And under its influence people who have never listened to Indian music are walking into record stores and asking for things they can barely pronounce. Beneath it all runs a distinctly worldly synthesiser sample, a phrase you think you know.Ī TV show theme, maybe? It's a dance tune, but definitely not Western. Full-throated and virtuosic, the singing has an almost religious passion, but it's obviously pop to somebody. The drums could be a marching band, except that they sound too liquid, almost like vocals. In the space of four fierce minutes, Beware conveys both the stylish sang-froid of hip-hop and the physical jubilation of an Indian wedding. If you've heard the song you might have thought it was two songs at once, perhaps blaring out of two cars pulled up to the same light. Now Beware of the Boys by British producer Panjabi MC and Jay-Z is doing the same thing for the hip-hop nation and members of the Indian diaspora. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit did it in 1991, convincing millions of punk, pop and metal partisans that they could find common ground. Run-DMC's cover of Aerosmith's Walk This Way did it in 1986, winning over rock sceptics and persuading hip-hop fans that good beats are where you find them. Rap music meets its match with the sounds of an Indian wedding.Įvery now and then, a song bursts into the atmosphere with its own gravitational force and manages to pull even the most resistant music fans out of their usual orbits.
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