I hardly know enough to write on the subject. Our introductions to each other were late, apart from the nursery rhyme cassettes in school. Filmi love shove music was never appreciated at home. Neither was music of the blaring variety and I once got a reprimand for singing a certain Karishma Kapoor song during a family Antakshari :D
An attempt was made to learn a few ragas at school...and then came the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls and all the other zillion boy and girl bands. How I listened to BSB more and became an ardent fan because I thought Nick Carter was cute than for their music! ;) and my fandom was limited to the peppy pop songs sung by groups of 5 guys or 5 girls wearing outlandish clothes or standing a la MIB. I even thought the Titanic OST was highly overrated.
Enter college and the horizon expanded to music I never knew before. The Kishore Kumar songs and NFAK, the Old Hindi Melodies to the King of Rock n Roll and then on to Rock and Classical Indian Fusion...and its been a pure blast. There's so much undiscovered melody, and like a friend said, I have just begun to explore!
Music to lift your soul. Music to keep it light.
Music to bring it down and Music to set it right.
Music to drown yourself in and Music to keep it bright.
Music when you are down and out and Music when you can't sleep at night.
An attempt was made to learn a few ragas at school...and then came the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls and all the other zillion boy and girl bands. How I listened to BSB more and became an ardent fan because I thought Nick Carter was cute than for their music! ;) and my fandom was limited to the peppy pop songs sung by groups of 5 guys or 5 girls wearing outlandish clothes or standing a la MIB. I even thought the Titanic OST was highly overrated.
Enter college and the horizon expanded to music I never knew before. The Kishore Kumar songs and NFAK, the Old Hindi Melodies to the King of Rock n Roll and then on to Rock and Classical Indian Fusion...and its been a pure blast. There's so much undiscovered melody, and like a friend said, I have just begun to explore!
Music to lift your soul. Music to keep it light.
Music to bring it down and Music to set it right.
Music to drown yourself in and Music to keep it bright.
Music when you are down and out and Music when you can't sleep at night.
7 comments:
a friend of mine used to take keyboard lessons and the instructor used to pronounce music in a very peculiar way ... it almost sounded like 'magic'. Though now i think he wasnt too wrong ...
What can All India Radio 'human version'-2(beta) say except... I totally agree... :)
@Happy, he wasn't wrong at all!
@Phoenix, :)
Landed here after a long time. You sure have morphed into an accomplished blogger and a popular one at that!
Nice post.
Hey thanks! you should resume your writing as well!
Hey... Been there, done that... the Nick Carter phase, and the ragas :) Music really is a mind-bogglingly vast field... And the more you learn, the more you realize there is to be learnt!
Nice blog... Keep writing :)
@Nirupama.. hehe, there was a phase when so many of us girls thought that Nick Carter was the best thing to have happened to music! :D
yups, so true. Thanks and do keep dropping by :)
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