Guys,
You are over-reacting.
--- In [email protected], harsha vardhan <harshaa_vard...@...> wrote:
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> Mr.Rawat, you said you love to hate two ARR songs - 'no problem' and 'chiggy
> wiggy'...what i say is you can even hate 'roja'...no one can force you to
> love anything...its a conscience thing...
> if you expect another kadal rojave (roja jaaneman) in blue...sorry ARR is not
> your cup of tea..you can't even fit 'tere bina' in blue else ARR could 've
> done that by your wish (looks like the listeners are more talented than the
> creator himself). blue is not an album that is musically demanding...its a
> film score and it needed music that can enhance the subject within certain
> limitations...
> ARR did just what it needed , he did just what roja needed and he is just
> doing what every film is demanding...i don't think he has ever done music for
> the people,its just that we are fortunate enough to grasp some brilliance at
> least ,from his compositions all these years...i believe, at least you know
> that the man himself knows better than what we all know ,what he has to
> deliver ,looking at what he has done all these years...
> And Mr.Nagraj...no one asked you to rave an ARR composition...we all know
> what his music is...if you din't like it, its just that you lack an
> ear...simply because i don't think you are as big creator as ARR...its just
> like- the man who stepped onto the moon knows better about the conditions
> there than the ones reading the same news in the newspaper...
> give some respect to this 'upcoming' musician, he 'll learn from us...lol
> wake up brother(s)...
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> --- On Sun, 5/2/10, raj <arr_naga...@...> wrote:
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> From: raj <arr_naga...@...>
> Subject: Re: [arr] Blue vs Raavan: curing the oscar aberration
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 7:48 AM
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> If someone doesn't like an album whats the problem in expressing about
> it. Someone raving about an album endlessly is acceptable and someone saying
> 'this album doesn't work for me for so and so reasons' is unacceptable.
> Weird. Rest need to introspect as well why people are so sensitive in hearing
> why blue doesn't work for someone.
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> --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, "AJ" <purevibz@ .> wrote:
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> > Good point, Gomzy. Couldn't have said it better!
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> > --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, Gomzy⢠<gomtesh.upadhye@ > wrote:
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> > > The problem with certain people is that if they dont like an album, they
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> > > believe no one else should. Not even for a second do they think, that
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> > > this is not my cup of tea. Maybe they need to interospect themselves
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> > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:38 AM, V S Rawat <vsrawat@> wrote:
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> > > > Several members had appreciated Blue music. And now, the same members
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> > > > are immersed in Raavan and praising it.
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> > > > I wonder what exactly one sees/ listens in an album to appreciate it?
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> > > > Blue and Raavan are quite different. And the difference in them is not
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> > > > just technical difference like a difference in classical or bolly
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> > > > songs that one can like some of both categories. There are deeper
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> > > > differences.
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> > > > I think the difference in blue and RAavan is that Blue was technically
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> > > > great without a soul, there was no inherent unity in those songs to
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> > > > weave the songs as a single fabric
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> > > > On the opposite extreme, Raavan is a unified album. There is a
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> > > > underlying common theme in all songs that suggests it could be a
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> > > > single song running for 30 minutes in raavan. Raavan is earthly.
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> > > > Raavan has given us our ARR of 10-15 years ago back to us.
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> > > > Raavan has generated a long thread on thiruda thiruda and all movies
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> > > > of ARR-Mani got discussed.
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> > > > Raavan is launching people on a rendezvous, down memory lane, old is
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> > > > gold, back to the basics.
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> > > > Raavan is making people rediscover and re-explore ARR.
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> > > > What else was discussed with blue? Nothing at all, except that it was
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> > > > a technically great album having new types of sounds.
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> > > > I think all those great and novel sounds are still there in raavan,
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> > > > but hardly anybody is talking about greatness and novelty of sounds in
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> > > > raavan - because there are so many things in raavan to be talked about
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> > > > that its technical supremacy seems to have taken a back seat low down
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> > > > in the list of priorities of things that we love to discuss about
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> > > > music, about ARR's music.
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> > > > Nobody has so far asked "where is ARR's signature in Raavan", the way
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> > > > we had asked where ARR's signatures were in Pappu. Why so? Because we
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> > > > all see ARR's signatures in each and every millisecond of Raavan.
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> > > > At the time of release of Blue, ARR had given a message about people's
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> > > > high expectations after his oscars.
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> > > > I had written then here that if ARR is thinking of people expectations
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> > > > and about oscar, it is a wrong step. I had said that ARR should forget
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> > > > people and forget oscars when he enters his studio and he should
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> > > > create what his heart says.
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> > > > Oscars didn't make ARR creative, ARR's creativity brought Oscars to him.
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> > > > Compare that to Raavan release. No statement by ARR, no mention of
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> > > > people's expectations, no mention of oscar (and even grammy) now.
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> > > > Raavan got released without a word from ARR.
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> > > > And Raavan has stirred the ARR-fandom like none of his albums had
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> > > > stirred in last 10 years, may be after Dil Se.
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> > > > I think, with Raavan, ARR has forgotten about people's expectations
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> > > > and he has put his awardee status in a corner. He is back to become
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> > > > pre-oscar ARR. And his creativity is evident in every beat of Raavan.
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> > > > A creativity that has a soul, unlike the sheer technical creativity of
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> > > > blue.
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> > > > Why should ARR explain his music the way he did in Blue? His music
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> > > > explains itself to us fans and we understand by listening his music
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> > > > when our souls are in touch with ARR's souls and when we are not in
> > > > touch.
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> > > > Blue was a album composed by an Oscar winner whereas Raavan is an
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> > > > album composed by a humble human being who is a music lover.
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> > > > It can be said that ARR experimented a lot with Blue. And, an
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> > > > experiment never fails. It just gives feedback about our theories,
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> > > > confirming some, disproving some other. Seems ARR has taken that
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> > > > feedback of blue and has incorporated it in his style of composition
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> > > > (not the blue style, but the feedback on blue style) to come up with
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> > > > Raavan that has turned out to be abashed heart-stealer.
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> > > > With so many conceptual differences in Blue and Raavan that make both
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> > > > the ablums almost mutually exclusive, how can a person liking blue can
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> > > > now like raavan also, and how can a person liking raavan might have
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> > > > liked blue also?
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> > > > Those persons who appreciates everything, their appreciations get
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> > > > discounted and they are seen as creating a hype. Everything can't be
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> > > > equally great. Such persons need to individually introspect and find
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> > > > what he stands for and what he doesn't identify with, and then
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> > > > appreciate certain things that he stands for and criticize certain
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> > > > things that he doesn't identify with. People can make out what is
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> > > > forced appreciation and what is undue criticism.
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> > > > Thanks a gig to Mani, he had given us ARR for the first time 18 years
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> > > > ago. And he has now re-given us our very same ARR, cured of oscar
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> > > > aberration.
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> > > > Rawat
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