YouTube Clip of the Week: Moonstar 88’s “Migraine”
It’s interesting what pops up when you enter “migraine” into the search bar at YouTube. Granted, there’s an awful lot of crap, but sometimes you come across a little gem that you would have discovered in no other fashion. I’ll admit up front, this clip doesn’t have anything to do with treating migraines…well, maybe it does. It does suggest that people who break your heart are the cause of migraines. Having them get run over by a bus is perhaps an alternative migraine treatment.
The song is called “Migraine” although I don’t think it actually pops up in the song lyrics. The band is Moonstar 88 from the Phillipines. The music is not traditional world music kind of stuff, but very hip and very smooth. It just happens to be sung in Phillipino by a woman with a lovely voice, Machelle Baay. (I hope I got that name right — the official website for the band is down, so don’t take my credit listing as Gospel, here).
The video uses a mixture of Phillipino and English, which is how some Phillipinos talk (from what I’ve been told. One day, I might actually get to travel to the Phillipines.) You really don’t need to translate the lyrics to understand what the video is about. Enjoy!
WARNING: There is a brief strobe effect in the beginning of the clip.
April 4th, 2009 at 11:42 am
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