So here I am kicking off a (hopefully, mini) series of my guilty pleasures.
Trust me. I have many.
Yes. I can do a series.
No I honestly need to get this out there because I feel it is building on to my anxiety now. Like I fret if I won’t break into an embarrassing song and dance routine in the middle of the day and give it away…
Which brings me to GP ONE.
Dude. This song.
Lamborghini (no please. They actually even spell it Lamberghini) Chalaaye Jaanay O.
So the first ever was this mother and daughter having a whale of a time and I got hooked. Like seriously hooked. Secretly listening to it once my child slept kinda hooked.
Then I realised it was this song that actually made my heart melt.
No it was the beat.
Okay so I have been a student of serious Indian classical dance in my growing years. I’ve been a LIFELONG student of Classical Music and can still tame some quite lit raags despite being incredibly out of vocal chords’ shape.
So
a) WHAT IS THIS SONG. It’s Techno and won’t even make any sense and simply fall apart if you take the “special effects” out like the dhinchak bits but OMG it does things to my knees.
b) the original song doesn’t have a dance and this weird couple. I don’t even like the original video. It’s the entire world going nuts choreographing to these sick beats. It can’t be nothing. It’s definitely something.
My favourite one is this by some dance studio.
Dance Fit Live- Lamborghini Chalaayi Jaané O
OMFG please bear through the whole of it. I know it’ll be a struggle if you have any level of appreciation for real music and I feel so guilty for revelling in this pleasure I’m completely dissing this but OMG I am addicted and I DONT CARE if you judge me because I can’t live with these secrets any longer. This is it. I’m coming out.
The one sane thing I do love about this video is, look at the boys. So smooth. Such gorgeous moves and flawless transitions. I love the girls. Absolutely and completely but with dance and all I feel girls take them up more naturally. (Which is a lie really. I mean I can do classical dance because I had a tough as nuts teacher but give me Bollywood music and see my inner PT Master come out. So yeah. No. No one takes to anything naturally.)
These boys, not trying to macho it up, not one inch of self consciousness no matter what age they are. If only we can all raise boys with such self esteem and give them a space such to be their own, unapologetic selves, they won’t feel the need to uphold patriarchy and crush a woman to just feel good about themselves because they’re rolling with Lamborghini in their hearts even if they have a Sohrab Bicycle and IT’S ALRIGHT! It’s not a step down from the Lamborghini because they’re happy with themselves. Why would they be mean to a woman?
That is when almost 37 year old mothers like me won’t have to hide in the dark of the night to watch physical training / olympics level gymnastics kinda dance routines to generically crappy (but actually quite sick) music.
Haaye. If only the world was as chilled out.
But it’s not.
So Sharam karo Hareem Sumbul. Aulaad vaali ho ab.
gives herself a muscle spasm trying to do the arm flap and legs twist move, skipping to the loo at 3am
P.S. HAVE YOU EVEN HEARD THE LYRICS? THERE ARE NO LYRICS. IT IS ALL JUST AN ABOMINATION dies