On 9/12/2009 9:04 PM India Time, _Sreekrishnan R_ wrote: > This is just a personal feel of mine.. > > Is AR into the 4th Phase of his mainstream Musical Career ? 1987-1992 , > 1992-1998 , 1998-2008 , and now from 2009- > > The recent set of songs of which had a different sound was from `Delhi > 6` and now `Blue`. I really expect some thoughts and opinions of our > beloved Rahman fans here.. Please. :)
This thought has come to my mind also. Earlier phases I could not define for myself, but yeah, there was the initial "not yet confident" phase, even Rangeela had that feel that he was trying to find his ground. All those dubbings from Tamil to Hindi with hammered in, lip synced lyrics also added to that feel. Even Rangeela had one of his Khel Khiladi ka song hindi-ised. He found his ground in about Dil Se onwards, and that was "confident" ARR visible in all his album ever since. Blue also seems genetically different for all earlier albums of ARR. I would not put Delhi 6 as the start of this phase because ARR has also given such one at a time, off beat albums earlier also, like Water, Zubaida, Bose, which didn't start any new trend/ phase. And Delhi 6 could have a heavy influence from a musically aware director who might have given his input about what type of songs he requires. But Blue is different. Several additions, changes, experiments - all in one go. It is getting him new fans and some of his earlier fans are trying to acclimatize themselves with this new genre of product, while several earlier fans are liking this album as much for this new type of content as they are liking it sensing this NEW ARR. It could be his confidence getting another huge boost by Oscars and other international awards and recognition, and the big budget of Blue, the genre of movie, the cast, all enabled him to go this far, all in one go. So I think Blue is indeed start of a new phase in our man's "style". I also feel that Ravan still might not be an album of this new phase as he might still not want to do too much experimentation for his dear mentor's movies, and Ravan was in his mind even before oscar, but Blue came in after Oscar basically. I don't know, just my thoughts going that way. It would be interesting to see/ hear Shankar choreographing our man's new style. Long live our man whichever phase he is in. Thanks. -- Rawat > > > Rahman fever > His Music ~ My Mother Tongue > <http://%20www.orkut.com/AlbumList.aspx?uid=7295035299513517297>
