Topic started by Vishvesh (@ 66.24.214.34) on Sat Dec 22 18:39:56 EST 2001.
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I was listening one of my old song collections today and there was one song from Usha Udhup (or Aiyer or whatever). I have listened to a few of her regular western albums. She is a good singer (I still hum her “listen to the falling rain” and the “white winged dove”) but in this song she was literally engaged in the worst kind of cacophony that I have heard in TFM. I also remember a few other English songs she sang in tamil movies. I don’t think well about any English song that appeared in Tamil films. Our music directors have used popular western music frequently and they have been good only when it was in flashes, but when it came to a full fledged song, I feel that they blundered so much that it was a disgrace to their musical talents. Even Ilayaraja did one song in a Bharathiraja movie, if I remember it right, and I felt it belonged to the same category of songs composed in a very bad taste. It could be my personal inability to respond to such English songs, but I am sure that one would agree with me that there is something gone wrong with these songs and that one would have expected something much better from those music directors who seem to have had a very good sense of popular western music. Or is it that these music directors had only a partial grasp of popular western music to have petered out so bad in such songs ? Any comments, welcome…
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- From: kk (@ 172.142.152.139)
on: Sat Dec 22 23:56:43 EST 2001
If you are taking about All the time in nadodi thendral. The english song is realy good. Remember it is a early 19th century period song. So its inspired by songs popular among british memsaabs those times. Have you heard any such songs before? I mean british songs on 20s etc? You cant expect britney kind of english song there.
With limited orchestration its a great song. Mind you it has some tamil words too, also some indian instruments towards the end. I would say the lyric and accent are not that good (given a british actor is acting).
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