i remember listening to this album which came with a book of lyrics/music scores and art by sybil wettasinghe iirc. afaik the melodies were her own. they are simple ofc but given they are children's songs I wouldn't mind it at all. still, the overall composition is soothing with the right level of sophistication imo.
about her voice: yeah it's kinda unique. i've heard rumours that studios sometimes processed her voice to make it more soothing. (u can hear some reverb in the above album, too. given that the album released in 1986 (notice it's before the cursed 88/89 which forever changed her), i wouldn't think they had autotune those days).
was she overrated? maybe some put her on a higher pedestal than others. like any other artist that is the case. one can argue every artist is overrated. but imo in general people adored her for exactly what she was, not more not less. after all, amaradeva gave her the title of honour ජාතියේ යශෝ රාවය (src).
fun fact: she was 9 years old when she sang බුදු සාදු song (75+ years ago! let that sink in
) which is still heard today (src: 2 minutes into the vid they are name dropping some greats which is very sad because we no longer have such characters now working together. maybe im wrong idk. i hope im wrong). rip nanda malini.
about her voice: yeah it's kinda unique. i've heard rumours that studios sometimes processed her voice to make it more soothing. (u can hear some reverb in the above album, too. given that the album released in 1986 (notice it's before the cursed 88/89 which forever changed her), i wouldn't think they had autotune those days).
was she overrated? maybe some put her on a higher pedestal than others. like any other artist that is the case. one can argue every artist is overrated. but imo in general people adored her for exactly what she was, not more not less. after all, amaradeva gave her the title of honour ජාතියේ යශෝ රාවය (src).
fun fact: she was 9 years old when she sang බුදු සාදු song (75+ years ago! let that sink in
) which is still heard today (src: 2 minutes into the vid they are name dropping some greats which is very sad because we no longer have such characters now working together. maybe im wrong idk. i hope im wrong). rip nanda malini.
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පට්ටම Overrated. අහන්න පුළුවන් එක සින්දුවක්වත් නෑ. Viral වෙන්න හිතාගෙන සින්දු ගහන්නෙ මෙලෝ රහක් නෑ. මාලිනී බුලත්සිංහල ගෙ සදකැන් දහරින් කියන්න ගිහින් එකපාරක් හෑව
පරණ අයගෙන් ක්ලැරන්ස්, රූකාන්ත තමයි මගේ taste එක.
