Music and Songs trigger something

It is 10 am in the morning and a Sunday. I am having my breakfast and while reading the newspaper I hear an old song (this is the song Soniye Hiriye Teri Yaad Aandi Hai) playing in the kitchen. Suddenly I start getting goosebumps and all those memories and feelings start flushing in my mind around the time of the song it was released or was popular/relevant or it could be time around when I had heard the song for the first time or thereafter on frequent basis. Actually when a song is released or gains mainstream popularity, that is the time it is played most of the times and in most of the places. During those times of life, that song gets etched in the mind with the feelings you were going through at that time, the events of your life among so many other things. The same thing I have noticed about infrequent smells or unique smells. They bring back memories and emotions of the time you have felt them the most.

Maybe this connection with music and songs like I experience is not that common among people or maybe I am the only one with whom this happens, but it is quite fascinating to see my body responding to such stimulus in that strong a way. Or is it because this song of today morning that I am writing about for instance, is one of those times that I was in the realms of my initial butterfly-in-the-stomach days (😀 I leave on you to guess what's the obvious days of one's life I am referring to😃). Or it could also be due to the nature of the song and it lyrics being absolutely in sync with the period of life that I was going through at that time.

But no matter what, it's really strong with all the goosebumps and moist eyes. And this has happened with me many a times with so many of the other songs. This behaviour is not just limited to old times songs or songs of your childhood or teenage. It happens even now when you hear a song that you may or may not have heard recently or a new release, and the song has moving lyrics with melodic/haunting music/tune or is in perfect jibe with the theme of the song. You relate to the song such strongly and the same thing happens. You feel pain in the chest, body shudders upon the thoughts of the song's lyrics.

This human body is truly marvellous. It never ceases to amaze with its styles of functioning and prowess or the fact that we have a brain that contemplates, appreciates and even gets surprised by it's own existence and functioning.

12/15/2019 11:28:00 am Share:

KK - the most underrated singer !

For example, there was a song in The Killer.......teri yaadon mein khoya rehta hoon......that song must have been heard by all but no one knew the singer.  Similarly Ding Dong Ding Dole was a song....very hit.... played in every wedding around that time. There were various songs like that.....like Kya mujhe pyar hai ya......me.... friends around me.... school mates.... every one used to hum His songs....but no one knew.....and the trend continues.....but I lost my ignorance in or around 2009..... watched the winner of that  season's indian idol express the ultimate wish to meet KK. The name itself made me curious. A short form. I had started looking around singers of songs by then. Knew people like Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Pritam, Mika, Sunidhi, Shreya, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik..... but nothing about this guy KK. No source of information at all. Used to watch singer interviews on music channels and those singing reality shows just to know if anyone says anything about these 2 letters - KK. Finally I got hold of the internet through bhaiya's Nokia C001 classic java phone. At that time there was a little info of KK on the internet. But thankfully there was this Wikipedia page with all the discography of Him. And then I came to know that most of the amazing songs we are around , are sung by Him. From then on I kept track of Him.  Sajde Kiye Hain Lakhon from Khatta Meetha and I am In Love from Once upon a time in mumbai were the first songs of KK that I heard after I came to know that these were sung by Him. And there on I fell for His singing. Firstly it was His voice that I fell for. That voice which makes you imagine a young charismatic college going boy of 21-22 with all the coolness and charm one can hold. Then I fell for his versatility. The ease with which He pulls off any tone, note, rhythm or scale. His long vocal range that can go as low and as high as it sounds good with that kind of fresh voice. No boundaries at all. Just take an example of Alvida or O Mama or Abhi Abhi or Soniyo or Tere Bin Ho Na Sakega Guzara or Chadhta Sooraj.. huh....list goes on. The feel and emotion I feel in His singing is rare. That is said for most of the established singers, yet for me what He renders touches the heart. Then the more I got to know him through His interviews, news interviews, radio interviews and all his videos on the internet, I fell for his sense of life. I fell for his personality. His views on life, fame, work. His principles of enjoying this ride. His nature and the person he is.

I am an agnostic, but if I think of myself as a believer, then I know He is God.

11/04/2016 05:30:00 pm Share: