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Recalibrating the “tone” in between a song

I was just listening to the song "tera woh pyaar" by Momina Mustehsaan and Asim Azhar. In the intro lines, at 0:58 to 1:01 (youtube version), you can notice Momina sings "teri tarah hmmm khushboo chalein". Notice the "hmmm". According to me, this is a way to recalibrate and stay within the limits of the song's scale. It is comparable to you taking support to reach another place while climbing. These are usually the well note notes of the scale…
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Madonna Sebastian sings AR Rahman and Michael Jackson’s songs

Two weeks ago, while going through YouTube, the algorithm gave a good recommendation. It was actresss Madonna Sebastian singing a fusion of AR Rahman and Michael Jackson's song! AR Rahman's "maaro maaro" from Boys and Jackson's "they don't really care about us". Both have beats that can sync well. In a way, the video of Boys movie song "maaro maaro" seems to be inspired from Jackson's song that was shot at Rio De Janeiro. The song is really good. Madonna…
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Nadeem – Shravan were just unethical businessmen disguised as composers

If you can think of some of the biggest Bollywood / Hindi hit songs from the 1990s, they were all composed by the duo Nadeem & Shravan. Most of their songs were on T-Series (initially) and later on Tips. If you go through YouTube or Spotify playlists, you'll find Nadeem & Shravan songs dominating at least half the playlist. For a long time, I believed that they were wonderful composers. And then I discovered over time that almost every major…
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Sai Abhyankar’s Sithira Puthiri song

A few minutes back, Sai Abhyankar's new song "Sithira Puthiri" was released on Think Music channel. Three days back, Think Music team released a promo video featuring social media influencer Sameeha Mariam, famously known as TechPotate. I thought this girl would feature in the main video. However, they gave us a surprise. I opened the video and it gave me the vibes of 90s indipop era. The video has Sai Abhyankar checking out an old painting of a girl and…