Raajaish Pop-rock

Song: Netru indha neram...

Movie: Tik Tik Tik

Singer: Latha Rajinikanth.

Genre: Pop rock.

~~Pop-rock is a subgenre of rock music that uses "catchy" pop style, with light lyrics over top of "guitar-based" songs.

Until 0:30 there was no melody. Prelude was just constructed with solo synth rhythm, stupendous running bass guitar and pleasing tines of synth. Exactly, 00:26th second has lead for string orchestra & tines of synth at 0:33 for next 5 seconds only. Still, so pleasing. You bet! Spick and span la la la by Latha with accompainment of synth rhythm and thrumming of acoustic guitar give de lead for Pallavi...Again, avant-garde of canon rule employed when pallavi ends with ".....Kolangaleyyy" by Latha, which is supposed to be leader melody that was imitated by choir take de role of follower.

At Pallavi, lead Cabaret singer recollect wut happened by yesterday at de same time, how breeze was frolic with herself and her Spouse.

1st Interlude has stunning orchestra arrangement: Presto kinda string orchestra originates this interlude with wah guitar, which continues to accompaines jazzy piano. I am afraid harmonic progression of rhythm guitar and bass guitar maintains jazz nuances and drum kit as bassline or is it arppegiator through synth? Again, Raajaish idiom of string orchestra {largo movement, eh?} + bass guitar and synth for pop song is more like evening drizzle at seashore. You bet!

Accelerando in charanam's melody is very much integrated with it's pallavi's flow.

Raaja sir has used solo violin at ludes for Pop, disco/funk and psychedelic compositions like Ilamai itho itho, Endrendum Aananthamey, Mella mella ennai, Vaanam keley vanathal, et al., It is typical Raajaish idiom of lude. This song is no exceptional, at 2nd interlude, Ethnic solo violin and congos bring tribal ambience. I am afraid that now running bass guitar accompanied by synth chord replicates de same melody played through Ethnic solo violin, eh? Choir, string orchestra with strumming of bass guitar were interlocked to have unique chord progression unto....? how come Raaja sir 80's pop song without scat singin'..? Yup, scat singing - Papupa Papupa pa Papupa Papupa pa is more like coda to ends this interlude. Again, synth string orchestra chords as bassline during scat singing was sung follows "Imitation" rule rather than canon as there is very micro seconds difference betwixt scat singing and synth string orchestra chords, correctta?

At 2nd charanam, lead Cabaret singer reveals her "Viraga" desire, which came in her dream at a fullmoon night!

Again, same pallavi repeated at de end with piano to complete this peppily peppily Pop. Such an amazing song! You bet!

always

~~Raaja rules!

Counterpoint or canon?

I always wonder how come most of de ppl say En kanmani un kathali from Chittukuruvi has counterpoint. I go with wut other say. However, still there is a digression, when almost everyone says En kanmani follows Counter-point rule or as per Sathish it is delayed counter-point then why should a layman {yeah, it's me}, says it does follow Canon rule?

Kindly have a glimpse on below chart, wherein I've tried to make it's melody structure overlapping:



Un kaadhalii
Ila maanganii
unaip paarththadummm,

Would you accept de point all these three sentences/lines sung in same melody???

Sirikkinradheyyy & Sirikkinradhey, again both are same melody, first sirikkinradheyyy with lil improvisation, though.

Naanamoa and moa - overlapping of melody on it's improvisation alone unlike above lines.

So, in this song, wut happened was overlapping of improvisation and de lead melody {it is a word, though}.

Canon: Melody/song with one or more imitations of de melody played after a given duration {e.g. quarter rest, one measure, etc}

If it is okay that leader melody should be discontinued in short duration (quarter rest) as soon as de follower melody is joined then wut I said is correct w.r.to En kanmani song.

Quarter rest or quarter note or crotchet: A rest/note having one-fourth de time value of a whole rest/not or double de value of an eighth-note/rest, or quaver.

Now, wut is quaver?

Trill on an instrument or with the voice, which is supposed to be improvisation {Gamakam in Indian music}.

Now, replace improvisation with quaver for this song/ on above explaination.

Does this make any sense?

If yes then my argument is somewhat okay {smile}.

Talking about counter-point, an orchestra piece/song, which should have a main melody in one-pitch and counter melody is in another/same pitch, however, with different melody/tune/theme. It may have two or more counter tune/melody.

Now, talking about counter-point in this song: To my untaught knowledge, counter-point could not be made with same melody or overlapping with improvisation. So, this song does not have counter-point. Most probably, it should be canon, theoretically {at least}.

Also, there is a thought that En Kanmani is de first counter-point attempt by Raaja sir. However, postlude of Naan pesa vanthein sollathan oru vaarthai from Paalootti vartha kili {Raaja sir's 2nd Tamil movie, directed by Devaraj-Mohan and produced by P.Madhavan} has vocal counterpoint by SPB and S.Janaki, which is supposed to be Raaja sir's first attempt for counterpoint.

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~~Raaja rules!

Raaja sir in Guiness Book - II

OMG! Jesus!!! Now, 2nd proof {wink}. And dis time, it's from "The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction" - Page 293 by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton. Keeping my fingures crossed for any official notification...{smile}

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~~Raaja rules!