Since I love Rahman... always listen to his music.... some of my friends for
some strange reason can't digest that... it's not the fact that they are
having attitude, or musically brilliant, or something.... but they are the
easy gores... they would ask...
Why ur 'orkut' name starts with Rahman?
Why Rahman poster is hanging in ur bedroom?
Why Rahman wall paper is there in ur laptop?
Why u always listens to Rahman there are so many.....
On this last point if I start any of the following from my
collection they again got upset...it's not their kind of Music :(, they will
hv below comments:
Pink Floyd (whats going on! r u mad??)
Metalica (earbuds will burst)
Evanescence (tooo loud)
Alicia Keys (never heard this kind of sound ever)
George Michael (less complaints)
Santana (don't know the language)
Yanni (instrumental...ooops)
Rabindranath Tagore songs (pls stop his boring songs in 21st
century)
Lusiano Pavoratti (cat crying)
Andrea Bocelli (cat crying)
ShivKumar Sharma/Rano majumdar/Navin/Zakir/Rashid Khan/Ajay
Chakraborty/Sultan Ahamed/Amjad Ali/Ravi Shankar (when time will move?)
Celene Dion (liked 'my heart will go on' .... that's all)
The list goes on...... However who asks me the above set of
questions.... they never enjoy any of the above musicians....for them Kumar
Shanu is a living legend, Nadim-Shravan created best ever melody in history
of Indian Music, Abhijeet is one of the best singers of the nation, Pritam
is the most talented composer in current time...... and their list goes
on.......
So I treat them as Musically illiterate and vice versa. Also I try not to
waste my valuable time with fighting with these guys... I tell them... pls
forgive me.... I hv my own likings....
On the better side...I hv few friends who are professional Indian Classical
instrumentalists..... sometime they come to our vicinity for concerts....
and whenever we meet I provide them Rahman's gems... and in return they
provide their valuable time in discussing music (mostly Rahman's music).
I generally don't type so much.... but happened today...
Arijit
2009/9/2 ichord <[email protected]>
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> .....because you're so passionate about ARR? I love to talk about ARR, his
> music, his life, and some people think that I go overboard...think that he's
> all that I listen to and that I have no other musical interests besides him,
> which is not true. I get sarcastic comments sometimes or people having the
> attitude, "there he goes again with his ARR thing.......implying that I'm
> totally obsessed with him. I think there is a difference between passion and
> obsession.
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> I love lots of musical artists from different genres of music, but of
> course, ARR represents a very heavy part of my rotation.
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