Actually you know what? It kind of is! When you look at OPM or Original Pilipino Music, there are many love songs, and you can’t have a karaoke without someone singing an Aegis song about heartbreak and a Regine Velasquez or an OPM band song about yearning.
It’s probably because we Filipinos are big romantics. Even in our movies and TV shows, we love watching love teams and hoping the actor and actress are also dating in real life hahah!
To be fair, we also have music that isn’t about love, at least not romantic love.
We have Freddie Aguilar’s music that’s usually about family and Philippine pride.
We have rock and rap songs by icons like Bamboo, Gloc-9, and the late Francis M. that are about politics and social issues.
We also have a lot of folk songs about simple Filipino life, nature, and local traditions.
Filipinos joke all the time about being “senti” (sentimental) or “maoy” (Bisaya word that means extra emotional or heartbroken) so it’s not surprising that our music reflects that.
But if you think about it, anything can be about love. So any song can be a love song if you try, and it looks like we Filipinos try all the time!
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