Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
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Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#1
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:08pm
"LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered a pop singer to change his lyrics after a college girl complained that male students teased her by singing the song when she passed by, a court official said on Tuesday.
The court summoned the singer, Abrar-ul-Haq, last week after a girl called Parveen wrote to a newspaper saying she had stopped attending college in the eastern city of Lahore because of the harassment.
"The court has asked Abrar-ul-Haq to omit the name of the girl and some other objectionable words in his lyrics," the court official said."
Wait-- she lives in LAHORE and they tease her for being named PARVEEN?
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Updated On: 5/30/07 at 02:08 PM
re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#2
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:11pmWhat do you think Parveen means?
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re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#2
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:24pm
"La Whore" I'm certain!
It does point up a cultural difference- Tommy Tutone put a girls PHONE NUMBER in a song and got off scot-free. This guy has to rerecord because someone with the same name complained!
re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#3
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:26pmThis ruling makes 0% sense. Even if the guy changes the lyrics, that doesn't guarantee that the people teasing her will instead sing these new lyrics. Why doesn't the girl go talk to the guys that were teasing her rather than the singer? Duh...
re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#4
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:27pmBut if he changes the name, it's going to be someone ELSE'S name! Don't you see where this is leading, people?
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re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#5
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:28pm
Paaaaaarveen I've got your number...
re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#6
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:30pmI'm so suing that dude who keeps telling me to row the boat ashore. Hallelujah.
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re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#7
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:31pmTommy Tutone was just on VH-1 performing his new single "011-91-80-867-5309 (Parveen)."
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re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#8
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:31pmNo one ever wrote a song for me.
re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#9
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:32pmHow about "I've got some red roses for a bluuuuue lady"? That's close.
re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#10
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:35pmKipling wrote a book with my name as the title, but IT WAS ABOUT A BOY. I'm suing his estate, the insensitive bastard.
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re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#11
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:41pm
My first name IS the title of a movie, though. 
re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#12
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:48pmJean Brodie?
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re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song#13
Posted: 5/30/07 at 3:17pm
Yahoo has updated the story- he's rereleasing the song with the name "Parveen" removed. Now the lyric will go "I really want to hit that, Rathnait62."
No one could possibly object to that.
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