00:00 I've given a lot of blessings to us.
00:02 But that's what I really want to happen,
00:05 to open this door.
00:07 We wrote "Badal na Aso" in 1993.
00:22 I was a student at the time in UP,
00:26 Diliman College of Music,
00:29 major in guitar,
00:30 minor in sitar.
00:32 By the way, sitar is an Indian instrument
00:36 with two pumpkins on each end.
00:39 George Harrison of The Beatles also used a limited number of sitars.
00:42 "Badal na Aso" is about hypocrites.
00:52 It's an idiom
00:53 that we found in the back of a dictionary,
00:58 Filipino to Filipino dictionary,
01:00 that we always use
01:01 while writing.
01:04 We don't have anything against "Badal na Aso."
01:08 The intention of the song,
01:18 to me, it's like
01:20 it's not about you, it's about me,
01:23 about myself.
01:24 Why don't we move to teachings
01:28 about progress, happiness?
01:32 The stories of our brother, Jesus,
01:37 about not being judged.
01:41 When Dong arrived at the gate of our house
01:50 at 7 in the morning,
01:53 he told me what happened to him in the jeep.
01:57 "I met a woman in the jeep"
02:02 I told him that it's a beautiful song.
02:05 When I heard it,
02:06 I scanned the chords,
02:08 I went down to E minor and C.
02:11 When I heard it,
02:13 that's the tone I was facing in the jeep.
02:17 Until...
02:18 "The woman is still cheap"
02:21 That's where the tone started.
02:23 The tone of the chorus
02:25 is just a transition to the basic melody of the stanza.
02:29 That's why the chorus became heightened.
02:32 The refrain, "What are you doing?"
02:34 is in the middle.
02:35 Dong and I were frustrated
02:49 when we found the chorus.
02:51 Because we first made the first stanza.
02:55 After that, we made the second stanza.
02:59 The...
02:59 "A man is studying on the street"
03:05 We just made it.
03:07 It's like fiction.
03:09 We repeated it.
03:11 Then, I scanned the chords
03:14 to go to the chorus
03:16 to inspire us to add chorus words and lyrics.
03:21 But I still went down to E minor
03:24 when we found the "Holy dog, holy horse"
03:28 at the back of the dictionary.
03:31 When we sang that,
03:33 of course, the tone became higher.
03:34 I still became consistent with the chords of the stanza.
03:40 Even I was able to reach that.
03:42 "Holy dog, holy horse, I'm laughing"
03:46 Dong and I laughed.
03:49 That became the next line,
03:51 "I'm laughing."
03:52 We kept laughing.
03:54 Dong thought of "Hehehehe."
03:57 "That's okay, Dong. Let's do it again."
03:59 "I'm laughing, hehehehe"
04:04 "Now..."
04:05 "Ah, beautiful."
04:06 I said, "That's it. The chorus is complete."
04:09 "If you're new, you'll be disappointed"
04:14 "Don't know how to dance, eh, baby"
04:19 "Oh yeah!"
04:20 What I can say about
04:22 the production of "Chickenini" by Parokya and Edgar,
04:25 I respect them because
04:28 their style is spoof.
04:31 We know that in spoof,
04:33 you get the original material
04:35 and then you make a twist out of it.
04:38 You're the one who made it.
04:39 I'm even happy because
04:42 we called their attention
04:46 to make a spoof.
04:49 Because
04:51 they also make foreign spoofs.
04:55 So I'm happy that they made us too.
04:59 They haven't been released yet.
05:00 I told myself,
05:01 "I wish they made a spoof of themselves."
05:05 Then they made it.
05:07 It came out well.
05:09 Parokya and Edgar are good.
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05:17 Until now,
05:18 this year, 2021,
05:20 since we wrote it in 1993,
05:24 the song is still there
05:27 that was passed down to the children
05:32 until they became grandchildren.
05:34 I never thought that it would have
05:38 that kind of impact.
05:40 Banalaso changed the song
05:43 that was not known before.
05:46 Now it's more known.
05:49 It's like the recognition
05:53 from the beginning to the end,
05:55 from the ocean to the mountains.
05:59 That's why it became a sweep in the country.
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