It
sounds like a “punebre” or a funeral
song to many than a walk-in tune for a boxer heading towards the ring. If Manny
Pacquiao only allowed Guerilla Tactics to arrange and perform it for him, it could
have been different. Guerilla Tactics by the way is a musical band composed of
members who hail from Sablayan, venue of the first two professional fights of
the Pambansang Kamao. His entrance
song “Lalaban Ako Para sa Pilipino” written,
directed and performed by Pacquiao
himself does not have luster. It’s almost a sad song. If only it were a movie,
it’s more suitable in a soundtrack of a drama film rather than those in the genre
of action movies, others may think.
Some
would say that it’s what we Filipinos call “signus”
or bad omen or a premonition? Or is it Pacquiao singing the “punebre”, in advance for the impending “death” of his
opponent, the undefeated American boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. or the other way
around?
“Eye of the
Tiger”
was PacMan’s favorite entrance music in the early years of his successful
career. From the title of the entrance tune to Mayweather on May 2 itself, we,
the fans, are assured that the Pac Man would fight for us but did not assure us
that he will win. I hope I am wrong in this.
In
his fight against Brandon Rios, a lot of people were amused with his choice of
entrance music. It was Kathy Perry’s “Roar”
which is “pambabae”
(for women), they say. It’s a lame
song, according to many but he convincingly won over Rios.
Yes,
I have told you that “Lalaban Ako Para sa
Pilipino” sounds like those being played in interment services and processions. But think how the dreaded, Undertaker beaten black and blue many of his opponents on top on a wrestling ring. How he knocked them down in the actual fight. But PacMan is not the Undertaker, you
may argue.
The
supposed sadness of Manny Pacquiao’s entrance music cannot be sadder than The
Undertaker’s entrance music which is called Graveyard
Symphony II V8.
A
song which is truly part of the dirge, a “punebre”
.….
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