God bless the Music!

We’ve been humming it, we’ve been dancing to it every day and everywhere though it makes no logical sense and even when people seem to love it; some of us, are still going to take a stance and crib about it. I’m talking about nothing else but the Bollywood Music today. Indians have had immense love towards Item numbers, we know they top the charts but item numbers weren’t suppose to be about how a woman is selling her body through her ‘Jawani’ and ‘Badnami’; they aren’t suppose to portray a woman as ‘Bai’ or belonging only to ‘Paise wale’.

So you think I missed out the worst ones? Like what’s the latest one, “Chingum chabake’? Ishqiyaun Dishkiyau? Or wait, Tu tu tu tu tu? How can they even come up with these songs? This was a stupid fad and everybody seems to follow it for long. It all started with Why this Kolaveri Di and now they have set another milestone with songs from Krrish 3 and Gori Tere Pyaar Mein.

I have taken a stand to go ahead and criticize this kind of music. I wouldn’t really put all the songs under the same head but yes, majority of the songs coming are only focusing on catchy trashy lyrics. I wish I could scream to the crowd and be like ‘Where is Prasoon Joshi and Amit Trivedi? Can we not listen to Javed Akhtarji and Gulzarji?’ Those were the songs we could sing, the lyrics we could fall in love with and the words we could actually remember instead of just yapping something everybody else is. Honey Singh’s songs- not good music. Hailing ‘Roka toh kiss my…’ is not something you can boast. Listening to old songs is indeed music to your ears compared to someone rapping or screaming with screeching music which can give you a thumping headache.

When I enter a crowd and people are zealously singing these songs, a part of me loses a little hope every moment. The little hope that someday the good old era of music shall revive and we’ll get to hear songs that literally gave me Goosebumps or triggered my emotions to making me cry! And indeed, when our elders complained about the music nowadays; I could not disagree with them. The music indeed is deflating like the value of Rupee against Dollar and we need to be careful about the steep fall we’re on. Music was suppose to soothe our minds, to make us more peaceful but the music today seems to sell violence and slangs, which has a deep influence on the younger generations!

We’ve been blessed to have mesmerising musicians in our country. Even if we weren’t born during that era, we’re lucky enough to listen to them even today, with the same sentiment we did when our seniors would listen to them. To name few legends like Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Manna De, Jagjit Singh and many more I’m missing out, we loved them with our heart and soul. The lyrics were beautiful, the music soothing and we still remember those songs. They stayed in our hearts and shall forever attain the same place. And even when we cant have them back, we still have their micro versions. We’ve A.R. Rahman, we have Javed Akhtar, Amit Trivedi, Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal and many more artists who are somewhere lost between the artists who choose to go with the trend instead of a breakthrough.

Our land has been renowned for one of the best classical artists in the Music Industry, then why such turbulence to the Western music? Every once in a while, a beautiful Sufi song or a song with a Sufi name does come up; but can it pay the damage done by the other lot of songs? The legends are right there, the listeners are waiting in dire need of good music. Even when people seem to be hypnotized by some artists today, music lovers are tired of the mainstream, beyond tolerance, nonsensical music. So if we can please come together and raise one voice to all those musicians and lyricists, let it be for something we can hear in long run without hating the lyrics. Music is a boon; don’t make it a bane for us. If you can’t bring us back our legends, at least give us the choice to listen to something that cures, not creates pain!