Very nicely explained.
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gayathri Chandrakasan <gayathri_c...@...>
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> Both, I believe. It's my humble opinion that music and lyrics have equal
> weight to play in a song. In fact, I would go on to say that every successful
> song is akin to a fruit reaped from the combination of wonderful music and
> powerful lyrics.
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> In the case of Raavan/ Raavanan, our minds just needed to tune itself to the
> new wonders that the songs provides. Take Raavan for instance. The moment the
> album was released, most people took time to get adjusted to the tunes and
> lyrics. Some hated it, many took time to come up with an opinion and very few
> liked it on the very first instance. But sooner or later everyone fell in
> love with the album. Our minds just needed time to explore the beauty of the
> album.
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> Then Raavanan came. And many of those who loved Raavan found the Tamil
> version a little too hard to digest. Some even went on to lament on how
> Vairamuthu came up with bad lyrics, and that he has grown old/ lost his
> touch, so on and so forth. The problem didn't lie with Vairamuthu. It lies
> with our minds. Deep down, we know that as much as we love ARR's music, we
> also loved Gulzar's poetic lyrics. And when you fell in love with something,
> it's hard to expect something else in the place of the ones we love. Admit
> it, if you fell in love with a girl, would you think that her identical twin
> sister is as amazing as the one you love? You're bound to think that your
> lover is greater, of course..well, at least up to the point you began to
> realize that both are amazing in their own ways.
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> Raavanan was the identical twin sister, in this case. You may not love it as
> much as love the earlier version but at some point you will realize that it's
> as amazing as the other.
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> Songs don't grow on you through its music or lyrics. It's our heart and mind
> which grow with them. As for me, Raavan and Raavanan are just amazingly
> beautiful in their own way!
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> --- On Wed, 5/19/10, sunder s <sunder....@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [arr] Song growing - Is it due to music or Lyrics
> To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 9:28 AM
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> Hi Everyone,
> This question was running through my mind after for quite long time and
> ravaan has created more confusions. Initially I had the feeling that since
> the new music is new to us, the arrangements of the music is new to our brain
> which takes time to grow on us. When ravaan released, it took time to grow on
> me, and when i was fully into ravaan , ravanan got released. Since the only
> difference in ravanan is only lyrics I didnt like it when i heard first time.
> Now I like ravanan more than ravan. Now I am back to square one.
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> Song growing is due to music or lyrics. Some one clarify.
> RegardsS.Sunder
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