MUSIC MONDAY: Save the World by Swedish House Mafia

July 13, 2015July 16, 2015 / iamsupercarla / Leave a comment

I fell in love with this song when I was on my way home, tired and spent from work and school. Traffic was everywhere and the heat was (then) on. It almost sounded like a call for you to still rise in spite of the odds.

20150713 Swedish House Mafia - Save the World

Only that at that moment, the odds were your daily routine. All of it can become so burdensome, you forget the purpose behind what you’re doing. We wake up, have breakfast, endure the commute, 9 to 5, then commute (worse than the morning), arrive home, heat up leftovers, go to sleep. It’s can be an endless cycle.

But you work to provide for your family, because you have bills to pay at the end of the month, because you want to help your parents out, because you want to get that promotion…

Because your company needs you, because you want to progress, because your country needs your service.

Then I heard this song and I remembered there are more people out there whose days are just about to start, whose hours are longer than mine. Most of them are forgotten or not even acknowledged. But they wake up, eat, commute and work their own version of 9 to 5, running the lights and the sounds at night, sharing the same goals and dreams that we have.

So yeah. Who’s gonna save the world tonight then?

Must be these adorable dogs. <3

MUSIC MONDAY: That’s All by Frank Sinatra

July 6, 2015July 7, 2015 / iamsupercarla / Leave a comment

Our Saturday meetings have recently been my source for these posts, and to be honest, they’re not bad at all!

As the term slowly reaches the finish line, we found ourselves growing much closer to the cafe employees and patrons. A couple of weeks back, one of the regulars made sure to stream his music throughout the cafe, and we ended up having a music-filled writing session.

This weekend, though, we revisited some classics. I remember first hearing this song from my cousin’s same-day edit video. She was one of Jason Magbanua’s first clients and the version he used from their SDE is the one with Gary Granada. (You can watch it here.)

At first, we were struggling to find out who’s the original version. Then, one of my co-mentees dropped that line: Frank Sinatra. Of course. That’s the only voice that would feel like you’re being courted and wooed from head to toe.

Plus it doesn’t hurt too, that you’re surround by grounded people with old souls.

That’s all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SINfqtCq0lY

MUSIC MONDAY: What Might Have Been by Lou Pardini

June 29, 2015 / iamsupercarla / Leave a comment

The day almost passed and I almost failed to put up my Music Monday selection. I was this close to not forgiving myself. Hahaha.

Anyway, the past few weeks have been quite turbulent for my thesis writing. Not only am I uninspired, my raw research data just continues to expand, meaning I have more to read and edit and filter and select as deemed appropriate for my thesis discussion.

For a moment there, I failed Prof Ben too, when work overtook schooling. Ideally, there should be a balance but the scales have been tipped and only a good amount of 80s music can even it out again.

For that, I would like to thank Gelo of Kaffe Caffe. If it wasn’t for the heartbreak playlist, I wouldn’t be the prodigal daughter that I am today.

I’m ready this time
I know that I’m no longer undecided

Let’s finish this shit with a bang so I can finally do my 30-second dance party.

MUSIC MONDAY: Battleships by Daughtry

June 22, 2015June 21, 2015 / iamsupercarla / Leave a comment

I first fell in love with Chris Daughtry when he sang Hemorrhage in the before-the-live-show round in American Idol. That was a good seven (or some) years ago and even though his elimination from that season is still a shock, he has since more than pulled himself back together. He immediately formed a band, Daughtry, and churned out songs that were easy favorites.

LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 20: Musicians Brian Craddock, Robin Diaz, Chris Daughtry, Josh Paul, and Josh Steely of Daughtry arrive at the 2011 American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on November 20, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

It’s very tough to beat country rock for some space in my heart. Hahaha.

While Home will always be my top Daughtry song, I must admit this took up some space too. Even with all the booms.

Maybe it’s the wisdom of being a married man that’s why he always has the best lyrics.

20150622 Battleships by Daughtry

I wonder if that wisdom is automatic because I am excited as hell to be married to my man too.

MUSIC MONDAY: Lupang Hinirang by Joey Ayala

June 15, 2015June 8, 2015 / iamsupercarla / 2 Comments

I love our National Anthem, and that’s not because I work for the government. I sincerely love it. The lyrics are so romantic and so well imagined. When you read it, it sounds so hopeful and optimistic, the very same spirit that stirred revolutionaries.

So it doesn’t make sense to me why it’s sang as a march.

Joey Ayala was right; we, as a people, are very melodramatic. We have had our fair share of struggles — from colonization to natural disasters — and we have emerged, although quite scarred and traumatized, alive and victorious. All these struggles is not something you march to.

I didn’t even know that TED Talks are hosted here till I started with graduate school in 2012. This is a happy revelation. If it weren’t for these forums, I don’t know where else this new ballad would be debuted.

20150615 Lupang Hinirang