Just a Thought

 Artists committing suicide is neither new nor strange to this world. History is full of such agonized painters, writers and musicians who fell short of their canvass or words or melodies to hold their emotions. And it's not just the artists who commit suicide; The world is full of such troubled souls. According to WHO, approximately one million people commit suicide each year, that is about one death every 40 seconds. But what soaks us all in grief is when there is an artist out of those 1 million people. And recently we had that experience of grief at the loss Chester Bennington, frontman for the rock band Linkin Park and his death brought back the same question again" why few artists commit suicide or live so recklessly to be called suicide. Despite all the fame and fortune, despite having such a huge influence, Why do they get convinced to put an end to their life. To answer this question, first of all, we need to understand "what is art and what an artist does?...

If you are into Melanie's music you know how mysteriously beautiful her songs are. How hauntingly interesting she makes her videos. It kind of draws you in as you watch it. I think I have been into Melaine's music for five months now. I know this is little late to get into someone who's been for 3 years with such an eerie and alluring approach to music. I am kind hooked to this song for a long time now and part of the reason I like it because you can never get enough of it.  The bubbly bass drop and slow, groovy melody with the breathy voice of Melaine are so intoxicating that you easily lose the track of time. What makes her haunting sound so fresh is that she keeps it consistent without making it cheesy or repetitive. It is never really too much listening to it. there is this subtle novelty in it that resurfaces itself every time you hear it. Soap is a gloomy love song from Melaine's debut album Cry Baby.  It's about how insecure one feels in getting into a n...

Einstein said Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person. Paintings, music, and books of antiquity that are obscure now or have taken refuge in the museums take us all in amazement by the mere name of master attached to it but upon looked closely they will equally astonish us with the mastery that it has been weaved through by years and years of hard work. Damien Chazelle's film Whiplash is suffused with this idea that to make yourself proficient at any skill you have to be willing to grind for it relentlessly. It takes countless days and nights to hone one's craft to be called a work of genius. but not just that, this movie also brings fore the role of criticism in ones' life and how important it is to push any artist beyond mediocrity. It reflects how hard-work, when complemented with criticism, can result in a remarkable performance. In the movie where an aspiring ja...

Nirvana means the end of all suffering. It’s a state where your soul unfolds to the exotic beauty of the cosmic world. If Nirvana means the end, then there must be a beginning or maybe there was never an end. Kurt Donald Cobain the frontman of Nirvana band. The man who bent music with his voice, whose scream still echoes giving us a rage of excitement and rebel. Or he was a man who was desperately searching a way to put an end to his suffering but never found. Have you ever met a person in disguise, in a mask where they reflect everything that they are not? Want to meet the one. Go in front of the mirror and you will find the one. We all live life in a disguise. We wear a fake identity to fit in the world, but there are few, who are brutally honest to their character. It doesn't matter to them whether people are gonna love or hate, they are always themselves and love being so. Kurt Cobain was one of those. He was a unique person and was proud of his uniqueness. We all love Kurt C...

So in these past couples of days, I have been stumbling upon this idea of music and its importance in our life. What sort of contribution music has in our life? What do we get listening to a beautiful track?  Why do we get drenched with emotions when we listen to a romantic song even when it is just certain vibrations of molecules that propagate through air and bangs our eardrum? How does this even succeed in inducing those enzymes in our brain that makes us feel happy or sad? Well if you ask me I don't know. I don't know actually. You know although we have a scientific explanation to this, I don't think music is something that can solely be explained on a premise of scientific research which is just as old as we human beings. Music goes beyond that. You know the melodies have been here since the genesis of the universe. The very first atom that exploded and created this universe. The sounds of that big bang are still resonating in the outer space. The sound of the clashe...