I don't know how to write anything into this post. It mostly has to be precise. (As I have slept for only 4 hours each day since the last two days and its already midnight today, I'm scared the same thing will repeat for third day in a row!).
I have been quite unaware of songs of Kannada movies, which are gems. Some of the lyrics composition have been quite extra ordinary and many of them are from the years 1980's to early 2000's.
I have been quite unaware of songs of Kannada movies, which are gems. Some of the lyrics composition have been quite extra ordinary and many of them are from the years 1980's to early 2000's.
So in the last 10 minutes I was wondering how could I have missed them. Why did it take so long for them to turn up regularly into my playlist.
One enlightening program was Straight hits with V Ravichandran on Big 92.7FM. It surely turned some heads when it came to playing hits only! Apart from that, many programs at the same time do play lot of retro Kannada music. That's competition I guess. What we do is to make sure to switch stations at each advertisement break. (But none with Ravichandran program though).
Reasons for my unawareness...
- Ignorance, may be I was too busy listening to something else, to pay attention to them.
- Immaturity, may be I was immature to appreciate deep lyrics, while I grew up, providing importance only to tunes.
- Accesibility, 80's 90's early 2000's did not have this kind of reach when it comes to CD's radio stations, TV, internet. We did not have a steady supply of songs to get hooked into.
- Unaware - Due to less advertisement / coverage we never knew what all contemporary music had to offer, be it any language English / Hindi / Kannada.
- Kid/Amateur/Teenage - the golden age went by without us even understanding or appreciating the language, now, we only have, to look back!
Why are we bothering this much now?
- Thanks to shows like these we get to know songs which one's topped the charts.
- The crap which is churned out these days, I guess its better to savor the retro than those lyrics which tend to be written in 5 minutes.
- Anything with beats is a super-hit. Absolutely wrong. I prefer songs with lyrics please. So back to retro.
- We could relive the period where there was less traffic, less crowd, where great great people like Dr Rajkumar still were around to give out great hits.
- Unlike now, take any language, its just so boring to tune into contemporary music, amidst that all kinds of promos advertisements etc.
- Seems like many people had chosen literature to study during those days ending up with proper lyrics. Now that, all the painters/writers/mechanics have all disguised themselves as software engineers, you can imagine who would be writing lyrics. (My assumption though no offence!)
It would be so fun just to have these old songs getting played without any breaks!
Cheers,
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