To cheer you up

AMAN SURAJ: Wow! 2015 has already come half way through and we are the optimistic sorts, who like looking at the glass half-full! So far, we have See You Again by Wiz Kalifa’s, Bad Blood by Taylor Swift, new albums by Florence Welch and Of Monsters and Men and yet another interesting season of the Coke Studio India.

A still from the song Cheerleader

Amarjot Kaur

Wow! 2015 has already come half way through and we are the optimistic sorts, who like looking at the glass half-full! So far, we have See You Again by Wiz Kalifa’s, Bad Blood by Taylor Swift, new albums by Florence Welch and Of Monsters and Men and yet another interesting season of the Coke Studio India. If that doesn’t make you feel good, well then, the monsoon is here and the sales are on! How about that? We told you, we are a little too optimistic and look whose song have we handpicked this time around! There... it’s a song titled Cheerleader by Jamaican singer OMI.

The track was written and produced by OMI and C. Dillon, with additional writing by M. Bradford and R. Dillon. It is a reggae fusion song. In late 2014, the remix of this song topped the Swedish charts and later on several other European charts, including the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Overall, the song has reached the top-10 in 30 countries worldwide. It has also been certified platinum in both the UK and the US for selling over 1,000,000 copies.

But the “nation wants to know”...is this song doing rounds at the geri route? Well, let’s find out!

Voice of the city

Amazing music

I really like the sound of the song, the saxophone and the djambe! It is totally amazing. It has a nice reggae vibe to it and you have to feel it to really like the song. And yes, I do play it out loud for all the pretty women in the city to hear it out (laughs).

Aman Suraj, Chandigarh-based musician

Nice vibe

It is a nice song and has a very interesting vibe. It’s my new love song and each time I think of my girl, who is now my wife, this song pops up in my mind.

Pankaj Khandelia, business man

Brialliant video

I am in love with this song. It makes me feel special and the music is so nice. The sound of the sax is amazing and the video is brilliant too.

Gagandeep Singh, employee at a private firm

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Our take

We are totally digging this song and we are sure that you will too. The ska feel to it starts bang on with the way it opens to the tune of saxophone, gliding smoothly into the subtle vocals! The lyrics, we feel, lack emotional depth, but then the video makes up for it. Also, the sound of the song has a very interesting mix of Jamaican reggae music fusing with pop and club music, giving it an interesting texture, especially with the sound of djambe.