Recently, some of the singers in the Punjabi music industry have taken to repeating the same formula again and again and again and churning out the same kind of songs. Yet, their songs become the trend in just a couple of hours, and you’re left wondering about the questionable choice of music people today listen to. The same case is with Preet Hundal and Jasmine Sandlas’ “Whiskey Di Bottal”, currently trending on #15 on YouTube.
Gaganpreet Singh Hundal aka Preet Hundal is a Punjabi singer, lyricist, musician, and music director from Mohali, Punjab. He made his singing debut in singer A-Kay’s “Kalyug”, and moved on to popular songs such as “Gappi”, “Puch Na” and “Rani Remake”. On the other hand, Jasmine Sandlas hails from Jalandhar in Punjab who has made her Bollywood singing debut with “Yaar Na Miley” from Kick in 2014.
Coming back to “Whiskey Di Bottal”, it is your average Punjabi song with drinks, nightclubs and partying as its major theme. The song begins with Jasmine entering the nightclub and Preet Hundal driving a huge orange car. On close inspection of the lyrics, the song is filled with ‘praises’ for the lady who can sway the whole of Chandigarh with her kohl-lined eyes, slim waist, and Punjabi shoes.
The section is repeated for a few more times, after which the attraction is likened to a feeling of drunkness in a whiskey bottle. With such amazing lyrics, which woman wouldn’t fall in love with the guy?
Speaking of the four-minute-long music video, the scenes vacillate between glossy cars, nightclubs, bottles, parties and lipsyncing to the music – things that we have seen in many other ‘party’ songs with words such as ‘daaru’ and ‘vodka’ in them.
Have we really run out of topics for composing songs that the world has come to rest on whiskey, ‘jutti Punjabi’ and ‘peena-sheena’? It’s high time that the singers of the Punjabi music industry reinvent themselves and compose some good songs for a change. The situation is so bad that there is hardly any song that does not focus on booze and partying. Thus said, enough of the ‘daaru’, bring on the ‘lassi’ – and please put some deserving songs on the trending list.
