No Time to Waste- You've wasted Enough on this Video

Alessandra de Rossi has got to be one of my most favorite Pinoy actors to of all time. She's unconventionally smart, quick-witted, a tremendously great actress and a very legitimate, down to Earth, forthright person. I adore most of her works, with the exception of her musical undertakings. For those of you who are unaware of her past attempts to establish herself as a singer, try Youtube-ing her video of Sailing- originally sung by Christopher Cross, the same person who gave us Think of Laura and Arthur's Theme. Its actually incredible how she was able to turn this great song, which was previously redone, tremendously well by Nsync, into almost 5 minutes of completely mind-numbing, pain-staking, career-ending piece of crap. Such a waste of resources if you ask me.

But despite this not-so-very-well-thought-of move in her career, I still love her and even decided to follow her on twitter. Today she decided to tweet this video to all her followers. And this is where my problem starts. First of all, don't! Just please don't Alex. Don't ever try to be a singer. You're fine as an actress-slash-host-slash-comedienne and we all love you for doing so well on those roles. Don't go screwing things up for all of us. Please, just don't.

Moving this entry away from Alex and into the actual problem, this video has all the necessary ingredients to become an actual hit: great collaborations by some of the country's top artists like Cynthia Alexander, Noel Cabangon and Bayang Barrios; appearances by some of the most well-known Filipino celebrities including 1999 Ms. Universe first runner up, Miriam Quiambao; and its an attempt to address and inform everyone of a very timely issue that is as global as the Pacific- Climate Change.

Yet, I don't think this one will ever be a hit. Why? Because its just plain crap. First of all, if you're going to throw a couple of singers together to create a collaboration, you have got to make a melodious song. Why? Cause not all singers have the same style. If you let them belt out a fast-paced song, it'll all just end in tragedy. You'll loose the character of the song and its most likely that everyone will end up screaming, like what happened here. Next, if you're going to make a video with lots of artists in it, its way better to just tape them singing their respective parts with the plainest background and just stitch everything together than make them play weatherman against an always changing background. They are singers and are most likely clueless when it comes to acting. And by the way, some of the images used as background there are not even climate change related.

Then we go to the editing. Can the graphics get any worst? And the pacing? Oh! And is it a requirement for Diether Ocampo to loose his shirt? In the first place, what is he doing there? And why is a weatherman playing the guitar? How about that designer girl from PBB Celebrity Edition? I suppose her name is Mitch. And Tim Yap?! Oh gosh! And we haven't even touched Rico Blanco's pronunciation of Earth (euth- I'm not even sure how to properly put it in phonetics). How about that freakishly normal (exaggerating) looking girl at the end of the video? What was that about? I really just don't get the concept of this thing. I know they want to relate the video with the song and the advocacy (pretty obvious) but it just doesn't work for me. A sophomore Communication Arts student from my school could have done a way better work. *Sigh

Another group of people, putting their time, effort and resources on a sane thing but ending up with crap. If you're somehow connected to this group or can get in touch with any of them, please tell them to consider redoing this video. With this great of a cause, I just know you can and have to do better. By the way, here's the freakin' video.