Sampha’s “No One Knows Me (Like the Piano)” “Lucky for you” blares the chorus, “I’ve got all these daddy issues!” That the track does psychodrama atop triumphant synthetic horns, shimmering major-key melodies and palpable delight at one’s shortcomings makes what could have been a maudlin overshare feel ebullient instead.
That changed this year on her sixth album, the excellent Tell Me You Love Me, and its crowning achievement, “Daddy Issues.” “Issues” obliterates the very concept of lyrical subtly as Demi explores the cross-section of her challenging relationship with her father and her destructive romantic choices. This year in pop can ultimately be boiled down to one emblematic moment, when a stripper-turned-Instagram-star-turned-reality-star-turned-hip-hop princess dethroned the biggest major label superstar of her generation at No.1, with nothing but a freestyle rap and a whole bunch of streaming clicks.ĭemi Lovato always seemed like a workhorse pop star, diligent but never quite expanding past middle management. And with Spotify and YouTube further entrenched at the center of music consumption, the year’s best and biggest songs underscored a new kind of egalitarianism, allowing the public to directly drive the conversation and charts, and giving the artists room to take risks. An almost entirely Spanish language reggaeton track by two relative unknowns was the year’s biggest hit. Genres melded and sometimes combusted completely. In 2017, pop established a true counter-narrative: cross-pollinating, democratic, and often as buoyantly unbothered as it has ever has been. Congratulations for his recent achievement of 25 golden years in cinema.Joy was elusive in 2017, in everything from politics to Hollywood to the isolated cultural bubbles where most Americans now look for shelter. His involvement with World filmmakers and musicians are also special to his name. The Mozart of Madras is the only person can do a Traditional music of different states and still make it to all type of audiences. His works of Sufi qawwali are one of the important explorations and very popular among the fans. The First person to bring out Rap, Pop, Blues, Electronica, and much more in India. His mix of Hindustani classical with electronica has its own flavors. He is the pioneer of Integrating the Indian classical music with the Electronic and world music orchestral arranging. He was the one who has given a special status to Indian music which helped the International audiences to understand and listen to Indian musical system. Of course, this genius is still doing it for the last 25 years. Though it may sound simple but to give a meaning of it in real is highly unimaginable. 'New' 'Fresh' 'Different' 'Distinct' 'Typical' 'Unique' are the very common words for his every single piece of music. He is one of our Identity cards for Tamil Nadu sometimes for the whole India too. Rahman is the most popular and the influential music director in India. If there is a statistics on every Child Birth for an hour in India and there is also a statistics of his song play for every minute in Tamil Nadu. He is also holding a name that "Uncredited person of every Family card" in Tamil Nadu. There is always a resemblance of his music notes with most of our Tamil music directors which are either they get inspired by his music or he has achieved everything.
An approximate calculation: A single movie have at least 6 songs multiplies with 50 movies gives 300 songs (least) per year + BGM of 50 movies which defines his pure legacy. There is also record in mid 80's, for continuous three years, he has produced music for more than 50 movies per year. The Industry believes that nobody has the dare to break this record forever. This BGM scoring genius has recorded around 6000 songs (including BGM) for 1000 movies in 40 years. He is the pioneer of Symphony Orchestra with Traditional Indian instrumentation.
Isaignani Illayaraja sir is our Father of Tamil Modern Music system.