I liked the illustration given to make the point clear :) Regards Yogesh
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gayathri Chandrakasan <gayathri_c...@...> wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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! > > --- On Wed, 5/19/10, sunder s <sunder....@...> wrote: > > From: sunder s <sunder....@...> > Subject: [arr] Song growing - Is it due to music or Lyrics > To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 9:28 AM > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > Song growing is due to music or lyrics. Some one clarify. > RegardsS.Sunder >