Strings Feel New Patriotic Songs Lack Soul

Come August every year and the airwaves are flooded with patriotic songs. Whether its old videos or new, all music channels seem to go green with patriotism and every public place you go, you are welcomed by the beats of patriotic anthems. It’s great that the kitty of songs keeps increasing but Strings’ Bilal Maqsood feels that the newer songs – even their own – don’t have the same impact that classics like ‘Sohni Dharti’, ‘Ay Watan Ke Sajeele Jawanon’, etc do.

“In those songs, you can sense that they’ve been written from the heart,” he said while speaking to GEO News correspondent Huma Imtiaz. “They had simple words, no chorus lines, but they had a greater impact. The songs made today are just not the same. Yes people jump up and down and dance at concerts, but it’s not the same thing.”

Strings feel that this August 14, it’s high time that Pakistanis start making a difference and stop waiting for things to happen.

“It can be small things”, says Faisal Kapadia, “but we and especially the youth of the country, have to start somewhere.”

We feel that the musicians of this country have always done the nation proud, whether it is classical singers of the golden era – like Noor Jehan and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – or modern pop artistes like Strings, Atif Aslam, Ali zafar and of course, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Pakistan’s musicians have always been brilliant goodwill ambassadors for the nation!

Source: Instep Today