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Hi Jaiganes
By comparing "Namma singaari sarakku" with the song "Enna venum thinnungada doi" , where both the songs were sung for entirely different situations, I can understand your scaling performance.
In 'singaari sarakku', the song in in a pakka local 'cheri' area which is well suit for that location and situation. But compossing a 'original dappaanguthu' song for a high class function by a multi millioner, is somewhat undigestable.
Without going into the quality or the lack of it in the song in question, i know of incidents where "O Podu" was regularly played in discos frequented by whites in Durban and Jo'berg........:)Quote:
Originally Posted by saradhaa_sn
venus, I didnt include all those songs you mentioned. I said"apart from 2 songs.." in my post. Songs like enna veNum thinnungada owe their very existence to SPB who gives his best even for such songs.
Vijayr,
In your first posting you had mentioned that in that movie apart from 2 songs all other songs are in "ennvenum" songs category.
As a response to app engine you pointed that vandhal mahalakshmi and Kalai thendral songs are okay songs and those are songs you mentioned as the "two".
Coming back to the context in which "enna venum" was discussed (cheap songs by greats), I disagree to the argument that "enge en jevane" is a cheap song by the greats (in tune, in lyrcis, in picturization etc.).
This song may (?) fit if the context of the discussion is lack of innovative rhythm, mundane tune etc., not in the context of cheap by greats.
"enna veNum thinnungada owe their very existence to SPB who gives his best even for such songs"
This can be attributed to other artists as well. IR gave best to the worst movie like Kadhal Ovium. ARR gave best effort to Uzhavan.
saradha wrote:
I am honoured that the galactically stupendous of a genius saradha understands some aspect of me. Frankly I have not understood even a speck of what I am and what my "SCALING" performance is !!! :lol: :lol:Quote:
I can understand your scaling performance
BTW what in the name of the universe is a scaling performance when it comes to discussion of music? Luminiscence please Empress Galactica?!!!
Getting back to such songs, it is the director who asked for such a song, so he got such a song(pickle and pappad song according to IR himself). However it was a popular song in its days and dont get what is the point in complaining about it 20 years later? :huh:
venus, I said enge en jeevane is a decent song, I didnt say it was cheap. Read my previous post again. Here it is:
"Enge en jeevane is decent but I have grown tired of monotonous tabla-based dull SPB/KJY-IR mid-tempo songs of the mid-to-late 80s. "
My preference is for the 2 songs, but enge en jeevane isnt cheap or bad.
Plus you didnt have to explain about VandhaaL mahalakshmiye and kaalai thendral. I didnt include these songs in the cheap songs category at all.
" Getting back to such songs, it is the director who asked for such a song, so he got such a song"
jaiganes, for the same situation better songs could be given and have been given by IR. If a song is good/bad both MD and director should take credit/blame. Praising a MD alone for a good song and laying the blame entirely on the director or the lyricist for a mediocre song is unacceptable.
After a long time I had a chance to listen to `hey, I love you' yesterday (`unnai nAn sandhiththEn' song, found in another CD from a friend)...for some reason, I found this song fitting into the `smooth jazz' format (FM v98.7 in metro Detroit area, a station to which I listen while driving to work, for two years, and the music is soothing to my ears).
Can someone who is an expert in jazz (or the `smooth jazz', which is not boring like the traditional jazz IMHO) clarify?
I love this song, both for the voice of VJ & music... orchestration and chorus are quite catchy(ended up putting on the RPT mode on the player). The second interlude is extraordinary...
It's the songs like this that make one appreciate IR's brilliance in `presentation'. No great lines...not a great melody...(no big talent to boast on screen too)...Actually, they probably couldn't fit an imaginative / catchy poem to the first line and ended up repeating I love you...still, the overall format is very very catchy...
`thuth-thuth-thuth-thurururO
thuth-thuth-thuth-thooorurO' is probably the ancestor of all the `hairabbA's etc. of later years and the continuing trend...
I'm not a jazz expert, but I think that IR has produced a lot of jazzy greats. It may be due to his knack with maj7 chords - some expert can point out specific songs and usages.
The most obvious is his use of maj7 in simple BGMs. Typical scenes like swimming pool scenes or expensive hotels etc. have this kind of simple jazzy maj7 chord strumming in the background. Like Amaj7 and Emaj7 alternating. Try it out if u have a guitar/keyboard in a jazzy rhtyhm (pattern like takita takita takita takita taka taka).
check out this BGM from Netrikkan for similar effect:
http://www.ee.duke.edu/~vijay/BGM/ne...daddytheme.mp3
does anyone know the chords being played?