Eat shit

I mean for 20 years by and large I have been doing it. Every time I turn on the radio/fm to listen to music. There was one channel called MTV which means Music Television. It started with the song Video killed the radio star. What did MTV kill? Music to start with….

I mean it would have started well- in India that is. It talked about promoting clear music and all. Had some great VJs then. People who knew music. But then they wanted TRPs…

So eat shit… keep eating shit… keep watching the self glorifying sleaze and bitching show called roadies. If you like that then graduate to porn magazine called splitsvilla. You will see dumb-as-horse’s-ass guys jerking off on pornstar wannabes…equally dumbassed…

Then you have a TV where two ugly females (literally looking like female dogs on the street) with brains missed out by almighty, giving their smartassed comments on anyone in the universe. The tragedy is not the shows. The tragedy is the fact that this is what get TRPs and not the songs…And they want us to believe that…

Yeah, sure. That’s why DevD sold thousands albums, Rabbi Singh became a phenomenon, Rock On became a hit. Because all of us wanted to watch live bitching and dumb-assed reality shows. Eat shit fellows!! That’s what the Chef ordered….

There is a lot of talk of we being responsible for the deals we get. All the Vote-For –India campaigns talk of it. And I think they are right. All the smarties of the society become doctors, engineers and MBAs. The leftovers move to television…. And they produce shit. So eat shit. Dumb elephants can only shit. When you put dumb elephants for producing TV shows and radio shows you should not expect anything else.

Music Television. Whats Music Television in India? Bollywood Television. Yes, all the great Bollywood jackasses will serve their exquisite dish on the platter for you every Friday and 24X7 the same will be played on and on till the next drug is released. And then they will proclaim a super hit. This is the perfect monopoly. Air some shit forcefully a zillion times and then go about saying that the people are loving it. Great strategy. No wonder a big banner soundtrack is always a hit. One such big banner released Rabbi’s new album and gave a perfect demonstration of rape. One needed to see the title video. I mean the whole video was about promoting a half naked girl. Rabbi Shergill was incidental. Where was the song in the whole bargain? Someone forgot about it in the video…. And of course the real gems of the album- Pagri Samhal Jatta, Bandra etc were ignored blissfully. I am sure, a paan chewing joker would have made all the decisions in the big-daddy banner office… sitting in their cocooned ivory towers, the jokers who run the banner would not even know who Rabbi Shergill is or what he has achieved. Wonder why Rabbi needed to knock their doors of all places…

Some of the best talents in the country never get their albums made while petty thieves like Pritam Chatterjee bask in glory of multi-hits. That’s all because the former is indi and the latter is Bollywood… These days Mr. Chatterjee even judges music reality shows. He is supposed to be a music connoisseur!!! Will someone be kind enough to shoot me in the head? No, go shoot the Music Label bosses in the head.

Whatever happened to indi-pop? I mean I agree that 90% of that used to make one puke. With those dumb girls and dumber guys trying to be singers. But one also heard Euphoria, Silk Route etc.. good quality music. They gave legitimate hits, didn’t they?

But then our record company bosses decided Bollywood was the only place where money was. Look at West. Imagine what would have happened if such bosses were to exist there? There would be no Dylan- pop music and country music was the only hit thing back then. No Beatles, no rock and Roll…. Closer home- No GNR, no grunge no Nirvana…. Chuck all that- Rap would have remained underground….. Till now we would have been listening to Sinatra and his descendants…

But then that is US and this is India where all the rejects in the world become industry bosses in the entertainment industry. That’s why as time will go on our music will become more and more uni-dimensional. And we will keep eating shit and be happy about it. And we will have those all-knowing dumb-fucks who go by the name DJs who will tell us what to like and what not to…

Channels like Colours give hope though…. Hope!!!