Posts

Showing posts from December 14, 2014

Atif Aslam and The Painted Veil

Image
Today I have some Bollywood music for you because I find that some days you have to listen to some foreign music. This song is from a movie called Ajab Ki Prem Ghazab Kahani and this is my absolute favorite song from this movie. The movie has a very typical Bollywood plot to it, however, the soundtrack is not completely like the ones you hear from a lot of Hindi films you see. This soundtrack has the combination of dance songs and love songs and sad songs. This song in particular is very beautiful because it is somewhat of a romantic ballad. I really like the fact that vocals are all done by males because for these kinds of songs, the gentler male vocals sound the gorgeous. This song kind of has this Sufi influence which has become a bigger thing in Bollywood songs. These slower songs have this length to them because they are slow. There is no need for the song to be extremely energetic so there can be cool dance moves. These songs are all about the feelings associated with the song an...