Palash Sen: The whole system today has made music like a condom

Singer Palash Sen says the situation today for music in India is very unfavourable, compares to it being used and thrown away like a condom.

Palash Sen is not happy with what music has been reduced to today, which according to him, is “like a condom”. He explains and says it is all because of the commercialization of it.

Singer Palash Sen recently released a new album along with his band Euphoria.

“You go buy it, use it and throw it. I think the whole system has made music like a condom,” says the 56-year-old.

He adds that it is not about the merit anymore. “If you can buy a radio spot, Facebook ads, radio ads, media space, you can be way ahead of somebody who actually had a better song. That is something of great worry. Why do you think India has only Bollywood music? It is because Bollywood has the maximum money, they have the money to push it and buy things, Eventually, it is not good music but the only music you get. It is actually a very big worry,” rues the Maeri singer and a member of the band Euphoria.

Talent thus is not getting enough chances to trump money power, according to the singer. He says, “Somebody else, who might have a better song which should reach the people, will never reach them, and some crap will. Advertising space has been bought. The problem is, I might be sounding like a prude or a very traditional guy… but I eventually feel things like music, writing books, is art, is sacrosanct.”