💬 Old Hindi songs make you wait before anyone sings

Last December my daughter visited and drove us around Jersey with her playlist on shuffle. She skipped every song after about 10 seconds. I asked why. She said, I knew by then if I liked it. At a red light I took the phone and put on an old Kishore Kumar song I love. It starts with 50 seconds of violins and a guitar before anyone sings a word. She lasted 20 seconds. Then she reached for the screen and I said, no, wait. She said, nothing is happening. I said, that's the bit you wait for. By the second verse she'd gone quiet and by the end she asked what it was called. She typed the name into her notes. I felt like I'd won a small court case. When I was a kid my father had one cassette player and 11 tapes. Each tape had one side I loved. You couldn't skip. You pressed fast forward and guessed, and half the time you landed in the middle of a song. So you sat through the intros. I know every one of those violin openings by heart. I'm not saying new songs are bad. My daughter's playlist had at least 3 I liked. On the flight back to Melbourne she played it again and sent me a message from the plane. She said the violins made her a little emotional, which I did not expect from her. I've now made her a list of 6 old songs, with the longest intros first. She will hate 2 of them. I'm fine with that, because I hated some of my father's too.

The long instrumental parts in the middle are what I miss, those 30 seconds where nobody sings. My father plays the same 6 cassettes on drives to Warangal and I know every gap in them. I'd push back a little though. Some old songs are 6 minutes of the same line,.