{"id":6184,"date":"2010-05-25T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6184"},"modified":"2010-05-25T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T00:07:24","slug":"she_just_pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/she_just_pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"She Just Pulled a Kaavya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Karmacy<\/a>, I think some girl in India pulled a Kaavya Viswanathan on your lyrics <\/a>(h\/t Deepa<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Evidence 1 (skip to 4:35 to see her “rap”):<\/p>\n\n

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The original Karmacy video of Blood Brothers<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n

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If I knew Final Cut Pro, I would have edited the videos next to each others, but I think you get the idea. Okay, fine. I do realize that these American\/Indian\/Wherever Idols are an elaborate form of karaoke and no one ever sings original material. But, is it just me, or does she claim the lyrics as her own? (And who is this Patel rap referred to by the judges?)<\/p>\n\n

She auditioned with the same Karmacy song. Audition video below the jump.

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I’m not saying that she shouldn’t win – she has some good chops. Just, you know, give credit where credit is due. And… I dunno, maybe she should stay away from the “hip-hop stuff.” Her flow was choppy, at best.<\/p>\n\n

I wonder how Karmacy feels about their song getting merged with Spice Girls. Yay for globalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Karmacy, I think some girl in India pulled a Kaavya Viswanathan on your lyrics (h\/t Deepa). Evidence 1 (skip to 4:35 to see her “rap”): The original Karmacy video of Blood Brothers: If I knew Final Cut Pro, I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,30,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184"}],"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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}