Let's sing in Indian, thanks to Holysnail!

First of all, I'd like to dedicate this article and the following song to Lil Mama.

Last time, I was talking to you about an indian crazy young man, who had opened a store in India, called Hitler.

After that article was published, I was like : « Oh god, they will think that indian people are mad ». And that made me feel a bit bad, because some people generalise a lot... and the thing is that I really like India.

 So, as Miss P. asked us to talk about a work we like, I chose a song, to show you that the indians are not that much crazy.

JUST KIDDING.

They're are crazy. I mean, totally.

But in a funny way sometimes...

If once you get the chance to go to India, I bet that you'll get shocked by something.

Well, no. By MANY things actually.

But here I'm not talking about the heat, or the cows in road, or the indian trafic. In fact, if you're sociable enough to start a conversation in English with one of these smily-indians, you will certainly notice the... soft...and gentle... accent they got.

So I'll give you some clue to you, so you will have a chance to understand what they say, and who know's... maybe one day you'll be able to talk english like a brilliant indian !

The main differences are on :

R -> is a bit rolled

D and T-> are tough

Wh-> will be prounounced like « V »

Th → prounounced like « D »

On that you may add some « u » at the end of some words.

And at the top, add the intonation and the cordialty singular to the indians (which is difficult to reproduce for amateurs, I'm warning you).

So now, I think you're ready to listen the following song. Actually Indians are conscious of their accent, and they make fun of it, cause they're cool people ! So the title is « why this kolaveri di », which approximatively means « Why this anger, girl » ? (By the way, this song has made the buzz on youtube without any expectations)

Check it out;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl7HigIwDDA

In fact, in our western societies, most of time, that's the girls who are complaining about the men in relationship, saying that the men are cheater, that they want sex only blahblahblah. I don't know if you can understand, but in India, it's the opposite... And it become obvious in the movies : the young men are always complaining about the girls, because « gals » (girls) don't love them as much they do, they say. So generally, in these movies, there is a song where the hero, a alcohol glass in his hand, will sing about his distress and will make lame philosophy about relationsip between boys and girls... but it's just for fun.

So I love this song, because I found it very funny and intelligent that they mixed the indian beats and instrumental with this self-mockery of their english. It shows, in a way, that we can laugh of our weaknesses. Let's laugh about ourselves as individual, or as nation, or as human... ! We are too much serious most of time.. we are all different, and even some of us are totally zany, and that what make our world interesting and appealing. Holysnail stops its deep analysis of humanity here, because it's getting too long.

So, to sum up, be yourself, and try to taste chicken tandoori once in your life.

Holysnail