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"Mantra" received positive reviews from critics for its empowering lyrics and infectious production. It was a commercial success and peaked at number three on the Billboard Global 200 and number two on the Global Excl. US , becoming Jennie's third and fourth top-ten hit on the charts respectively.
"Mantra" has been described as a hard rock, [5] [6] [7] alternative rock, [8] electronic rock, [9] pop rock, [10] and pop metal song. [11] Speaking to music magazine Metal Hammer, vocalist Oliver Sykes revealed that "Mantra" was inspired by Wild Wild Country, a documentary about controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, explaining that "As I was watching it and trying to write lyrics ...
The collaboration for "Mantra" was announced on December 14, 2012, two days after the live debut of another song, "Cut Me Some Slack", which features ex-Nirvana bandmates Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear, and ex-Beatle Paul McCartney.
Dua Lipa shares never-before-seen dance rehearsal footage and breaks down the inspiration behind "Houdini" in Ameican Express's "Story of My Song" video series. Watch it here!
The song "Mantra" was subsequently premiered on BBC Radio 1, [12] with Sykes saying to Annie Mac: "It's basically—we've gone off and recorded some stuff and this is the first thing we've wanted to show people of our return. It's quite different but it's got similarities—it's what we wanted to share with the world."
The Broadway musical Hair has a song, "Hare Krishna", containing the mantra, along with some additional lyrics. The mantra also prominently appears in Jesus Loves You's "Bow Down Mister" (1990) and in the Pretenders' "Boots of Chinese Plastic" from their 2008 album, Break Up the Concrete.
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
"Mama Tian Na (Tibet Version)" Lyrics: Qi Qing Shang Shi; Composer: Sa Dingding, Huang Yi; Arranger: Huang Yi, Sa Dingding "Alive (Mantra)" Lyrics: Jin Gang Sa Duo Bai Zi Ming Zhou