Since we are on the subject of childhood cult songs, pop bands etc.....Euphoria was the band I grew up on and amazingly this one didn't break....lol Palash Sen didn't let it break I guess.
This is a nice IV (relevant part starts around 7:30) with a lot of insight into how the music mafia works in Bombay.....Palash just comes across as such a fundamentally honest person who candidly lays out the state of the music scene and why everything is so materialistic and forgettable now....the way he explained how 10 singers are made to record one playback song and the producer comes and randomly picks one version as per their whim....while none of the singers even get paid and everyone says jaake shows karke paise bana lo....lol......and also that labels made singers sign contracts for three years but never produced any albums with them and if someone tried to branch out elsewhere after a contract ended, still tried to suppress them.
One of my fav. bits is where he talks about the nasha of being the complete content creator for a song....not just singing it. That how can a singer claim that is their song when it was first created by a composer/lyricist before it even got to them....lol. Shows that it takes a different kind of thinking to create and sing your own music rather than just succumbing to doing playback.
The part with the reference about Atif is towards the end of the video.....lol he pointed out that Jal had a certain scale in how they composed songs and there was a phase when it got copied by a lot of Indian singers....so him saying this much only offended a lot of people and they bashed him
I just loved how Euphoria always felt original when I was growing up listening to them....every song has a callback to a certain memory of those years and such a lasting quality they have that I can still listen and have it touch my heart :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYwdIvxusrM
Edited by AreYaar - 2 years ago
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