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Facebook, Twitter campaign
demands Honey Singh ban for lewd lyrics
Source:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Music/Facebook-Twitter-campaign-demands-Honey-Singh-ban-for-lewd-lyrics/Article1-983065.aspx
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youth icon Yo Yo Honey Singh has come under the scanner for his misogynistic
lyrics. A petition filed by Kalpana Misra via Change.org appeals for a ban
on the Punjabi rapper's New Year's eve performance. The International
Villager, as he likes to call himself, is scheduled to
perform at Hotel Bristol in Gurgaon.
The 28-year-old rapper hails from Hoshiarpur and has studied at the School
of Trinity, London (as the rapper's official website suggests. He has mostly
sung songs in a mix of Punjabi/English and won international awards like the
Brit Asia Best International Act 2012 and the UK AMA Best International
Album 2012. He has also sung songs in recent and popular Bollywood films
like Khiladi 786, Cocktail and Luv Shuv Te Chicken Khurana.
So what exactly is the hullabaloo about? On his way to
stardom he has penned some seriously lewd lyrics earning him the horrendous
nickname - Rape Rapper. There's a song by the name of
Main Hoon Balaatkari to his credit, then there's another one
called, well read it for yourselves:
The lyrics of the song C***:
Aja teri ch*** maroon
Tere sir se chu**** ka bhoot utaroon
Cho**** key baad tujhe jutey maroon
Tere mooh main apna l*** dey key mo*** maroon (yeah)
The literal translation of the song roughly comes to
this:
Come, I'll f*** you,
Exorcise you of the ghost of getting f*****,
After f****** you, I'll hit you with a shoe,
I'd put my d*** in your mouth, and then p*** on you
Yes, those are the lyrics of the song and the video
features skimpily clad women who look all to happy to oblige Mr Honey Singh.
After reading it we hope you will sign the petition, which had garnered 742
supporters when we last checked has been going viral on the social
networking sites.
Sign the petition here.
Honey Singh Trashers
Twitter veterans with a number of followers seemed to
support the petition unanimously, even lambasting the 28-year-old rapper
and equating his lyrics to 'Rape Rap'. These tweets were the top ones that
featured in the search.
Journalist Seema Goswami directly linked the lyrics to
violence agaist women to as she wrote, "All those telling us to *ignore*
Honey Singh's *rape rap* do remember that this kind of misogyny is what
results in violence against women." Nilanjana Roy posted a link to the
petition, tweeting: Why women don't want to celebrate the new year with
Honey Singh: Neha Kaul's petition...
Renowned journalist and Rude Food columnist Vir Sanghvi called for a
strong boycott against the hotel if they didn't called the show off. He
wrote on his Twitter wall: For God's sake, Bristol Hotel. Cancel the Honey
Singh show. Are you guys in the rape business or the hotel business?
He later added, "If the Bristol does not cancel the Honey Singh show then
I would urge every decent Indian to boycott the hotel."
Comedian Tanmay Bhat said, "Bringing Honey Singh into this discussion is
giving his songs too much dignity. They're offensive to every sensibility
and not just women."
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