Hey hey hey, Vindaloo
‘Vindaloo’ a parody of a mashup. It’s a riff on how some desis are fake ethnics, like chop suey, chicken tikka or American pizza. And the song about Goan curry became an English football anthem (thanks, khoof):
“Vindaloo” is a song by Fat Les… recorded for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The song was originally written as a parody of football chants, but was adopted as one … Much of the song consists of the phrase “nah nah nah” and the word “vindaloo”… “We’re England; we’re gonna score one more than you”… The song has brief verses, spoken/sung by Keith Allen…
… the band were deliberately waking the ghost of an earlier incident on the BBC TV programme The Late Show. Guest Keith Allen got into an extremely heated row with the panel over his view that comedy was now being hamstrung to appease rules of political correctness. Just before storming off the live broadcast, Allen stormed at an Asian member of the panel that “It’s not a chip you’ve got on your shoulder, it’s a f**king vindaloo!”. He later explained to press reporters that a vindaloo is as faux ethnic (this piece of Goan cuisine actually originated from Portugal) as those who masquerade as self-appointed spokespeople for ethnic minority communities’ rights in order to censor arts and culture according to their own pet prejudices.
The music video for the song is a parody of the video for “Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve, which was itself inspired by the music video for “Unfinished Sympathy” by Massive Attack. The video is recorded in the same street… [Wiki]
Here are the inspirations, ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ by the Verve:
And here’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy‘ by Massive Attack.
Here’s a more suggestive Bangla vindaloo.
on Thursday, July 16th, 2009, 5:03 pm in Music, Video clips › 
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Keith Allen was a cocaine addled wanker back then.
He is the father of the singer Lily Allen.
Its not really a thug song for English football hooligans. Every time there is a World Cup there is a tradition of pop songs being released to cheer on the England football team. This was written for the 1998 competition in France.
Its not a parody of fake desis, its saying that Vindaloo and ‘curry’ are amongst the most prominent symbols of Englishness, because Indian food is the national cuisine of England.
As such, its playful, fun and subversive, listing all of the things that are meant to represent England, cups of tea and so on, and placing most prominently of them all a dish from a typical British high street Indian curry house. In that respect it is anti-jingoist, because it’s saying that Englishness is defined by the amalgamation of a multi-racial society.
But really, its meant to be sung in a raucous mess after a few pints of lager as the England football team try to win the World Cup.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/20-being-an-expert-on-your-culture/
it’s always a struggle to keep from sharing anything really meaningful in public.
but i’ve been listening to BSS every couple of hrs after this post and revisiting the nineties. Anywun else remember the nike ad with BSS? Or the Gatorade ad with love hurts? Les singhadas. Ve are so over the hill. It’s only Pork and Beans for us and some rogaine to boot. :-(
To sort of stay back on topic, in an interesting tvist
so fat les and ashcroft both get a shoutout.
What was her name khoof?
argh.
dont be so anthroponormative, old boysenberry yaar.