The changing rythm...

The purpose of science is to improve the human understanding, about him and about the world. It provides answers to the basic human questions involving “how”, “why “and “when”. Science leads us to wonder if there is anything more powerful than it.

While science serves the purpose of understanding, art serves the better purpose of expressing. Be it any form of art; painting, sculpture, photography, music, or any other art form, their essential purpose is to express or communicate emotions, ideas or feelings and to beautify objects. And personally, I love music out of all the art forms I have come across, simply because it takes me to a whole new world. It helps me forget my existence, to lose track of time, and elevates me to a world of pleasure. There is rarely anything that gives me the satisfaction, and elation that a good song can provide me with.

Music is universal, just as it appeals to all sections of the society, it appeals to all the senses of the human body. It was never about “hearing” music, it was about “feeling” music. At least that was how it used to be. Unfortunately, music cannot escape the inevitability of change. Music seems to be absorbing the pace of the world nowadays, with quite a few ones being fast numbers. 

On introspection, probably one reason for the change would be the change in the creator’s motivational factor. From self-satisfaction, it has changed now to popularity/appeal to the masses. When you take into account the monetary factor, there is no point criticizing the creator. It can be concluded that the core reason for the change is the change in what “appealed” to the masses. Seemingly, people are interested in fast paced songs with meaningless lyrics, rather than meaningful melodies. It is no surprise that beauty of today’s music is associated with “appangal embadum” and “aande londe”, while the melodies (few in number, though) goes unnoticed. It happens when music is just a “background activity” for us, a state when we just “hear” music.

Yes, I do know that the genre of music one likes is his/her personal taste. This blog is just another blabbering, by someone who is afraid of the change, worried that his playlist sees no prospect of expansion, by someone who is finding it difficult to accept the fact that the concept of a “different” song changed from “lajjavathiye” to “mazhaneer thullikal” in 7 years time.