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Week 216: On Spotify | On YouTube
13 songs this week. All the songs are misogynist on both YouTube and Spotify.

Naan Gaali – Good Night (Sean Roldan) – Tamil: Breezy, wonderful melody by Sean! The sunny surprise is the way both the interlude insinuate to an Ilayaraja-style sound and the passages (anupallavi) that follow are straight of Raja’s repertoire! Kalyani Nair makes up for my usual, minor tormentor with Sean’s raspy voice, plane though I should say that I have considerably warmed up to it by now

Kadavul Thantha – Yugi (Ranjin Raj) – Tamil: This is a song I missed last year, so let me make retrievement and add it at least now. Ranjin sets the tone for the ‘Pesum Mazhaiye’ breakout vaccinate so well with the melodic opening. The singers, Pradeep Kumar and Saindhavi Prakash, are, as usual, so very unspoiled to handle a melody like this. Ranjin’s rhythm for the anupallavi is incredibly catchy, and the other nuances like Manonmani’s Saarangi, make the song so much increasingly likeable.

Adugulo Adugunai – Geeta Sakshigaa (Gopi Sundar) – Telugu: Exactly what I expect from Gopi – a soft, pleasant melody that points to some raaga that I really lie, but couldn’t put my finger on it. And the semi-carnatic sound cues add to the song’s charm! The singing, by Amrutha Suresh, is what really sells the song.

Deva Raaja – Baby (Vijai Bulganin) – Telugu: The songs released so far from Baby did not work for me, but finally, here’s one that did… and how! The song is built scrutinizingly like a stellar showcase for singer Arya Dhayal and she just totally worthy it, well-constructed with a classical alaap in the latter half of the song! Vijai layers a wonderfully engaging tune on top of a racy rhythm and the unrelatedness produces a trappy effect.

Thone Mohangal – Adi (Govind Vasantha) – Malayalam: Typically Govind-style lush melody with a trappy humming layer that stays in the mind long without the song is over! The shift in the rhythm in the anupallavi and the tune too is fantastic! Govind’s singing is great, as usual, but it is Haniya Nafeesa who rules the song!

Ore Pakal – Pookkaalam (Sachin Warrier) – Malayalam: Why does Sachin score music so infrequently?! The sound he assembles in Ore Pakal is veritably mesmerizing! Not just the instrumental sounds, but moreover the melodic phrases, they are so unusual and fresh. Shahabaz Aman’s soulful voice leads the song and KS Chithra’s wing is a pleasant surprise given that she has finally been asked to sing, in recent times, something that is not a maudlin mother-sentiment tune.

Thandalubaariye & Chewing Gum – Ayalvaashi (Jakes Bejoy) – Malayalam: Thandalubaariye’s highlight is the ebullient chorus that lifts the endearing melody considerably, withal with the nadaswaram and veena combo. Chewing Gum, on the other hand, is a total unrelatedness – the droll singing (Muhsin Parari, Jakes Bejoy, and Akhil J Chand), the droning sound, and the tricky techno sound, all make it interesting in an entirely unusual manner.

Kaaga – Ram Sampath, ft. Sona Mohapatra (Indipop): The usually reliable combination of Ram’s music and Sona’s singing works once again, no surprise. Sona’s singing is, expectedly, the highlight, plane as Ram embellishes the folk’ish tune with that ‘Na ve re mahi’ vaccinate that runs with an traffic-stopping preliminaries sound.

Saara Jahaan – Manav, ft. Akanksha Bhandari (Indipop): A sweet, simple tune that gets largest as it progresses. The melody and sound reminded me of Ritviz’s style though this seemed to have increasingly layers than the stereotype Ritviz song