Like jerking off in old age.Ĭut to the present. Madras became Chennai, and I still used to wait eagerly for your albums, but was getting irritated and impatient by the day as the wait was too long for each one to come out.
As the years rolled by and you brought a new shelf for keeping all those awards, the whole world became a stage for you with “ Bombay Dreams”. “ Chayya Chayya” was hailed as the new National Anthem. And it swelled me with Illad Pride that you were recognized as a legend Pan-India. Gentleman, Kadhalan, Indian, Bombay followed and I was hearing the songs not just in “ Oliyum OLiyum” (Sheesh…how do I differentiate the two Tamil “L’s in English) but also in “ Ek Se Badkar Ek” (The Hindi songs countdown). Film after film, you upped the ante, and we were left gasping for more. I experienced Goosebumps every time they played the song on the show they called “ Oliyum Oliyum”, and Sir, Kafam Fe I get the same haunting feeling even today.Īnd you wouldn’t stop with it. It was the entire experience of listening to the guitar strings and the keyboard opening the song by slowing raising the tempo and suddenly finding beats which sounded like digital water droplets falling on the ground accompanying a chilly folk humming, setting the ground for the lines “Pudhu Vellai Mazhai” to be sung. It was not that only the beats or tunes alone contributed to the greatness of the songs. Yup, the beats sounding like they never had before, gave an entirely new dimension to experiencing songs, even simple tunes like “ Rukumani Rukumani”.
The recording was suave, and the use of percussions was a leap from the days of the drums used in the interludes of “ Ninnukori Varnam”. It was an entirely new sound that I was hearing, and if I were forced to pick one word to describe it, it would be “ Sophisticated”. When I heard Roja for the first time, it had an impact on me that no other album (not even any of yours) could hope to give. Let me introduce myself as a BIIIG fan of your music.
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