My 25th article since starting this blog and have been pondering for days now that this one had to be special. I'm not too big on anniversaries but wanted to make this article special for some reason. Don't ask why? Just one of those crazy things I guess.
And then it hit me why not talk about the one thing that will be with me all my life. Through all the smiles and the tears. Always a song there to be a friend for the day. Where do I start and where do I stop? So much out there that has inspired. Like the first time I heard Michael Jackson's Billy Jean and realised that this was no ordinary singer. His voice is so undefinable that one can only hope that of sort magic can be recaptured again. Or what about all those illayaraja songs I grew up with in the 80s. Wow! such soul stirring melodies. Humming those songs on the way to school , tuning into watch those rare chances when they came on TV - remember the likes of olliyum oliyum and chitrahaar, mind you this was in yesteryear with no internet. And then when I discovered hindi and bollywood, the floodgates really opened then. All those feel-good movies from the khans when every 15 minutes they would break out into song. Wedding dhamaka songs, love songs, hip shakers believe it or not I loved them all.
Oh don't even get me started on all the boy bands I was hooked on, they defined my teenage years, songs of everlasting love, yeah just what every girl needs at that age. Boyzone, Backstreet boys,Take that.......I grew up listening to you guys and you get some credit/blame for the way I turned out.
And then one of the best things that ever happened to music - AR Rahman. Critics always had something to say about him but then crtics always do don't they? His music opened up a new era and people realised that this was no ordinary backstreet kid toying with a keyboard - the first rays of sun bursting through the treetops at dawn - there I had to throw in some poetry, job done. Music no longer remained instrumental and became more a mish mash of sounds blended cleverly. He has the power to set your feet tapping and touch your soul all in one go.
Music is so much more open-minded now and there is an appreciation for all sorts of talent and sounds. Some of it works and others not so much but the efforts must go on surely. And what am I into now? have discovered ghazals and sufi based numbers and yet another chapter. But that must be what makes it special - a song for every mood, every emotion, every moment of evey day. And what you liked yesteday may not what you're into today. The music changes with you and yet lives within you. Let the music in and you've found a friend for life.......
For Michael
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUrqFkR7QlI
For Illayaraja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlot5sIH6xk
For bollywood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32tNhs2Vk8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyiIcEmO4BQ&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwYPwUjAtA
For the boybands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Rut4qm33g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg&ob=av2e
For ARR - one of his best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmCSBadJcw4
My latest ones -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqIBUZCVtco&feature=BFa&list=FL33QnRxwcH8jatzSgnE4vTA&lf=mh_lolz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAOamM7wMIc&feature=BFa&list=FL33QnRxwcH8jatzSgnE4vTA&lf=mh_lolz
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