- Brimful of Asha
Infobox Single
Name = Brimful of Asha
Artist =Cornershop
from Album =When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Released = 1997
Recorded = 1997
Genre = Pop-rock
Label =Wiiija
Length = 5:17
Writer = Sir Peter Roberts
Audio sample? = yes
Producer = Cornershop
Last single = "Good Ships" (1997)
This single = "Brimful of Asha" (1997)
Next single = "Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)" (1997)Audiosample
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Audio file= Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha excerpt.ogg"Brimful of Asha" is an East-West Fusion pop-rock song by the British band
Cornershop , which originally reached number 60 in theUK Singles Chart in1997 . A remix byFatboy Slim became a hit in1998 on the US and UK charts, reaching #1 in the UK. The lyrics are a tribute toAsha Bhosle , one of the most famous pop singers/film-score vocalists of India.This song is based upon the history of film culture in
India . Since their introduction, Indian films have relied heavily on song-and-dance numbers attributable to Broadway musicals. Almost always, the singing was performed by background singers while the actors and actresses lip-sync.Asha Bhosle is one of theseplayback singer s who has sung over 20,000 songs. Playback singersLata Mangeshkar (Bhosle's sister) andMohammad Rafi (one of the top male playback singers of the mid-century) are also mentioned in the song.It has also been suggested that the song has several symbolic meanings. "
Asha " is Hindi for "Hope ". It has been suggested that the lyrics mean that everyone has a brimful of Hope, that the song is a message of how the Indian media provide the impoverished with hope for a better life, and that the lyrics "Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow" actually is a skewed translation of the saying "Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on". This would seem to be supported by the full verse "Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow; mine's on the 45", where Channel 45 is the popular channel for Indian television. More likely though, this is a reference to records being played back at 45 revolutions per minute, and how he would listen to music (possibly indian) as his comfort. This is both denoted by the picture of the girl listening to a record player and the last time he says this lyric he changes the words to "mine's on the RPM."The music video for the song was produced by
Harder/Fuller Films .Citation
last = Scholtes
first = Peter
title = Seen Your Video
journal = City Pages
date = 2007-08-22
url = http://www.citypages.com/2007-08-22/news/seen-your-video]In popular culture
This song also featured for a few seconds in one of the episodes of the popular television series "
Friends " in season 4 in the episode "The One with the Fake Party."The song is also heard in the film "
The Love Guru ".References
External links
* [http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/7/12518/77483 More background information about "Brimful of Asha" and its lyrics.]
* [http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/1687/Brimful_of_Asha.html Lyrics]###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
before = "My Heart Will Go On " byCéline Dion
title =UK Singles Chart number-one single
years =February 22 1998 for 1 week
after = "Frozen" by Madonna
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