<p class="title">Academy Award-winner AR Rahman has said that the trend of recreating retro songs in the industry is nothing but a shortcut to creativity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The composer said recreating classics is a safe, reliable "plan B" for artists. "It (recreating songs) is a shortcut to creativity. When they are doing a movie and they have a release date and don't have something good enough they say, 'Ok I have plan B' and then do this. That's what happens," Rahman told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said though there no one way to make music, things work differently in the West. "Ideally a musical, what they do in the West is, they write the songs; the actors do their workshop, they play the music, tweak the screenplay and then it is finally made. So all that stuff is done before there," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahman was speaking at the launch of Nexa Music, which aims to provide aspiring Indian musicians a platform to compose original music and lyrics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is one of the mentors for the participants, four of whom will get a chance to do 12 live events with the NEXA Music mentors across the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The composer said there are a growing number of aspiring singers who put their work on the Internet but that does not promise quality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Because of the Internet, today there's no wall preventing someone to express what they want and put it out. But in the sea of so many things -- mediocrity and greatness, everything is jumbled up. You can't find where the diamond is," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahman said the trick is to be self-aware and accept that even one's flaws could be original. "Sometimes the mistakes you make is an original thing. No one else will make the same mistake. Self-realisation is most important and it is also an art. It's important to realise that even your flaw is original."</p>.<p class="bodytext">What helps him, Rahman said, is the self-realisation. "I look at my music objectively. I have 20 different ideas but I pick one. So you are never in the 'whatever I do is gold' zone. I filter and give it to the people. Then they filter and then it comes in. If something good is left out, I keep it for myself and develop it."</p>
<p class="title">Academy Award-winner AR Rahman has said that the trend of recreating retro songs in the industry is nothing but a shortcut to creativity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The composer said recreating classics is a safe, reliable "plan B" for artists. "It (recreating songs) is a shortcut to creativity. When they are doing a movie and they have a release date and don't have something good enough they say, 'Ok I have plan B' and then do this. That's what happens," Rahman told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said though there no one way to make music, things work differently in the West. "Ideally a musical, what they do in the West is, they write the songs; the actors do their workshop, they play the music, tweak the screenplay and then it is finally made. So all that stuff is done before there," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahman was speaking at the launch of Nexa Music, which aims to provide aspiring Indian musicians a platform to compose original music and lyrics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is one of the mentors for the participants, four of whom will get a chance to do 12 live events with the NEXA Music mentors across the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The composer said there are a growing number of aspiring singers who put their work on the Internet but that does not promise quality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Because of the Internet, today there's no wall preventing someone to express what they want and put it out. But in the sea of so many things -- mediocrity and greatness, everything is jumbled up. You can't find where the diamond is," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahman said the trick is to be self-aware and accept that even one's flaws could be original. "Sometimes the mistakes you make is an original thing. No one else will make the same mistake. Self-realisation is most important and it is also an art. It's important to realise that even your flaw is original."</p>.<p class="bodytext">What helps him, Rahman said, is the self-realisation. "I look at my music objectively. I have 20 different ideas but I pick one. So you are never in the 'whatever I do is gold' zone. I filter and give it to the people. Then they filter and then it comes in. If something good is left out, I keep it for myself and develop it."</p>