Many years ago, most of the indians craze about the hindi songs; then ilayaraja came and the tamilians starts to listen to tamil songs; but when arr came in 1992 with roja, since then the world starts to listen to his songs disregarding to the language of the lyrics...
It's truly what the master had told before: The music has no language barrier... ARR Rockz!!! --- On Sat, 8/23/08, Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [arr] Mindset To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 8:12 AM Apologies, I just realized I inadvertently omitted the source. I did not write this, this is from a blog posting. Unfortunately, I am unable to find the link again. However, this can be read anonymously on the group's archives. --- On Sat, 8/23/08, Bergin Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: From: Bergin Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> Subject: Re: [arr] Mindset To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 3:05 AM This is the answer to those are on high decibels on music overcoming lyrics. Those foreigners were keen only on the music and thats the treat we get in ARR's music. Truely Universal ! Thanks for sharing Gopal ! I'd like this to be "published" so any one browsing the internet anonymously be able to read this. - Bergin --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, Sreekrishnan R <rahmanfever@ ...> wrote: > > :-) :-) :-) > > > > --- On Fri, 22/8/08, Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..> wrote: > From: Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..> > Subject: [arr] Mindset > To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com > Date: Friday, 22 August, 2008, 8:37 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > Mindset > > > > Song: Taxi...Taxi. .. > > Film: Sakarakatti > > Music: Mozart of Madras > > > First I read about this song in 'The Hindu - Metroplus' then > listened to it in a car on my way back to Chennai from Kancheepuram. > And then went to 'Music World' in Pondy Bazaar and bought the CD. I > picked it up immediately on entering the shop and then was leisurely > browsing through the other sections. I suddenly had an urge to buy an > international English album. I am no great fan of English songs or > anything, but I thought that listening to Tamil songs alone was not > good enough.(Especially when you have a Sony 5.1 Music system to > listen). I wanted to feel sophisticated. Upmarket. Class. Whatever. But > I had no clue as to what to purchase. All English albums were priced > above 400Rs whereas 'Sakarakatti' had cost me a mere 99Rs. This made > the urge to buy one of them, even stronger. Upmarket.Sophistica ted. > Class. > > > > Queen. MLTR. Safri Duo. Bob Dylan. Enigma. Pink Floyd. Deep Purple. Eminem. Yanni. Linkin Park...... > > > > It was then that an elderly couple entered the shop. They were > foreigners but I could not make out what language they were speaking. I > think it was Dutch. Or German. Or something else. > > > > The lady went straight to the section where they had listed Tamil > albums in popularity-wise order and pulled out a copy of 'Sakarakatti' > from the first slot where it was perched. She pointed to the picture of > A.R. Rahman and said something to her attentive husband in an excited > manner. They paid the bill and left. > > > > I let out a deep breath and left after paying for 'Sakarakati' . > > > > -- > > regards.. > > > > Krish.. > > His Music ~ My Mother Tongue > > > > > > > > > > > > TIDBITS > ON ARR :) ARR 's Progress Report always used to feature " Good & > Very quiet Boy " in the conduct Portion. And whenever he used to miss > some homework, the teacher used to punish him by asking him to sit near > girls, for which he would feel so bad, and come home very > dissappointed. :P > > > > www.orkut.com/ AlbumList. aspx?uid= 7295035299513517 297 > > > Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help. yahoo.com/ l/in/yahoo/ mail/yahoomail/ tools/tools- 08.html/ >
