audio updates
March 3, 2007
no Annie has not made any mark in the market sadly or fortunately…i reserve my rights about the talent bit….suffice to say that with so many music channels on cable there is ample market available for noveau desis like Annie in the form of teenage delinquints with 10 second attention span. She and some others londoners with desi blood have found airplay…I so wish TS that you could watch On The Fringe by Fasi Zaka on MTV Pakistan (Yes Indus Music has been bought over by MTV)
But one must not moan about popular music in general; this sort of experimentation is good for an industry in a nascent stage of its evolution
As for Pakistani rock bands give the following a listen and let me know; their album is out soon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryPdlE_jX88
my favourite show on the tele is bholee bisree yadain; a show about film songs and the ragas that they are based on…
well i lied there…my favourite actually is the pushto movie on filmazia late evening every day but you have to see to believe why this cannot beat any other form of entertainment..
March 3, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Glad to see I can still get you kick-started
If you don’t want the CD, then I’m afraid it is going into my garden to be used as part of a scare crow. I do think they ought to package these in barf bags.
I’ll watch the video and report back – but there will be a trade and you will have to watch one for me.
I might actually get motivated, by Filmazia (just checked their website ) to get cable TV in my mother’s house so I too can enjoy all the stuff you watch.
The awesome thing is that tonight I am invited to dinner at a friend’s house who is known as Guloona – this is like having all the stars and the planets in sync or something.
Will get the link for a video to you later, got to go scrub up and look pretty so people will continue to feed me.
March 4, 2007 at 5:51 pm
enjoy your supergalactic dinner; filmazia pushto film time slot is not for the fainthearted; viewer indiscretion would actually be quite fun
March 8, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Was I supposed to like this?
March 8, 2007 at 7:13 pm
No. This is anti-princess-annie that is all
March 9, 2007 at 8:48 pm
In that case I can give you my true impression (Otherwise I was going to try and sugarcoat it
).
It sounds a bit like Pearl Jam plus the Chili Peppers plus Incubus (on a really bad day – like in their latest album).
I think I have a problem with Pakistanis singing in English anyway – the village scenes with the guy trying hard to sing in a southern California way, is just too incongruent for me. Somehow when he says fast, it irritates the heck out of me. He is tring too hard to sound American, which he may be for all I know.
Sigh!!!
But, TGIF
April 3, 2007 at 1:42 pm
TS, the guys grew up in the US and even when they speak they have this accent.