On the other hand, whats more inherently Bollywood, than the fantasy of an American soap opera? Anyway, the Bollywood-themed Passions episode originally aired on Friday January 27. I know we discuss this a lot on the site, but a soap opera’s target audience is housewives in middle America, not persons from cities already familiar with the genre. I think it also speaks to how far towards the mainstream bhangra and Bollywood has actually come in the U.S. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the clip, and I think overall the cast did a good job. Ethan’s bhangra skills near the end of the number (5:30), looked more like armless chest pounding than any kind of dance. Ethan on the other hand, could use a couple of lessons from this guy. She reminds me a bit of Marisa Tomei in The Guru. I got admit, Theresa has some moves, and she pulls off the Bollywood temptress bit quite nicely. Does it get any better than, “Bye Bye, Who Says Bye Bye, Who Gets the Guy?” repeated in a breathy refrain. It is catchy though, and the hooks, oh my. The song, Love is Ecstasy comes off less like Bollywood Propah, and more like Bombay Dreams on Broadway. #MUSIC ON PASSIONS SOAP OPERA FULL#From there it becomes full Bollywood dance dhamaka. Featuring an ensemble cast of desi background dancers, Gwen and Ethan’s impending infinite bliss, and romp around the tree of life (I have no idea what that is about) is interrupted by the appearence of temptress Theresa in a ‘minimalist’ version of a sari and a black veil. This is where the dance number begins and then turns into full on Bollywood melodrama. Gwen is scared of Theresa’s attempts to lure Ethan away from her, and convinces Ethan to travel with her to India so they could renew their vows. (The video only opens up in MS Explorer.) From what I gather from my five minute perusal of the show clips, the Bollywood triangle involves three characters: Ethan, Gwen, and Theresa. More information on the shoot, the clothes, the song, the choreography, and the video is available here. So, now that the clip is available, you can find the video here. But when tipster Noelle (and all the other SM tipsters) informed us awhile back that television’s newest soap opera Passions was going Bollywood, I thought why couldn’t GH do that? Anyway, we over here at SM headquarters apologize for not mentioning this earlier, but most of the mutineers aren’t usually home to watch the show during the day, and for that reason we also wanted to wait for a video clip of the Bollywood item to be available before posting. I finally kicked my soap habit my sophomore year after studying abroad and now of course, work thankfully gets in the way. I hate to admit it, but I knew I had a problem when I started referring to it as GH, and would have conversations, that to anyone not familiar with the soap, would seem like jibber-jabber. For those of you that I know what I am talking about, we were General Hospital addicts. From the 3-4 slot, this usually meant a heavy dose of Luke and Laura, Edward and Lila, Frisco and Felicia, and Tony and Bobby. I could be playing a song on the piano.Growing up in what was initially a one-TV household, I was often forced to watch what my mom and sister were watching. “I have my fingers crossed, but Jared isn’t looking like much of a musician…yet! You have no idea with PASSIONS. “We’ll see what happens for Jared,” he muses. #MUSIC ON PASSIONS SOAP OPERA SERIES#I was so stoked who gets this kind of chance?” Unfortunately, not Stevenson - the series didn’t last. “They were going to market a CD at the end of the season. “A couple weeks before it got pulled, the producers decided to bring some of my music to the show and have Hank play James Stevenson songs,” he recalls. That doesn’t mean he wouldn’t mind seeing Jared sing or strum a few lines, like his rock ‘n’ roll alter ego, Hank, did on SEX, LOVE & SECRETS. #MUSIC ON PASSIONS SOAP OPERA HOW TO#“I taught myself how to play guitar a few years ago and don’t know how to read music, so I wouldn’t be able to jam with anyone else.” “I had my guitar the other day, but jamming is difficult for me because the songs that I sing and play are all my own,” he explains. For eight months I had nothing to do and I couldn’t write.”Īll that changed when he landed on PASSIONS, and though his creative juices are flowing, Stevenson hasn’t jammed with any of his musical castmates yet. “I hit a dead spell as soon as my last show, SEX, LOVE & SECRETS, got canned. “I hadn’t written a song in over a year,” reveals James Stevenson (Jared, PASSIONS), who studied jazz voice at American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.
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