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inspireme, I agree with you. modi23, relax.
There are 2 main types of captains out there. One is mostly concerned with putting together a fun routine and going to competitions to have fun. The other is mostly concerned with putting together a unique performance and going to competitions to test the merit of his routine.
inspireme is of the second type, as am I. When a team competes, we look for originality and innovation, because that is how you advance an art form. This means that when you put together a routine, you take into careful consideration what has already been done. Although the range of theme, music, and choreography may seem limited, captains of the second type take on the challenge of staying fresh and expect other teams to do the same.
modi23 is of the first type. Like you say several times in your post, you did raas for fun and for people's company. You also assert that captains simply do not have time to go through all of the videos of other teams due to a heavy workload. If captains are not willing or interested in making time to keep track of what has been done, then they should not be offended when they get called out for repeating music, choreography, or a theme. Maybe a captain didn't intend to "steal" a significant element from another team, but if he didn't take proper measures to prevent such "theft", then he has no excuse for when it happens.
When it comes to music, I agree with RML when he says "it's how badly you actually want to look for it." There is a lot of Gujarati music out there that teams can use other than common, played-out songs. New music is hard to find, but if originality is important to a captain, he'll look until he finds new material. (Even if a team uses a common song, they can still remix it to make it different and their own.) The point that inspireme was trying to make (or at least what I took from his post) was that even teams that win national competitions are getting away with using old music that has already proven to work at competitions. Where is the effort and risk in using music that has already been heavily used in competition? There is none, so using old music does not advance the competitive raas dance form. Like anamika said, a new song is fresh and exciting to hear, so the only reason why teams keep repeating the same music must be because captains don't realize the importance of music or just don't care enough to look harder. (Another reason for overlap is that when you pay someone to make your mix they'll often remix a particular song and use it in mixes for multiple teams.)
In short, if you really are in raas only to have fun, then do whatever and use whatever and don't care what people say. But, if the artistic elements of a competitive raas routine are truly important to you, then you better have the original or creative material to back it up. (And if you do, no one will accuse you of "stealing.")
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