mdaemon wrote:The Sushi Hunter wrote:The amazing part of this whole thing to me is how Arnel is now extremely popular in the Philippines. He's just the same vocalist as he ever was before and after all this happened with Journey, but none of these famous people in the Philippines ever gave a rat's ass about Arnel then. Now those retarded love song singers and celebrities who run their own talk show in the Philippines will gush to have AP on their shows now, only cause they want their own ratings to go up by having him on their show. Sort of like Hillary Clinton. A month or so ago she hated Obama and all his supporters with a passion. But now since she got her ass kicked in, she's up in front of everyone ordering unity between her group and his. Horse shit is what I say. Not about the unity issue, but with Hillary ordering it now. If she was a good person, she would have been preaching and practicing unity long before she lost!
Personally, I think Arnel should have hired someone he has known for years to create a show and for Arnel to be on that one show only. One of the Zoo band members or one of Arnel's younger brothers could have done that. Fuck all the rest of those famous SOB who wouldn't get him on their shows all the fucking years before.
Dude please don't disrespect other Pinoy singers just because they are not, in your view, as talented as Arnel. Calling them names is uncalled for. Bear in mind that when Arnel's career with Journey is over, his fall back will be a showbiz career in the Philippines. These singers could make or break Arnel's chances there because of the influence that they have with the entertainment bigwigs. Also, I am telling you that at this point, having Arnel on their show does not make that much a dent on their ratings. At this early stage of Arnel's career, it's Arnel benefiting from exposures by appearing on these TV shows. You have been away from the Philippines for a long time and based on your story, you are only in contact with people who know Arnel. Of course they will tell you that he is massively known there. I am however in contact with friends from all walks of life and they barely know Arnel. Even the former assistant entertainment editor of a major newspaper barely knows Arnel. Let me spell it out again, Arnel isn't that famous yet in the Philippines. That is going to change, I'm sure but it's not helping if his fans are being smug about his fame when it isn't even there yet!
I'm entitled to my opinion dude! And I say the vast majority of them stink....period. Watching some of those vids with that individual "Martin" had the same effect on me as listening to rap or country, I just wanted to go out and break something real bad, not to mention his singing voice and live performance gave me a really bad case of gas for the rest of the evening.
As someone posted earlier, Death Angel went through the exact same thing cause they didn't "conform" to the music over there. And no, I have not talked to Arnel via third party.....ever. If you think I just jumped on the Arnel bandwaggon because he's with Journey now, then your seriously mistaken. If someone comes along better, I can agree to that. I don't care for Arnel just because of what he's doing now. It goes way beyond that. I care for him because I knew him years ago, during the most important time of my life. And that goes for all the members of AMO band and a few others outside of the band who I was in contact with over there in the Philippines during those years too. So get it straight, I don't base my own likes and dislikes on what Arnel was, has or is doing! Even if Arnel was never in Journey, I'd still dislike those bland and boring love songs that are presented to the audience equally as bad over there.
Yeah, and tell me I don't know a thing about the crab mentality that's going on over there!
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:21 am
) at the 1:27-2:06 mark...a brief reference, but a fresh one (August 24 in Manila), so added publicity nevertheless. Rated K is a weekly primetime Sunday show hosted by Korina Sanchez.
lead singer so he (Arnel) was chosen by the group.
