Well written, Vinod. All praises for your efforts. On the content of your review, I think Sonu might have got "scared" of the "big budget" and "an international star" so he might have decided to play it safe so that the burden of if the song flops doesn't come on his shoulder, so he didn't experiment, didn't stretch him limits, and gave a time tested often heard sound, as you said "artificial and make-believe" that became his undoing in this song.
I think the overall predictable progression of the song itself is responsible for lackluster-ness of this song. So many songs like this have been heard across decades that this entire concept of a culture-clash culminating in local culture defeat the intruder, doesn't excite the imagination any more. The concept itself doesn't gel with anything that ARR is known for. He should not have got for a culture defeating another culture, but should have gone for it to culminate in a synergy of the two cultures. -- Rawat On 9/29/2009 12:49 PM India Time, _vinod sagar_ wrote: > Everyone here, including me, had some great expectations from Kylie & > Rahman's collaboration and expected the song to be a hit. > > Though its unfair to expect a repeat of Chaiyya Chaiyya, which revived > the career of Sukhvinder, still I expected something new.... > > I dared not to write any comment earlier, bcos I wanted ample time to > get this song to grow on me, before I write anything... > > After all these days of listening , I have this opinion... just an > opinion mind you... > > I think that the real culprit is Sonu Nigam !! His voice is so > artificial and make-believe... yes I am using word artificial and > make-believe... because listen to chiggy wiggy from 3:27 onwards you'll > know what i mean... > > I found his voice more original in Satrangi re from 01:03 onwards... > > I strongly feel Daler Mehndi or Sukhvinder singh would have been a > better choice.. maybe even KK... but not Sonu, his voice doesn't suit > for this song !! > > The other reason is the rhythm (I dont know what they call it, beat, > rhythm whatever) that Rahman has used, the one which has already been > popular. Right from the beginning, whenever I listen to this song I feel > like listening to Pritam's Zara Zara.. > > Chiggy Wiggy would have been a super-hit if it had been done before Zara > Zara... Cos Zara Zara caught peoples imagination with the sensuous > swaying of Katrina Kaif to the music of Pritam.. > > The next culprit is the sound quality, I think the recording engineer > wanted the listener to hear all the sounds of the song at the same > time... I feel that the sounds that were supposed to be in the > background were brought forward along with all the percussions and the > lead voices (This is the case with all the songs of Blue, H.Sridhar's > loss is very evident here) .. it feels really horrible when listened on > a high end sound system.. its even more horrible on small time audio > systems, especially in office cabs !! > > Donno why, but after sonu's voice takes over the song, I couldnt help > but wanted the song to end quickly !!! And when the song ends, it felt > very peaceful, as if after the storm... > > I feel let down, when my colleagues at office talk abt chiggy wiggy and > compare it with Zara Zara... I realised that everyone feels that chiggy > wiggy is an extension of zara zara > > As for the sound quality of the songs in Blue... I have a high end audio > system in my car, with blaupunkt woofer(its awesome !) pioneer 2 din > head unit, blaupunkt 800 watt amplifier, jbl speakers... I expected the > songs of blue to blow me over with the sound... but it was too jarry... > > Fanaa from Yuva is the benchmark that i use in my car.. the beats in > Fanaa are simply superb and it puts the woofer to its ultimate test, > literally... I play this song at volume level of 8 with A/c on (my > system supports 30 i think). Believe me, U have to listen to Fanaa in my > car and experience the quality !!! > > But with Blue I feel that the recording quality is so horrible that I > cant play any song beyond the volume level of 3 !!! Blue Theme and > Fiqraana are exceptional and have a awesome beat, but the "Bass > recording" is too bad (I am a novice at the technical terms used in the > music production, so pls excuse me) > > That's it for now.. will write more later > > bye !! > > Vinod >
