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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#1Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
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
#2re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:11pmWhat do you think Parveen means?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
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!
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#3re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
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...
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#4re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
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?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#5re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:28pm
Paaaaaarveen I've got your number...
#6re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:30pmI'm so suing that dude who keeps telling me to row the boat ashore. Hallelujah.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:31pmTommy Tutone was just on VH-1 performing his new single "011-91-80-867-5309 (Parveen)."
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#8re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:31pmNo one ever wrote a song for me.
#9re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:32pmHow about "I've got some red roses for a bluuuuue lady"? That's close.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#10re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
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.
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#11re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:41pm
My first name IS the title of a movie, though. 
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#12re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:48pmJean Brodie?
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Pakistani pop star told to cut girl's name from song
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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