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PaperclipPerfector  6d ago (text post)   2643 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 16, 2025

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Is the melody that is played on the strings the same in many Indian songs? You know, how The Ink Spots started every song with the same tune or how Johnny Cash used the same two chords for like half of his songs?

Or is the timbre of this instrument so distinctive it overrides my perception of the melody?

It's probably different lol. Though people use the same sample in most pop music on various regional TV channels is different.

@FtttG do people in the west mostly see Indian pop music? Indian exports at one point were more classical in nature.

I guess this song is simply so memetic that I must have heard samples of it a gorillion times in various videos.

I think it was used in that movie The Dictator.

Honestly, I didn't even know Indian classical music was a thing before reading your comment.

I know extremely little about music from that part of the world so I can't comment. @self_made_human, @mrvanillasky, care to weigh in?

I'm far from an expert, but this is a quintessentially Punjabi melody/beat.

It's far more representative of India as perceived by non-Indian, but the former is the association that one of us who isn't irony poisoned would make. I think very similar beats are in vogue for mid 2000s Punjabi music, not so much so today.

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