This guy may not be well-regarded in some other forum, but I have to agree with a couple of his points:
> 1) He has to give more time to create melodious > music instread of this > rap and western tren. We want Jiya Jale, Kehna Hai > Kya over Khalbali > type of songs. Absolutely. I am sick of hearing blaze or someone rapping over the songs. Paatshaala and Khalbali and songs like that really pull it down. Even the title song is a disappointment. When Daler Mehendi harped on and on about how he sang the entire song in 5 minutes, our suspicions should have been raised. The sad part is that Rahman himself seems to have taken just another 5 minutes to create the magic of the song after he has the singers recorded. The "melody" number Tum Bin Bataye has some promising instrumentation but seems too cliched and tries too hard to be a melody number. I like the organ which sounds like a chorus chanting during the verses, but the rest of the song is just meh. > 2) He has to take well know renowned singers to make > his songs more > meaningfull. He has some vaugue thinking that only > music directors are > powerfull and singers are non entity. Both md and > singers have > contribution to make. When you take unknown singers > you are actually > letting people not to buy your albums. I wouldn't agree with this. The more reknown singers in this album are Daler Mehendi and Lata Mangeshkar and they were the weakest singers on the album. The newer voices are really better. And none of them tried to use an anglisized accent like Shaan in his "Mohabbat hai Mirchi" song. I just cant stand that. > 3) He has to tell his lyricists to write something > which people can > understand not something like Pathshala or Dakka > laga bukka. I felt the same thing. The lyrics of Paatshaala sounded too much like those badly dubbed songs from his Prabhu Deva era. If the album's claim to the charts is this song, I really dont have much hope for it's success. But Koon Chala and even the lyrics of the title song are pretty neat. And Lalkaar has good lyrics too. It's just the supposedly chartbusters like Paatshaala that have cheesy, if not enjoyable, lyrics. > > 4) Dont do period films. He is himself saying he is > done with it but > again taking assignments for it. Well, besides Akbar Jodha and possibly Buddha, I cant think of any other period films he is signed up for. Maybe the mirage that is Mahabharatha. But seriously it doesn't make a difference. He can really create great period music like Iruvar and 1947. Right now, it's his contemparary work that seems to be suffering, like RDB and Anbae Aayuriye. > He has to correct the above otherwise none of his > album going to reach > the top 10. Except Swades and Yuva none of the last > 9 albums even > reached 5 lakhs unit sell. For ARR album usually it > picks in West and > South. But now West has also rejected it." I really hope the JoK rocks. I dont have much hope with Shivaji, cos though Shankar albums become hits (which, I agree, Rahman really needs badly), he seems to get the worst out of his music directors. Indian, Jeans and Mudalvan were really weak Rahman albums with Boys just rising a little above these. And Aniyan is possibly Harris Jayaraj's worst album. Pity, cos he is amazing too. So, at the risk of not being highly regarded with this group, I have to agree with this guy on a couple of points. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrahmanfans/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
