In an effort to leech off the current god-like status of Herr Pacquiao, new "alt rock" band Protein Shake recently released a single entitled "Pacman" as a kind of tribute to everyone’s favorite videoke endorser/pugilist. I say "kind of" because it’s marketing at its most banal. Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with pushing out a publicity-whoring song like this (unless you’re one of those purists that believe that music should be created for music’s sake) … hell, Pacquiao is an unstoppable marketing behemoth at this point, and everyone from PGMA to Darlington socks has been vying for scraps of media mileage fallout. My issue isn’t with the fact that some newcomers decided to give their careers a boost by piggybacking (God knows this is probably the biggest single they’ll ever release) … it’s with the actual song (which, as you can probably guess from this entry’s title, was penned by none other than Mr. DVDX himself).
With lyrics like "‘Pag Nakipagbakbakan / Tutumba ang kalaban" (and I’m not even gonna bother translating that into English) punctuated by shrieks of "Pacquiao! Pacquiao!" you have to wonder what it is that emboldens Marasigan to continue writing lyrics. Without being facetious, can you honestly say that this is any better than the crud churned out by Lito Camo?