Like almost all of my posts, even this one is inspired by a song.
“Wow !! Wow .. You’re gonna kill me this way .. Oh, when I get my hands on you”
I know that sounds perverted & creepy !! But not in Portuguese:
“Nossa, nossa !! Assim você me mata .. Ai, se eu te pego, Ai, ai, se eu te pego”
I heard this song for the first time in a remixed version on Soundcloud. Although the song had 6-7 other songs too, this one particularly got my attention.
Well, for one, I didn’t understand a single word of it and also because of the way Michel Telo sang it.
You can listen to the song here:
These songs, except their tones & music, are unknown to us. There’s no “SA RE GA MA PA” in it and whether its an R&B song, a Rap, Rock Metal or a country song, we don’t have a clue.
But we do shake a leg on the songs of the trance genre (Think – Steroe Love by Edward Maya) in the nightclubs & the amazing remixes by the French DJ David Guetta.
What these songs do to us can’t be explained in some Ig Nobel Prize theory or by one of the stupid surveys the American Universities conduct. These tunes play with our minds !!
But so does Alcohol & Drugs.
One of my friends in high school, whose name I’ve long forgotten, bought some CDs of Trance Music while we were on a trekking trip to Manali. When I asked, he said, “This stuff makes me think & stimulates my brain cells”. (He said this in weird Punjabi metaphors so I gave you the crux of it).
And even I do agree. After I saw the movie, “Requiem for a Dream”, its leitmotif (theme song) "Lux Aterna" just stuck in my head. The song title is Latin for “The Eternal Light” and is a trance in its own. Give the song a listen on full volume with your headphones on and you will know what I mean.
So just log on to YouTube and listen to ‘em !! Trance, foreign songs (No Bhojpuris okay), trance music or even Opera (Not Opera Winfrey, she’s only here for motivational purposes) and you would be able to think clearly post that.
“Wow !! Wow .. You’re gonna kill me this way .. Oh, when I get my hands on you”
I know that sounds perverted & creepy !! But not in Portuguese:
“Nossa, nossa !! Assim você me mata .. Ai, se eu te pego, Ai, ai, se eu te pego”
I heard this song for the first time in a remixed version on Soundcloud. Although the song had 6-7 other songs too, this one particularly got my attention.
Well, for one, I didn’t understand a single word of it and also because of the way Michel Telo sang it.
You can listen to the song here:
This post is dedicated to all those songs that are sung in tongues unknown to us.
This one is Portuguese, the famous song “Aïcha”, is French, the English version of which was made popular by the Danish Hip-Hop band, Outlandish. The lyrics and the style of singing in the original French version is even more beautiful, written by singer songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. The title refers to an Arabic female and was sung by an Algerian raï artist, Khaled. Then there’s the Spanish treat, “The Ketchup Song”, numerous hit numbers by Enrique & Pitbull and our very own Bollywoodised song, “Senorita”.
This one is Portuguese, the famous song “Aïcha”, is French, the English version of which was made popular by the Danish Hip-Hop band, Outlandish. The lyrics and the style of singing in the original French version is even more beautiful, written by singer songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. The title refers to an Arabic female and was sung by an Algerian raï artist, Khaled. Then there’s the Spanish treat, “The Ketchup Song”, numerous hit numbers by Enrique & Pitbull and our very own Bollywoodised song, “Senorita”.
These songs, except their tones & music, are unknown to us. There’s no “SA RE GA MA PA” in it and whether its an R&B song, a Rap, Rock Metal or a country song, we don’t have a clue.
But we do shake a leg on the songs of the trance genre (Think – Steroe Love by Edward Maya) in the nightclubs & the amazing remixes by the French DJ David Guetta.
What these songs do to us can’t be explained in some Ig Nobel Prize theory or by one of the stupid surveys the American Universities conduct. These tunes play with our minds !!
But so does Alcohol & Drugs.
One of my friends in high school, whose name I’ve long forgotten, bought some CDs of Trance Music while we were on a trekking trip to Manali. When I asked, he said, “This stuff makes me think & stimulates my brain cells”. (He said this in weird Punjabi metaphors so I gave you the crux of it).
And even I do agree. After I saw the movie, “Requiem for a Dream”, its leitmotif (theme song) "Lux Aterna" just stuck in my head. The song title is Latin for “The Eternal Light” and is a trance in its own. Give the song a listen on full volume with your headphones on and you will know what I mean.
So just log on to YouTube and listen to ‘em !! Trance, foreign songs (No Bhojpuris okay), trance music or even Opera (Not Opera Winfrey, she’s only here for motivational purposes) and you would be able to think clearly post that.
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