Sirena: A Rapper's Take On Gay Life

Gloc 9 is one of the finest, if not, currently is the number one rapper in the country. He just released a new album new album MKNM: Mga Kwento Ng Makata, his first album under Universal Records. Gloc 9 is known not only fpr his rapping skills but also about the songs he has written that are based on reality.

It simply isn't done that a rapper, usually bent on showing masculinity, would create a song that tells an story about gay life, nor would they even mention one. However, Gloc 9 was able to break the chain when he wrote "Sirena / Mermaid" and sang it together with Ebe Dancel (lead vocalist of Sugarfree) and because of the story behind the song and the collaboration between these two artists,I can't help but rave about this single.  

This is the first time I heard a song that uses a first person's point of view to deliver a story about a gay man recounting  the hardships he went through while growing up. The video shows a father that is not able to accept that his son is gay, thus he beats and submerges his son in a drum filled with water. The father thinks that with enough beating he can toughen his son up and be a real man but as the child grew, it was clear that he really is a homosexual. 

The child started to question if he might be adopted since  he never felt his father's love and also questions why people are looking at him strangely just because he dresses and acts like a girl (a thing that comes naturally to him). This is where my second fave line in the song comes in..

"Pero bakit parang lahat ay nalilito pa rin

ano bang mga problema nyo

 Dahil ba ang mga kilos ko'y iba,

sa dapat makita ng inyong mga mata"

As time went by, his father got sick and old but the child was still there to take care of his father even with all the resentment and violence his father showed him before. His father now accepting the error of his ways called his son and asked for his forgiveness. Here comes in my favorite line in the whole song..

"Anak, patawad sana sa lahat ng aking nagawa
Di sinusukat ang tapang at ang bigote sa mukha
Dahil kung minsan mas lalake pa sa lalake ang bakla" 

The scenes you would see in the video do and did happen in real life for many homosexual people and its sad to see how narrow minded some people. The discrimination that these people suffer is really hard to cope with but still they are able to smile everyday and that shows that they are indeed even stronger than the "real men". 

I have a lot of gay friends but I don't personally know anyone who experienced what happened to the gay child in the video. I do have a friend though, who recently admitted to his family that he is gay and he was disowned by his father and was kicked out of their house. Its just sad to hear that people are judged and bullied by people because of their preference rather than by character. 

This song amazes me *hands down* not only because of the great blend of Ebe Dancel's soothing voice and Gloc 9's rap but mainly due to the empathy and compassion that a heterosexual rapper had for the gay community. I hope that for those who were able to listen to the song would also have a better understanding and compassion to homosexuality. Kudos to Aristotle Pollisco!

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NOTE: Thanks to Gloc 9 for reading my post!! So touched by your thanks! :D