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Pulang Nihirang

By Wild Ice
Pinoys are very addicted in reviving songs. We have revived many songs that our modern artists make album as if they're just singing in videokes. Just let them take a mic in a videoke and they make an instant album. If asked if they were able to popularize a song, please shoot them if they think they own that song.
Maybe this was in the mind of Arnel Pineda when he sang the national anthem. He thought he owns the song, so he had to make his own version, just like the bigger number of "Original" Pinoy Music artists we have now.
We need to have great respect for our country, the heritage our heroes entrusted to us modern pinoys. We need to respect the song as it is. The problem is, when Arnel Pineda sang the National Anthem "Lupang Hinirang" before the fight of Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey, he wanted to end it with a very high note that would mark in the minds of Filipinos. Well, it sure did, in a different sense.
You see, I have nothing against Arnel. And I totally agree with his passion in being "artistic" when he claimed that it was for his "artistic freedom" to sing the anthem that way. You get the greatest privelege to sing the anthem in front of the whole wide world, take the opportunity. He's the biggest star in music at that moment---everyone is, once we step out to pull our lungs out with the patriotic lyrics drooling out of our tongue. But you see, this proves how much we want things to go our way.
We're not dignified as ONE filipinos. If we want to sing it this way, who the hell can stop me? I just want to make an impression. But let's not forget, WE ARE A SLAVE TO THE ANTHEM WHEN WE SING IT; The anthem should not suffer to our own will.
We want to make it more beautiful. WHY? It's already beautiful. Actually, the anthem may end in a different note, the one sopranos in most choirs do when they do the voicing. It was accepted, I heard either Regine Velasquez or Sarah Geronimo use that note at some special event I can't recall. The anthem may end in a high note, but still it is the one approved by the National Historical Institute.
NHI is not overreacting. They are trying to preserve the dignity of our National Anthem. They just want to set things straight---they are not trying to grab our attentions far from any other issues. They just want to prove that there is still a group that secures our history, and everything involved in it, will never be altered because it should be WHAT IT REALLY IS.
Forgive Arnel Pineda. Singing "Lupang Hinirang" in front of billions of people worldwide is a huge pressure. What he should realize, and every artist should also, is that the National Anthem will always be as it is. That is what Julian Felipe, the composer of the song but not the Filipino lyrics, composed for the Filipinos in all generation as a symbol of our freedom, our dignity, and our undying love for our motherland.
Let's be united, us filipinos. We keep on wanting our own desires to be the one accepted by many people. It's time we act as one, and by acting as one, we need to be firm. And singing the national anthem is one way of staying firm. It never changes in time, because it is what it is... And it is one heck of a magnanimous composition that painted the Philippine air,and the whole world, through the years of filipinos free from the grips of foreign claws.
 

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