Living in Sri Lanka, being a Sri Lankan, we get to hear more patriotic songs than probably anywhere else in the world. As of the recent past, it's becoming a way for talentless, ugly idiots to get attention, a marketing strategy rather than any way to entertain people.



It's as if people just see those songs and go "They are patriotic. Let's support them" I do not agree with such people. I think a song should be appreciated for what it means to the person who sings it and what it means to everyone who hears it.



I used to like, and still to this day, like the songs that they made in the past, maybe up to the mid 1990s, after which the market became way too competitive and commercialised. What people and artists (and so-called artists) didn't realise was that Music is not all about money. Rather, music is about making people happy or making people realise something they have not already.