{"id":2973,"date":"2009-05-28T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T02:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2009-05-28T22:32:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T02:32:32","slug":"midweek-makeover-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/05\/28\/midweek-makeover-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Can&#8217;t Get You Out of My Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I either 1) spoke Hindi or 2) had an unlimited supply of Hindi-speaking friends I could annoy with constant questioning, I would dedicate an entire blog to the phenomenon of Indian, uh, appropriations of Western pop music.\u00c2\u00a0 Listen closely to many Bollywood hits, and you&#8217;ll hear a familiar hook and bass line.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t noticed it as much, lately, but there was as period in the late 90s where I was convinced I could track every hit charting in India to a Janet Jackson track from the 80s\/early 90s.\u00c2\u00a0 In any event, discovered this one over the weekend, and thought I&#8217;d share it.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/DJ-Suketu\/32892619688\">DJ Suketu<\/a> took a popular early 90s hit &#8211; Bin Tere Sanam &#8211; and remixed it into an even bigger hit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rWOHCm_VpJE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The original,\u00c2\u00a0by Yaara Dildara, was an enormous hit in its own right:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VVOs_ATjikQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what did DJ Suketu use to breath some life into an already monster hit?\u00c2\u00a0 Kylie Minogue to the rescue:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rfr9bhSmfXc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I either 1) spoke Hindi or 2) had an unlimited supply of Hindi-speaking friends I could annoy with constant questioning, I would dedicate an entire blog to the phenomenon of Indian, uh, appropriations of Western pop music.\u00c2\u00a0 Listen closely to many Bollywood hits, and you&#8217;ll hear a familiar hook and bass line.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2],"tags":[309,308,310],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-bin-tere-sanam","tag-dj-suketu","tag-yaara-dildara"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}