Rubbish Act

EDITORIAL EDITORIAL It’s been months since the release of Nik Makino’s Neneng B but you can still hear the song almost everywhere – from jeepneys to public markets. Filipinos made this song really popular that it hits the Philippine’s major music charts. Music and dance covers are circulating all over on social media with thousand of views. The attention that this song received is far from what it deserves. It’s worth nothing. Who would be on their right mind to support a song that has a hypersexual explicit lyrics and a singer who’s receiving a legal backfire from a European music producer, Roko Tensei, from stealing his own beat. The harsh reality of this song is, children are singing along with the song as if it’s a nursery song, not knowing the real meaning of its lyrics. It’s like a virus that spreads easily and children are being infected. Praising the song that’s blatantly harsh on women is similar to disgracing them. For years, music industry became a platform of cruelty for women, it’s been setting its own standard of what a lady should be, what is the definition of sexy and such. But this song is indeed below the belt. It does not only dictate what women should look like but instead, the song tell its listeners how a girl (especially a filipina) is relatively a flirt. Aside from its beat (that is stolen) there is nothing special about it. The lyrics is obviously vulgar and nonsense but really, it can still trigger the mind of a women especially when you listen to the whole song. Every women today is facing a dayto-day crisis— the standard of society and the superiority of men over them. But their dilemma rises even when the song rose to popularity. The unwanted song that can make a Filipina an ‘easy to get’ type of a girl is now coming from everyone’s mouth. Music industry is one of the best way where you can express your feelings, emotions, thoughts, and anything that’s running on your mind. But the music world today is different. Instead of creating a song that will help someone from copping up, it become the reason of their problem. We’re free to express ourselves in whatever path we want but we still need to control ourselves from harming others. **** KALYPSO Jennis Maghirang College of Business Management & Accountancy “ [...] the music world today is different. Instead of creating a song that will help someone from copping up, it become the reason of their problem. ”