I Hope You Can Write Your Own Songs
Bato bato sa langit ang tamaan huwag magagalit! Opinyon lang po mga kababayan!
I can’t take it anymore! Honestly, I’m so tired of hearing the same songs every day. If you can notice, some singers nowadays just revive songs and earn money from it. Before the “Revival Era” of different songs was made, I feel fine about it, some singers said that they were inspired by the song’s message, I’ve got no problem about it. But days have passed, I noticed that all I can hear on the radio was revived songs. It’s fine with me if the revived songs are better than the original, but it’s a slap on the face on the original artist who made the great song and someone just made a crap out of it. It is also fine with me if they will include a revival on the album they are going to launch, but it’s a big “NO” from me if they will launch an album which contains all crappy revived songs.
Here’s another thing it’s not about revival, but it’s about producing another version of the song. If you’re the artist who made the song, and after a week someone will produce his/her version of it, what can you feel?
I can still remember when Lady Gaga launched “Poker Face”, as expected, a week after the song’s debut, two different artists made an acoustic version of the song, one sung by a guy (his version sucks, honestly!) and one was a version made by a girl, who launched her album containing different songs WRITTEN and LAUNCHED by other artists and all she did was made an acoustic version of the songs.
In a forum in Pinoy Exchange there’s a thread about “Why do OPM artists never get tired of reviving songs?” I feel so glad when I realized that I am not the only one tired of the same thing. Click the link to read all the comments on the thread.
Here are some comments that I like:
“pwede naman silang gumawa ng sarili nilang cheesy and mushy material. Why revive that so much?… Tribute albums are not bad, pero minsan gumagawa sila ng ganun to the point na may mali na”
“May mga artists na walang kwentang mag-revive. You see, hindi naman namin sinasabing masama mag-revive. Pero masyadong marami na at yung karamihan pa ng revivals eh puro crap stuff. May mga revivals na imbis na binubuhay yung kanta, mas pinapatay pa nila. They are doing a huge injustice to the song”
“why they don’t get tired of reviving old music? money, money, and more money baby …”
“easy money pala pag di ka ganun ka creative and inventive sa songs hehehehe. Basta sikat yun kanta….me itsura yun singer…maganda boses…..patok na hehehe”
Again, bato-bato a langit ang tamaan ‘wag magagalit! This is just my opinion, I intentionally removed the names of the specific artists because I don’t want to add disgrace on them. I hope this post will reach them.
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:00 pm
i agree… it was good to listen to old song s with new versions for some time. until it grew tired and uninspired. even gary v. did his own revival album and it flopped. pinoy songwriters are a talented-bunch…. let’s not put good talents to waste…
Semidoppel Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Finally,someone with thoughts like mine. Thanks for dropping by sir
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:31 am
Releasing Stress
August 24th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Tama tama. Mas mainam talaga yung gumawa sila ng pangalan nila from their own songs. Hindi yung puro na lang revival. TSk tsk.
Semidoppel Reply:
August 25th, 2010 at 5:52 am
uu nga..twag ko dun eh leech mode
Semidoppel Reply:
September 12th, 2010 at 12:31 am
Linkmates nb tau idol? parang dp ano hehehe, wer u from po?
August 25th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Agree!
Ang mga musikerong hindi nagsusulat ng sariling kanta ay mga karaoke singers lang.
Naremember ko tuloy yung song ng Asin na Sayang Ka:
“Sayang ka pare ko kung ikaw ang musikerong walang nagawang kanta. Sayang ka kung ikaw ay ang taong walang ginawa kundi ang gumaya.”
Semidoppel Reply:
August 25th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
tama ka jan dude! Hay sana mabasa nila ito..spread the word hehehe