Is this really necessary, to sue the singers??

the La Diva sings it from the heart.. and all the Filipinos love it and here comes NHI giving bad reviews..again.. crap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WPS5rCCEMY&feature=player_embedded

NHI sucks..

Next time, NHI should be the one singing. We have a lot of problems, and they wasted their time on this? Cmon, that rendition was one of the best.

How is that Possible when it's sung in the USA not Philippines?

can anybody tell me if what are the NHI's purpose aside from beating the crap out of pacman's singers??

Pissing off their neighbors and watching Youtube all day.

Wake up NHI, the fact that people find it hard to sing the anthem its "original" tempo means it is not easy to do so.
The anthem was originally composed as a marching music without lyrics (meaning the composer didn't intend it to be sung but marched to).
Try singing it and you will run out of breath! And it is devoid of emotion if sung so fast.

What's wrong if you sang it slower? Why are we having these nitpicking? Other countries, like the US, couldn't care less as long as their anthems are sung with honor and passion.

Frog, if we keep having this problem, perhaps it's time to find a new 'singable' anthem.

I've just search wikpedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupang_Hinirang

It says that in the 1920's the tempo was changed. If they could change it then, why can't we change it now? Sometimes when we are stuck with our old ways, we don't progress.

They are just wasting money and time for suing people who sings from the heart..
totally ridiculous!

Enough already, this is bordering on pettiness. They should allow the creative juices of the artists to flow. Everyone watching the fights don't care about how the anthem is sung (except NHI), they only want to watch the boxing match !!

Is this NHI very powerful ? Never heard about them when I was in the Philippines.

they only appear after manny's fight and ruining the lives of the singers..

people pay them for nothing..

In the US, singers are free to sing the US anthem however they want to and be creative, as long as the words aren't changed and the melody is similar (no need to be exact...people aren't freaking robots). It's the words that matter, not the way it is sung.

Someone send this advice to NHI: Just make a ROBOT that can sing the anthem monotonously and send that robot to sing in Pacquiao's next fight and ALL events in the world that requires the Philippine anthem to be sung. Disallow any human being to sing because any slight deviation might be considered a violation.

Freaking ridiculous.

To answer your question from the very link you gave:

"In the late 1990s, the Chief Executive Officer of the GMA Network, Menardo Jimenez, proposed that various recording artists record their respective versions of the National Anthem; this is, however, prohibited by law".

E bakit panay laban ni pacquiao lang?

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