MUSIC 26AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Bappi Lahiri, Lata Mangeshkar, Dj Quik
Additie Case November ,
• Details of the Additie ase
o Song and video
▪ Addictive (2002): song about truth hurts and becomes a relative hit (#9 on top hits)
▪ First single off Truthfully Speaking album
▪ Notes about the video:
• Indian musical influence (ft. Rakim)
• Black R&B artist singer and songwriter with altered, untraditional clothing that shows skin
and a henna on her arm
• Attempt to embrace Indian culture
• Contrasts Indian music as spiritual and sophisticated vs. Black music characterized as sexual
and not sophisticated
• Lris: seual horus ad the rest of the sog ie: he’s so otagious / spotaeous / ad I’
his lad
▪ Was the eter of a lasuit; iorporates a saple fro a 11 Bollood sog Thoda Resha
Legta Hai fro Joti, sug Lata Mageshkar
▪ Major players
• Truth Hurts: her first song that demonstrating her coming as a solo artist
• Instrumental track created by DJ Quik
• Dr. Dre makes a cameo in the final shots of the video
• Interscope records: owner of the song Truth Hurts
• Rakim is the rapper in the song/video
• Bollywood film industry that is musically focused
• Bappi Lahiri: wrote the original track
• Saregama: recording companies that own the rights to the original song
▪ Played in various clubs (R&B, pop) and circulates in the US/India
• Lots of song responses in India
o Thoda Resha Lagta Hai 11: talks aout eig i loe ad eig i a relatioship
▪ Opening sample: A flower garden is then made
▪ Refrain: It take a little silk It takes a little glass Diamonds and pearls come together Then such a fair-
skinned body is made
▪ Instrumentation: high vocals, consistent beat in the background of song
▪ Solo dancing
▪ Looks like she is seducing 2 men (younger and older)
▪ She takes his 2 rings after he falls down
o Lawsuit
▪ Lahiri alerted about sample
▪ Lahiri and Saregama launch separate suits, which are eventually joined together into 1 lawsuit
▪ Lahiri/Saregama lawyers issue cease-and-desist (stop selling and circulating the recording because
the do’t gie redit or pay them for rights) but U.S. label continues to sell the record
▪ Lahiri/Saregama file $500 million lawsuit and injunction to prevent further performance or broadcast
– seeking remuneration for previous and future use and credit for the original composition that was
sampled
▪ Also charges of cultural imperialism and offense to moral sensibilities of Indian listeners
• Cultural iperialis: takig the Idia ulture that as’t elogig to the ad doig hat
they wanted to do with it without thinking about the political and cultural context
o Pertinent thematic issues
▪ Racial triangulation: way of thinking about racial relationships apart from just a black/white binary
• Race is the center way most that genres get marked
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