Showing posts with label world music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world music. Show all posts

Love Paris (from Cliente)


I skipped class on Monday to spend a rainy afternoon downtown, eating chocolate ice cream and watching movies from the Philadelphia Film Festival :) One I watched was Cliente, a French film about a married male gigolo involved with a wealthy cougar. Hilarity ensued, of course... but had its serious bits too what with the deception and the toying with emotions, and this is where this song comes in.

My retention of high school French was enough to find this video but not enough to find the lyrics :P Oh and just for kicks here's the rap song from the film... hahaha. For some reason rap in other languages doesn't sound quite as badass :P

Punjabi MC - Jogi / Mundain To Bach Ke




Coz in addition to Girl Talk, this weekend I saw both Dhamaka and Masti -- two freaking amazing South Asian dance troupes at our school (the latter of which my roomie is in! :D)

I love how there's a comment at 0:46 on the first video that says "he isn't samuel l. jackson" bahah

Praan - Gary Schyman (Where the Hell is Matt?)



I never thought I could be so moved by a guy doing a stupid jig... haha... this is damn amazing. Matt is this self-proclaimed "deadbeat" from Connecticut, yet he managed to travel to 42 countries in 14 months and get thousands of people, despite cultural and linguistic barriers, to do this simple thing we all understand--dance. Retardedly. Let go. And just smile. =)

Make sure to go to the actual YouTube page and click "watch in HD" below-left the video. It's so hi-res my inner geek is swooning.

The song is "Praan," by Gary Schyman. According to Matt its lyrics come from a Bengali poem written by Nobel Prize winning author Rabindranath Tagore.

The same stream of life
Runs through my veins night and day
Runs through the world
And dances in rhythmic measures.

I want to be him when I grow up! :[

Bandeya Ho (from Khuda Kay Liye)


Sagar sent this to me... my god I am beyond obsessed with this song and I can only understand five words of it :] haha... now to study for the exam in one hour then crammamamam for the two final projects due tomorrow haih

Longer & slower version of this can be found here.