An Open Letter to Honey Singh

How it feels

A short rap video shows a student performer delivering a spoken word piece that challenges a popular musician and criticizes how media and advertising treat women as objects. It was created quickly at a cafe event and posted online.

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What happens

An Open Letter to Yo Yo Honey Singh is a 3.5-minute rap video featuring Rene Sharanya Verma, a student of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, performing at Café Zingo Star in Greater Kailash-II organised by Delhi Poetry Slam, an initiative that aims to "restore the art of spoken word into the everyday culture of the Capital". She performed before a 30-person audience. The subject of the slam was "Portrait of a Lady". The rap number was composed in one hour at the cafe. The video has been uploaded to YouTube using the handle "Delhi Poetry Slam". The addressee referred to in the title is Indian artist Yo Yo Honey Singh. Besides challenging Singh, the video criticizes extant value systems in the media, advertising and the arts that demean women and treat women as commodities, instead of persons. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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