{"id":55784,"date":"2019-02-25T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=55784"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:20:08","slug":"herd-mentality-not-healthy-pritam-on-remaking-old-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/herd-mentality-not-healthy-pritam-on-remaking-old-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Herd mentality not healthy: Pritam on remaking old songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bollywood music composer Pritam believes a well-recreated song is not a problem but it is unhealthy when the industry starts following &#8220;herd mentality&#8221;. He believes that following a trend blindly degrades the quality of the music. Off late, Bollywood has churned out several remixes, with every film having one recreated track. &#8220;Anything done well is good. But if one recreation works, one thousand more follow. If anything becomes a hit, then everyone will blindly follow it. Herd mentality isn&#8217;t healthy because then a lot of trash comes out. That&#8217;s the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was leaning towards a song which was romantic-trance, the kind which generally Marshmello does. But they wanted a fun track which also feels Indian. The entire process happened really fast, in a span of one month,&#8221; he added. Pritam, who previously worked with Diplo for Phurr from Jab Harry Met Sejal, said &#8220;collaboration is a learning process&#8221; but believes it would be better if musicians could jam together instead of coordinating over the Internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One or two recreations done well is nice but the tendency of following the herd doesn&#8217;t really help the industry,&#8221; said Pritam. The composer recently collaborated with international DJ, Marshmello, to create the track Biba, for his three-city tour in India. Pritam said the team was clear on what kind of track they wanted, which was more of an &#8220;India original&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What becomes easier is if the artistes get to chat with each other. There should be a window of free collaboration. We didn&#8217;t have the time to meet up and work together. Such collaborations should happen over meeting because then it&#8217;s a lot of fun.&#8221;  On the film front, Pritam will be composing the music for Anurag Basu&#8217;s Ludo, Shonali Bose&#8217;s The Sky is Pink, Kabir Khan&#8217;s 83 and Imtiaz Ali&#8217;s next among others.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood music composer Pritam believes a well-recreated song is not a problem but it is unhealthy when the industry starts following &#8220;herd mentality&#8221;. He believes that following a trend blindly degrades the quality of the music. Off late, Bollywood has churned out several remixes, with every film having one recreated track. &#8220;Anything done well is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55786,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55784\/revisions\/55786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}