hi Karthik
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..
hey ...
u know what ..
i have a hunch!!!!
i guess these music companies r rigging sales of their CD's to show low sales volumes .....trying to reduce the fees of the musicdirector...and saying that music does not sell.....although it does not seel like it used to at one point.....but even the music director is to be vlamed for this as the songs have lost hteir charm too.....i mean i wouldn t mind buying a CD of music like muthal maryadai....or roja or indian or rangeela and many more ARR or IR movies for that matter but music like Anniyan or even Anbae Aaruyirae ...i will never buy .....'coz i heard A Aa online and was put off after a few listenings and only one song stayed ....Mayiliragae...and one cant be expected to buy a CD just for the one good melody in point.......i mean i am no inheritor of a fortune damnit ....i work hard for thje money i earn and i have the right to put my money where i get its worth.....what anyone might say.
i guess these music companies r rigging sales of their CD's to show low sales volumes .....trying to reduce the fees of the musicdirector...and saying that music does not sell.....although it does not seel like it used to at one point.....but even the music director is to be vlamed for this as the songs have lost hteir charm too.....i mean i wouldn t mind buying a CD of music like muthal maryadai....or roja or indian or rangeela and many more ARR or IR movies for that matter but music like Anniyan or even Anbae Aaruyirae ...i will never buy .....'coz i heard A Aa online and was put off after a few listenings and only one song stayed ....Mayiliragae...and one cant be expected to buy a CD just for the one good melody in point.......i mean i am no inheritor of a fortune damnit ....i work hard for thje money i earn and i have the right to put my money where i get its worth.....what anyone might say.
otherwise how can one explain the CDs of dil se selling and breaking records inspite of the movie having done pathetic business in the country.... and the CD's of movies like A Aa and KKS, New, and all the new movie sof ARR not having sold at all...although i dont know of how these films fared...i am not a south indian..has thre internet boomed in 2 years or the pple see no worth in CD's.....all said and done ....i guess that the quality of music has also take a beating.....pple in india have always been pseudo....they now want fresh sounds ( @$#$^%#) .....i ffel anbae aaruyirae is cluttered with needless sound ....a trend which i being a listener ...a devotee and a fan of ARR dont quite appreciate...the pure melody and richness of composition ( read minnalae ~~may maadham.....and thoda thoda ~~~indira) has given way to electronica...and that too mindless....which will not survive long....coz the test of time is survived
by only melody...be it west or east..... for eg.
in the west y have Love Story theme ...laras theme...or careless whisper , summer of 69 , nothings gonna change my love fr u , and more recently alanis morisette etc survived ,,,and wiil survive 'coz they r melody based composition not arrangement based peices of superficial electronica.....
so u see..
i guess it is a mixture of all the factors.....
not just the cost ...or the music quality ( by qulaity ..i dont mean the sound ...but the sheer melodic content!!!) or the industry types......but a
SYNEGY here that the COMBINED EFFECT OF THE FACTORS IS MUCH MORE THAN THE SUM OF THE INDIVIDUAL FACTORS!!!
and before ending ...let me tell u that i love the ambassador more than the maruti...th a old rolls royce more than a new ferrarrri......so that kinda sums up my humble ( and more often ...not required!!!) opinion of the music trends ...even ARR's music ...i love thiruda ( marvelous sounds ,,,,,but soo high on melody ...putham puthu boomi and thee thee and veera pandi interludes ....wow!!!) and dil se more than swades or new or KKS ....that however much pple might argue against it ...they still know that ARR's old music was life support system for most of us and now it is a mere viatmin supplement ......i mean so many pple cant be there on a paid defamation campaign against ARR's music in the group ....as it reflects common feeling.....and those very pple who have heard scores like the above mentined...they do feel let down like i have in A Aa.....i dont care of pple saying that i am over expecting....that expectation was set by ARRs music in
the first place....and now he does give stuff too radical ...... not gettin g into any controvercy ....i would like to say that i have not been able to relate to ARR's couple of recent works including Swades and AAa... Rising being an exception ...and thank him for it!!!
and sorry for drifting so badly from the topic guys....but thats what i feel....better the music ( not just the sound....as there is a difference between the two) and improve industry dynamics ...and the indian music industry is a winner!!!!
chill
jagdeep
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Re: The downloading debate
> We dont have to break laws to get noticed.
That, in my opinion, is in an ideal world.
> There have to be some forms of protests that do not
> involve breaking the law.
Might be. But, without eMule/ Kazaa, our friends in the record
industry would not have thought about alternate mediums.
> Jagdeep points out the huge disparity between the cost
> of a blank cd and a blank cassette. I fear he's right
> that audio companies are banking on revenues from cd
> sales by hiking up the price to whatever they find
> convenient (even thought end cost of cd may be less
> than cassette).
I personally do not mind paying 200 bucks for the CD. But I agree
with Srinivas' and Jagdeep's logic. I pay a lot more for DVDs, but at
least there I get a value, since they've much mroe than the movie.
> If there was a better awareness of this in media
> outlets... say if someone in this group can get a
> member of the media to highlight the economics of cd
> versus cassette production and talk about how we're
> getting the short shrift, then that would be great
> start.
I frankly think it will not help. Since we're merely highlighting out
stand/ plight. Until that plight of ours affects the record label/
industry nobody will take the initiative to change the status-quo.
There has to be a business case for them to change. Our sob stories/
us being short-changed has no business side to it. If at all there
is, its only our business side, not theirs.
I'm all for staying inside the law. Which is why I said I 'believe'
I'm protesting. Its my belief and I've convinced quite a few people
on it too. And I'm not going to put up with crap cassette quality
just because I'm protesting. Protest is not a suffering as far as I'm
concerned. I'm protesting to prove a point. If there's a lawful way
to get this message across I'm all for it. But again, as I said
earlier, we need to get them to notice the business case. And for
that, no satyagraha (buying tapes and suffer with that quality
without buying CD) will work.
Karthik
> We dont have to break laws to get noticed.
That, in my opinion, is in an ideal world.
> There have to be some forms of protests that do not
> involve breaking the law.
Might be. But, without eMule/ Kazaa, our friends in the record
industry would not have thought about alternate mediums.
> Jagdeep points out the huge disparity between the cost
> of a blank cd and a blank cassette. I fear he's right
> that audio companies are banking on revenues from cd
> sales by hiking up the price to whatever they find
> convenient (even thought end cost of cd may be less
> than cassette).
I personally do not mind paying 200 bucks for the CD. But I agree
with Srinivas' and Jagdeep's logic. I pay a lot more for DVDs, but at
least there I get a value, since they've much mroe than the movie.
> If there was a better awareness of this in media
> outlets... say if someone in this group can get a
> member of the media to highlight the economics of cd
> versus cassette production and talk about how we're
> getting the short shrift, then that would be great
> start.
I frankly think it will not help. Since we're merely highlighting out
stand/ plight. Until that plight of ours affects the record label/
industry nobody will take the initiative to change the status-quo.
There has to be a business case for them to change. Our sob stories/
us being short-changed has no business side to it. If at all there
is, its only our business side, not theirs.
I'm all for staying inside the law. Which is why I said I 'believe'
I'm protesting. Its my belief and I've convinced quite a few people
on it too. And I'm not going to put up with crap cassette quality
just because I'm protesting. Protest is not a suffering as far as I'm
concerned. I'm protesting to prove a point. If there's a lawful way
to get this message across I'm all for it. But again, as I said
earlier, we need to get them to notice the business case. And for
that, no satyagraha (buying tapes and suffer with that quality
without buying CD) will work.
Karthik
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