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That's the spirit Anon!

It's exactly what I advise everyone to do just take it easy relax enjoy the ride and accept that show runners can do whatever they want and we will still watch it

some out of morbid curiosity, some because they actually like what they're getting, and some because they like to hate watch and those three are totally valid

Watching on screen fanfiction isn't necessarily bad like it's an au of the Julia Quinn Bridgerton book series written and directed by fanfiction first timers, it's not even historically accurate it's not book accurate I'm pretty sure it's not character accurate, because half the time their motivations doesn't make sense

the show is purely designed for entertainment so we're taking it as entertainment. Let's enjoy the fantasy romance fanfiction au for what it is something with green light for butchering in the name of giving the audience 'something ground breaking '

Okay so it dropped while I was sleeping and then I randomly woke up at 5am a few hours after it had dropped and read through the tag, everyone's reactions and saw the list. And I was way too tired to unpack and post abt it so I slept on it. This morning I had a DC watch party with some friends and put it in the back of my mind, but now I've had a few hours to sit with it to collect my thoughts and I just wanted to put this out there as a way to amplify my voice and similar opinions made by other Desi fans as a Desi/Indian fans of the show and also kinda explain why I feel this way about the track list.

Let me preface this by saying I actually adore it on a whole. At first, I was surprised we haven't gotten more covers of songs made in the last two years - my personal wish for the cover track list was to cover ivy by Taylor Swift (from her evermore album) and enough for you by Olivia Rodrigo (yall its SUCH a Kate song for her insecurities)

But ultimately listening to them; I do get dark and angsty Kathony vibes so no complaints about the songs here. However, I do have to say while the K3G (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham) fits the vibes it does stick out like a sore thumb on the tracklist as being the only Indian song on it at the moment.

I also have just found out that this was only a partial track list dropped so I am hoping there will be more Desi songs and a personal fave Taylor Swift because there is a lot of TS songs that can be applied to Kathony imo.

But in case there are no other Indian songs in the tracklist when the full one comes out - I do have to comment on this tweet:

He clearly took every opportunity to weave TOO much of their heritage into this season because see: The Mess That Is The India Plot. Sometimes less is more Chris and now I feel like the track list is a half hearted attempt to weave in their music into the soundtrack if they are only using K3G. I'll curb my criticisms if they do have other Desi songs but I just wish they had looked into Kollywood/Tamil songs for the soundtrack because the Sharmas while their last name is North Indian and Punjabi, ethnically the actresses and by extension the characters are not! They are all Tamil women. That's my main comment on having K3G as the only Indian song on the tracklist at the moment. Of course, when the full soundtrack comes out, I'll happily eat my words if I'm wrong and we do get a good mix of English and Tamil/Hindi songs.

Also one last point, I do hope that Kris Bowers got help from Desi artists and composers for S2's original score because if they are really committed to showcasing the Sharma's Indian heritage, it should be reflected in the music because music is HUGE in our culture and it would just be nice to hear Indian influences in the S2 score. I dunno if it was even possible to happen but a wish of mine was for Kris to work with Siddhartha Khosla who does the score for the tv series This Is Us which is a pretty white show but even my mom loved his scores for the show because you can clearly tell he had roots with Indian classic music and it showed in his composition for This Is Us which was really cool! I really hope the hidden tracks are hopefully contributed by Desi artists because that would be a nice way to support us and our culture not just on screen but behind the scenes. (Because let's be real 3 make up artists and one writer being Indian on the whole team behind the camera is NOT it)