Hi All,
Everyone here, including me, had some great expectations from Kylie & Rahman's
collaboration and expected the song to be a hit.
Though its unfair to expect a repeat of Chaiyya Chaiyya, which revived the
career of Sukhvinder, still I expected something new....
I dared not to write any comment earlier, bcos I wanted ample time to get this
song to grow on me, before I write anything...
After all these days of listening , I have this opinion... just an opinion mind
you...
I think that the real culprit is Sonu Nigam !! His voice is so artificial and
make-believe... yes I am using word artificial and make-believe... because
listen to chiggy wiggy from 3:27 onwards you'll know what i mean...
I found his voice more original in Satrangi re from 01:03 onwards...
I strongly feel Daler Mehndi or Sukhvinder singh would have been a better
choice.. maybe even KK... but not Sonu, his voice doesn't suit for this song !!
The other reason is the rhythm (I dont know what they call it, beat, rhythm
whatever) that Rahman has used, the one which has already been popular. Right
from the beginning, whenever I listen to this song I feel like listening to
Pritam's Zara Zara..
Chiggy Wiggy would have been a super-hit if it had been done before Zara
Zara... Cos Zara Zara caught peoples imagination with the sensuous swaying of
Katrina Kaif to the music of Pritam..
The next culprit is the sound quality, I think the recording engineer wanted
the listener to hear all the sounds of the song at the same time... I feel that
the sounds that were supposed to be in the background were brought forward
along with all the percussions and the lead voices (This is the case with all
the songs of Blue, H.Sridhar's loss is very evident here) .. it feels really
horrible when listened on a high end sound system.. its even more horrible on
small time audio systems, especially in office cabs !!
Donno why, but after sonu's voice takes over the song, I couldnt help but
wanted the song to end quickly !!! And when the song ends, it felt very
peaceful, as if after the storm...
I feel let down, when my colleagues at office talk abt chiggy wiggy and compare
it with Zara Zara... I realised that everyone feels that chiggy wiggy is an
extension of zara zara
As for the sound quality of the songs in Blue... I have a high end audio system
in my car, with blaupunkt woofer(its awesome !) pioneer 2 din head unit,
blaupunkt 800 watt amplifier, jbl speakers... I expected the songs of blue to
blow me over with the sound... but it was too jarry...
Fanaa from Yuva is the benchmark that i use in my car.. the beats in Fanaa are
simply superb and it puts the woofer to its ultimate test, literally... I play
this song at volume level of 8 with A/c on (my system supports 30 i think).
Believe me, U have to listen to Fanaa in my car and experience the quality !!!
But with Blue I feel that the recording quality is so horrible that I cant play
any song beyond the volume level of 3 !!! Blue Theme and Fiqraana are
exceptional and have a awesome beat, but the "Bass recording" is too bad (I am
a novice at the technical terms used in the music production, so pls excuse me)
That's it for now.. will write more later
bye !!
Vinod
