Vic said:
First off, We did not get that from an india.
BUT since i said it was... now your "not sure" if its acceptable.
Here's how it is... and i'll say it flat out. If our set was performed by an india team and posted on youtube for you to watch... it would be "acceptable" for a north american team to follow it as a guideline to making a routine.
here's the difference. what we perform is traditional bhangra. Can you tell me something that was missing? before an india video is posted or comes from india with a spiced up version of of sial koti, dhamaal or anything, we will spice it up ourselves. do we not have a brain to think of a way to make something more interesting? its ok that some of you can only think "inside a box". meaning that you will only find things "acceptable" if it comes from india.... but its nice to see the responses that show that there are people who can think "outside the box" and enjoy it.
With that being said i will continue to read ur opinions and critiques.
P.S. a very small portion of TEB set had to do with SGPD idea's. The set was made by TEB. on small things sgpd dancers had input. If you would like to know what those parts were u can mssg me.
let me clarify your notion that I believe that "everything that comes from india is acceptable" because its not. There are the elite teams who dominate the bhangra world like Sadhar college. Do you ever see them doing anything "out of the box" in their live sets? Yeah, thats what makes them so powerful. They are creative while staying within the boundaries of the artform. Does that mean they dont have brains and cant think for themselves?
I believe you are taking my "not sure" statement a little too literally there sir. I didn't mean that I wasn't sure and that it boggled my mind. If you read my previous posts I still found it unacceptable, but since you decided to counter my statement with "oh but it came from india" I diplomatically gave you the benefit of the doubt by saying "not sure if thats STILL acceptable in my opinion".
Wanna think outside the box? I never said there was anything wrong with that. Not at all, but keep that in a recorded music routine. Remember when people went nuts over DAVIET copying NSJ's khunda swing? Yeah, that was unacceptable. I found it pretty jalloose considering it was a live set in india. But since NSJ did it in their recorded music set, I thought it was pretty tite.
Do mean to tell me that the next time you go live you're gonna go ahead and make natural bass drops by beating a cow's hide? How about some cymbals to complete your leperchaun kicks? Im sure that would be pretty sick eh? Thats pretty outside the box wouldnt you think?
My point being is that you should distinguish what belongs in live bhangra and recorded music bhangra. I never said SGPD wasnt a traditional team once. And if I did, please site my wording. Its just that the "spicy gimmicky stuff" has its own place, and that place is NOT live bhangra. No disrespect to SGPD or anything, Im just stating my opinion about their AVAP set constructively. Its their choice how they would like to take it.
