"With all due respect to the, maybe deserved, phenomenon that is "Slumdog Millionaire' and its music, imho it's an over-hyped collection of simple, happy-songs that combine cheesy 80's electronica and otherwise silly synth meanderings"
Wow, the ignorance and snobbery in this statement is staggering. I pity this person. --- In [email protected], "userind" <user...@...> wrote: > > Post & Comments Link - http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=2656 > > # Robert Casady says: > February 24th, 2009 at 9:38 am > While Rahman's music for `Slumdog' was catchy and modestly > interesting, his winning of the award for best score reflects the > Academy's infatuation with World Cinema (i.e., anything "different"). > The Academy desperately wants to be perceived as open and progressive, > even if it's at the expense of genuine craftsmanship. It's a dreadful > shame that other, much better scores were bypassed, particularly > Thomas Newman's gorgeous "Wall-E." Unforgivable, in my opinion. > > # Daniel says: > February 24th, 2009 at 10:22 am > I do not agree with what you are saying. I think that Rahman's score > was awesome, and contained enough complexity, and most importantly > served the film in a unique proper way. To say that the win is based > on the Acedemy's infatuation to become more "world" is kind of an > insult to Rahman. 99 percent of the UNited States composer history has > been mostly "hollywood" "traditional" caucasion" > "european" sounding. The Untied Sates is now more diverse, so we > should see this reflected through our cinema and musical scores. > Minorities still have a hard time breaking into getting teh top > composing jobs, because most studios want what is safe and common. I > think that Rahman's win reflects more of where we are as a country > (more diverse) and where we are going. I think that it also opens the > doors for more different unique composers to get the bigger jobs. Now > perhaps directors will take a look at more diverse composers, and more > different styles of music. And by the way, I loved teh Wall-E score as > well and that it was amazing, and could have definetly won, but I am > happy with Rahman's win as well. > > # Composer says: > February 24th, 2009 at 10:33 am > Thank you, I could not agree more! I had the pleasure of meeting > Thomas Newman and taking the opportunity to let him know how I think > he should have won for Shawshank Redemption, at least, and how much I > and so many others feel he is highly overdue for the Oscar honor. > With all due respect to the, maybe deserved, phenomenon that is > "Slumdog Millionaire' and its music, imho it's an over-hyped > collection of simple, happy-songs that combine cheesy 80's electronica > and otherwise silly synth meanderings (btw, I am largely an > electronica artist myself, NOT a typical trad. composer), some cliche > ethnic percussion and the worst examples of super mainstream East > Indian music, which is, of course, completely beside the point since > the score and song votes were clearly decided by people who first and > foremost was enamored with the movie's message/story regardless of the > score. I happen to think that is often the case and also that many of > the voters in the Academy's Music Branch are so out-of-touch with > contemporary music that they wouldn't know a deservedly cool > electronic composition if it hit them square in the middle-ear. > Because, for me, this is NOT about so-called REAL music vs. so- called > SYNTH SCORES since I think people who complain about this are equally > moronic and reactionary. No no, this is about GREAT music, in whatever > way it was created and recorded, and in that respect it is a GREAT > shame that the Academy, once again, overlooked Mr. Newmans amazing work! > > # john says: > February 24th, 2009 at 11:23 am > Last year the academy chose Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova for best > song, this year A.R. Rahman, it seems that composers that also sing > the title tracks are > on a two year roll. The song Rahman wrote is seemingly contemporary > Indian with > a good dance beat, it could be the academy has shifted from our > traditional western values to bring in the singer/songwriter/composer > as a more approachable subject; possibly redefining the catagory for > the film audience. >
