By Leica Carpo, Publisher
Sunday Inquirer Magazine
FAMILIARITY breeds contempt and with music, this is most painfully true. Here’s a short list of my all-time pet peeve “overplayed” songs in random order of disgust:
1) “Just Got Lucky” (JoBoxers) — Which I sort of liked until it became the noontime anthem of “Eat Bulaga!” (a guaranteed song killer)
2) “Macarena” (Los Del Rio) — I had a classmate named Macarena in grade school who seemed nice enough with a few odd traits. This song just reminded me of her “weird” side. The funny dance steps which were aped by everyone from 2 to 80 did not make the song any cooler.
3) “Funky Cold Medina” (Tone Loc) — I actually remember people attempting to dance “their version of the wild thing” in a few clubs in San Francisco and to this day, the memory still makes me ill.
4) “Ice Ice Baby” (Vanilla Ice) — Like Vanilla, this one became just “plain ol’ irritating” because it’s so cocky.
5) “Can’t Touch This” (MC Hammer) — Arghhh!! It’s Hammer time and no matter how “bad” the lyrics are, you just can’t help but sing it… It’s disturbing because it sticks in your head no matter how much you try to shake it loose.
6) “The Ketchup Song (Asereje)” (Las Ketchup) — How can three mildly attractive girls sing a song that hurtles to global fame then crashes and is now the equivalent of baduy? Deejays actually shudder when this song is requested at weddings.
7) “Why” (Annie Lennox) — This was a decent song until my mom made a 90-minute tape of it and played it every day for months every time we got in the car. Now I hear it and feel car sick.
Any song by Rick Astley — the surefire dance floor filler — overplayed to death and all blending into each other that I can’t recall any of them. It’s a feared collective.
I’m stopping now before I start to recall all my horrible experimentations in karaoke — but that’s another story which could possibly be even nastier than this one.
For another look at music and the good folk who make them, check out the May 18 issue of the Sunday Inquirer Magazine.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Willie Revillame’s songs are the bee’s knees. I would like to thank him for making a lot of Filipinos more stupid by just listening to his songs.
Filipino bands who makes parodies. There is no talent in that. If you think by murdering other people’s songs into your own and putting a hilarious twist and cussing on it are cool, you are mistaken. Again, I thank you guys for making more Filipinos idiots and foul mouths.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:50 am
Some people will find some of those songs as the BEST songs every written. I think the blog is quite insensitive. Hey! We all nodded our heads when we hear those songs you marked as WORST EVER.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
You forgot to include all Willie Revillame songs!
May 18th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
includes all the local band song all baduys
May 17th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Are you kidding?
This is like the funniest article i have ever read…
most of the songs you have mentioned are the most famius international songs where you can listen to at any place in the world especially Macarena and Asereje.
This article is based only about your opinion which i respect, but those songs are highly requested when people wanna dance and enjoy their time.
So i am sorry to say that you’re totally wrong.
Thank You