ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Official Theme Song

The Official ICC 2011 World Cup Song is made by India and is beyond a level of suckiness. What matters here is that this song is representing the whole India at an international stage and I guarantee you that India is much much better than this.



I am not saying that the song should be something western, e.g. some stupid rap or some electronic music. No, it should definitely be something India centric, something which reflects the rich culture and variety of classical instruments and dance. It could have been a collection of everything India is known for and is good about. Something, which "Mile sur mera tumhara" does fantastically. It is really shameful for our current generation that they came up with this crap when 20 years ago someone made an amazing video like "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara".



If you are looking for a fast song, it has been done before. Afro Asian Games 2003 theme song was made by Indian dudes and you should listen to that. It has a wide variety of Indian themes. Flute, tabla , raga, even punjabi beats arrive from time to time. They even included some African themes in middle because the games were "Afro Asian games". Brilliant piece of music. Something brilliant like this should be expected when you have to make something at an international level.



AR Rahman's CWG theme song was pretty awesome, but I would say that if you argue that the song was too western, I would agree with you, but it is still worth mentioning. It is pretty good.



The ICC official song is really really bad. Hey, bad songs are made from time to time, it is no big deal, but I will again stress that the whole world is listening to this... really bad for our self esteem. It could have been something like what Euphoria makes, I am not a fan of Euphoria but they make zealous songs and if that is what was expected for a cricket video, then be it Euphoria, it would have turned out much better. It could even have been something like AR Rahman's Chale Chalo from Lagaan.



The ICC 2011 song is a street side crappy slang bullshit, and I know that this is not India, it is better than that in many ways. Don't give me the regular reply that I should not resent my own country and that I should know where I come from. You know what? I perfectly know where I come from, I completely understand and that is why I think this song is a mistake. Indians are known for not accepting their mistakes and that is why I see that some people will actually defend this song while hating it. I will end this post by quoting 2 of many comments from the youtube video which did not sound like trolls:

"After such wonderful compositions for movies like Kal Ho Naa Ho and Taare Zameen Par, Shankar Ehsaan Loy come up with this for the World Cup.
If this is not a joke,then it is the biggest embarassment for India at the international stage.Even A R Rahman's song for CWG was better."

"not in really Indian standards , cos India is a well known country in the world when we talk about Music either Classical or Pop type. but this is not really in good standard i expected much than this"