For those who want their music spiked with a smattering of current affairs, Arnab Goswami is the gift that keeps on giving. His shows have all the elements of modern music: overproduced sounds, repetitive, meaningless lyrics, far too many guest appearances and lots of yelling. So it’s no surprise that Goswami’s adoring viewers are happy to take his work over the final hurdle and turn it into actual music.
Last week, we got Interrupception, a trippy track that attempted to use a Christopher Nolan movie and a Carnatic violin to add some more meaning to the wonder that was Goswami’s shoutfest with Subramanian Swamy. Now Raka Ashok has also jumped into the mix.
Ashok, a Bangalore-based music producer, is the same guy who put together the incredibly catchy Arnab Trap. This time around the hip-hop-inspired remix of the Newshour yell session is entitled Is Swamy Right. In addition to dropping generous mentions of Swamy calling Goswami stupid and saying he doesn’t have brains, the track also cleverly samples from A Few Good Men (“you can’t handle the truth!”) and plays out quite well as a South Bombay-South Delhi rap battle.
If you count in the Dented and Painted song, and any number of autotune riffs on the nightly Newshour, it won't be long before someone will be able to put out a full album of Arnab songs, which is after all the ultimate ambition of any (Super) Primetime anchor.
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Last week, we got Interrupception, a trippy track that attempted to use a Christopher Nolan movie and a Carnatic violin to add some more meaning to the wonder that was Goswami’s shoutfest with Subramanian Swamy. Now Raka Ashok has also jumped into the mix.
Ashok, a Bangalore-based music producer, is the same guy who put together the incredibly catchy Arnab Trap. This time around the hip-hop-inspired remix of the Newshour yell session is entitled Is Swamy Right. In addition to dropping generous mentions of Swamy calling Goswami stupid and saying he doesn’t have brains, the track also cleverly samples from A Few Good Men (“you can’t handle the truth!”) and plays out quite well as a South Bombay-South Delhi rap battle.
If you count in the Dented and Painted song, and any number of autotune riffs on the nightly Newshour, it won't be long before someone will be able to put out a full album of Arnab songs, which is after all the ultimate ambition of any (Super) Primetime anchor.
