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Music: Big help for society awakening

Music: Big help for society awakening

By Daniyal Shah

LAHORE: All of us are aware of the changes and problems these crucial times have brought to our country, lives, jobs and businesses, but we are adapting ourselves to these lives as human instinct would do and simply because we have no other choice.

Who would have thought that things would be this bad for this long that even the music culture would adapt to this crisis.

Artists who used to write songs about love and life now write about bombs, guns, hunger and power shortage.

“Mei nu bijli dai, mei nu paani dai, mei nu aur na koi kahani dai”, this small yet very blunt verse from Ali Azmat’s song “Bumb Phatta” says it all. He uses a direct approach and talks on behalf of the nation demanding electricity and water instead of false hopes and promises.

Various artists have produced songs and videos to convey their message to the nation, to give us a much needed wake up call and what better way to convey a message than music. Even though they would sound and look fun and entertaining but they hold a deep message in them which some of us completely ignore. When issues like this start to become a part of our culture, entertainment and daily lives, it is no longer the time to stay quiet but it is the time to rise as a nation, or eventually we will get so used to living in these crisis that it will no longer be thought as a major issue.

Although we are all aware of the issues highlighted but when our own artists start producing songs in order to make the masses realise in what a bad situation we are in, this should ring some alarms or raise some flags!

Our selection of some of the best examples of such songs are as follows: Ali Azmat – Bumb phatta, Shehzad Roy – Laga reh, Haroon – Go saab jee, The Laal band – Zulmat ko Zia and Coven – Ready to die.

Ali Azmat takes things to another level with his new single “Bumb Phatta”. He provides a detailed yet confusing to many video to go with his lyrics. He provides characters to define the bigger picture relating to the facts and the state our country is in due to greater powers controlling every move in our beloved Pakistan, he also defines how these powers are able to gain access to create such destruction, through people who have taken oaths to protect and rejoice our nation .

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Having a steady income can be important. Normal office hours from 9 to 5 can be southing and can bring some order in your life. This… does not sound very much like me… in any day job my hours were more like 10ish to 6ish and maybe even later…ish. I don’t feel a lot for a day job with all the regularities, managers and regular payment. I’m more a guy that get’s out of bed, does work when he wants to, is his own boss and gets paid whenever he is working.

Okay, I have a day job. I could consider this as a bad thing. Working in an office by day so I can work as a hacker at night. But I’m switching that definition around. My freelance work became my day job and my day jobs allows me to do the cool stuff.

I stated out early as a freelancer. My first websites were made for my friends, family and other fools (the three F start-up clients). I started doing other work with companies and I got more and more picky on what kind of project I wanted to do. I discovered that as a web-developer my work was always done in about 1 to 2 years. After that the project was either finished of failed. As I’m not someone to do maintenance and client support issues, I develop software!

My jobs became more project based while my freelance clients were beginning to pay more and more. I had to hire other developers to do work for me and I currently run an operation with about 10 developers, designers, photographers, animators and other freelancers at the same time. I discovered that not just my skills as a developer mattered but even more so my network. About 70%-80% of my clients are connected to previous clients. Apparently I do a good job at keeping the customer satisfied.

This allowed me to take on a day jobs that were more and more experimental en innovative in nature. Not paying as well as other might the job satisfaction for me was so much greater that these projects were better. Finding a project has always been an interesting challenge. Recruiters trying their best to get your attention and companies that have interesting vacancies. It has always been a problem how to get to interesting companies that are not on the map yet!

In many cases I found it to be more like dumb luck than a good search. I got picked up by Joost Technologies almost by accident as I looked for a place to do research for school. My latest project was an interesting choice between two projects of completely different backgrounds. I picked the one that was furthest away from what I already did. I made the right choice as the other project has not even begun to taken shape and will probably be dropped before it even started. This gets us to another problem. Picking a project that is at that initial stage and will get to actually start. A bit of gut feeling and some research does wonders.

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