Female solos on decline in Bollywood music? - Page 2

I feel people like Neeraj Shridhar, Atif Aslam, Mika get songs mainly because of their voice texture. These guys can sing only certain type of songs. I will never term them as versatile singers. But this is the modern day trend. Composers want new voices. So if the composers see a little bit of khraash element or a little bit of nasal element in a particular singer, they select him for the song. That's the reason why we see so many new singers taking center stage nowadays.

Of course any sane music director will always tell you to take training in classical. It also depends on the hunger of a particular singer to explore new territories. Shreya, Kavita ji, Sadhna ji, Alka ji, Hariharan ji, Shankar ji are some of the names who had formal training in classical.

Originally posted by: Illogical

very well written... sad, but the industry is so male dominated... private albums hardly ever do well... it's just unfortunate...!

Rightly said. Private albums don't work in our country. But we all are responsible for it. If a private album does come out, most of us rather than buying it prefer to download it. How can we expect music companies to support singers if they incur losses.

Originally posted by: Hunk101

Thanx for sharing the article. Infact thats quite true & sad too, the no. of female solo's as compared to male solos I guess is hardly 10% this days. For example lets take movies with superhit music, Jab we met had only one female song & 5 male songs, Ajab prem ki gazab kahani had only one female song that also duet not solo. Then there are so many movies like Life in metro, gangster, Tum mile, Kites, etc which dont even have one female song, thats extremely sad!! Obviously the female singers arent able to do anything about this as its not in their hands.

Indian music is more dominated by man, & all music directors are also man so women arent getting much solos. I would love to watch some female music directors coming up, ofcourse there are female vocalists, directors, producers than why not a "Female Music Director"?, this might help women get better opportunities & be head to head with man.

Though we always say that male female are equal & India is better than before, but inspite of being in this new generation we get to see such prejudice. If we see carefully ,India is still a male dominated society, the lead heroes are paid much more than their female costars, most of the songs in the movies are sung by males, movie directors are all male (few exceptions like farah khan), Then reality shows like Indian idol 1, 2, 3 hardly females remain till the end & now even II5. Then MKMM followed deep sexiesm, only one female judge & 5 male judges & each team consisting 3 boys & 1 girl! I guess the only place where female get some focus is Ekta kapoors daily soaps, but these shows are based on the plights & fights of the female protagonist.

India still needs to work alot to remove such prejudices from the grass root level.

Originally posted by: Shreyacool

I really appreciate your thinking Hunk!

I had like to share one song which if was a full song would have been superb & would have done really well. The female version of "Tujhme rab dikhta hai", yashraj & shreya wanted it to be a full song but the music director denied it as it would lower the importance of the male version & the story is more based on the male star SRK but honestly speaking this is a very beautiful song to listen. Its quite sad, to see the no. of female solos reducing.

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