That’s when Cynthia Alexander’s “Comfort In Your Strangeness” dropped from the sky like a magic spell. Our “alternative music” explosion had yet to produce a love song for freaks Eraserheads’ “Pare Ko” and Yano’s “Senti” were great, but they were universal affirmations that lacked the outsider appeal of something like Radiohead’s “Creep.” Another Western alternative phenomenon that had no local counterpart: the introspective female singer-songwriter. In the mid-90s, the Philippine alternative music scene was flourishing - Eraserheads, the local Beatles, were in their “Rubber Soul” phase dream pop was all over the radio with the success of Sugar Hiccup’s debut album, "Oracle" and Rivermaya was proof that the scene was an expanding business, open for franchising. Cynthia Alexander - "Comfort in your Strangeness" (1997) PETRA MAGNOĮditor’s note: Click here for the mechanics of how the list was put together.Ģ5. In listening to songs that almost every Filipino knows by heart, I feel more alone than ever. Couldn’t translate Sugarfree lyrics, couldn’t explain the concept of tadhana. Couldn’t bear to put it on in company, or to play it for anyone else. After reading the list of songs below, I made a playlist of all 25 of them, but I found myself listening to it sparingly. Yet I find that I’m never in tune unless I’m singing in Filipino.
Now the only karaoke machine that can fire up “Bakit Pa?” is in my aunts’ living room, and I’m never there. Whatever poured out of a passing jeepney once leaked, tinnily, from my officemate’s headphones. Gone are the days when I could hear a Filipino love song out in the wild. How close is the product to that which produced it though? I believe that nowhere are feelings more pure than when they’re in a Filipino love song. “What the lover needs,” writes Carson, “is to be able to face the beloved and not be destroyed.” This is why we create things like music we need something to exist in our stead, to contain the feelings that would rip us in half if we housed them for too long. “I talked for hours to your wallet photograph,” sang Rivers Cuomo, “You laughed, enchanted by my intellect, or maybe you didn’t.” Hugot is hardly self-conscious, though, and while “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here” remains a love song, Cuomo is too self-conscious to have achieved hugot he’s escaped the damage by disavowing it right away.Īnd yet the Filipino love songs counsels, “Huwag mong ikatakot ang bulong ng damdamin mo.” And yet the Filipino love song asks, “Ilang awit pa ba ang aawitin, o giliw ko?” The Filipino love song doesn’t suppress, and the Filipino love song doesn’t tire. Western love songs in the ‘90s adopted sardonicism, or awkwardness, as armor against the violence inherent in hugot. The most admirable quality of hugot is that it is essentially avowal upon avowal, and the most admirable quality of a Filipino love song is its core of hugot: guileless in the confessional, sans irony, sans armor. While not all hugot becomes a Filipino love song, all Filipino love songs are hugot. It’s essentially a violent act to drag something out from within, to dredge up something that was meant to remain concealed. Hugot, as a process and not yet the product, is violent. The beloved object is far from you, and so you pull the feeling from within yourself with even greater force. Lack is its animating, fundamental constituent.” Hugot, the quality of confession, is produced in that lack. So in defense of hugot - how painful it must be to be so constantly pained - it’s been around for a long, long time, and it’s here to stay.Īnne Carson in 1986, inadvertently describing hugot: “Simultaneous pleasure and pain are its symptom. Before the word was appropriated to mean watery slam poetry and Twitter tautology, hugot was the core of the Filipino love song. Hugot: to yank out, to pull from deep within.
"Give It Up to Me," Sean Paul feat.Manila (CNN Philippines Life) - What makes a Filipino love song remarkable? Plenty - omnipresence, singability, quotability - but what makes a Filipino love song remarkable amongst all other love songs is hugot.īear with me."Get Low," Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz."Lady Marmalade," Mýa, Christina Aguilera, Pink, Lil' Kim, Missy Elliot."You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This," Toby Keith."Let's Make Love," Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.You might want to turn a fan on because this playlist is too hot!
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