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Post by Marooned@Midnight on Feb 23, 2009 23:18:33 GMT -5
I like this a lot. It sounds like a huge hit to me. :) The crediting of the song is horrendous though.
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Post by Felicia on Feb 24, 2009 1:27:53 GMT -5
I hope this doesn't flop because Nicole's name is attached to it.
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Post by COW COW COW COW COW COW COW on Feb 24, 2009 2:06:54 GMT -5
Yeah PCD fans will be detracted from buying it because they don't know who AR Rahman or Nicole Scherzinger is...If it was credited to the Pussycat Dolls featuring AR Rahman...Then everyone wold get the deal...
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Post by Juanca on Feb 24, 2009 2:44:01 GMT -5
On the contrary, this is the perfect chance to get her name out there. People would think she may be another Indian act along with Rahman and they would realize it IS Flopzinger!
Good luck! This is an interesting song to be heard on the radio with this Asian influences. Nice!!
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Post by It's me, bitch. on Feb 24, 2009 3:04:11 GMT -5
Does anyone have a Mp3 of this for a PM for me? :)
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Post by WotUNeed on Feb 24, 2009 3:32:55 GMT -5
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Post by gimmethatFUNK on Feb 24, 2009 4:59:06 GMT -5
wow. "feat. Nicole Schwhatever" as if she isn't really, the only singer in Pussycat Dolls, the group she's supposedly featuring on. how utterly pathetic
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Post by Battle601 on Feb 24, 2009 13:10:34 GMT -5
00 82 AR RAHMAN/PCD F/N. SCHERZINGER Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) Interscope 76 0 76 0.766
Looks like this is really being pushed now...
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Feb 24, 2009 13:37:12 GMT -5
I hate it. I don't know why it says featuring NS. She IS PCD. NS flopped because her material wasn't good not because of anything else. Had she released the new PCD stuff under her name alone it would've done just as well.
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Post by ₫anny Jerz ♔ on Feb 24, 2009 13:40:28 GMT -5
^I agree. Her solo material just wasn't up to par. On top of that, it was too early for her to be pushing a solo career. She should have waited until after PCD released their second album.
Anyway, I'm really starting to love this now.
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Post by Battle601 on Feb 24, 2009 13:43:55 GMT -5
Only time will tell whether this will be a hit or a flop - it seems all that stands in the way is Nicole in the song credits. Something does not seem right.
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Post by when the pawn... on Feb 24, 2009 15:41:50 GMT -5
Sounds awesome to me. I just don't like the way she says "Jai Ho" but I hope it's a hit. Far better than anything this era from PCD...probably their best ever, eclipsing Buttons.
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Post by COW COW COW COW COW COW COW on Feb 24, 2009 15:48:35 GMT -5
It is better than the rest of this era... I mean only "Bottle Pop" and "Elevator" and "Hush, Hush" seemed like they could stand up to the initial four singled on the PCD album...I mean, why did they release "When I Grow Up" as the lead-off single anyway????
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Post by El Chiko Kevo on Feb 24, 2009 15:48:42 GMT -5
Saw the commercial for the commercial and they play the new PCD version in it!!
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Post by COW COW COW COW COW COW COW on Feb 24, 2009 15:53:57 GMT -5
If they wanted to pull 'featuring Nicole Scherzinger'...they should have done it on a song without a featured artist ALREADY... And Nicole IS PCD...PCD isn't actually on this record...like ALL their records it's only Nicole...background vocals and lead vocals.
Still, if they just get rid of the featuring Nicole and change it to PCD featuring AR Rahman, it has a better chance at being a hit, especially saleswise...I mean If I didn't know who Nicole was...I would think that PCD had barely anything to do with the song and I wouldn't buy it.
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Post by skizzo on Feb 24, 2009 17:24:45 GMT -5
the original song is up to #7 on I-Tunes already :o
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Post by LoveKiller on Feb 24, 2009 18:09:40 GMT -5
we don't want the original to do well on itunes though, because that could take away from the pcd version's success.
THIS VERSION is #82 on Canada iTunes and #16 on Canada Pop iTunes. It's also #50 on US Pop iTunes.
and i know what you mean with all this featuring crap. it's just gonna confuse people. and i don't like the whole a.r. rahman & pcd thing, i wish it was pcd ft. a.r. rahman.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Feb 24, 2009 18:30:12 GMT -5
If this P.O.S. butchering of the amazing Jai Ho is put on a rerelease of Doll Domination, I will go on a rampage at Best Buy and break every copy. I am disgusted.
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Post by LoveKiller on Feb 24, 2009 20:11:48 GMT -5
what's with everyone preferring the original?! it's in freakin indian and the singing is downright obnoxious! its too all over the place and the new one is simpler and sounds better in my opinion.
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Post by picklerclarkson on Feb 24, 2009 20:12:43 GMT -5
I LOVE this!
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Post by कामसूत्र on Feb 24, 2009 20:23:09 GMT -5
and i know what you mean with all this featuring crap. it's just gonna confuse people. and i don't like the whole a.r. rahman & pcd thing, i wish it was pcd ft. a.r. rahman. It's A.R. Rahman's song. Even if the Pussycat Dolls are on this version, it doesn't suddenly make it just their song. It's just as much his song as it is theirs. what's with everyone preferring the original?! it's in freakin indian and the singing is downright obnoxious! its too all over the place and the new one is simpler and sounds better in my opinion. They prefer the original because it's better and it's the original. It's not in 'Indian". It's in Hindi. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean everyone else has to dislike it as well.
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Post by EPG on Feb 24, 2009 20:25:32 GMT -5
*bows down to Disco Cowboy*
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Post by CammyCan on Feb 24, 2009 20:29:43 GMT -5
what's with everyone preferring the original?! it's in freakin indian and the singing is downright obnoxious! its too all over the place and the new one is simpler and sounds better in my opinion. They prefer the original because it's better and it's the original. It's not in 'Indian". It's in Hindi. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean everyone else has to dislike it as well. THANK YOU. Good lord, ignorance runs rampant. The original is much better, but if this gives more exposure to the soundtrack/film, I'm all for it.
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Post by EPG on Feb 24, 2009 20:30:37 GMT -5
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Post by COW COW COW COW COW COW COW on Feb 24, 2009 20:41:31 GMT -5
Yeah no one can speak in Chinese or Indian...Those countries are massively huge, and since they're not colony countries (ie America)...they have TONS of languages....Gin, Mandarin, Cantonese - Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi, and those are just some of the major ones.
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Post by LoveKiller on Feb 24, 2009 21:32:08 GMT -5
you all make very good points but theres really no need to get defensive i was just saying that i don't understand why all of you are so into the original. and im sorry if im not an expert in foreign languages, that doesn't mean im ignorant.
my point was that i find it hard to get into a song that i can't even understand the lyrics to. i just thought that as americans we would prefer the one we actually understand, and i PERSONALLY think the vocals and arrangement are better on this one.
either way, a. r. rahman has mad skills. i just prefer this one. and if you hate this version then why are you in this thread talking crap about it?
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Post by topinizer on Feb 24, 2009 21:32:34 GMT -5
i like it.. it's pretty cool..
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Post by Battle601 on Feb 24, 2009 21:36:36 GMT -5
i like it.. it's pretty cool.. It's actually starting to grow on me now - in a good way. Again, other than the "Jai Ho" mispronounciation, the rest is great. :)
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Post by penpal99 on Feb 24, 2009 21:45:06 GMT -5
So Jai Ho and Bottle Pop are to be released as well ??? I kind of like Jai Ho - compared to the the mechanical sounding 'Bottle Pop' - it a very 'happening' single with lots of tunes and drama plus twists and turns. In other words, a song which carries a colourful and organic song.
However, I am pretty unhappy with how the song is credited - the 'PCD feautring Nicole' part is so downright ludicrous and cruelly insulting to the rest of the PCD members. We fans know that Nicole is THE singer for all the PCD songs - and this really adds salt to the wounds (both to fans who clamoured for more group-based vocal involvement and of course to the rest of the dolls as well).
As mentioned - it is a blatant attempt to prep Nicole for her solo album efforts by more thorough name 'branding' this time around.
Personally - I am quite upset as it more than a few step behind for PCD. I am really hoping that they could grow more organically....
But at the end of the day - i am happy that Jai Ho is geeting ahead of 'Bottle Pop'...
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Post by Tabitha on Feb 24, 2009 21:46:50 GMT -5
^they are still trying to prep flopzinger's solo career. it makes sense so that people may identify her more as a solo artist
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