mastam mastam is heavily/rapidly/magically growing on me. when i heard it first i thought it is strictly okay song but now i am loving it. it is magic of ARR. apart from this who really rocked the song is none other than Sonu Nigam, the way he sang it shows his expertise. he is awesome, simply superb. he is the BEST singer around, no one can even come close to him. he is the one piece. and i m so glad ARR made him sing three songs (though shano shano is complete waste of Sonu) otherwise these days we hear very less of Sonu.
--- In [email protected], V S Rawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I never thought that I would ever like this type of song. But here I am, > listening to Mastam, and humming with it. > > Trust ARR to know what I myself never knew about my liking. > > I think ARR has never given any song like this, trusting on the rhying > words to create a melody of their own. > > Old timers in the group must be knowing that such usage were the norms > in 50s - yes, half a century ago. Almost every was using it then but it > was Chitalkar/ C Ramchandra who had given some of the best songs having > rhyming words with slight music creating wonderful listening experience. > Listen to his Mombasa, etc. to get the feel of it. > > At that time there were no special effects, no recording facilities, so > MDs had to rely on the great melodious tunes and/ or on the rhyming words. > > And trust ARR to revive that trend right here after 50-60 years, when > all the special effects, loops, great recording facilities are available > to him, yet he brings wonders to the fore with rhyming simple words. > > Mind you, I am not saying that ARR copied any song of 50s. :-) > > Before this song, I think that the nearest ARR had come to create a > rhthm with words was in Bombay's Kahna hi Kya's background ground, in > Dil Se's Diya Jale's Malayalam Chorus and in Jeans' Kehna Hi Kya's > classical part, and we can see how different Mastam is from these three > songs. > > Please do mention other songs in which ARR had brought out music by > using rhyming words. > > Other songs are also good, Zindagi, Manmohini, muskura, etc. but ARR has > given similar genre of songs earlier many times. Of course no copy. So, > though these ones also sound good in hearing, the novelty is not there. > > So, I dare say that Mastam is the find of album as it shows a new genre > of creation by our man who has revived a half a century old, now > forgotten, trend with this song. > > :-) > -- > V >
