‘The singer wanted to sound more Western than they ended up doing’
Helen Brew is a Chemistry Teacher.
Before knowing anything:
Of all of the music you’ve played me over the past few weeks, this is by far my least favourite. I’m not drawn into it. I think it’s the repetitive beat. We’ve learnt that not understanding the lyrics doesn’t bother me, we’ve learnt that not having a video doesn’t bother me, but this just didn’t have any hook to it. There was no overtly political message which seemed to be present in the other songs and if I’m honest, I would have turned it off if I hadn’t been part of this interview. I think the Indian overtones were interesting, yes, but it sounded as though those were accidental, as if the singer wanted to sound more Western than they ended up doing.
After being informed:
I’m not surprised this wasn’t popular…Jazz isn’t particularly popular in the Western world so I can’t see it being popular at all in India, what with Bollywood and Indian Pop music. I don’t even know if I would consider this to be jazz music. In all honesty, I wish I had more to say about it, but there is nothing for me to draw from it… I just didn’t like it. I wish it was more interesting, I wish there was more information on the song so I could give you a better response, but there isn’t so unfortunately we’re stuck with my first impressions… which weren’t good.