The lunchtime news at DZMM radio today announced that PNoy wanted the radios to play OPM songs on their stations.
There is nothing new to this. When I was in college and that was around the last part of the 1980s, the radios were actually required to play four OPM songs within the hour. All FM radios complied to this law. I used to listen to the Rhythm of the City 99.5RT, and I remember the DJ at that time sounding a little bit obliged for having to do such. I remember I heard her saying it with a sigh that it's time to play an OPM song now because we radio stations are required to do so(in which they complied), and a Filipino song started to play, but not necessarily in our language.
I actually feel good to hear that PNoy is starting to revive this law (if it were ever abolished). It gives a chance to our very own artists to be heard on the airwaves. I am not a radio listener nowadays, but it's still good to hear this drive.
But I have one point to make.
I am not a fan of revival artists. I actually sometimes hate the fact that a lot of songs are revived by young artists and I actually even branded one Filipino singer who is well-known for reviving songs. I called her 'Reyna ng Revival' (Queen of Revival). If I am not mistaken, she has an album that contains revival songs all throughout. Not an original composition from some other Filipino composer (but I am not entirely sure on this).
I just hope that when the law gets implemented, radios will play songs that are originally composed by our very own talented composers and sang by our very own talented artists. Otherwise, the song is not entirely original in its true sense.... unless of course, the old song is also from our very own composers.
Let us be clear on this.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
OPM on the Airwaves
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8/15/2010 05:01:00 PM
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