- Tunak Tunak Tun
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Artist =Daler Mehndi
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Published = 1998
Released = 1998
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Genre =bhangra
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Audio sample? ="Tunak Tunak Tun", often referred to solely as "Tunak", is a
bhangra /pop love song created byIndia n artistDaler Mehndi and released in1998 . It has become aninternet meme because of its catchy tune and the amusing dance in itsmusic video , inspiring numerousspin-off s andparodies . The music video was the first made in India to usebluescreen technology,cite web | author=| year=2006| title= Biography - Insight| format= | work=dalermehndi.com | url=http://www.dalermehndi.com/html/bio-insight.shtml | accessdate=2006-07-06] which allowed the singer to superimpose his image over various computer-generated backgrounds, one featuringSt. Basil's Cathedral inMoscow .The "strange" 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.
In the
MMORPG World of Warcraft , the Draenei race's dance cycle is the dance cycle from the music video of the song.The song was the official theme song of
Concordia Language Villages ' International Day in2005 .The song is also popular in DCinside, a Korean digital camera community, because of its foreign lyrics and dancing style. In Korean, the song's title is written as 뚫훓뚫훓뚫(읗), pronounced similarly to its native pronunciation. A TV program called 웃찾사 ("ut-chat-sa", roughly translated as "people who search for laughter") used this song as theme song for a character called 만사마 ("man-sa-ma"). He dances in a manner similar to the dance in the music video for "Tunak Tunak Tun", and this made the song popular in Korea.
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External links
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo Tunak Tunak Tun Music Video]
* [http://www.dalermehndi.com Daler Mehndi Official Website]
* [http://lirama.net/song/26240/25771+25769+25770 Lyrical Translation]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DQS2q0gZ9g 1st Parody video, from 2000]
* [http://www.dcinside.com DCinside Official Homepage (Korean)]
* [http://dcinside.com/webdc/lecture/study_list.php?id=587&code1=50&code2=60&s_mode=&s_que= DCinside : about Daler Mehndi (Korean)]
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