Both, I believe. It's my humble opinion that music and lyrics have equal weight to play in a song. In fact, I would go on to say that every successful song is akin to a fruit reaped from the combination of wonderful music and powerful lyrics.
In the case of Raavan/ Raavanan, our minds just needed to tune itself to the new wonders that the songs provides. Take Raavan for instance. The moment the album was released, most people took time to get adjusted to the tunes and lyrics. Some hated it, many took time to come up with an opinion and very few liked it on the very first instance. But sooner or later everyone fell in love with the album. Our minds just needed time to explore the beauty of the album. Then Raavanan came. And many of those who loved Raavan found the Tamil version a little too hard to digest. Some even went on to lament on how Vairamuthu came up with bad lyrics, and that he has grown old/ lost his touch, so on and so forth. The problem didn't lie with Vairamuthu. It lies with our minds. Deep down, we know that as much as we love ARR's music, we also loved Gulzar's poetic lyrics. And when you fell in love with something, it's hard to expect something else in the place of the ones we love. Admit it, if you fell in love with a girl, would you think that her identical twin sister is as amazing as the one you love? You're bound to think that your lover is greater, of course..well, at least up to the point you began to realize that both are amazing in their own ways. Raavanan was the identical twin sister, in this case. You may not love it as much as love the earlier version but at some point you will realize that it's as amazing as the other. Songs don't grow on you through its music or lyrics. It's our heart and mind which grow with them. As for me, Raavan and Raavanan are just amazingly beautiful in their own way! --- On Wed, 5/19/10, sunder s <[email protected]> wrote: From: sunder s <[email protected]> Subject: [arr] Song growing - Is it due to music or Lyrics To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 9:28 AM Hi Everyone, This question was running through my mind after for quite long time and ravaan has created more confusions. Initially I had the feeling that since the new music is new to us, the arrangements of the music is new to our brain which takes time to grow on us. When ravaan released, it took time to grow on me, and when i was fully into ravaan , ravanan got released. Since the only difference in ravanan is only lyrics I didnt like it when i heard first time. Now I like ravanan more than ravan. Now I am back to square one. Song growing is due to music or lyrics. Some one clarify. RegardsS.Sunder
