What Sunset Sounds Like

You know when you listen to a song, you sometimes visualize what the music video will look like from that song? I tend to do that. I’m a fan of music videos. It gives me a better understanding of a song or sometimes, it just gives me “WTF” moments. So, I really wanted to reveal my favorite music videos of 2017. Here it is: What I look for in a music video is the concept, visuals, and if it gave me a great first impression. #10 Like Me Better by Lauv (Directed by Alex Di Marco) I’ll start off with Lauv’s hit single, “Like Me Better”. When you put a young sweet couple and an old adorable couple in a music video, you know it’s going to be cute and romantic. This video just shows the young couple roaming around New York and having a really great time together. And what makes it even cuter is that they show their future selves doing the same things that the young couple were doing. I’m a little of a hopeless romantic and I love that there are scenes where young and old coup...

K-pop is one of most popular music genres in the world. If you don't know what K-pop is, it's basically Korean pop or South Korean popular music that experiments with other music styles as well. I've only been a fan of K-pop for two years and boy, have I learned a lot about it. To be honest, I used to find this genre annoying. I didn't get what the hype was all about when it comes to K-pop. I would say, "They're just pretty faces", "Can they even sing?", "Why are you obsessed with K-pop when you don't even understand it?"  My classmates during college told me to give it a chance and to take time to listen to it, I did and I became so invested with this music genre, I knew I'd never hate it like I did before. Once you take the time to listen to a certain K-pop song, you'll feel happy, sad, ecstatic, or even sentimental. You automatically feel like you know what the song is about even though you don't understand it....

If you're not familiar with OPM, OPM stands for "Original Philippine Music" or "Organisasyon ng mga Pilipinong Manunugtog at Mangangawit". It's a music genre that's basically Philippine songs and ballads; and recently found out from friends that any OPM song composed by a Filipino singer or songwriter can be in English or any other languages. It took a while for me to become a fan of OPM. My papa and mama are fans and they usually listen to famous Filipino singers like Christian Bautista, Gary Valenciano, Erik Santos, Jose Mari Chan, Lea Salonga, Jed Madela, and Sarah Geronimo. I've been living in Philippines for five years now and the more I listen to OPM, the more I learn the Filipino/Tagalog language. I'm probably the slowest learner when it comes to languages and I feel bad 'cause I'm a Filipino. At least now, I'm decent with it than I was five years ago. My friends would give me suggestions of artists and bands and I love ex...