Remixes: A Temporary Fad

Remixes: A Temporary Fad

If you have been watching music videos on television or listening to any of the private FM radio stations these days, you would have seen or heard an increasing number of appalling and absolutely vulgar numbers doing the rounds on practically every show.

The procedure involved in making these cheap and crass songs is quite simple really. All you have to do is take an old Hindi film song, add a funky hip-hop beat with a rapper belting out some qite incomprehensible rubbish and get some nubile half-naked women to gyrate their well-toned hips to the tunes churned out by some deejay who seems to have little or no knowledge of his 'art' and has, in fact, made an entire career out of mutilating these great compositions of old maestros, just for the sake of filthy lucre.

It is, no doubt, proving to be a commercially successful venture for the concerned record company, music video director, DJ, singer(s) and models, but it is responsible for the sore lack of real talent in the modern-day music industry in India.

Remixes are a temporary fad. They will, sooner or later, be rejected by the genuine aficionados of music, because they are in extremely poor taste. Real music connoisseurs scoff at this as just a passing trend, which will soon fad away into oblivion. Public memory is too short anyway, and in case of such atrocious stuff, which is just made in the name of large-scale commercialisation of music these days, it is bound to be much shorter.

I, for one, would doff my hat to anyone who would care to show me one classy remix that has come out of any record company in the last few years.