Musika

I really enjoy how things happen. One thing leads to another and then another and then another and you just see how things unfold. Today I ran across a tweet from someone I follow talking about how Tuesday night's American Idol was a really great episode and I happen to catch it this afternoon. This led to a series of big surprises on the show which were a lot of fun. But one thing that I wasn't expecting was to hear a song that I am currently enjoying a whole lot right now, Sugarland's Stuck Like Glue.

Earlier this afternoon I finally watched the much buzzed about song by Rebecca Black. I can absolutely understand how people find it funny and interesting just cause the lyrics are so inane. It's almost like Rachel Berry's song about her headband. Well, she is young and when she gets older she'll probably be embarrassed about all the hoopla the song has caused. But I can't blame her for trying. Someone once said to write about what you know and that's what she knows.

But I am writing about all of this because I feel like music has changed so much over the years. People used to be more romantic and mushy. Music used to be more elegant, beautiful, sophisticated. There was a sort of pride in the swells and it felt more emotional. Now I'm not trying to discount today's music but come one, is Friday's, "We-we-we so excited!" really something to get excited about? Okay, granted she's only 13 years old and she is writing to her audience but I just feel so sad that this is what popular music has become.

I'm not going to continue anymore as my intention for this blog wasn't really to hate on Rebecca Black's song. I just miss what music used to be.

Video

Okay, so I have been slacking off for the past couple of weeks. It started off innocently when I couldn't find time to write since I went home to Davao for the weekend and it was one thing after another. Then a week later, I just wasn't feeling up to it. But, I know that I shouldn't add another day in my procrastination streak or else I'd just end up not writing again and this time out of sheer laziness... unacceptable. So, take that procrastination!

Anyway, what have I been up to the past few weeks? Well, I have been busy making this office video for Monday. See, dad demanded that host groups during the flag ceremony ought to have a presentation of sorts for the agency. It can be a game or an activity or in our case, a music video. I was really happy when my officemates said yes to my proposition. Not only was I going to not have to perform live in public, it was going to give me an opportunity to be more flexible in creativity, something which I didn't realize I was sorely missing.

So, this coming Monday (21 March 2011), Dedet and the EA's will be debuting their first ever music video :) I'm actually looking forward to it. I had a dry run of sorts this past Friday when I showed the video to Mother (dad's secretary) and Marie, one of the other EA's. Plus a bunch of other people started watching and to be honest while I wished they waited for Monday, their reactions to the video made it worth it. I at least got what I needed to know, that the video is indeed okay.

I won't be posting the video here if you were thinking I might. I don't want to post it online either. First off, the song we used isn't mine so I shouldn't post it online anyway, but for some reason I want to keep this to myself. I have all of these unexplained feelings I've been getting the past months. I'm not exactly sure what's happening.

Okay, so I must apologize for this post. It doesn't really make sense but I just wanted to write. I'll try to do better next time... until then...

Bits and Pieces

I wish I had the time and energy to write about how crazy this past weekend has been but since I don't have the luxury of either I will just give you a funny occurence between Ate Suzette and someone:

"Kaning kumintang ba, maayo baya ni sya sa cancer."
"Unya, ang para kang mam?"

Heehee :) Until next week folks!