TOP 14 Finalists of PhilPOP Music Festival
Himig Ng Panahon: Timothy Anjello Alfaro
Bigtime: Trina Belamide
Dulo ng Dila: Noah Zuniga Cabalquinto
Slowdancing: John Kennard Eleazar Faraon
Minsa’y Isang Bansa: Gary Granada
Brown: James B Leyte/Jezreel S. De Oca
Kesa: Edwin Marollano
Piso: Kristofferson B Melecio
3:00 AM: Keiko Necesario
Takusa: Byron Ricamara
Tayo Tayo LAng: Ronaldo M. Sorioso
Kontrabida: Soc Villanueva
Negastar: Michael Angelo Santos Villegas
Bawat Hakbang: Karl Vincent H. Villuga
I heard the teaser of each song already and in my honest opinion, only 4 got my 2 thumbs up. If they are serious in reviving the dying OPM, we should target bigger market. Make a song that makes the whole world wanna hear. Take a look at K-POP, imagine how much Koreans earned from their international fans. Selling CD's, goodies and concerts. What's their secret? It's not even a secret actually. It's pretty obvious. Why not we learn from them? Filipinos can even sing better than them!!!
Anway, songs like 3:AM and Slowdancing are some of the best songs i've heard written by an amateur which i'm really proud of. We have tons of amazing singers here. Even Ellen DeGeneres said that "Some of the best singers are from the Philippines". It's a big waste of talent if there are no great songs for them to sing.
Well actually, there are lots of great Indie songs out there waiting to be heard. Seriously? Some of those are even better than those songs above.
Also, i noticed that most of the adjudicators are males, no wonder only 2 females got in out of 14 slots. And yes, you can hear the pattern of the winning songs.
Stop singing revival songs, stop making a pop song acoustic or Tagalize a Korean or Japanese or English songs. It's time to upgrade OPM. Wake Up!!!!
Did you know there's an ongoing controversy on the 14 finalists. Two of them are found to have violated the rules. You can watch the evidence here on this vid: #Philpop Scandal
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/mFXJxd6AY6M
Singers are complaining that OPM are dying and yet, they are the same people that sings cover songs on ASAP. I hate ASAP because all they do is do covers, making pop songs acoustic and singing songs that were just released. It's like making a bad song worse by doing a bad cover.
ReplyDeleteIf they want OPM to be alive, they need to expand their horizons, write their OWN songs, and be creative. Write something else besides love and sing something else. Filipinos need to sing something else other than love ballads. They need to explore other genres, Filipinos are good at music but they're wasting their talent doing covers.