One song at a time - 11. Two short stories
(Roshan) "In our times, music was different." This is constant refrain we hear all the while. Our parents heard it from their grandparents, we from our parents and our children from us. (Reminds me of the 'Woodwords Gripewater' advertisement. Every generation in the family saying the same thing.) While it is easy to dismiss such talk as the rambling of a person who is not modern enough, there is generally some truth in it. Music has to change, evolve, move forward etc and in this process something gets added and something gets lost. Whether the march forward is always evolution / revolution or degeneration has always been debated and I don't think anyone has arrived at any conclusion. That is fine, because to many of us the discussion is important. Conclusions be damned !!! One of the major aspects in film music which has changed is the way the song was used earlier. The usage of songs in films had multiple dimensions. Be it conveying the heroines happiness of f...