The new era and output of music

Music is all about listening, not visual entertainment.

If I underline three key words from my statement I can find:

1.       Music

2.       Listening

3.       Entertainment

In our recent time music the ultimate meaning of these 3 key words clashes with each other. There are some hidden conflicts among these major 3 key words.

I have 3 observations that could be the main root cause of this happening conflicts considering our recent time music.

Observation 1:

Remix tradition: Composers are not highly concentrated in making new tunes. They are using old tunes in a newer form. Though the remix songs get temporary high vibes in the market but cannot create long term impact in the audience mind in the long run.

Observation 2:

Composers are highly devoted to software based sound rather than using acoustic instruments where beauty of raw music is absent and as a result we are not getting the opportunity to listen to the ultimate beauty of music.

Through software composers are getting easy method of composing new songs where the main fragrance of music that can soothe the mind is highly neglected.

Composers are not attentive in using good voice quality, heart soothing tune or strong lyrical productions that can motivate the audience dive into so that they can be refreshed.

In recent time it is well said that ‘everybody is singer’. Though it sounds very weird, the software based (auto tune) system is making it possible. Some composers are doing it only for money without judging voice quality of the singers. It is now not only affecting the whole music industry in a very negative way but also harming our national image.

Observation 3:

Music Production houses are demanding high quality music videos with all sorts of visual entertainment rather than asking for good tune, composition and lyric.

To me ‘Views’ tradition should be acknowledged as national musical threat for any nation as music carries the national identity in some way. For increasing views the sponsors and production companies are spending more budgets for turning music into visual entertainment than producing good quality music. 

Impact:

1.    Though some songs might create a short term impact on audience mind for 1 or 2 year, in the long run the audience doesn’t bother to listen to it.  Recent time music cannot create long term appeal to audience mind. 

My initiative:

I have developed the following platforms myself where i have tried to share my personal views from my own way:

https://doyalovi.blogspot.com/

https://sites.google.com/view/doyalovi/home

https://doyalovi.wordpress.com/

My Music & Related Articles:

https://sites.google.com/view/doyalovi/music

Notable examples:

ž  India: we still tend to listen to the legendary Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, Sachin dev Barman, Kishore Kumar during our leisure time.

ž  Bangladesh: We still love to listen the old songs sung by Andrew Kishore, Sabina Yasmin, Runa Laila, Subir Nondi etc

  Recommendations/Suggestions:

As i am just a simple person and i don't have any authority to change this phenomenon, i just want to share or forward some suggestions in the following way:

1.    As music carries the national image, there should be a central audio moderation board that will be solely responsible to release the quality productions through judging the voice quality, tune, lyric and music arrangement.

2. There should be a grading policy (A, B, C, D) of musical productions and singers. Each year will be revised considering the song popularity and audience preferences. Those singers who fall under the grade of B will try to upgrade him/her to grade A in the following year.

3.   The FM Station should promote only quality music/songs based on the grading policy

In If this is maintained strictly composers will be highly attentive in making quality tunes through using acoustic quality instrument, singers will be concentrating on nourishing voice to make it more tuned and the lyricists will be devoting themselves in writing quality meaningful songs.