Viral: ‘Nonsense song’ gets lots of laughs in India
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What was the No. 2 meme of the week?
No. 1 being, of course, officer John Pike. He is now better known as the Pepper Spray Cop, immortalized as he pepper-sprayed the faces of seated students on University of California Davis campus. The photos sparked a national outcry this week and were digitally remixed into hundreds of images.
Far away from the conflict at UC Davis campus, meanwhile, was a music video performed in “Tamglish” — a vibrant dialect that mixes Tamil and English — that kicked up a comedy ruckus in India.
The song is called “Kolaveri Di” (Killer Rage), from the upcoming Tamil movie 3 (the Tamil film industry is one of the biggest in the world). And among South Indian users of social networking sites, the “nonsense song” was all anyone could talk about.
Tamil actor Dhanush warbled lyrics he made up on the spot for the four-minute tune, which had received nearly three and a half million hits on YouTube by Thursday. The lyrics, he told an Indian newspaper, are about a drunk man who has been dumped by his girlfriend, has “no grammar” — and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
“It’s meant to be fun,” he said. “You should not attach too much importance to it,” he told the Times of India.
As an effective promo for his new movie, directed by his wife, the song is serious indeed.
