The Swet Shop Boys just released a music video for their song 'Aaja' featuring Ali Sethi and social media is going gaga over it.
In the music video, Riz Ahmed and fellow rapper Heems tip their topis to Qawwali music and also pay tribute to slain social media sensation, Qandeel Baloch.
Watch it here:
The video features the Swet Shop Boys dress and perform in signature qawwali style, though they stick to rapping. Ali Sethi, who has contributed a truly infectious hook to the track, makes appearances intermittently on a TV screen.
Towards the video's end, there's a tribute to Qandeel with a soundbyte from one of her videos and a dedication to her so as to honour those who attempt to live and love freely despite getting hate.
The video also hopes to bring the Pakistani and Indian communities. According to the rapping duo, the video has been purposefully shot in Flushing, Queens and Coney Island, Brooklyn, bridging gaps between the Indian and Pakistani communities, the way Qawwali does.
Qandeel, Pak-India and the increasingly popular Ali Sethi... no wonder the track's got so much attention:
Not everyone's in love, though.
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Cool lyrics!
excellent well done
In spite of praying for her better life hereafter these people making tribute song for her. She needs our prayers not songs.
I remember how people wished she was dead when she's alive in here. I remember people blamed her for her cruel murder. Now she's an inspiration !?
except of few nohas i've never had any singing experience. seeing this song gives me the assurance no matter how bad and absurd your song is you can still punish people by singing.
waste of time n energy
it's a hopeless song
no lyrics no thought no rhythm
VULGAR lyrics . What kind of a tribute is this? The tragedy of Qandeel Baloch is that she was murdered by her own brother .Unfortunately the way she expressed herself she confused with girl power. I disagree with her method of earning an income. I respected the fact that with her earnings she supported her parents , something her murderer brother was incapable of doing. What do women have to do in order to earn a respectable income in Pakistan? It is more a reflection of the society and government than perhaps of this one individual. Its unacceptable that is men and a mysogynist culture that define what honour is and who it applies to in Pakistan. BTW Ali Sethi is totally wasted in this 'song'. God have mercy on Qandeel's soul.
Tasteless lyrics. Full of expletives.
Senseless song...making fun of both serious qawaali and the dead at the same time. Then again we live in the age where Angel and apple pen get more recognition than Dhanni by Strings or Janaan by Vital Signs. Beautiful songs, pure poetry.
You good
I loved Riz Khan in the HBO show & Star Wars and the fact he is Pakistani but I hope I won't ever hear this terrible sound again.
this is so overrated
Qandeel,we miss u.
good job. we need a TOLERANT Pakistan!
@irfan shamim farooqui Yes you are correct. But if these people can understand.