- Culture
- 07 Feb 07
It’s only January, and Aussie cricketer Brett Lee is already a shoo-in for ‘Worst Pop Song of 2007’
Australian fast bowler Brett Lee is at number four this week in the Indian singles chart with a song he dashed out in 30 minutes last year after a practice session.
‘You’re The One For Me’ finds Lee duetting with Asha Bhosle, the Bollywood veteran who inspired Cornershop’s ‘Brimful Of Asha’.
“My family has always followed cricket avidly, so recording with Brett was exciting,” enthuses Bhosle who’s recorded a whopping 13,000 songs during career.
“Please give me one chance, I know I’m not an Indy/I promise I’ll make you laugh, I’ll even learn some Hindi,” Lee croons as he attempts to woo a local lovely.
“We had talked about it for a while, but in the end it happened really quickly,” he says. “Asha is the Aretha Franklin of India, so it was amazing to work with her and it is just as amazing to hear the record.”
Lee has form having played before with a New South Wales outfit called Six And Out.
You can see and hear his pop masterpiece at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c3CeAKdDPQK
Staying with matters of a sporting nature and Caught In The Net has become a big fan of Reading Evening Post sports hack Dave Wright whose video blog can be perused at www.getreading.co.uk/.
Laugh? We had to put on clean underwear.
Doubtless inspired by Mark E. Smith’s reading of the football classifieds on BBC Interactive, David Gray popped up as the guest commentator last Sunday on Radio 5 Live when – snigger – his beloved Manchester United – tee hee – lost – chortle – to Arsenal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/6266771.stm has the full low-down.
Which just leaves time for visits to www.b3ta.com/newsletter/issue261 (“That you Jim? Paul Keating here. Just because you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about 15 doesn’t give you the right to pour a bucket of shit over the rest of us” and the other rude things Aussie politicians say to each other); www.dailymotion.com/video/xww7o_mohamed-aznkd (will the real Borat please stand up); and www.jadegoodyonline.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=3 (some people get the fans they deserve).