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By the end of the telephonic interview with Shakthisree Gopalan, who has released her new original Nee Podhumey, it seemed clear to both of us that the conversation, that tangentially slipped into different topics and in which she would often deliberate at length before arriving at her responses, could make for a decent podcast. For the purposes of this piece, I have tried to piece together the most interesting bits from the long chat, in which she talks about not caring about the number of views, the slow disappearance of songs from Tamil feature films, and the rise of the indie music scene.
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Making art is like a visceral churning, a painful twist of the heart sometimes and a frantic pull of the brain in directions unknown until the work is rendered complete. Women artists have had it tough, even when the world wasn’t hit by a global pandemic. Right from disparity in fees to the kind of emotionally violent trolling they face online, women artists continue to fight all kinds of gender inequalities. And this year, the Indian indie music scene witnessed a remarkable number of releases by women from across the country, extraordinary because 2020 was just 100x complicated. Here’s my list of favourites out this year.
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His pop-inspired single, titled ‘Is It Sunny?’, released recently. “I’ve always been a fan of pop, both old and new. There is a certain charm to interesting pop music which I hear in so many of my favourites like Norah Jones and Tom Misch. Being able to blend pop with just a little bit of jazz was exciting and somehow didn’t feel alien to me,” says the musician.