Christian Bhangra?

[voxanimus]

Sacred Dance: One True God (Bhangra)


i really don't know what to say. bhangra has no religious connotations, but it's still weird to see it adapted like this.

 

[jfried]

Very awkward.

 

[nishan]

hallelujah

 

[Sue Sylvester]

This is actually amazing.

We mix and add bhangra lyrics to a variety of different types of instrumentals and perform for numerous causes and at events. It's definitely refreshing to see this, but I don't think there's anything awkward about it!


I'm sure there are people out there who are like, "Who are these bhangra people using hiphop instrumentals and doing hiphop steps in their cultural dances at Vaisekhi melas?"

 

[Badwal]

This is HILARIOUS

 

[jfried]

This is actually amazing.

We mix and add bhangra lyrics to a variety of different types of instrumentals and perform for numerous causes and at events. It's definitely refreshing to see this, but I don't think there's anything awkward about it!


I'm sure there are people out there who are like, "Who are these bhangra people using hiphop instrumentals and doing hiphop steps in their cultural dances at Vaisekhi melas?"

Somehow it just strikes me as being even weirder than the Christian Qawwali I once heard. Yeah, that was really weird.

I don't know, I know that bhangra's ostensibly secular, yet has a lot of semi-religious overtones, but somehow it just feels weird to see those less overt overtones getting replaced by really overt ones. The "one true god" line was what really sealed it for me, because it almost feels like cultural appropriation as a means of conversion. Not quite culture warfare, but it definitely takes the tropes we're used to as bhangra dancers and turns them on their head.

Plus they're not bouncing on the beat at all.

Paging Ashveer Singh... Paging Ashveer Singh.

 

[sartajjudge]

This is HILARIOUS

+ 1

 

[MundeNyDe]

What is the singer saying? lmao

 

[voxanimus]

What is the singer saying? lmao

dude i swear i thought it was punjabi for the first 30 secs

 

[sonehdataweet]

What is the singer saying? lmao

dude i swear i thought it was punjabi for the first 30 secs

Hahaha I did too! But, it's pretty cool to see this concept of bhangra haha

 

[campy614]

I thought it was kind of interesting to see bhangra in this context.

But I disliked the song. Really. Disliked the song. There's thousands of other gospel songs/hymns that could have been used. WHY this song? Oh well...

 

[PartyJatt]

I thought it was kind of interesting to see bhangra in this context.

But I disliked the song. Really. Disliked the song. There's thousands of other gospel songs/hymns that could have been used. WHY this song? Oh well...

You would...