♪ Who says you’re not star potential, who says you’re not presidential?

Who says? Who says you’re not perfect? Who says you’re not worth it? Who says you’re the only one that’s hurting? Trust me, that’s the price of beauty. Who says you’re not pretty? Who says you’re not beautiful? Who says? ♫

Those are lyrics from the song “Who Says” from the OST of Monte Carlo. I just came from the Greenbelt where I watched the movie starring Selena Gomez (yes, she sang the song too!). As expected, it was a feel good movie that was light, fluffy and with a predictably happy ending. Yes, I love movies like these. Hahah.

I’ve watched so many blockbuster movies this year – Pirates, Green Lantern, Super 8, Transformers, etc. Sure, they were amazing and left me dizzy with all the twists and action shots and special effects… But sometimes I just want to relax and watch a movie where I know it will be colorful, pretty, fun and full of cute guys. Haha. Wish granted!!

If you like Disney movies, you will like this flick. And the Australian guy is hot.

I love the music too! As you know since I just sang the lyrics to you in the beginning of this post, haha. In fact, I’m playing it on loud right now, and on an endless loop. It’s so bubbly!!

Here is the full Monte Carlo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack listing:
1. Graceful Exit
2. What Mom Would Have Wanted
3. Its Not Magic
4. Feeling Eiffel
5. Grace Under Pressure
6. Mirror Coincidence
7. The Seduction of Paris
8. Along For The Ride
9. Seizing the Moment
10. The Full Monte Carlo
11. One Suite Deal
12. Junk in the Trunks
13. Ball In
14. Pairing Up
15. A Little Horse (s’il vous) Play
16. Of Another Color
17. Dressing Up and Dressing Down
18. Jazz Cafe
19. Staying Classy
20. Hotel Keys
21. You’re Goin’ Places, Kid
22. Chasing Emma
23. Have a Nice Trip
24. Megsmerized
25. Cordelia Arrives
26. Cordelia’s Not So Suite
27. Time To Go
28. Missing Links
29. Return Engagement
30. Protection and (Room) Service
31. Just Stay Here
32. I Don’t Want to Lose You
33. It’s Too Much
34. Just A Regular Girl
35. Almost Everyone is Happy
36. Separate Ways)
37. Grace Be With You
38. Of Another Color (Extended Version)
39. Making Light
40. Grace’s Theme

You can buy the Monte Carlo soundtrack album from Amazon below.

There was a lot about Sucker Punch that disappointed me, but at least the music wasn’t one of them.

Here is the track list from the Sucker Punch OST.

1. Emily Browning – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
2. Bjork featuring Skunk Anansie – Army Of Me (Sucker Punch Remix)
3. Emiliana Torrini – White Rabbit
4. Queen with Armageddon aka Geddy – I Want It All/We Will Rock You (Mash up)
5. Skunk Anansie – Search And Destroy
6. Alison Mosshart and Carla Azar – Tomorrow Never Knows
7. Yoav featuring Emily Browning – Where Is My Mind?
8. Emily Browning – Asleep
9. Carla Gugino and Oscar Isaac – Love Is The Drug

You can download the OST from here or from here.

P.S. Can I just say how much I love that Babydoll’s gun was accessorized?!? LOL! I would probably decorate my ammo the same way.

Another song by Comic Relief. This time it’s a Chavacano song that a suitor can sing to his beloved. It’s called Cuando. Or in English, When?

Cuando?
COMIC RELIEF

I.
Quetal man tu ahora?
How are you now?
Tiene donde anda?
Do you have somewhere to go?
Libre ba tu?
Are you free?
Puede yo lleva pasya?
Can I take you out?

II.
Pacencia conmigo
Please bear with me
Si bodi man yo
If I’m penniless
Pero prekura iyo dale contigo el todo
But I will try to give you everything

Refrain:
Hinde ba tu ta sinti
Don’t you feel?
Jalo lang que supri
It’s fine to suffer
Ta canta yo ‘te cancion
I am singing this song
Con todo mi corazon
With all my heart
Pati mi pensamiento…
And all my mind

Chorus:
Cuando?
When?
Cuando contesta?
When will you answer me?
Pirmi yo ta resa na kita dos ay keda
I am always praying that you and I will be
Bien dulce dos letra pirmi yo ta espera
So sweet, two letters, I am always waiting for
Cuando tu contesta?
When will you answer?
Si hinde ahora, cuando?
If not today, then when?
Cuando?
When?

III.
Todo el ora
All the time
Iyo ta pensa
I am thinking
Si OK ba tu?
Are you OK?
Ta come ba tu na ora
Are you eating on time?

IV.
Perdona tu conmigo
Forgive me
Si quebrao man yo
If I seem broken
Pero prekura iyo cambia lang para contigo
But I will try to change just for you

Here is the original video, but I warn you. It’s not pretty. In fact it just shows how boys can be “cochinadas”! That means “filthy” or “disgusting”. If you want to call someone disgusting you just yell at him “Cochino bos!!!” (You pig!).

This is a song by Comic Relief, a Zamboanga band. Since Maldita just got a music contract, I am hoping Comic Relief will too. Because they have great songs.

Here is one of my favorites. It’s entitled, “No Hay Mas.” (Okay, well, the band titled it as Nuay Mas but it’s the wrong spelling. So I am just correcting it. Sorry, OC.)

Nuay Mas
Comic Relief

Chords:
Intro: A-C#m-F#m-D-E
Stanza: A-C#m-F#m-D-E
Chorus: A-C#m-F#m-D-E
Bridge: D-E-C#m-F#m-Bm-C#m-D-E
(repeat chorus)

I.
Hinde ba ya abla ya iyo
Didn’t I tell you already?
No quiere mas iyo contigo
I don’t love you anymore
Cuanto beses necesita abla
How many times do I need to say it?
Sum-ut ya yo man bira-bira
I’m sick and tired of running around in circles

Chorus:
No sabe porque
I don’t know why
Hinde tu ta kre/No quiere tu kre
You don’t believe me/You don’t want to believe me
Manada rason
There are so many reasons
Puede ba entende
I wish you would understand
Di mio amor
My love
Hinay ta perde/Bigla ya perde
Is slowly fading/Has suddenly faded
Etu el rason
You are the reason
Mi corazon ta duele
My heart is hurting

II.
Mira derecho na mi ojos
Look me in the eye
No mas estranja si yo tan lejos
Stop worrying if I walk away
Alegre yo cuando kita pa dos
I was happy when we were together
Pensaba yo llega ta años
I thought we would reach years

Bridge:
Donde ya el amor
Where is the love?
Perdido ya pero porque pa necesita porsa
It’s gone but why do we need to force it?
Hace yo sale na mi pecho
I am taking off my chest
El maga sentimiento
All these feelings
Tiempo ya
It’s about time

Cosa yo ya palta
What did I lack?
Para tu ay rabya
For you to be angry?
Todo’l dia comigo etu ta pelya
Everyday, you argued with me
Mas bueno gaha yo ya lang separta
Perhaps it’s better that I leave first
Para nohay mas ya
So that there is no more…
Nohay mas ya kita
…No more “us”

Gim and I were on the taxi on the way to SM Megamall a couple of days ago chattering as usual. The music from the radio seemed very familiar but it didn’t sink in until about halfway through the song, I realized, the song was in Chavacano! It was the song “Porque” by Maldita, a Zamboanga band. I was so elated!

That song was a hit back home but I hadn’t realized it was getting Manila airplays too. Until the taxi ride. And – what a surprise – there was some part sung in Tagalog too! But those parts weren’t that good, the song was more beautiful with Chavacano words.

Porque means “Why” in Chavacano. The single is the first released by Maldita, originally a local Zamboanga band. Vocalists are Francel de Leon and Demz Espinosa.

Other members of the band:
Drums – Mad Nubhan
Guitars – James Collin Medina, Whey Guevarra
Keyboard – Jesser Sison

Here is the translation of Porque by Maldita, if anyone is looking for it.

Solo solo na mi cuarto
All alone in my room
Hende ta puede durmi
Cannot sleep
Bira-bira na cabesa
Back and forth, swirling in my mind
El dolor yo ya cinti
The pain I felt

Porque pa contigo yo ya quiere?
Why did I have to fall for you?
Como bula lang tu ya perde
But like a bubble you just disappeared

Porque contigo yo ya escuji?
Why was it that I chose you?
Ahora mi corazon ta supri
Now my heart is suffering
Bien simple lang iyo ta pidi
What a simple thing to ask
Era cinti tu el cosa yo ya cinti
I hope you feel what I feel
Ta pidi milagro, bira’l tiempo
Asking for a miracle, to turn back time
El mali hace derecho
All the wrong, make right
Na dimio rezo ta pidi yo
In my prayer, I am asking
Era olvida yo contigo
To forget you

Todo-todo yo ya dale
Everything, I gave
Ahora ta aripinti
Now I am regretting
Sobra-sobra el dolencia
The pain is too much
Tormento para vivi
Living is a torment

Porque pa contigo yo ya quiere?
Why did I have to love you?
Como bula lang tu ya perde
Like a bubble you disappeared

Porque contigo yo ya escuji?
Why did I have to choose you?
Ahora mi corazon ta supri
Now my heart is suffering
Bien simple lang iyo ta pidi
What a simple thing to ask
Era cinti tu el cosa yo ya cinti
I hope you feel what I felt
Ta pidi milagro, bira’l tiempo
I am asking for a miracle, to turn back time
El mali hace derecho
Turn the wrong things right
Na dimio rezo ta pidi yo
In my prayers, I ask
Era olvida yo contigo
I hope I forget you

No tu distorba
Don’t you bother me
Y no atraka kay baka palmadia yo contigo
And don’t you come near me, I just might slap you
Nunca accepta
Never will I accept
Si tu ay bira por dolor ya cinti
Your return, for the pain I felt

Porque contigo yo ya escuji?
Why did I have to choose you?
Ahora mi corazon ta supri
Now my heart is suffering
Bien simple lang iyo ta pidi
What a simple thing to ask
Era cinti tu el cosa yo ya cinti
I hope you feel what I felt

Porque contigo yo ya escuji?
Why did I have to choose you?
Ahora mi corazon ta supri
Now my heart is suffering
Bien simple lang iyo ta pidi
What a simple thing to ask
Era cinti tu el cosa yo ya cinti
I hope you feel what I felt
Ta pidi milagro, bira’l tiempo
I am asking for a miracle, to turn back time
El mali hace derecho
Turn the wrong things right

Na dimio rezo ta pidi yo
In my prayers, I ask
Era olvida yo contigo
I hope I forget you

Ooohh..
Porque contigo yo ya eskuhi?
Why did I have to choose you?
Ahora mi corazon ta supri…
Now my heart is hurting…

Here is the Tagalog version:

Here are the lyrics to Ice Cream Paint Job by Dorrough. Sing along to the video, too!

Haha
Yeah
Mr. D-O-double-R

I say..
Yea buddy!
Rolling like a big shot,
Chevy tuned up like a nascar pitstop
Fresh paint job [check]
Fresh inside [check]
Is the outside frame in the trunk wide? [yes]
Are the rims big [what]
Do it ride good [good]
Lean back right hand on the pinewood.

Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Ice, ice cream, Ice cream paint job [x2]

Whoo!
Clean on the outside cream on the inside ice cream paint job.
Got screens on the dash watchin saved by the bell got a house by the bayside.
Yea im livin like that, and im ridin like that.
Boy im ridin like that and the sturring wheel wood like a baseball bat.
Just like Archie said We Ready. Whole cliques straight, lunatics like nelly.
Gran Marquis paint job grape jelly, R triple BC big black box Chevy.
Crank my car, she be hummin, rims so big u can see me comin.
Prime time click, we get money, stay iced up like TV johnny.

Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Ice, ice cream, Ice cream paint job [x2]

Im live, Im live like a superbowl kickoff,
my slab got a lot of n***** pissed off.
Paint shine like lip gloss, cadillac got a wide body like Rick Ross.
Took time but my cash got right, if i want it ima buy it i dont ask no price.
Rear view mirror, Jumbo dice, trunk hit hard like KIMBO SLICE.
Be around tint no window light, car ride smooth so the rims are white.
That right thur see see i like. Got the top notch slab for da dirt cheap price.
Press one button called automatic start.
Stand too close car alarm might bark. Like what?
Roof! Roof!, Like Q-dogs, prime time click make it move like Uhaul.

Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Ice, ice cream, Ice cream paint job [x2]

I ride with a towel cuz the candy paint wet.
Rims on the Ride got these N***** upset.
Rims sit high so i ride upset. 6 12′s in the trunk 4 screens in the deck [x2]

I ride, I ride, I ride, I ride, I ride, I ride, Lets ride

I ride, propped up, I ride, propped up, I ride, say bro, lets ride, lets ride

I got a, Fresh paint job, [check], Fresh inside [check],
Is the outside frame in the trunk wide? [yes]
Are the Rims big [what] Do it ride good [good].
Lean back right hand on the pinewood.

Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Cream on the inside
Clean on the outside
Ice, ice cream, Ice cream paint job [x2]

Lejos tu na Zamboanga? Ta supri para na olor de su cocina? Triste para na color de su cielo? Hangul para na sabor de su viento?

Si. Yo tambien. Y ele tambien. Y todo Zamboangueño no hay na Zamboanga.

Este el diaspora Zamboangueño.

Pero cosa tu puede hace? Lejos ya tu ya ginda. No tu puede bira…

Ui ya lang tu un cancion de Zamboanga.

(No, no mas el No Te Vayas.)

Ui tu maga canciones de maga Zamboangueño joven. (Lenguaje Chabacano, siempre!)

Bien bale el cantada. Si canta tu se comigo, contesta yo Si!, ahora momento! Hahahah!

Ariba, Zamboanga.

Maria Ozawa lyrics:

I.
Buenas dias mi señorita amor
Solo presencia dituyu ta lleva calor
O bien caliente, banyaw ya yo na sudor
Sera el puerta, quere desma, ta tiene temblor

Refrain 1:
Lleva pasya contigo na pueblo
Derecho ta cabar na Yubengco
Mira kita sine na Mindpro
Masquin donde basta chene sabor

Chorus:
Maria
Pwede ba tu queda dimio nobya
Sigi ya
Dale comigo chansa

II.
Buenas tardes mi señorita amor
Ditu boses na uwido, bien bonito sonor
Bene munta ya tu aqui na mi motor
Bien abrasando comigo, hinay lang por pabor

Refrain 2:
Banya kita lego na rio
Cabar come kita pescao seco
Pasya kita entero Zambo
Masquin donde basta chene sabor

Bridge:
Nomas estranya, si yo ta mira
(Contigo pirmi, baby)
No hay este malisya, yo lang ta gusta
Muchas gracias for your time
Arigato gosaimaishta

III.
Buenas noches mi señorita amor
Ditu imahe denoche, amo el promotor
Del tentacion, man lejos kumigo pabor
Baca hinde aguanta, ayuda comigo señor

Refrain 3:
Bene baila kita na Ground Zero
Lati, Harrys, Alejandras y Halo
Toma kita na Café Sacco
Masquin donde basta tiene sabor

Britney Spears’ song “If You Seek Amy” has just been released and it’s got parents riled up. See, if you say it out loud, the meaning changes. It actually means F-U-C-K me.

You can listen to the song and sing along on the Youtub video embedded below.

Here are the lyrics to Britney’s new song “If You Seek Amy”

La la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la (2x)

Oh baby baby have you seen Amy tonight?
Is she in the bathroom? Is she smokin up outside? Ouuh
Oh baby baby does she take a piece of lime
For the drink that I’ma buy her
Do you know just what she likes so?
Oh oh tell me have you seen her
Cuz I’m so-oh oh
I can’t get her out of my brain
I just wanna go to the party she gon’ go
Can somebody take me home?
Ha ha he he ha ha ho

Love me, hate me
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy
Love me, hate me
But can’t you see what I see?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy
Love me, hate me

La la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la (2x)

Amy told me that’s shes gonna meet me up
I don’t know where or when and now their closing up the club Ouuuh
I’ve seen her once or twice before she knows my face
But its hard to see with all the people standing in the way ouuuh

Oh oh
Tell me have you seen her cause I’m so oh
I can’t get her off of my brain
I just wanna go to the party she gon’ go
Can’t somebody take me home
Ha ha he he ha ha ho

Love me, hate me
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy
Love me, hate me
But can’t you see what I see?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy
Love me, hate me
Say what you want about me
Oh but can’t you see what I see
Yeaaah say what you want about me (about me, about me)

So tell me if you see her
(if you knew what she was wearing and what she was like)
Cause I’ve been waiting here forever
(if you knew if she was going out of line)
Oh baby baby if u seek Amy tonight
Oh baby baby we’ll do whatever you like
Oh baby baby baby
Oh baby baby baby

La la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la (2x)

Love me, hate me
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy
Love me, hate me
But can’t you see what I see?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy

Love me, hate me
Say what you want about me yeaah
Love me, hate me
But can’t you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy
Love me, hate me
Say what you want about me
Oh but can’t you see what I see
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy

It’s confirmed, the Eraserheads will push through with the second part of their concert. (Ely Buendia suffered heart palpitations during the last concert, so the group was not able to play more than 15 songs.)

The concert will be held at SM Mall of Asia on March 7, 2009 at 8PM. Tickets are now available at your local TicketWorld outlet.

The ticket prices are such:

• VIP PhP5,000
• Gold PhP3,000
• Silver PhP1,300
• Bronze Php300

Maybe now we can listen to “Ang Huling El Bimbo” live once again.

This is so high school, the Eraserheads. It was the time of alt rock, and they were the Beatles.

Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Buddy Zabala and Marcus Adoro reunited in concert on August 30 of last year, an engagement cut short after Ely almost had a heart attack and had to be rushed to the hospital. They were able to perform half of the planned 30 songs.

Sony BMG has just announced that the Eraserheads: Reunion Concert DVD will be released on January 31, 2009. All 15 songs are included “plus bonus features of behind-the-scene footages, rehearsals, etc“.

The tracks include Alapaap, Ligaya, Sembreak, Hey Jay, Harana, Fruitcake, Toyang, Kamasupra, Kailan, Huwag Kang Matakot, Kaliwete, With A Smile, Shake Yer Head, Huwag Mo Nang Itanong and Light Years.