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I think it's time for the former vocalists of South Border to record an R & B album. |
One
lunch time a few weeks back, I heard a tune on the radio. My friends and I just
drove back from eating at some Timog Avenue
establishment and as we looked for parking space, I heard this tune.
The
music was called Rocketeer and while
I don’t really dig R and B music, I
was a fan of this tune.
The
first thing I noticed was that it resembles South Border’s Ikaw Nga. Ikaw Nga was the soundtrack of the hit TV
series’ Mulawin. Aside from the love
affair of Richard Gutierrez’ Aguiluz
and Angel Locsin’s Alwina, the song
was instrumental in bringing a lot of viewers.
A
friend then told me that Duncan Ramos
and Vince Alaras collaborated on the
song. They were the voices behind the Ikaw Nga whose music and lyrics were
penned by the legendary Jay Durias. The
song really sounded like as if Duncan and Vince were singing and I didn’t mind.
Again it reminded me of Ikaw Nga and to some extent, South Border’s The Show. It sounded fantastic and I
predict that “Flaaaaaaahahayhayhaaayyyyyyyyyy”
would rule the airwaves and will have a slew of singers and wannabe singers
singing it in either Party Pilipinas,
PO5, or ASAP.
A few
years ago, I thought for sure Eargasmic
was a foreign song but to my surprise, it was sung by Mobbstarr. You might not know them but they’re more popular under
the name Dice and K-9.
Remember
Itsumo?
Here’s
Eargasmic if you want to check it
out.
But
then it was final – that joyous and hap’nin tune never came from a Pinoy group.
The song was sung by a group called Far
East Movement where they featured Ryan
Tedder to since Rocketeer.
I won’t
say whether or not the song was a ripoff because I think it’s not.
However,
you can’t mistake that the chorus seriously sounds a lot like Ikaw Nga.
It’s
nice to hear that for once, American music sounds a lot like Pinoy music.
So perhaps maybe it's the right time for South Border, Freestyle, True Faith, and Side A Band (perhaps a re-imagined version) to moved out to whatever place they are hiding because their showband music is seriously the "in" thing again.
Game
over.
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