Nice song but why is this on HN? It’s not like it’s the first Pakistani song that’s a huge hit in India.
Writer and musician Ali Sethi has created an unconventional hit with “Pasoori”
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#12Title is click bait. Coke Studio has done this several times. Mainstream Pakistani songs are quite different from Indian songs, however, both populations can understand what is being sung. Mixing the two together results in incredible music. Pakistan and India still hate each other. No music is about to unite them after 1000s years of history and polar opposite religions.
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#13Nice song but why is this on HN? It’s not like it’s the first Pakistani song that’s a huge hit in India.
Bollywood was/is basically Urdu too.
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#15Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eqb_-j3FDA
Hm. All this uniting, love etc. is nested under Coca-Cola.
That's the spirit ... /s ... pun un/intended ...
I'd rather embrace something I hope for, despite a possible bitter taste, rather than roll my eyes which seems to be your preference ...
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#16No offence to the author, but to give a song that was part of Coke Studio Pakistan the credit of uniting India and Pakistan is quite silly. Coke Studio is almost exclusively listened to only by the urban-ites in India, and Coke Studio Pakistan has even smaller listening audience in India [1]. A quick check of Youtube to see the current trending songs shows a lot of national and regional music, but no mention of this song anywhere in the Top 100 trending songs[2]. Mark this as just a publicity piece.
[1]: Yes, there's a Coke Studio India as well, and an eternal raging debate about which version of Coke Studio is better. I gotta admit though, the Pakistan version has a lot more memorable tunes. :D [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffaqVXuWO9o&list=PL4fGSI1pDJ...
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#18just seems like another radio song to me. not much emotion in it, so it's not really believable. glad it's bringing some unity tho.
Tend to agree ... it's seems to be just ok. But I'll take the unity stuff ... on the surface, that bit reads like rubbish but reading loads of comments bringing peeps together. I'll take it.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hm. All this uniting, love etc. is nested under Coca-Cola.
> Coca-Cola Conde Nast. Vanguard. Black Rock. And journalists that write click-bait titles and little substance that provides content reflecting the title. The real question is why are we seeing this here on HN?
Maybe hackers appreciate the power of music.
"Anybody practicing the fine art of composing music, no matter how cynical or greedy or scared, still can't help serving all humanity. Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. Even military bands, although I am a pacifist, always cheer me up. - Kurt Vonnegut"
Coca Cola and other junk-food corporations latch on to art and artists like flies, hoping to infuse some authenticity and meaning by association. When I worked in that business it was Coke and Pepsi behind every awards ceremony, and they were highly influential over the record labels.
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#20This google ad was also somewhat popular 9 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech-news/googles-india-...
Should Google have an opinion on the "India-Pakistan partition in 1947"? Is that their role?