blog post 5

My first thought of this assignment were very judgmental, I sort of classified all “ Indian classical music” as sounding very gipsy-ish or belly dancer style. However the first song that I picked was surprisingly different and…. Good. I listened to the song Dub Hindustani; the song begins with chordophones introducing the rhythm, which to me sounds very westernized (but I do like it, just not what I expected to hear). The lead male vocalist sings along with the rhythm sounding perfect, really enjoyable. After the vocalist establishes the beat the mambranophones start playing giving the beat a little more spice. There is, of coarse use of idiophones that make the song quasipulsatile in my opinion. When the aerophone have a brief solo is were I really began to enjoy the music, because the lead singer voice and the aerophone sound great, but I also really enjoy the violin, which to me is surprising, I would not have thought that they would have used a violin in this peace. I believe that this song is about a plot in a movie that apparently never got finalized. I really enjoy this type of music and prob will continue to listen to it.

Post 4

I picked the song Hamseda Medly by Googoosh, because it sounds a little tropical. I could most defiantly imagine this song being played at a bar or nice restaurant on the beach as background music. I also feel like it sounds almost like it should be one an older tv sitcom. Googoosh is certainly a professional artist, because she is making music for profit, but in her defense one can see for sure that she puts a lot of effort and soul into her music. Even though you cannot understand what Googoosh is saying you can kind of get the feeling. I feel like she is singing about the difference between the modern times and the “old school” ways or styles. I really enjoy not understand the words because I think that music symbolism is all in the eyes of the beholder (the listener), so when I listen to this music I kind of get my own interpretation with no biases because I cannot understand the words. Although I do like the fact that I cannot understand the lyrics, I think that the music its self would be better with out Googoosh, and that’s probably only because it would sound more American. I do like the arophones, idiophones and my favorite membranophones like I said before I think this song sounds very tropical.