Where have our composers gone?

[the_wildthing]

Where are the Filipino composers who made really nice love songs in the last century? Lyrcists who are poets... who write from the heart... who can say exactly what YOU feel?

It seems every other new artist is simply rehashing old hits and putting them into an album. Maybe it's a good formula to make a quick buck for the producer. It seems the songs we sing to are still the same songs we heard when we were younger.

You take an old hit, get a good singer to sing it again, and you have a 50% chance of another hit. It makes good business sense. Even ABS-CBN takes hits from the last century and asks Erik Santos or some other singing contest champion to sing it.

Is it because there are no talented composers anymore? Have the current ones lost the inspiration?

Is it because the producers are under pressure to make more money because of the cost of producing an album? Can they no longer pay for original work?

Is it a sign of the bad economic condition? More new artists and more new songs seem to have been produced during times when the PHISIX was on a prolonged uptrend.

Maybe there's Ogie Alcasid. But he usually contributes just one song to another artist's album. And even then, is it a hit? Can you sing it from memory? Maybe you will remember more of his songs from the 90s.

Surely there are artists writing songs of angst, broken hearts, or even politics, but rock songs generally don't need good lyrics.

So where have they gone?

[BlueBimmer]

composer ba si kitchie nadal? hehehe

[the_wildthing]

Yeah, nice songs din, pero rock yun eh.

[ILuvDetailing]

Mas nauso ngayon mga Alternative Songs. But your right the wildthing puro remake na and sooner or later magsasawa na yung listening audience kung puro ganyan ang linalabas. Masarap minsan pumunta sa mga KTV to reminise on those old love songs

[artpogi]

Maybe Jim Paredes, Danny Javier, Jose Mari Chan, Rey Valera and the likes should start writing again.

Jim Paredes and Jose Mari Chan are very good composers IMO.

Maybe it's OT, but if there's one local band that I would like to see play again, it would be the Circus Band. Damn their good.

[falken]

Puro rehash nga ang mga lumalabas na OPM ngayon.

[ts1n1ta]

honga, i like the songs na mga kinakanta nila Sharon when i was a kid. Yung tipong pang title ng pelikula.

[yebo]

nag-decompose na. 2 nadedo last year di ba? isa na si george canseco. forgot the name of the other one.

[cutedoc]

sikat ngayon si lito camo, bwt those novelty songs, theres still himig handog sa abs and sa gma meron din, vehnee saturno is not bad, yun nga lang they dont make so much song ngayon kasi iba ang sikat na kanta, usually revival and novelty songs

[Mardim]

Lucio san pedro and levi celerio yung nadedo na.

Grabe ang music ngayon. Nauuso kasi masyado yung novelty songs(especially the brainless lyrics and melody type songs). Kaya ayaw nang magcompose minsan nung iba kasi mas prefer nung mga tao yung mga kantang madaling kantahin at walang sense ung lyrics(classic example: Jumbo hotdog, otso otso, etc) does the song make any sense? I think the only serious songwriters that's still in circulation is ryan cayabyab, gary v, ogie alcasid etc.