Hindi song has several important components. All the cogs of the wheel need to perform in harmony then only a beautiful song emerges. For example, the song structure must have appropriate rhythms and beats. But what gives soul to the music? Ys, you guessed it right, its Lyrics. Essence of Hindi song is its lyrics. New age songs often lack good lyrics and that explains low shelf life of such songs and relatively lower recall value by the music lovers. If people still love to hum old songs then that’s solely because of lyrics. Less use of beats and musical instrumentation and soulful lyrics and you have a memorable song. Remember, ‘Jab pyar kia toh darna kya’ from Mughal-Ae-Azam? What was the use of musical instrumentation? It just had wonderful lyrics and mesmerising vice of Lata Mangeshkar and we still remember this song. For that matter even the song ‘Aayega Aayega Aane wala’ from the movie ‘Mahal’ by Lata again. In that era, not much technology was available and hardly few instruments were used. And yet that song is remembered as one of the most haunting song in Indian film history.
Lyrics with deep meanings soothe your soul. Today, lyrics are dominated by technology or beats. Sometimes, you can’t even make out what are the lyrics. Earlier, music was woven around lyrics and now it is more like lyrics are put into just to fill the gap.
Good lyrics will always be etched in your heart. You can never get enough of good lyrics and soulful music. Remember any favourite song of your’s and you will find it had amazingly meaningful lyrics. Most of the songs sung by Lata, Rafi, Kishor or Mukesh thrived on wonderful lyrics and superb voice quality of singers.