This morning on my drive to work, I turned on my CD player in the car - I was on my way to the school to drop off my 4 year old.
The song that came on was from one of the latest Bollywood movies called Dhoom2 - so my 4 year old sings along "S.xy lady on the floor...". It was nauseating to hear such adult language from the mouth of a four year old.
That was what got me thinking - if one has cared to hear some of the latest songs that are belted out in the Bollywood movies - specially the ones in the last 8 years or so, you can see that they use language that is not commonly used.
On my last trip to India and specifically in a marriage, I saw little children dancing away to songs whose lyrics did not quiet suit them. Songs that did not make sense to them , nor looked good when they were gyrating away to wordings that were way above their innocent ages. What is more weird is that parents today are encouraging their children to go this route - this probably includes all of us!
Now who is responsible for writing the lyrics to these songs? Is there some kind of censorship exercised on them at all? Do they have any social responsibility at all, or is it that all they care about is their album being sold?
It may sound hypocritical to say the above, in an era when the counter argument could very well be that information should be widely and freely available to all - unbarred.
This menace of inappropriate lyrics is true specifically for songs originating from Bollywood. When you want to hum the latest song, you may want to watch your audience, because the wordings may not be all that hummable :)Maybe they should start rating (U, PG13 etc.) the songs too like the way they rate movies going forwards!
I must say that the music has definitely gotten better over the years, in terms of various instruments used, the technology used to get the effects and everything, but it has dragged down the lyrics in it's climb. Well, maybe you cannot have the best of both - and like they say good things could corrupt the world too!
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Did you ever wonder, the guys who wrote the songs probably had children of their own.
I'm not defending it, but I take it as changing time issue. My grandfather was shocked at most of the songs I sang from the 80's. He felt they were a bundle of abuses.
Today, like you, even I feel some songs wrong. But... who is the judge? Maybe parents like you who don't want to listen to such garbage. But unless you stop, the writers are not going to stop... they have their family to feed too!
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