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There has been quite lot of expectation and hype for both the movie & the music. After long time, CD covers carried Rehman's stills and obviously the seemingly love story relied a great deal on music. AR Rehman has been typical in his album again. His songs are noises in beginning and on repeated listening, the music grows on you. I have certainly been patient & iterated the songs many a times before concluding on opinion.
This album shows Rehaman's mastery over choice of voice needed for the song to make it better. Especially Tanvi's Title track, Shanker Mahadevan in 'Machakaari', Jr SPB in 'Majaa Majaa' and his own in 'Newyork Nagaram'.
The opening note for the album is disappointing, which is unbelievable & unfortunate. May be the song goes good with the video or the script. Rock & roll title song seems no better than his own 'Hello mister' in Iruvar. 'Spiderman' from New, 'thazhuvudhu nazuvudhu' from A Ah are far better than his 'Majaa Majaa' here. The tunes have been very mediocre for Rehman's standards and one gets a feeling that Rehman himself had done better songs of this genre already.
'Munbae vaa' and 'New york nagaram' are the only two songs that draw attention on first few hearings and this album certainly has n't put rehman or his fans on top.
12 comments:
well the album isn't tht bad.. i wud advice u 2 run an infinite loop on the album..the choice of singers been good and the title song is quite new more of jaz and it certainly sounds like tht iruvar song
can u tell me names of some singers in the album other than Shreya Ghosal?? I want names of "singers" okay??
I feel except Shreya everyone else is reading out or shouting out the lines, and u call this right choice of voices huh??? Rahman thinks TamilNadu is void of good voices while making music for Tamil Films and North India is void of local singers when tuning Hindi Films...
To seriously tell u one thing for a song to reach nook and corners, the voice shud have a local flavour and familiarity... Like Anuradha Sriram's kuthu songs or SPB sung intro songs for Rajini.
There are good number of singers in our own soil, who can sing a range of diff songs beautifully right from total folk to classical western to carnatic.. Unless otehrwise Rahman realises this, hes gonna spoil even best songs...
coming back to the album, otehr than those 2 songs u have mentioned nothing else is worth repeated listening (and even they both sound like Hindi pop album numbers)
@ hell's angel -
I didnt mean the music is bad. ITs not one of the best from Rehman. Running infinite time wont make the opinion differ but, only my electricity bill shoot up :P
@ Karthik - Rehman is never close to regional music. His instruments and singers are different. Thats why he could do works in UK or Bombay or Chennai. He had been best in industry in introducing voices. I've no regret over the singers in these tracks.
@Bala: [b]Rehman is never close to regional music. [/b]
:-o :-o :-o
This kind of stmt is not expected form a Rahman fan like u :-(
@Bala
"Rahman is no close 2 regional music"?? u must be kidding rit?? maybe off late hez not been much into tht.. again i tell u e1's been expecting too much 4m him n probably he has given his best wat the director asked 4.. anyways keep waiting 4 shivaji "The boss"
@ KArthik / Hell's...
Yes. I could stand my point. Rehman - although did tajmahal, kizhakku cheemaiyilae karuthamma to the best- arent of nativity that I'raja or Yuvan had done. Rehman is peppy, youthful, innovative, energetic in usual. He certainly lacks that oflate.
But, Ive been hearing this album 3 ,4 times per day. May be I cdnt declare its bad or iam addicted to music.
@Bala
in no way is yuvan better than rehman in regional music.. i agree hez good & maestro is no comparison..
Standards is something should be consistent of. Yuvan's success has come with no inspiration from Rehman though his reach is more towards today's youth. I certainly feel yuvan reached rehman's benchmark compared to Harris who just rehashes his own work and imitates Rehman's style.
It just takes to accept the fact.
Watever u mite say Bala, Yuvan's music lacks richness in Rahman's ones and the feel in Ilayaraja's ones... And howmuch ever u criticize Harris, his music sells as good as Yuvan's or even better,.. :P
Yuvan's music is more of beats and sounds, there is less melody to it and even if its there, it is lost in jarring instruments or his own voice :-D
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