Wildcard Round: Himesh Reshammiya - Page 4

Originally posted by: xobile

^ Further hilarity!!

Ahem, I mean I'm sorry for being a hater. I should have realised the beauty of his singing before. I will try to correct myself in the next round. Naakesh bhai definitely is the Greatest Of All Time and he deserves to beat that Ustad Rahat something-or-the-other as well as Kunal Ganju.

But what will we do about Mohit Chauhan? He is also the new elite and universal singer - should he get the same marks as HR?

Don't worry about the next round. I've already sent risingabove a list of Himesh's songs all the way to the Final Round. After this round, you too will be forced to give him 9s and 10s. Though, I thought this round he deserved 9s and 10s from everyone. This is one of his best.

Mohit Chauhan is not an elite singer. No more comments on Mohit from me in Himesh Reshammiya's thread.

the mahajudge deserves nothing less than a 10...i'll create many ids to make him win...u haters will only give low scores...
xobile shd be banned as judge...

Originally posted by: ktopden-2

the mahajudge deserves nothing less than a 10...i'll create many ids to make him win...u haters will only give low scores...
xobile shd be banned as judge...

Originally posted by: Summer3

I must credit Himmy Bhai for really pouring his soul into any song he sings. Delivey at times may not be the best but he has done pretty well here. Of course it does not mean we do not need the other Kailash Kher, Sonuji, RFAK and Uditji voices. Extra voices are nice for a change .

A 10 for now.

I know some do not like him because of his scruffy appearance, but he is quite a character.

Although he has now acquired a new voice for Radio, still I do like his "old" slight nasal singing especailly for folk and Punjabi type songs eg Soniye je tere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2G8Sg86meY

And there we have an honest judge
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I was hoping you would give him a 10 summer3, because based on your grading scale thats what he deserves. Glad to see Legend Himesh Reshammiya get what he deserves.

So it looks like the judges gave, 7, 9 10....and 4...

Well it clearly looks like there was 1 judge that just hates Himesh and his score is a outlier.

I hope xobile realizes that of the people who are carefully listening to the song and judging based on that (judges), xobile appears to be biased and a hater. Its 3 vs. 1 xobile.


I thank Summer3 and someone999 for putting their biases against Himesh's character behind and judging the song....I was wishing the same from xobile. Dissapointed.

I didnt vote coz I couldnt find negative score.

Originally posted by: ktopden-2

the mahajudge deserves nothing less than a 10...i'll create many ids to make him win...u haters will only give low scores...
xobile shd be banned as judge...

Plz dont do such a thing. Our maha judge Himesh ji will get angry and report u to risingabove. He doesnt like unfair manipulation😉

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Originally posted by: xobile

It is a sad day when Naakesh Reshammiya is given a chance to compete as a singer with Shankar Mahadevan, Sonu Nigam and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. I can just hope, for the sake of my sanity, that Naakeshbhai doesn't actually enter the competition. Anyway, let's gulp this bitter medicine and get on...

Typical catchy Naakesh number - it's amazing what you can do with a few loop CDs, echo effects and pitch correction software these days.

Honestly, I clicked on the triangular play button with a preconceived notion of what the singing would be like. But Naakesh's aalaap raised my hopes from non-existent to quite high - his first note was clean and strong. Unfortunately that didn't last for long as Naakesh's naak, jiski wajah se unka thoda-bahot naam hai, kicked in and ruined everything.

There are two reasons why the nasality fails to impress me. Firstly and obviously, over nasality is just not nice to hear - it's unpleasant and irritating. Secondly, poeple who find high notes difficult and problematic add a nasal touch to make their singing a bit sharper, and thus stretch to the high notes. This is why you can hear kabaadis going nasal when they try to shout at a high pitch. Even great singers go nasal at high notes, but that is usually at higher octave ma's and ga's. Using your nose at notes lower than those is just an easy way out of actually singing the note. Naakeshbhai overemploys his nose, and that too at rather low notes.

The whole song has Naakeshbhai straining to reach his notes and his voice, which started clean in the aalaap, cannot cope. The tension in his vocal chords is evident when he sings 'Dil me hai armaanon ki sargamm' or 'Jazbon mein machi dard ki hulchull'.

The third point to be noted in nasal singing is that it is much easier to vibrate a nasal sound with precision than it is to vibrate a full-throated sound. Controlling the vocal chords precisely and quickly, as is done in a harkat, is much harder than simply controlling the nasal touch. Despite this, Naakeshbhai's harkats are shaky. It just sounds like he is vibrating his nasal voice whenever he can - without actually trying to hit any notes in particular.

As for voice quality, Naakeshbhai has none. To think that in a music industry that has produced great voices like Mukesh, Mahendra Kapoor, Mohd. Rafi, Kishoreda, Udit Narayan etc. we now have a Naakesh.

Since Naakesh is consistently nasal, he can't effectively sing words which require a nasal matra to be pronounced properly. So he sings 'jaaoon' and 'kar loon' without the little 'n' sound at the end - given the level of nasality used throughout the word, there is little more he can do to highlight that 'n' sound at the end.

The feel of the song is aggressive and depressive. There is nothing romantic about the singing style - it sounds like Naakeshbhai is in pain, even though he is professing his love for someone. Thankfully for Naakesh, the lyrics are tweaked to be vague enough so that they make sense as painful song, too.

I have said before that a 5 for me is when a relativelly simple tune is sung adequately. Unfortunately, Naakesh could not even reach adequate in my eyes.

I'll be generous and give him 4 out of 10.
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And after gulping that bitter medecine, it's time for a spoonful of sugar: time for an Udit song! Since this is a Himesh Reshammiya thread, I'll play HR's composition: 'Kyun Kisi Ko' from Tere Naam (lyrics by Sameer).

(the bass loop sounds a lot like the bass loop of 'Ishq Bina' in Taal)

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFB3tWWmTAw[/YOUTUBE]

Amazing analysis
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