- David Di Muzio thinks “I Love OPM” is racist because judges are scoring the contestants based on their Tagalog pronunciation and not on how good they can sing
- He also criticized the show’s title where he thinks that it should be called ” I Love Tagalog Songs” instead
- David said aside from English there are also a lot of OPM songs in Bisaya and Chavacano language, but the show’s focus is only Tagalog songs
By posting a video on his official Youtube account, David Di Muzio expressed his thoughts about ABS-CBN’s “I Love OPM” show and why he thinks it’s being “racist”.
David Di Muzio, who is tagged as the most popular American who sings OPM songs, thinks “I Love OPM” is racist because judges are scoring the contestants based on their Tagalog pronunciation and NOT on how GOOD they can sing.
“Oh you don’t really sing that well, but your tagalog pronunciation is great so score of 97 for you. I don’t think that’s a very healthy way of having a music competition in general,” David said.
He also gave an example on how Asians would feel if they were judged based on their accent rather than their singing skills.
“Let’s just say that America had a TV show and we only had Asians on. Asians who doesn’t speak good English and we told them to sing American English songs, and we did that and we judge them out of how their English pronunciation was. I think that Asian people would be so much offended by that,” David added.
(Photo Credit: myspace.com)
He also criticized the show’s title where he thinks that it should be called ” I Love Tagalog Songs” instead, as there were many popular OPM songs in English; as mentioned also by some commenters on the show.
“The show is called I Love OPM but it should be called I Love Tagalog Songs instead. Many of my favorite Original Pilipino Music songs are not in Tagalog, but actually English songs.” David said.
“Some of the best OPM songs are in English like “So Slow”, “Forevermore”, “With a Smile”, “Before I Let You Go”, “Let Me Be the One” are just a few,” David added.
As per David, aside from English there’s also a lot of OPM songs in Bisaya and Chavacano language, but the show’s focus is only Tagalog songs.
“Personally I don’t feel these shows think about what’s best in the long term for cultivating the talent and culture of the Philippines and bringing people together. Instead they make more of a point of saying “You’re not one of us” by saying “Oh look, you’re trying to be like us”. Music and talent shouldn’t be about a person’s nationality, ” David had captioned his video.
A good number of netizens expressed their support over David Di Muzio’s opinions.
“Truth be told, the first person I thought of when this show started was you ? I even thought ur going to be on the show. I agree with u tho. The show seems so awkward and the best singers were already voted out. I don’t watch it anymore,” Kylie said.
“This is so true. The judges are so BIAS,” Nognog said.
“You’re right… OPM is not just about Tagalog songs, but also songs in any form of language that are written by Filipinos. I do agree with this one, David. When I watched the TV show, all I can see is them judging if they can pronounce the Filipino words clearly,” Kimberly said.
Last week, I Love OPM received negative feedbacks from netizens and viewers after judges gave a higher score to Korea’s Yohan Hwang than Hawaii’s Jeff James, who is obviously a better singer as expressed by many online users.
Watch David Di Muzio’s video below:
Post a Comment