watched rangeela ln… one of the best AR rahman albums ive heard
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just listening to this now what a banger. love that guitar tone and vocal tone on the first track, the range of the composer is nuts
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watched Jeans the other night. i can’t tell whether there is irony in the supposedly pro-American tune ‘Columbus Columbus’ but it’s very catchy.
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the translation is kind of like “columbus columbus, it’s vacation time, find me an island to party on”
edit: in the context of the movie it’s like “hell yeah we get to go to america and partyyyy with girlsss, get away from all this drudgery, militarism, caste politics and [insert complaints about life in india here]”
i think there are some complaints about working in IT? see how he blows up the computer with dynamite at the end? lmao. extremely NRI, H1B visa-coded song
that whistled melody is so catchy too when it comes in. and the very monkey-island xylophone thing happening, he really went off. rahman’s compositions always have so many beat switches and instruments dropping in and out, it really influenced my idea of musical development
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