Soft Kaur

I'm a big fan of Hard Kaur (no Wikipedia page...hmmm...). She is strong, sassy and talented. (I wish I had the creativity to come up with a "I like my women like I like my ______ " for that one. Damn CBSE.)

My first Hard Kaur experience was "Gilassy", better (for worse) known as "Glassy" (seriously...Glassy? WTF? I know transliteration coupled with a lack of knowledge of the English language can pose problems, but let's use a little common sense, people.) I really liked that song - good beat, solid rhyming, hilarious premise.



Then the other day, I saw her on this -



Let's take exhibit 1, Gilassy. Solid, solid lyrics. "Ek gilassy, do gilassy, teen gilassy, char" - very catch hook. "Hold up/Somebody's gonna puke/And I don't wanna fuck up my brand new shoes" - very punchy. "Better keep your hands off my skirt/Cuz I will turn around and kick you where it hurts" - that line makes me want to go all the-Shelter-8-Mile-rap-battle-diss "Oooooo" with my fist on my mouth. Probably some of the best Punjabi rap this side of Bohemia.

Now we look at "Move your body". Is it just me or has she completely sold out/watered down her stuff. Insipid, uninspired lyrics. I don't understand why every Hindi song now has to have some reference to "sexy" in it. Repeating "Gotta move yo, gotta move yo, gotta move yo body tonight" compared to her other stuff is as disappointing and fake as Green Day's ostensible political statements. "Rock to the rhythm and rock to the rhyme/We gonna bust it tonight" - what does that even mean? And why is she forcing the hard consonants - "sTanD up anD fighT"? Does she sound too Anglo for our ghaati ears?

Yea it's great that she's crossing over to the Indian Film Industry and all that, but if she's going to dilute and dumb down everything she does, I'm not sure I'm going to stay a fan.

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