{"id":2987,"date":"2016-05-23T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2016-05-23T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:04:24","slug":"india-romania-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/india-romania-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"India + Romania Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/this-song-is-a-hit-in-romania-and-you-cant-guess-why\/\">my earlier post on the popularity of &#8216;Selfie Pulla&#8217; in Romania<\/a>, here is one more example of cross-cultural pollination. A Romanian song called &#8216;Condimente&#8217;, by Nosfe and featuring Ruby wears its Indian influences on its sleeve.\u00a0The song lyrics have the singers\u00a0using funky spice metaphors to talk about their relationship.\u00a0(&#8216;You&#8217;re spicy, like chili or paprika\/I just eat more light, be my soy sauce\/me basil, you mint\/This ain&#8217;t perfect but it has a tint&#8217;)\u00a0The\u00a0video features India-influenced background dancers, and the setting is totes obvs Bollywood. If we lived in the 90s, this song would already have made an appearance\u00a0in an Anu Malik album \u2014 or four \u2014 by now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zjgqAQelqFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of my earlier post on the popularity of &#8216;Selfie Pulla&#8217; in Romania, here is one more example of cross-cultural pollination. A Romanian song called &#8216;Condimente&#8217;, by Nosfe and featuring Ruby wears its Indian influences on its sleeve.\u00a0The song lyrics have the singers\u00a0using funky spice metaphors to talk about their relationship.\u00a0(&#8216;You&#8217;re spicy, like chili or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[648,647,636,60,637],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-condimente","tag-nosfe-ft-ruby","tag-popcorn","tag-romania","tag-romanian-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}