Leron Leron Sinta is an old Filipino folk song I learned to sing when I was in elementary school. This fun cheery old tune is a basic song every Filipino child learned during the time when gentle cows and mild water buffalos has started to diminish its presence in the streets of the city.
I actually wonder what songs does young tots has to learn in preschool nowadays. I won’t be surprised if teachers nowadays would coach their students Beyonce’s “All The Single Ladies” and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. Haha! Good thing I am not a preschool teacher because I would definitely teach my young innocent pupils the classic Sophie B. Hawkins song entitled “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover!”
Regressing a little and in reference to Leron Leron Sinta, here’s one new cool version I discovered and have been listening to in the past seven mornings. The Hawaiian version!
Since I have been watching and looking forward to it for the past 5 years, I pretty have much of an idea about a European subculture known as the Eurovision Song Contest. I can say that I am one of the very few Far East Asians who is aware about Eurovision. In fact, I have written a couple of blog posts about it. (Click here post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4 to prove it).
Because of this pretty adequate idea about this spectacular European annual event/contest, I indeed enjoyed and had a good laughter while watching the Netflix movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.
I thought at first that it was some sort of a documentary of how a band and a song was developed that eventually garnered the highest point in the contest sometime in the 1970’s. But after seeing that it stars Will Ferrell, it made me realize that it would be something funny and comical.
And I was right when I was already laughing at the side-splitting scenes of the film. It was a riot! I was so thankful that I have a pretty good idea about Eurovision that is why I appreciate and enjoyed the movie so much. My enjoyment and amazement were amplified when I saw some of the previous contestants and winners rendering some precious song numbers in the movie. Even the campy queer vloggers who would discuss about the contest every year in their vlog were in the movie.
And since the movie is about the fortunes of an inept Icelandic band, Fire Saga who got the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream when they were selected to enter the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, the songs sang in the movie were indeed Eurovision-worthy. These songs were so like the Eurovision entries in the past: big, provocative, motivational, emotive yet very eccentric.
I particularly loved the song Husavik. If this song is an entry in the actual contest, it would indeed garner decent number of votes from the judges and the public. Lion of Love is so funny yet so Eurovision! Volcano Man is one fitting example of an eccentric Eurovision representation. Since the movie is delightfully funny, I am particularly in love with the song Ja Ja Ding Dong! In fact, the scene where the way it was requested to be sang in the movie was so hilarious!
The movie was a fantastic funny parody about Eurovision and I indeed was laughing! I love it!
I can’t remember the number of times I wrote that the sound of the Portuguese language seem to be the most emotive and most passionate. I don’t know anybody from Brazil nor Portugal but every time I hear someone speaks this language, I feel nothing but awe and amazement. There must be something in the resonance and reverberation of the Portuguese language that stirs my nerves and neurotransmitters to get impassioned, kindled and go raving.
you? what language your don’t speak and understand yet move you? comment down below…
I felt this weird feeling again when I recently saw a YouTube vlog post of a well-admired social media content creator who used a touchy background music in his wedding video. And upon researching about the song, I was not surprised to find out that the song was in Portuguese.
I don’t understand a single word of the jingle, yet it moved me. Here’s the poignant and moving song entitled Tocando Em Frente as sang by Anavitoria.
When this music video was just 2 hours old, it suddenly was one of those that was fed and recommended videos on my YouTube. My guess is because this song’s theme, lyrics and impression truly reflects my online persona and algorithm.
Almost all blogs had a 2018 New Year post except me. Though 18 days late, let me then post my 2018 New Year post. Let me feature my 2018 New Year song entitled This Is Me from the movie The Greatest Showman.
This Is Me is so me. After listening to the song and watching the lyric video, I could not help myself from not tearing up. The message, the lyrics and the tune really cuts deep. With my eccentricities, my weirdness and my oddness, This Is Me fully represent my being me.
This post maybe late for 18 days yet I know I will face the year 2018 with much courage because I am brave, I am bruised, I am who I’m meant to be THIS IS ME! Life’s hurdles for 2018 may be inevitable and I may not be The Greatest Showman but I’m not scared to be seen, I make no apologies THIS IS ME!
With the poor showing and popularity of my blog which I tweet every time I post a writing, I have admitted a long time ago that my blog has been a part of surplus of internet space. My tweets in particular are a waste of Tweeter space. It deserves a room inside a black hole at the edge of the universe.
But of all Tweets! From the mass and heaps of tweets about John Splithoff and his bouncy song Show Me, one of the tweets he happen to have liked was MINE!
the precious tweet. hahaha!
And as soon as I was notified about Splithoff’s liking my tweet, I cartwheeled, I somersaulted and I raised my fist out into the air and shouted OMG! John Splithoff doesn’t know how elated I am when I saw the red-colored heart on my boring, flat and uninteresting Tweeter account.
can’t believe this! pinusuan!
the artist (photo taken from his tweeter account)
Thanks John! I promise that my Spotify account will be on a repeat-single-song mode (if it has that) so as to listen to Show Me for the whole 30-minute duration of my treadmill walk at my gym tonight.
This has been my gym-treadmill-music for the past week
After hearing series of newly released songs in my Spotify account, I can conclude that music released nowadays seem to sound the same. And this makes Show Me by John Splithoff stands out from the rest. The beat is vibrant and the rhythm is cool! The tempo is just perfect for those who wish to walk and lose a couple of pounds on a treadmill.
Though it may be silly, another thing I love about this release is the poster. It’s a reminder of the famous Madonna pose!
The expensive Coldplay concert was recently concluded in Manila. It was not surprising that it was jam packed and very successful. It was Coldplay! But I did not watch. The reason is because I would rather see and listen to Elbow than Coldplay. And like Coldplay, Elbow is a British band.
elbow (filipino translation: siko)
Elbow is one of the most underrated bands on the planet. The difference between Coldplay songs and Elbow songs is that in the former, the songs would have to grow in you before you start liking it. But for the latter, while listening to their songs, you would instantly fall in love and instantaneously adore their music.
Elbow is the kind of band that sings lyrics and utter phrases that I thought would never be though abd uttered. The notions of their songs are the type of thoughts that I would like to express that I can’t seem to construct inside my crazy and inadequate brain. And because Elbow seem to possess such an amazing talent, I therefore like them.
Here’s a couple of songs of Elbow which for sure you would instantly fall in love with…
And while in the middle of the “famousity” of cloudfront.net in Facebook (which everyone seem to have downloaded so as to check who’s their celebrity look-a-like), here’s a hypnotic music video for the song Gentle Storm. I was entranced watching the video, I thought I saw my face in it! Hahaha! And by the way, I so loved the lyrics especially the line,
Gentle Storm,
Range away
And fall in love with me.
Fall in love with me,
Every day
The song is so me!
I hope one day Elbow would be as successful as Coldplay because they indeed deserve it. And I hope and pray that one day they would perform in Manila. That would be one show that I would definitely gonna pay for.
Nengkoy 