What Should Be The Genre?

This question comes across every once in a while. We have always seen in the past that solo performers classify their songs under a particular genre like Jazz, Blues, Pop, etc, whereas Motion Picture Soundtrack artists or Bollywood music composers are versatile and manage to compose songs over different genres.

I haven’t necessarily thought it through since I am not sure if I want to pursue it as a career one way or another. These compositions are solely based on the melodies that come to mind. Surprisingly, as an audience we are constantly exposed to songs from different genres and hence it seems any melody that may occur to us could belong to any genre.

However, if there is an opportunity to present these songs to a music company or even for any audience to get a grip of one’s song compositions, should it be necessary to classify your songs under one genre? Would it make more sense to someone if you had to present 10 song compositions and that every single one of them felt similar to other; that way the person listening to would understand your style. Or whether every single song should be different? Would it happen that then the audience wouldn’t know your style and hence songs would be nothing more than just plain simple noise … Well, that’s the question that constantly haunts me. May be I should have a poll for this.

Also, I must admit. I am naive when it comes to music. I have so far being able to classify these songs under different genres. But honestly, the visitors who truly understand music would declare it wrong. So the easy solution to this (came from my wife) should be to let the audience decide your song genres.

So today’s song is a little towards the Sufi style. But I could be wrong. I will let you decide, what do you think should be the Genre?

Lyrics …
[Mukhda]
Tumhise roshan hai zameen
Tumhise roshan asmaan
Tumhise payi har khushi
Tumhise har din hai jawaan

Aeh meri zindagi tu jara
Suntole dhadkano ki zubaan

Tumhise roshan hai zameen
Tumhise roshan asmaan

[1st Antra]
Suni Suni lag rahi ...
Tere Bin Zindagi ...
Chaye dilpe khamoshi ...
Dur tu jab chali ....

Tumse hai saikdon jannate ...
Tum ho kya tum nahi jante ..

Tumse hai saikdon jannate ...
Tum ho kya tum nahi jante ..

Aeh meri dilnashin tu jara
de to de darde dil ki dawaan

[Repeat Mukhda]

Sunto le dhadkano ki zubaan.mp3