Music is one of the many things ruined by Man. Talking in context of hindi songs and their lyrics, I hereby furnish some tips to become a successful lyricist -
1. Close your eyes, pick up some random gibberish, consolidate it and woah! you have a song.
2. Try adding some senseless high frequency rap into it, make sure it doesn't mean anything (to match it up with the already meaningless lyrics)
3. If your target audience is between 12-33 years of age, add some meaningful abuses (they say it adds to the cool factor)
4. Make sure the singer sings it very slowly, it gives an illusion that the lyrics are deep and soul-touching.
(Note : Works well with female audience)
5. If the above doesn't work, assume evolution finally took place, increasing IQ of the masses.
Now that I've enlightened you with a very potential career option, Please suggest a song that I can hear for more than 13 seconds.
5 comments:
you have to find your song..Mine is Fireflies by Owl City.
There is one more song Vanilla Twilight by this guy..I do not particularly admire the lyrics but appreciate them.
Aww Comeon..
Personally speaking I haven't heard many english songs that make whole lot of sense either :P..Its unfair to blame just HINDI lyricst...
Infact I'll say I have heard more osulful hindi songs than in English
Song Suggestion : 'Aarambh' from Gulaal
and 'main Pal do pal ka rahi ' :P
@ Sameera, I have a song already.. Zombie (cranberries) but I'm already bored :(
@ Jigar,I didn't mention english songs because I dont really listen to 'em.
Thanks for the song suggestions though
Well am listening to Marcy Playground's Opium right now.
and am always amazed at the shameless theft of already existing melodies and lyrics by Hindi songwriters ..
and nope, not talking about the riff raff here, even the legendary chaps,
I mean really, tis' total buzzkill when listening to Talat Mahmood's हैं सबसे मधुर वो गीत जिन्हें, हम दर्द के सुर में गाते हैं the first thing that comes to yer mind is Shelley's Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts ....
How about Taare Zameen Par the title song and Maa from the same movie?
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