The love-hate relationship

Irony is the taste of life. Don't really know if thats an original, but that does fit into the current article very well.
How often do we find that the biggest ironies come in real life, and go quite un-noticed by most of us? Quite often, actually. And this is one of those instances.

What is the first song you heard on radio when you are in a traffic jam? The traffic jam is probably the most confined place in the world! I assure you, it is the one place in the world you can't run out of. And, its the one thing which you have go through if you live in any place with a population greater than... well, in India, you can have a traffic jam even in the loneliest of junctions. And thats not a contradiction. So, now that we are in the greatest place in the world, we would like to make our lives a little worse. And the radio is the only companion, besides the sweat and the humming AC. And there you have it... the one song you never wanted to hear, the one song which everyone in India knows but wish they didn't, the one song which ostracizes its patrons. Its a song with a very deep nasal trademark. Its one of a million, the rest 999,999 songs playing on the other stations. Its a Reshmmiya song.

I would like to think that the world hates the songs, because poor HR is the punching bag for any journo who can't make up the lines for the page 3 script. But that isn't quite the case. It definitely isn't. Because as you surf thru the channels, all that you find is the one trademark voice, the trademark background music... well, even the copyleft pain!

And thats my point. How come the media criticizes a singer who rules the airwaves? and whose pics are on the telly more often than our prime minister (not Sonia!) Manmohan, albeit with a cap always! Its quite an irony that an apparent "idol", is rubbished by the very popular media, and still retains his status, at the least! One of the million ironies in India... "we love to hate HR" or... "we hate to love HR"?

What was I doing when I heard HR's songs on my radio, well, i turned the radio off, and listened to my iPod, which btw, has no HR songs. :)