DISQUS

Jesse! · 2 years ago

un-fucking-canny!

karen · 2 years ago

wow. he's a bona fide powerhouse!

akrypti · 2 years ago

Can we say hubba hubba?? Woo!

Glenda · 2 years ago

See Ernie, I told you that it's in the blood.

Efren · 2 years ago

Wow, great voice. It will be interesting to see how he pulls it off, and what people will think.

:: jozjozjoz :: · 2 years ago

My favorite (meaning NOT favorite) comment from that page you linked on at blabbermouth.net:

COMMENT | this guy is really good
posted by : destination chaos
12/5/2007 6:55:50 PM

but i bet he doesnt know what any of the words that he is singing means haha. hes really good though

akrypti · 2 years ago

No, seriously. I think I'm in love. *swoons*

Cisco · 2 years ago

He has an amazing voice and this story is straight out of a fairy tale. This story has had me beaming with pride to be Pinoy.

But...

the chips may be stacked against him, regardless of how remarkable his voice is, and it is remarkable.

1) Judging from many of the comments on roadrunnerrecords.com, his accent will hurt him. When I listen to a song, hearing any kind of non-English accent in an English language song is distracting. I'd imagine it's even more of an issue for white Americans. Can he take diction lessons to fix this?

2) He's not (Caucasian) American, which will be magnified by (1)

3) Mainstream America doesn't listen to Journey-type music anymore, and I doubt they would sell any new albums even if they had the original Steve Perry as the frontman.

Reality checks aside, the guy has talent, and I'll be cheering for him.

Joe · 2 years ago

Check this out, Filipinos are taking over!!

ed · 2 years ago

If you think Arnel doesn’t know the words he is singing then it shows that you are an ignorant and uneducated person. He went to college and the medium of teaching in the Philippines is English from Kinder to College. (Sorry about the typos on my earlier message--fat fingers) This shows how racist comments are being thrown at Asians-- maybe if he is white European with accent it's okay for you. This shows that you don't have diversity as I can see how you stereotype other people.

Jesse! · 2 years ago

Heh, listen to the Scorpion's first album. They did it all phonetically, didn't speak a lick of English, and you can hear it.

But I don't hear it with this guy, sounds a lot like Steve Perry to me... as for the discrimination? Sure, but I think it'll be more to the fact that he's not Perry, esp. since Journey fans have been griping about that all along... and yeah, who listens to Journey anymore besides awesome people like me? ;-)

Cisco · 2 years ago

holy crap i did not know that "still loving you" (scorpions) was not sung by native english speakers until just now looking it up. thanks!

but yeah i hope he does well, too!

ed · 2 years ago

I have a lot of Scorpions vinyl records I bought in the early 80's and I already knew then that they were from Germany, and so with Nektar, Osibisa Woyaya (African), and the Rammstein (lately). They are all have strong accent and nobody complained. Rammstein even sings in German ('seen XXX with Vin Diesel?--or listen to Lichtspielhaus album) yet nobody complained. Now that a Filipino is singing for Journey, they started to whine. Jimi Hendrix has to go to England because they said blacks cannot play guitar-heavy rock 'n' roll. You want very strong accent? Listen to Bob Marley. You want singers with strong accent? Americans. A true English dialect was started by the Brits. It was just by the diversity of the new immigrants that it has become Americanized. It was started in the U.S. by the "FIRST BOAT PEOPLE" from England on the boat called Mayflower in 1620 that settled in Massachussettes. We just butchered the original and called it English-the American style. If you want pure English without an accent, then speak like the British. So, Asians, be proud. If somebody calls you FOB or boat people, you are not (not unless you are). Thell them you came first class--the airplane!