How casteist is Sidhu Moosewala’s Music? – Statistically speaking
This is an attempt to approaching the casteism problem in the Punjabi Music industry statistically. It is Part 1 of many upcoming posts about the analysis of music by other Punjabi singers. It is not a personal attack on any specific artist as it’s an industry-wide issue. The casteist words considered for this analysis were: Jatt, jatti, jattiye, etc.
Let’s get started with the analysis of Sidhu Mossewala’s songs.
The below table is sortable by different parameters such as year, song length, number of casteist words in the songs, etc.
Overall Analytics
| Casteist song | Casteist words per songs | Time/Castiest words | Average song length |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Jatt da Muqabala” in which Sidhu brings up his caste 34 times | 4.30 words per song | One castiest word every 49 seconds | 3 minutes 32 seconds |
All songs
| Song | Launch date | Length | Casteist Words | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Ride | 2022 | 4:22 | 3 | |
| Levels | 2022 | 3:49 | 2 | |
| Never Fold | 2022 | 3:03 | 1 | |
| Love Sick | 2022 | 3:52 | 0 | |
| Everybody Hurts | 2022 | 2:54 | 0 | |
| 0 to 100 | 2022 | 1:48 | 1 | |
| Bloodlust | 2022 | 2:38 | 4 | |
| Youngest in Charge | 2022 | 3:18 | 16 | |
| F*** Em All | 2022 | 3:54 | 0 | |
| Scapegoat | 2022 | 3:57 | 0 | |
| So High | 2017 | 3:38 | 0 | |
| Sohne Lagde | 2019 | 3:29 | 3 | |
| Badfella | 2018 | 3:37 | 3 | |
| Jatt Da Muqabala | 2018 | 3:24 | 34 | |
| Old Skool | 2020 | 4:13 | 10 | |
| Issa Jatt | 2017 | 3:52 | 28 | |
| Dollar | 2018 | 2:37 | 0 | |
| Selfmade | 2018 | 2:59 | 1 | |
| Legend | 2019 | 4:28 | 3 | |
| Trend | 2018 | 3:41 | 2 | |
| East Side Flow | 2019 | 3:44 | 0 | |
| Dawood | 2018 | 3:17 | 4 | |
| AK47 | 2019 | 3:14 | 0 | |
| Devil | 2018 | 4:05 | 2 | |
| Same Beef | 2019 | 4:50 | 0 | |
| Bambiha Bole | 2020 | 5:01 | 6 | |
| Tochan | 2018 | 3:41 | 15 | |
| Death Route | 2018 | 3:37 | 0 | |
| Its all about you | 2018 | 4:03 | 9 | |
| Dhakka | 2019 | 4:06 | 15 | |
| Famous | 2019 | 4:09 | 3 | |
| Just Listen | 2017 | 4:43 | 0 | |
| Outlaw | 2019 | 2:59 | 0 | |
| Chosen | 2019 | 4:24 | 10 | |
| G Wagon | 2017 | 3:33 | 10 | |
| I’m better now | 2018 | 4:25 | 0 | |
| Game | 2020 | 4:34 | 2 | |
| Bai Bai | 2020 | 4:33 | 22 | |
| Dark Love | 2018 | 3:52 | 1 | |
| Tibeyan da Putt | 2020 | 5:08 | 11 | |
| B-Town | 2019 | 3:02 | 2 | |
| Jatti Jeone morh vargi | 2019 | 3:01 | 12 | |
| Mafia Style | 2019 | 3:13 | 17 | |
| Bad | 2020 | 3:06 | 0 | |
| Poison | 2019 | 4:23 | 2 | |
| Sin | 2021 | 3:07 | 12 | |
| Life Style | 2017 | 4:17 | 0 | |
| Sanju | 2020 | 3:55 | 6 | |
| Paapi | 2020 | 4:28 | 14 | |
| My Block | 2020 | 3:41 | 1 | |
| Taare | 2020 | 4:38 | 0 | |
| Doctor | 2020 | 3:49 | 7 | |
| Mustang | 2017 | 3:29 | 2 | |
| Aj kal ve | 2020 | 3:23 | 0 | |
| Russian Tank | 2018 | 3:30 | 0 | |
| Panjab | 2020 | 3:20 | 0 | |
| GOAT | 2020 | 1:20 | 1 | |
| Dogar | 2019 | 3:50 | 1 | |
| Dear Mama | 2020 | 3:06 | 0 | |
| Boliyan | 2017 | 3:19 | 10 | |
| Gadi Sarkari | 2017 | 3:19 | 0 | |
| Duniya | 2018 | 3:24 | 7 | |
| Pittal | 2020 | 1:25 | 9 | |
| Hauli Hauli | 2021 | 3:02 | 1 | |
| Velly Banda | 2017 | 3:46 | 0 | |
| 8 cylinder | 2020 | 3:08 | 2 | |
| baapu | 2020 | 6:06 | 0 | |
| Cadillac | 2019 | 3:06 | 2 | |
| Boss | 2020 | 3:07 | 1 | |
| No worries | 2020 | 3:12 | 0 | |
| Who’s bad | 2021 | 2:42 | 0 | |
| Mukh | 2017 | 4:16 | 0 | |
| When i am gone | 2020 | 2:06 | 0 | |
| Confession | 2020 | 2:21 | 5 | |
| Speak Out | 2019 | 2:39 | 1 | |
| Gaddari | 2018 | 2:57 | 2 | |
| Roti | 2020 | 3:10 | 0 | |
| Full flame | 2020 | 2:24 | 1 | |
| Double barrel (Singer Hommi Pabla) | 2018 | 3:18 | 15 | |
| Something different (Arsh Dhindsa) | 2018 | 3:37 | 0 | |
| Daleri(Singer Guri Nimana) | 2019 | 2:00 | 0 | |
| Barood | 2020 | 3:20 | 0 | |
| Gwaacheya Gurbaksh | 2020 | 5:18 | 0 | |
| The war (Singer Rajveer Sahota) | 2020 | 3:35 | 0 | |
| Behave hate | 2020 | 1:18 | 0 | |
| Gucci suit | 2018 | 2:04 | 0 |
