It was one of the lazy mornings that I wanted to listen to something classical. Learning classical music has been a part of growing up in our families and I have been one of the unfortunate lot who didn't have enough passion to continue with it. I can hardly recognise a raaga nor do I have the patience to repeat the same lines in different thaala. I confine myself to smaller, precis version of the keerthanas. For me, listening to classical music requires me to kill the guilt of not having been through the training properly, not having practised, not having pursued music as passionately as some of them have gone through. Anyway... I do succeed in killing my guilt to just listen to the powerful flow of music that 7 swaras can generate for the poems composed in my mother-tongue. Yeah, I have never succeeded to attach much of a meaning to "Ra Ra venugopala" when I sing it, while I instantly connect to "Alaipaayuthey kanna" or "Thaye yashoda". The same was the case when I heard "Asai mugam marandu poche". It beautifully depicts the pain of a girl who is very much in love with Krshna but is not able to hold details of his face in her mind. I end up realizing the pain felt by the girl and am awed that so easily Bharatiyar has expressed it in simple words! Where are such poets who could weave magic with their poems and compositions? When are we going to wake up and find that all we are left with are copies of some other language's music and lyrics that make no sense? When are we going to get rid of the disgusting and vulgar gaana songs?
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It unfair to conclude gaana songs as vulgar altogether. It is true that Gaana songs does'nt evoke a devotional aura as the classical ragas and swaras does, it's just another composition form prevailing among common people ( modern day chennai to be more specific) with does'nt demand hi-fi apriori musical knowledge and discounting it as vulgar is ignorance!!!
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