The tradition of narrating and singing ballads was popular among young people in the past. It was a manner of indirect and ritualistic expression of both good and bad emotions. The Bhutanese tradition of singing and narrating ballads consists of several categories of Tsangmo. The one in this video, performed by Singye Zangmo, is a mixture of befriending, antagonizing and aspiring Tsangmo. The song expresses the love between two people that are destined to be together. The composer wanted to meet his/her destined lover in the ocean, despite being at its opposite sides. In other ballads, the composer encourages someone to chase their ambitions. For instance it describes a mountain in the east as not being too high nor the northern mountain too low, so it advises a bird called Thangkar Gyelmo (a vulture species) to fly over the mountain in any case and not question its ability.