I’ve been watching a Pakistani music channel on TV for the past two hours.
How come every single song I see on TV is about ishk, ashki, sanam, pyar, mohabat, dewangi, sajan, sajni etc etc yaada yaada bla bla Its seriously pathetic :o
Only very few songs are about Pakistan, I can only remember a few Hamds like the one by Najam, and the Khudi song by Junoon. Other than that, every single video, every song is based on the same old theme. And then, every movie revolves around the love story of the hero and heroine.
No wonder our youngsters are going astray. Why don’t they make songs out of Iqbal’s poetry to inspire our youth, why don’t they glamorise academics or civic duties or hard work?
I’m not a musician myself but this is an appeal to all the GS musicians, who are in musical bands, to change their music to encourage the youth to study well, be obedient to their parents, be religious, work hard for the progress of themselves and the country, and to shun nikammi habits and thoughts about ishq vishq pyaar vyaar
What do you guys think? Is our younger generation going astray because of these nikammay messages they are getting from popular media?
Re: Pakistani popular media and youth + An appeal to GS musicians
This is why the producers of such programs invest money in making “ishk, ashki, sanam, pyar, mohabat, dewangi, sajan, sajni etc etc yaada yaada bla bla”.
Irem, well if you go on muziq.net, it's the same thing. Song titles there are predominantly reflective of the trend you are talking about.
Maybe it's because the industry wants to make songs about themes that will have a high commercial value. The more serious themes you mentioned may not really sell as well as the 'ishq vishq pyaar vyaar' themes. i'm guilty of it myself, ahem. Unless it's a special occasion, say Pakistan Day, how many of us actually listen to a patriotic song on a regular basis ? Or if it's Ramadan, we surf over to their naat section. 30 days of Ramadan pass by, and the Islamic section decreases in popularity. i admit i am extremely guilty of this myself.
[quote] And then, every movie revolves around the love story of the hero and heroine.
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True.
i'm trying to branch out to see 'other' genres of movies... this doesn't just apply to Pakistani movies, but English ones as well. There are some really good social-oriented movies coming out... not a whole bunch, but the ones that are out, in my humble opinion, are really good and worth watching. However, definitely there aren't as many in the different social genres as should be.
maybe ishq pyaar junoon is something most individuals can relate to, and thats why u have so many songs/movies/dramas named in similar ways to attract people..
this ishq vishq doesnt have to be for a person, but it could be talknig about love for a mother, father, nation... or anything..
some musicians have songs that look as though they've been sung bout a lover.. the lovely thing about them is that the lover is infact Pakistan (Fakhir has sung a song along those lines... i actually love that song too :) )
i guess music is love (in a wierd way
as for movies, its hard to find a decent romantic movie now, most of them are about "real" stuff
I mostly listen to english music but when I change into Urdu music its all about love, heartache and so on, even if you are feeling good the music is enough to make u sad, so thats why i dont listen to love songs all the time as i believe that they dont really display reality, for some really good reality songs listen to shania twain, she has a good mixture of both love songs and hard reality.
on the other hand, love doesn't always have to be a girl/guy love. I remember listening to some songs which could also have been love between parents/friends or not even love sometimes they would be like about the daily routine or something but the videos...they are the same.
No wonder our youngsters are going astray. Why don't they make songs out of Iqbal's poetry to inspire our youth, why don't they glamorise academics or civic duties or hard work?
I'm not a musician myself but this is an appeal to all the GS musicians, who are in musical bands, to change their music to encourage the youth to study well, be obedient to their parents, be religious, work hard for the progress of themselves and the country, and to shun nikammi habits and thoughts about ishq vishq pyaar vyaar<<<
This is so comical. Glamorize academics or civic duties??? Obey parents, and be religious???? Since when has that been the bottomline of musical entertainment? When so called educated people think like that, no wonder it is royal mess there. First you kill the indigenous music in Pakistan and then you have the audacity to moan about new popular music (which is trashy by the way – but that’s what you get when you want to eliminate everything a little bit of symbolic of “Indian” from our culture. Music is not about teaching kids manners or about their civic duties, it is about teaching them their heritage and passing on the convention so it stays alive. They can learn manners from their stupid parents and molvis on the street.
Your young are going astray not because of TV or music, but because they have nothing to do (the teachers are 3rd rated, the parents are full of themselves, and the society has become a hostage to religious sentimentality). If you want your kids to not go astray, teach them their Music (which is Indian by the way) so you wont have to complain no more.
i will try to answer from a cultural point of view. this 'love, ishk, mohabbat' etc is a major part of the indian, and consequently, pakistani culture. every indian and pakistani knows about the lovestory of radha and krishna, the hindu god and goddess of love. since their love is appreciated in the indian culture, it is depicted in various forms in different cultural practices i.e. movies, music, poetry, literature etc. all the 'zinda rehti hai mohabbaten' and 'sohni mahiwal' stems from the myth of radha and krishna. while its nothing to worry about for an average hindu/indian ... pakistanis tend to have a hard time swallowing the 'love is supereme' ideas. they find themselves confused between a cultural choice (or lack thereof) and a religious obligation (of not appreciating the given set of cultural practices). and its for the same reason that we have issues like 'is music haraam?' and the religion and music crossbreed called 'sufism'.
now if you compare the situation to the kind of media we have here in the west. western music usually focuses on social problems, politics, injustice etc. and rarely countrylife. and again, their music reflects what their society values more. one might declare that west doesnt value love as much as it is concerned over social problems. for example: a lot of black rappers wrote songs about how they were treated unfairly etc. rock bands made music about politics, civil war, etc. i hope you see point i am trying to make.
moreover, its a lot easier for a pakistani yougster to write a song about ishk pyaar etc than to write about indo-pak relations. lets face it, the hindi/urdu language is so sweet that it expresses love and making better than anything else. and to top it off, this is not the first generation that has been labelled as going astray, its been like this in every age ... they are supposedly going astray not cuz of the message of pyaar vyaar they are getting from the popular media but because they are intriduced to the works of His Tharkiness mirza ghalib, mir taki mir etc at young ages. iqbal was an exception in this regard but even his work isnt purely revolutionist.
on a sidenote, imagine an urdu song about academics. i dont see it making the top 20 of any given week let alone inspire a generation.
Its seriously pathetic :o