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What inspired her to write the song & what is the background?

“When I was like 5-years-old in India, I got to sing this nursery rhyme and win the first prize . I won a bucket, because they always give you prizes that are really, really useful for poor people at home. You’d get a bucket or a broom or a mat. So when I went home, I just always remembered this song . . . So when I tried to do a song, Richard X asked me if I knew any Tamil, and I was like, “Yeah, I speak fluent Tamil.” And then I went in there with some ideas that I wanted to do something really Tamil on this song, you know. So I did the first , the “hey, hey” bit, which to me sounded really Tamil. I was trying to get in touch with that part of me. And then it so happened that the whole content of this song turned into this thing about dial-a-brides on the internet. You could get girls that come over and marry people for visas. I felt like it was such a third world issue thing to have to live with; women thinking like that and having that sort of mentality. And I really wanted to articulate what that nursery rhyme meant at the time, ‘cause I never knew it. And when my mom told me that’s what it was about, then I wrote the song about it.”

“It’s basically - Brahman kids are like Catholic kids; they’re really strict. And being a Brahman in India is the highest caste you could be, and they’re really religious. In India there’s a stereotype that loads of street prostitutes are all Brahman kids that ran away.
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  • msam72

    loleetah was a maneatah.

    January 2012

  • DeusEluh

    Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, hey hey.

    January 2012

  • weird-chill

    Need some money? She paid him with her knees up

    November 2011

  • CookiePolice

    hey hey hey hey oh oh hey hey hey hey. [3] ♥

    October 2011

  • arrypottuh

    Full Metal Jacket mafas!

    July 2011

  • dbwn87

    holy shit, this song!

    February 2011

  • vocm10

    Anything you want.... Everything you want....

    January 2011

  • Beatnik24

    And what can I get for 10 Dolla? Any-ting you want!

    December 2010

  • ohsolucky

    dolla bride from sri lanka, found erself a yokshirrr banka

    December 2010

  • I_See_sound

    Peace out she'll kill ya like Uma! Fuck yea, she likes Kill Bill

    November 2010

  • trent576

    i had forgotten how awesome this song is!

    October 2010

  • BrYaN94

    simply amazing! ♥

    September 2010

  • TCDB

    ...and sucked on a lollipop

    September 2010

  • WallasOliveira

    Yea, what can I get for 10 dollar? ANYYTHING YOU WANT

    August 2010

  • Astro-Cannon

    WAT CANNA GET 4 TEN DOLLA, ANYTING U WAH

    July 2010

  • Lando_Land

    How come nobody told me how amazing Arular was and how amazing this freaking song is, it's like I'm totally hooked now! <3

    July 2010

  • riippumato

    i love this album and this track.

    June 2010

  • vocm10

    hey hey hey hey oh oh hey hey hey hey. [2]

    May 2010

  • rrrrrmmmmm

    need a visa, got with a geez-a. need some money, paid 'im with 'er knees up. year later, started to ease up. got her own way, shouted out "see ya."

    March 2010

  • passerby-

    wowowowowowoowowow anything you want

    March 2010
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