Musically infected...

It's insanely torturous, is it not? The same song playing in your cranial jukebox in repeat mode without a break, for more than two weeks...

It's unstoppable, though I haven't caught most of the words yet. It's unstoppable, though I don't understand half of the meaning of those words I've made out. It's unstoppable, though I'm unable to relate to the exact feelings conveyed by the meaning...

This one caught me unawares. May be it's the accordion, may be it's the absence of any fusion-like stuff, may be it's just the magic of A.R.Rahman. Whatever it is, Rahman will remain unforgiven for this.

I already know the notes by-heart and may be I'd record it sometime soon.
After all, I love to here myself singing 'When You Say Nothing At All' with Ronan Keating. Aaargh...that scale-change sucks, I agree. But this song... I might get it right all the way.

Nenjukulle...

Rahmanesque? Naah....Nooo...

Finally, I heard Rahman's latest. Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya. Why would Rahman pick up a few choicest notes n beats from a typical reggae and get them sprinkled with tamizh lyrics? And then make some more potpourri of all western genres. Oscar influence? Even the lyrics sound disjointed. But the album's a big hit and that is all the makers would want.

The music definitely sounds good. Groovy. Aaromale sounds exactly like how Bryan Adams would render a malayalam number. And yes, Omana penne & Hosanna refuse to stop playing in my cranial jukebox.But, that's about it. If I manage to stop it playing, am sure it wouldn't start again. Unlike the original Rahman scores which tingle the senses, years after you've actually heard them play. To name a very few albums - Roja, Iruvar, Tiruda tiruda, Kadalar Dinam, Kadalan, Mudalvan, Bombay, Uyire/Dil Se, Rhythm, Kandu Kondein, Jodha Akbar...

Hoping that Rahman will recover from the Oscar-induced-western-stupor and give us more of his original compositions, which will satiate the cerebral-jukeboxes and linger on for decades...