Saturday, January 20, 2007

So Called Singers

In our music industry there are so many new bands forming and none of them are worth listening however there are some in exception. Three or four guys get together and form a band and go to a studio, record a song, pass it to the media and make requests for their own songs to be aired and thus get popular. Meaningless lyrics and some kind of already heard or some very familiar melody is put in their music. It is even easier for rich guys to form a band and get popularity. Go to a studio, there are a number of musicians who will compose a melody, do all the programming and gets paid because this is what they can do to exist. To become a good singer you just need a tight wallet. The way they play instruments in the videos is so shameful. I can guarantee most of the guitarists or drummers don’t know what they are doing and how they are doing. Once in a music institute I happened to meet a guy who just came in through and said “My brothers are forming a band, they don’t have a bassist so I want to learn bass within one month. It’s urgent”. Can you guys dig it? I have come to know about a band whose name I don’t want to disclose. They had a live concert scheduled at Pokhara and every members of the band were really nervous about playing their hit single because they just didn’t know how to play the solos. Somehow they managed to perform.. In their video we can see them playing solos and wearing some cool outfits. I remember the other one too. They are a band and did a song which was ditto to the song one love of Blue a boy band. In an interview they said they just stole the music. They literally said they stole not even the word copied. They also said that they did not get any kind of support from the music companies. Thanks to those music companies. So what they did was register their own company and started producing their album. Once again thanks for the host who was running the program as she told them “Your song is totally stolen and no music company promoted your album so you established your own company, now no air stations will play your songs so start your own radio station and finally there will be no listeners for your song so you enjoy your songs yourself played in your own station, all the best”. What a good option for them, infact the best. Hope someday this would change and real talented bands get the popularity they needed rather than those band who are simply not band.


1 comments:

commoner said...

REALLY WHAT YOU FIGURED OUT IS AN EXISTING SHAMEFUL FACT.......WAS SO ASHAMED TO SEE THE NEPALI VERSION 'MY LOVE'....REALLY !
BUT STILL NEPALI MUSIC IS ALSO TOWARDS POSITIVE LEAP BUT HAVE PATIENT COZ U HAVE TO ACCEPT HIPS OF MUD IF U WANT BITS OF GOLD .ISNT IT?