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Mumbai, Maharashtra: In 'Melody, Meaning, and the Music Within,' Leslee Lewis reflects on his musical journey, emphasizing the power of strong melodies, honest emotions, and simplicity in composition. He shares with IANS about recording music organically, the timeless nature of meaningful lyrics, and his passion for blending rock and roll with Indian sensibilities. Leslie shares his views on independence, rebellion in music, the impact of technology and AI, and the evolving concert culture in India. Looking back at his influence on India’s independent pop movement and forward to new creative journeys. He said that "true music should be felt from the heart, not judged by numbers."


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00:00Thank you very much. It's wonderful to be here.
00:05Sir, first of all, I want to know that you have said that the same songs are written and the same songs are happened to you.
00:11Without you, what happened to you?
00:14What happened to you?
00:16You have been feeling a new change.
00:18You have been feeling a positive or emotional that you have become a soul of this song.
00:23The soul of the soul is in my heart.
00:26The soul of the soul is rock and roll, the energy is the same as before.
00:31But I think that this song is different from India.
00:34It's one of my heart.
00:36But this is the topic that I'm talking about.
00:39I saw that India has a lot of conversations in the market.
00:44I've been telling you that one girl is in the city.
00:49And they have divorced and divorced.
00:53And suddenly, the girl has a job transfer.
00:58Because all the people in the corporate work are doing so much work.
01:01Suddenly, the Bangalore changed.
01:03Now, the girl is doing what is doing.
01:05And she will go.
01:07But the heart is not broken.
01:09The separation is not broken.
01:10The problem is not broken.
01:12But if she went to Bangalore and she had to leave her here,
01:17Then the angst is the fact that she is in the middle.
01:20That is the fact that you are not my, you are not my, you are not your.
01:22How the hell am I supposed to love you?
01:24You are going to my place.
01:27But what do I say?
01:28So, this is the logic that this is happening in young India today.
01:33Due to corporatization.
01:34So, this is a lot of situations.
01:36And I think many people have understood the song.
01:38So, this one is a bit of bitterness.
01:39So, this is a lot of bitterness.
01:40Without that matter, the simplicity is maintaining também.
01:45At present time, the country is quite challenging.
01:48If you look at my work, I am an artist, I am an artist, I am an artist, my friend, I am an artist,
01:55they are all simple songs.
01:57In simplicity, if your melody is strong, if your melody is strong, then you can play a guitar
02:05or play a guitar or play a orchestra.
02:08For me, there is an organic feel like you are listening to your name.
02:16It's a one-take feel.
02:18The whole recording is done in one take.
02:20Start to finish.
02:22That's why it's organic and electronic.
02:26It's purely live.
02:28That feel I feel good for people to come.
02:32I am happy that the old figures like the old figures like Lata Ji, Kishore Ji,
02:38we were recording together, sitting in a while,
02:42just recording the song.
02:43It's been a long time.
02:44It's been a long time, it's been a long time.
02:45It's been a long time, it's been a long time, it's been a long time,
02:46it's been a long time, it's been a long time.
02:47Now, you say that the song is the excitement of your first time.
02:52Or when the melody is strong, it's still going back?
02:58When I was 17, 16, 17 years old,
03:03I was singing guitar, I was singing.
03:06That energy is now.
03:08It's been a long time.
03:09I'm presenting the new songs.
03:12And my feeling is that when I was 17, 18, 16 years old,
03:16I was feeling new to sing, singing guitar,
03:20that energy is now.
03:22And that passion is now.
03:24That's why you have some energy in the song.
03:27So it's all.
03:28I'm singing from my heart.
03:29I'm singing from my heart,
03:31just like I was singing at that time.
03:32Then, Rock and Roll is not a series
03:35that's some emotional statement.
03:36So, as you start this journey,
03:38your intention was your nostalgia,
03:40or re-discovery or reinvention?
03:42Before I released Rock and Roll,
03:45I had a album release, The White Album.
03:48There are six songs,
03:51they are both romantic.
03:52They are all six songs,
03:54but every song is very different from each other, but it's totally romantic.
04:00After that, I started the next series, Rock and Roll,
04:05which is my dream of rock and roll, and also India's dream.
04:11Rock and Roll is an old and new.
04:26So, all the six series of rock and roll songs,
04:30and all are different.
04:32Every song of this series is respect and heart,
04:35or is it a conscious rebellion against algorithm-driven music?
04:41Rebellion, I think it's a rock musician,
04:45that's what it's inside.
04:47It's a rock, which is a rebellion.
04:49And now it's more rebellion.
04:53But the whole world needs to be changed.
04:57We need to adapt.
04:59How do you feel like closing the circle?
05:04Is this ending more personal or symbolic?
05:07It's completely, like I said,
05:11a song is personal, a feeling is personal,
05:15and my album is Rock and Roll.
05:17There are five songs already,
05:19and it's the last song.
05:21Obviously, it's a closing feeling,
05:23what I have been playing.
05:25I've been singing, I've been singing, I've been singing, I've been singing, I've been singing, I've been performing, and also I'm a video.
05:33So, its a full circle of independent artist will show you.
05:39Sir, your melodies like Pari, Pall, Parihume, Bombay Girl, Decade, Class is relevant.
05:46So, what does your melody make a timeless?
05:51I think that like Parihume, Jyanam, Dosti, Pall,
05:57those songs are timeless because their composition is very strong.
06:04Their lyrics are also good.
06:07So, when a song is good and a good composition,
06:12and a good singer goes forward,
06:14then the song becomes timeless.
06:19In the fast consumption era,
06:22what do you think about listeners' slow-feel-based music?
06:27I think that everyone has so much speed,
06:31and there are so many problems,
06:34and their work-space,
06:36there are so many tensions in their work.
06:38So, the song is a slow song,
06:40and if they sing the right melody,
06:44and sing the right heart,
06:46then I think that people like it.
06:48Because when it comes to their personal time,
06:51they get a song to relax.
06:54You've heard about the song in India's independent pop movement,
06:57from the Vitek's.
06:59So, what do you think about the Indian artists' work,
07:01and what are you worried about?
07:03What are you worried about?
07:05What are you worried about?
07:07That's a long story.
07:08There are so many years I've been working on,
07:09and I feel like I'm doing this year.
07:11But it's good to feel that
07:14in today's time,
07:15in 2020-2025,
07:16I'm still current.
07:18I'm still hearing this song.
07:19I'm still hearing this song.
07:20I'm still hearing this song.
07:22Yeah, I think that's it.
07:24Oh, so I'm going to be a good song.
07:26I'm going to be a good song.
07:28I'm going to be a good song because it's a lot of young audiences.
07:30It's a trend that people are listening to Instagram.
07:32So I'm still very relevant today.
07:36So I feel that I'm going to be very happy.
07:38That I'm going to be a good song.
07:40I like my songs.
07:42I love my songs.
07:44Sir, you've been a good song.
07:46You've been a good song.
07:48You've been a good song.
07:50You've been a good song.
07:52I've had maybe a good song.
07:54You have heard from the background in a whole generation.
07:56I've been a good song.
07:58Definitely the whole generation of people.
08:00I was eaves.
08:02If I am a good song, I am going to be learning.
08:04All the songs got blew into my mind.
08:06I was a band of boys.
08:08All the songs were wrong.
08:10And I was doing my job that to make them a star.
08:14So this song our songs got great.
08:18I think I've been doing a lot in the 90's and now I'm doing a lot of work, I'll collaborate
08:30with OTT, cinema, I'll listen to my songs.
08:35But I'm very excited that I'm doing a song for myself.
08:41Like the White Album and it's a Rocking book.
08:44Sir, The Hulk Studio, MTV's first season of Indian music culture came into the game.
08:49So, if you look back and see the experiment, what do you feel the most?
08:56The Hulk Studio Season 1, when I did the whole season, I did the whole season.
09:0251 songs, and 40 days I did it.
09:06It was a lot of work, but it was so exciting.
09:09I got a chance that India's music, the folk music,
09:13how to mix it with contemporary and modern music,
09:16how to mix it with fusion, drums, bass, guitar, tabla, flute,
09:20how to bring it together.
09:21After that, I thought that every college,
09:25when I saw it, there are little new bands,
09:28there are some tabla, some drum, some flute,
09:31and that's the effect of Coke Studio.
09:34I thought that Coke Studio has made a change in India.
09:38I thought that you have made a change.
09:40Sir, you have heard the classic and modern sensibility.
09:43So, how do you make the originality and respect?
09:47How do you make the balance?
09:49When I do reinvent,
09:51I think that the old thing that I must reinvent,
09:55what's the other thing that I want to do?
09:57What's the same thing?
09:59What's the real thing?
10:01What's the coverage?
10:02If the song is sadness,
10:03the pain, the joy, the feeling,
10:05the emotions, I have to bring the new song.
10:09I have to bring a new song so that when we were young, we were angry, sad, happy, and so we are human beings.
10:20If I bring someone else to this generation, it's a good thing and a special thing that I can keep.
10:30And I bring another sound from my own.
10:35Sir, without you, I feel like a personal conversation is going on.
10:40Is Leslie Lewis more honest or just more fearless?
10:47Leslie Lewis is first of all fearless.
10:50So you have seen that every song is removed from the whole system.
10:54But everyone likes it.
10:56So I feel that it's a fearless thing.
10:59I feel that I feel good and I feel good.
11:08And my good luck is that people don't listen to me from the 90s until now.
11:15So that's me very good.
11:17Sir, in the music industry, there is a new thing that people are doing with AI.
11:23So do you think that AI should be able to take a lot of food or help you to take a lot of hands?
11:30I feel like AI is a new phenomenon.
11:36It's very powerful.
11:37It's very powerful.
11:38It's very fast.
11:39It will take a lot of things to take a lot of things.
11:42But if we work with AI, then we become a master.
11:48We become a slave.
11:49The main thing is that you become a master and you become a slave.
11:54And you become a slave.
11:55So you become a slave.
11:56It will be a good tool that you need to take a lot of things.
11:59And it will take a lot of things.
12:01So I think AI is a fantastic tool.
12:03Like computers, you can type in documents.
12:06Copy-paste.
12:07Copy-paste.
12:08Copy-paste?
12:09No.
12:10No.
12:11When you go to college, the calculator is used.
12:14Why?
12:15That's the tool.
12:17So you have to use this tool in a right way.
12:21So that will come very well.
12:23And it will meet a lot of things.
12:25It will come very well.
12:27There are so many concerts in the middle school,
12:30and there are many concerts.
12:31And there are so many of these concerts from the festival.
12:33In the concert culture, the festival...
12:35That's there are so many such concerts of the festival...
12:40So you don't have to come together,
12:42and that'll then come together with the banditre.
12:44We offer some way of the festival,
12:47and have been gathered here with the festival.
12:49It's called the festival...
12:50What is the culture of the concert in India has come new.
12:59If you look at America and Europe, the concert culture is very early.
13:04Their infrastructure has been set.
13:06At that time, they had a problem.
13:09They have set it.
13:11Now, young India is in the entire concert mode.
13:14India is also learning what should happen or not.
13:17If you look at the concert, they have to give a little time.
13:22But they have to keep their attention with safety.
13:26Because people are coming, they can do anything.
13:29So definitely, they have to see that the whole venue or stage,
13:34the lighting rigs are safe and they can fall down.
13:37So definitely, but I think India is a new territory for concerts.
13:44And slowly, I think that will also be in the international class.
13:49Now, when there is a chapter of rock and roll,
13:52is this a song or a new musical piece?
13:57The rock and roll series has been set.
14:02The White Album, Romantic Songs.
14:05The rock and roll, the whole rock and roll.
14:08They have to be in the air.
14:09They have to be in the air.
14:10They have to be in the air.
14:11The rock and roll.
14:12And once again, the rock and roll is on the air.
14:13Now, I'm ready.
14:14I'm here.
14:15I'm not gonna give a hint.
14:16But I'm gonna know that the next series will come,
14:19that what will happen?
14:20Because the music is a lot of fun.
14:23And the young India is always going to sing songs.
14:28I feel good, but it's not good.
14:30I feel good, I feel good.
14:32I am an independent artist, I am saying my own songs.
14:36Sorry?
14:40Audience.
14:42Audience.
14:44Audience.
14:46Audience.
14:48Audience.
14:50YouTube.
14:52Music.
14:54Don't go to numbers.
14:56You think there are a number.
14:58That's the big difference.
15:00Only numbers.
15:02Should I just play it?
15:04On the guitar?
15:06No.
15:08No.
15:10No.
15:12No.
15:14No.
15:16No.
15:18No.
15:20No.
15:22No.
15:24No.
15:26No.
15:27I am a McKee.
15:29Yes.
15:30Are there any music going to tune in?
15:31No.
15:33Nobody used to tune in singing.
15:34I am trying to tear it upon the guitar
15:36Because your music will repeat in a entire band.
15:40No.
15:44What do you want me to say?
16:00How do I know I am? You are my love
16:04I share it for you
16:14My heart is mixed with my heart
16:17Love that's so true
16:20My soul is my knowledge
16:23My soul is my knowledge
16:27I have loved you
16:30What did you do?
16:32My man, my man, my man
16:36Baby, how the hell am I supposed to love you?
16:39How the hell am I supposed to love you?
16:51How the hell am I supposed to love you?
16:53How the hell am I supposed to love you?
16:58You

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