Hi everyone,
I have recently travelled to Dubai, Istanbul and India and have a lot of footage I want to make into a ~3min (one song) travel vlog. I am looking for the perfect background song.
Can anyone think of a relatively recent, mainstream english pop / R&B song, that might have bit of an "up-beat, arabian-beats / indian beats" vibe to it.
I was thinking Jai Ho, but the lyrics don't really run in parallel with a travel theme :')
Thanks!
Beware of boys? Lol, maybe.
I wasnt sure of the name … but just checked it and thats the one.
Or that other song with the la la… la la la la la la la la la la.
The first thing that came to mind was the one-hit wonder from an ex-neighbour: Kiss, Kiss
Edit: Looks like there's also a turkish version
The Turkish version came out long before the Holly Valance cover. I was actually in Turkey in the late 90s when it came out and it was massive - you heard it everywhere.
Yes, Holly's was a cover.
AR Rehman meets Berkelee - check it out on Youe tube. Huge variety to select from
Not recent or upbeat or R&B but The Dandy Warhols' "Muhammed" could be perfect.
"mainstream pop/r&b"
Don't why you're looking for crap music on purpose but for something a bit more mid-00's Arabian Adventure II
Came here to recommend this.
This is Middle Eastern holiday music.
I would also recommend (in no particular order of genre):
Sting - desert rose
Selena Gomez come and get it
Kota Jabdah
I’ll have both
Misirlou by Dick Dale. Well-known upbeat surf instrumental most people know. Was on Pulp Fiction soundtrack.
No real bites on any suggestions above, by the looks of it, OP. Sense that maybe authentic beats not really the main thing you're looking for anyway.
ATC - Around The World
Most of your viewers won't have heard that. Will watch your vlog more than once, for song alone.
Lots of instrumental edits/remixes of that to sift through on youtube if you're keen.
The ultimate travel song, but maybe not suited on this occasion. Alas! :)
Haha love your comment Dne, nail on the head. You hit 3/4 out of "recent, mainstream english pop / R&B song", probably the closest answer I ended up getting. thank you!
I love your logic there.
LOL.
And to top it off, Dne believes that most people haven't heard a song that charted in the Top 10 or Top 20 globally, for several months after its release and is now considered Eurodance hall-of-fame material.
Aside first, and also eff you Amar. It's only Tuesday Wednesday.
Some sterling work from you, variously elsewhere. No interaction there equals circumspection.
Threads featuring, or those inevitably destined to feature, voluble numbnuts with nasty streaks, and voluble non-numbnuts, also with nasty streaks, playing out angst with personal circumstance on the internet, all seen before. No self-identification intended there for people clearly fond of, including you.
Non-aside. The song linked for reasons mentioned. Absent knowing other content on her channel, OP's analytics will likely show main viewership as mid-teen to early twenties, or late-teen to mid-twenties. Most won't have heard song - will enjoy because very catchy.
Depends a bit on particular brain-wiring for melody. That does differ, a lot, with region/background, and diversity of music heard when you are a kid. Intolerance for music you don't enjoy, though, certainly does reflect poorly, Amar.
As happens (don't even guess number, because that's all I can do), I have among many CD's not-yet listened to, numerous 'World Music' and specific-artist related albums, most gifted to me over the years. Any preference in bought and not-bought actually listened to, has tended to run Cuban, North African, West African, with everything else after that.
In and amongst, a couple of notably better Middle-Eastern tracks than ones linked in this thread ;)
Wish names were springing to mind, but very possibly just too many other things on mind at the moment.
If OP had suggested twice-length, languidly-edited, Indian-specific, vlog, I guess that I might have linked this.
Might have also checked to see that there was even a 3 min version.
Reckless of me, one way or the other?
As reckless as me thinking to link this as further addition to serious thread about meditation? Nah
As reckless as linking a track which might further rile-up extra-feisty OzBargainers, like Diji1? Also Nah
You get the idea, here.
At least breathe, Amar.
Goodnight
@[Deactivated]: Sweet Jesus, you're a touchy little snowflake. There's only one possible response to a person who has no idea how truly insane their incomprehensible gibberish sounded.
My point, which you never refuted, still stands. Without being limited to genre, you choose two of the arguably most-pathetic songs in the annals of recorded music to suggest to someone as a soundtrack to play alongside footage of their holiday to the Middle East and India.
You could have chosen virtually anything else, but what came to your mind was: a one-hit wonder Eurodance song and Iggy Pop.
You're taking this sleight a little too seriously, but at the same time, your taste in music is dreadful and all of the diverse World Music you own doesn't change that.
You get the idea, here.
At least breathe, Amar.
Do you listen to music on a phonograph with a metronome and a calculator or something?
Dear Lord, you remind me of a high-school music teacher from the 1990s. Lighten the eff up.
@Gnostikos: Way to take a compliment, Amar…
I skew so far from snowflake, you actually gave me a laugh. Repetition of content on OzBargain has tended to make that less frequent. Thanks
:)
I had a guess as to whether you would go further vituperative in your reply, or not. Accurate guess, but beyond degree imagined.
You appear to be on a stepping-stone, Amar. Don't go forward and don't slip off.
Incorrect use of the word sleight, but of less concern.
CD player, solid-state, phonograph turntable, whichever suits. Only occasionally with any need for a metronome and a calculator.
Have a listen to that track. May assist you in getting to sleep tonight. Has always worked a treat for other young humans. May work for you.
If OP had suggested twice-length, languidly-edited, Indian-specific, vlog, I guess that I might have linked this
I like this song … not my usual fare I listen to, but nice!
All constructive suggestions have merits. Especially so, when they lay out the thinking behind them. Kind of like brain-storming in problem-solving. It opens up possibilities – perhaps even some not envisaged at the outset. All a good thing.
Civil and reasonable people know the ultimate choice rests with you, OP. And you are entitled to change your mind, deviate from the initial criteria – or whatever, as you see fit.
Comments attempting to mock you for your choice (if you do not adhere to what is expected) is unwarranted and presumptuous. And same for mocking other commenters’ suggestions – which disappointingly, stooped to name-calling. (Not referring to constructive & civil discussion of differing opinions – the tone and language make it clear which is which).
It is intolerance talking. The same intolerance underlying many of the ills we see in the world today – albeit to different degrees.
Jai Ho is crap. Use that Jayz song with the turban guy singing in the corus.