{"id":5123,"date":"2008-04-07T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T20:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5123"},"modified":"2008-04-07T13:21:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:21:45","slug":"in_your_yard_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/in_your_yard_i\/","title":{"rendered":"In your yard I am the Ferengi man&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You haven&#8217;t been a web-lifestyle desi unless you&#8217;ve at least once come across the hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunak_Tunak_Tun\" >Tunak Tunak video parodies<\/a> out there.  Wikipedia very aptly describes the smackdown to his haters that Tunak Tunak <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunak_Tunak_Tun\" >represented for Daler<\/a> &#8211; <\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\" >\n<p>The &#8220;strange&#8221; dancing and presence of only the singer in this video was a response to criticism from the world of Bhangra pop. Many critics at the time complained that his music was popular due to his videos which featured beautiful women dancing; his response was to create a video that featured only himself. As he predicted, the song was still a huge success, but the phenomenon of foreign language and unusual dancing made the video a cult hit in other countries as well.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>There are as many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=tunak+tunak&#038;search_type=\" >parody videos<\/a> as there are pet theories for why Daler inspires such devotation and imitation (and in my case, <a title=\"I thought I had a fetish for Daler... (8\/16\/2004)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000219.html\" >admiration<\/a>) but I think I&#8217;ve found my new favorite  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/wink.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0   Files\\Anconia\\RktPost\\Templates\\Clip Art\\wink.gif\"> <\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s made by some dude named Buffalax trying to figure out how to sing along to Daler and providing his own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phonetic_transcription\">transcription<\/a> along the way.  As a non-Punjabi, I find his work incredibly helpful &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>\n<object height=355 width=425><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_fSpI4oZoDc&#038;hl=en\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_fSpI4oZoDc&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You haven&#8217;t been a web-lifestyle desi unless you&#8217;ve at least once come across the hundreds of Tunak Tunak video parodies out there. Wikipedia very aptly describes the smackdown to his haters that Tunak Tunak represented for Daler &#8211; The &#8220;strange&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/in_your_yard_i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}