couldn't get into a rickshaw or a cab that wasn't playing it. But most people may have never seen the video. India got big on music videos only after they got smoking hot scantily clad women into them. Fair enough.
Daler Mehndi is what I'd call a folk artiste, specifically a Punjabi folk artiste. Songs revolve around Life, God, Love and other things nice and good.
This video is a low-budget video, considering how it's from his first album, and in the 90s, music independent of Bollywood would be hard pressed to find distributors and such. Now you have Sony Music pumping money and everything.
The tune is feet-tapping, the lyrics are feel-good, and I don't see what else one could ask from a song. As far as parodies go, all publicity is good publicity. :-D
cheers,
Onkar.
Daler Mehndi is NOT Bollywood. There is a music scene in India that is completely independent of Bollywood, though most music in India invariably comes from Bollywood, which churns out a whopping 3000 songs every year, many of them utter crap.
Daler Mehndi took India by storm with this song. One couldn't get into a rickshaw or a cab that wasn't playing it. But most people may have never seen the video. India got big on music videos only after they got smoking hot scantily clad women into them. Fair enough.
Daler Mehndi is what I'd call a folk artiste, specifically a Punjabi folk artiste. Songs revolve around Life, God, Love and other things nice and good.
This video is a low-budget video, considering how it's from his first album, and in the 90s, music independent of Bollywood would be hard pressed to find distributors and such. Now you have Sony Music pumping money and everything.
The tune is feet-tapping, the lyrics are feel-good, and I don't see what else one could ask from a song. As far as parodies go, all publicity is good publicity. :-D
cheers,
Onkar.
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