Thanks for your reply! Disagreements are of course welcome! About the statement: "That âfairly goodâ is unacceptable from someone like ARR. Only masterpieces that transcend human imagination deserve to be associated with his name!"
It is my interpretation of all the criticism of his music. Pressure yes, unfair too, but remember Rahman has lived upto these expectations time and again barring very few exceptions. If you constantly live upto sky high expectations, people will continue to expect the impossible from you :) I view high expectations as a mark of respect and trust. If you genuinely like the CWG song, great! To be frank I am not too concerned with the media bashing and stuff, ARR is too above all this for me! What concerns me is that I and many other music listeners feel it's missing the ARR magic. Good song, but not divine! --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Arr Fan <arr...@...> wrote: > > Diya - > > Nicely written. But, I feel that we put undue pressure on the maestro with > the > below statement. > > That âfairly goodâ is unacceptable from someone like ARR. Only > masterpieces > that transcend human imagination deserve to be associated with his name! > > > I am one of those who like CWG theme song... didn't have to force myself to > like > it. Listened few times on my iPod and bingo! > > Few more points > > * In one of the news conferences - ARR requested Media to write all the > good > work that went into organizing CWG. They didn't take it well that minute and > I > see that current media bashing is a result of it. > * To me, the song actually starts after the guitar - I liked the way > both > guitar and sitar are blended. > > The only problem to me is the pace and missing layers. As you rightly pointed > out, it looks like he was asked to slow down & remove noisy layers > > Cheers, > > > > ________________________________ > From: diya <ganguly_d...@...> > To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 6:25:18 PM > Subject: [arr] My blogpost on the CWG theme song > > > Hi all, > > Here's a post I wrote about compiling all that I have to say about this > entire > CWG issue. It includes some of the things I have already written in the > mails, > so if you have read them, feel free to ignore this post, it might be a > repetition :) > > > And it's strictly a personal opinion, so I know some of you will disagree. > That > is totally fine. If you read and have anything to say, do leave a comment > there. > > Thanks! > > http://diyaiit.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/the-cwg-theme-song-and-the-upheaval-surrounding-it/ > > > Diya >
