Note: No need to tell me about songs I missed. I’m only listing songs I like/have heard/can think of now, and most importantly – my current frame of mind 
Move over shelfari – Music Widgets are waaay cooler!!!
I tend to prefer Brit artists over others, but have only included my recent earworms here.
For finding some of this great stuff – you can trust AOL search
*Note – Yes, I do support music piracy, especially since good Brit artists are hard to find in my part of the world.
HOW COULD THIS NOT BE ON MY BLOG!!!
I recently had the good fortune of going through my colleague’s highly traumatic Bappi Lahari collection – and you can imagine my joy and happiness when I came across the disco dancer collection. Who can ever forget Mithun Da’s Johny Travolta moves, Kalpana Iyer’s gyrating hips – and lets not forget the ultimate bolly-disco music that took India by storm.
However, what’s more interesting than all of the above is doing a dissection of the popular opening song – the title being – err – ouwa ouwa? or is it bang bang? or naache naache?
Perhaps this is the only instance where a bollywood cover has surpassed the original (this song is a rip off of ‘video killed the radio star’)
But the lyrics – damn those lyrics – what on EARTH do they mean??
listen to the song (second one on the list)
do u know why she keeps saying bang bang?
or why they say sui sui? what on earth is sui sui???
or why lootofying a khazaana is followed by a bang bang?
or why she says tumse hain tumse pyaar instead of mujhko hain tumse pyaar
IM LOSING MY MIND!!!
Can’t sing in the rain so decided to dance at home instead.
Enjoying some reaaal good swing on ‘The Hop’ (Worldspace)
This blogpost is going to document each thought process as it happens
So uhm…why is it called the hop? has Hip-hop got something to do with it?
Lindy Hop is the origin of Swing….Jitterbug also gets it roots from there.
That song ‘Wake me up before u go go’ by George Michael shows some Jitterbug
“Jitterbug” is in fact the first word uttered when the song commences.
(can’t get over his ultra short shorts though! they’re so….girly!)
Swing is almost synonymous with jazz (we’re talking The Great Gatsby, Take the A train etc)
Jitterbug, in fact, accompanies rock n roll.
Jive is supposedly just a universal name for swingy dance forms.
(remember oooold archie comics….where they show the gang wearing anda kaalam clothes doing the jitterbug/jive?)
I still can’t get over George Michael’s short shorts…..
and look at this strange connection:
“One evening in 1927, following Lindbergh’s flight to Paris, a local dance enthusiast named “Shorty George” Snowden was watching some of the dancing couples. A newspaper reporter asked him what dance they were doing, and it just so happened that there was a newspaper with an article about Lindbergh’s flight sitting on the bench next to them. The title of the article read, “Lindy Hops The Atlantic,” and George just sort of read that and said, “Lindy Hop” and the name stuck.”
More very interesting trivia:
1. ‘Jazz’ has its roots in brothels (post WW1). It used to be the slang word for intercourse.
2. John Travolta’s oh-so-famous ‘Saturday Night Fever’ move is called the Hustle. Disco dancing is nothing but the hustle.
(anyone seen Kung-Fu hustle? cute movie)
(Bappi Da is channel [v]‘s artist of the month…hehehe)
3. Hip-hop is not a dance form!!!! It is a meta culture that includes rap, the gangsta attitude, loose jeans, graffiti art (yes!) break dancing etc. Hip-hop as a culture was all about rebellion – against racism and poverty. The loose jeans happened cos ‘offendors’ had to get rid of their belts when in prison.
It’s sad that in recent times hip-hop has gotten reduced to ghettorific pimpdom. Hip-hop has also done its bit to contribute neollogisms to the English vocab. (Try and find two words, very unique to hip-hop, used here)
4. Almost every form of modern western music, has its roots in African culture. Even Country!
5. While one may associate Europe with classical western music and the Beatles, (well, I do!) the only music playing there today is electronica.
Come to think of it, Bach and all those pipe organs sound very electronic!
(ross geller…hehhhee)
6. my fave jazz song (as of now) is ‘Take Five’. If anyone has the vocal version of it, pls send it to me 
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