Successful in the charts around the world right now is surely one of the strangest musical collaborations ever. The Pussycat Dolls and A. R. Rahman. On the one hand you have a bunch of former erotic dancers, whose success is more due to their sleazy looks and tacky songs than their ability to barely* hold a tune. On the other, you have a plain-looking spiritual man, whose great success is due to phenomenal musicality.
I must confess, I cannot bring myself to listen too closely to those sipid sirens. Thus in their recent song "When I Grow Up", I thought for ages that they sang "I want to have boobies"! (It's apparently "I want to have groupies").
Perhaps I'm right though. And a great deception is being played on the listening public. I raise this possibility because yet again my ears are at dispute with the 'official' lyrics. I refer to the song supposedly called "Jai Ho!"
It's clear to me, that rather than being a song with the message "May you be victorious" or "You are my destiny", it is about something shockingly mundane. A. R. Rahman is in fact asking one of the Pussycat whores to fetch him a cup of tea.
So next time you hear this song, the highlight of which is actually just the two words sung repeatedly by Rahman, join in with him and sing aloud "Chai Ho!"
* Split infinitive is deliberate and correct in this instance. 'Barely' as in 'just about' rather than 'without clothing'. Though now I think about it...
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you know you may actually be right about the boobs. For a long time many of my friends insisted they said boobies (based on their dubious erotic history of course)till the video was out where boobies or groupies did not point to their boobs
ReplyDeleteoh and i like the twists and turns that she does while singing you are my destiny :P
I wasn't even aware of this collaboration...the video on Youtube is hilarious!!
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