Remix

The art of remixing old popular songs is a hot trend in our local music industry. Everything has its pros and cons and so does the remixing trend of old songs. Every now and then new artists come up with a remixed song and it’s pretty easy for them to climb to the peak of popularity. The already so much loved songs do not take time for the listeners to hum around. The songs are hit when people start humming the songs and are played everywhere like the music store or the bus stations especially in the context of Nepal. It is ok when an artiste chooses a very unpopular song and tries to rejuvenate it but the act of singing the hit numbers again and again doesn’t give any song a new life.

As my experience goes, the act of remixing was hot in India a long time back. When I was in my secondary level there were a lot of remixed Hindi songs. It was back then in the mid 90’s. And now that trend is all over here right now. By this we can see how slow we are. Our neighboring country experimented this long time back and now they are into something else. And for us to reach to that something else point, it may take us a decade. So why not go for that something else right away.

Remixing is a total nonsense business in music. Every artist is supposed to bring upon a creation and not be a copy cat. When the lyrics and melody have already been done it is not a big deal for any music arrangers to add or minus some parts of the songs. Everyone can be a remix artist. I bet everyone can be a remix singer. Just try different beats and tempo and the remix is done. You don’t need any melody and lyrics to be composed. It’s like going to a shop and bringing home the ready made chapatti and putting it in the microwave and have it instead of making it in your own home.