Lack of Creativity or probably Responsibility?

I am a complete music-lover. I love listening to almost any kind of music and bollywood songs are somethin that always attract me. I love venturing into listening to never heard of songs and figuring out if I like them.

But since the past few years, I have feel that the industry is facing some serious lack of talent. There are rarely any songs I come across that are really worth an "ear". You may be able to dance to them, but listening to them happens to be a bad idea most of the times.

There is no doubt about the fact that there are a few lyricists who do a brilliant job, but nevertheless, they cannot make up for the "sleazy" lyrics that are entertained in the industry. One of the songs that I recently came across that "convinced" me to write this article was "Dum Maro Dum" - The new version or may I call it the "Deepika" gig.

Honestly, the lyrics are horrendous [which i honestly feel is an understatement]. They are just ridiculous and "cheap". I agree that "rebel" is the point, but there are always different ways of portraying it. Just like the way I mentioned in my previous article "Role of the media", it depends on the person who is writing the song as to how to portray the message and I am convinced this was not the definitely the best one.

It also becomes inevitable to compare the song to the old "Zeenat" version. That was about rebel too, but very "sensibly" put across. If you blame at the kids being "matured more than their age", this is what we are feeding them with. Just dropping clothes off a popular face's body, one cannot cover up for irresponsible lyrics.

I started off writing this article about how the lyrics were sleazy, but in the course of writing, I feel they are irresponsible. Kids are what you bring them as, and this is exactly what we are feeding into the younger generation. So we should either take charge, or not complain about the way they are.