Perspectives

I was listening to “Boulevard of broken dreams“, one of my favorites of Green day on one of the radio stations in bangalore. During the course of the song, Billy Joe Armstrong sings

“Read between the lines..
whatz fucked up and everythings alright”

In a desparate effort to conform to what is plausibly Information and broadcasting ministry’s regulations..they had to insert a beep. Unfortunately, I heard the entire god-forsaken word before the beep arrived. I couldnt stop bearing a smile.

That got me thinking how they do this entire music censorship! I mean, does someone sit and listen to all the songs waiting for the adult word and insert this beep ? Or, does the censorship board take all the songs that has ever been and run it through some voice recognition system that can insert the beep? Can this system identify Billy Joe Armstrong’s fuck and Dave mustaine’s and James Hetfield’s?

Wow! That must have been the most amazing voice software ever written. AFAIK, even Google is having trouble recognizing people speaking, forget singing

I am a big fan of RajniKanth, just like entire Tamilnadu.

Sivaji, probably the most awaited Tamil film ever is coming soon. There is no official word on when, but I hear it is roughly around May 8th. Sivaji’s music, scored by isai puyal, A.R Rahman is out of the box now.

Vijay fernando of hummaa.com, just told me you could listen to sivaji’s songs, first and completely legally, from hummaa.com. Hummaa, based out of bangalore, has been around for a little while now and it is a Indian film music lovers’ paradise. They are basically a streaming music service covering pretty much all indian film music in most major languages.

Check it out if you havent. And it seems to work fine on firefox & linux. Good work guys.