Charice sings at Obama’s pre-inauguration party. That makes no sense.
Charice, the young vocal sensation from the Philippines, sang for Barack Obama’s pre-inaugural party on January 18.
Here’s TV Patrol’s news coverage in wondrous low def.
I’ve been a big fan of Charice and applaud her every accomplishment. This post is no way a knock on Charice’s amazing talent or her somewhat large head (hopefully she’ll grow into it and not look like a walking lollipop a la her idol Celine Dion). But I do need to question why she was picked to sing “God Bless America” for an American presidential event.
You see, like many of you reading this site, I am an American of Filipino ancestry. I have roots and ideals that were shaped by the culture of my native land but I consider the United States to be my home and my chosen national identity. Say what you will but I’ve bought into the red, white and blue. I mainly speak English and I speak better Spanish than I do Tagalog or any other Philippine dialect (thanks a lot Los Angeles). I’m more passionate about American politics, American society, and American pop-culture because that is what surrounds my day-to-day life.
I’m happy to be alive to witness such a historical moment with the election of Barack Obama. He electrified the populace as no other political figure has done in this country in a long time. And the people have responded to Obama with rock star welcoming ovations and overwhelming optimism.
With so much fervor in celebrating the election of a new American president, the powers that be decided to get a teenage girl from the Philippines to sing “God Bless America”? Seriously folks, what the hell does Charice know about living in this country aside from being on daytime t.v., a Thanksgiving parade, a few performances for special events, and countless Filipino expos that sell time shares and salad masters?
The freaking lyrics of God Bless America even end with the words “God bless America, my home sweet home.” Dude, even if this girl was 18, she wouldn’t have been able to vote for Obama!
Then again, it was because of American exposure that Charice rose in popularity. It was because of an American company called YouTube that she became a viral video superstar. So maybe it was appropriate for her to sing “God Bless America” ’cause she’s about to get paid some serious Benjamins and not Benignos.
But hey, this is really a minor thing and I’m glad she got the exposure. Good job to David Foster for getting Charice some publicity and please, enough with the freaking cover songs already.
In closing, I leave with this final thought…
Charice is a cylon.
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LOL! Charice is just paying homage to her mother country. After all, the Philippines was, and arguably still is, a colony of the United States.
Don’t you mean she was paying homage to her original home of Caprica? SO SAY WE ALL!
It’s kinda like having U2 play at the Inauguration concert on Sunday. U2 knows they wouldn’t be nearly has huge without American fans and their music has always expressed their love, fascination and reverence of America.
Okay, maybe it’s not the same.
Here’s hoping that fame doesn’t turn Charice into Celine Dion…but she’s definitely headed down that path. Someone help her!
Frack her!
and why is the filipino press giving her so much hype, anyway?
isn’t she half black asian, quarter spanish-chinese and quarter hawaiian?
dubya had ricky martin… obama shoulda had FLY BROWN DRAGONS!
It really means that the most powerful person in America is not Barack Obama, but DAVID FOSTER.
Oh no, the most powerful person in America is a Canadian? Somebody call Ben Vereen!
She was singing because all the Catholic Filipinos told her that the Messiah has returned.
Those news announcers are a crack up.
I’m not a big David Letterman fan, but I’ll take a page out of his book:
Top 10 reasons Charice was chosen to sing the National Anthem:
#10 She has a nice voice.
#9 Oprah loves her (figuratively.
#8 She can’t run for American Idol.
#7 Ellen Loves her (maybe literally).
#6 Arnel Pineda is on tour.
#5 Apl is not a singer.
#4 Only your Filipino aunties would know who Gary V. is.
#3 She finally learned a new song that’s not by Whitney or Celine.
#2 Pacquaio is a boxer, NOT a singer.
………………………and the #1 reason they chose Charice iiiissssss…………………………………………..
They’ve run out of work Visas for Nurses, Teachers, and Domestic help.
May God Bless you!
And why do you think she is Cylon? That makes no sense.!
i don’t understand why would anyone criticize someone like charice for being chosen to sing and be a part of this event? you question why….I say why not? whoever wrote this article has serious problems with insecurity, jealousy and has no complete no sense of appreciation. sorry but thats just my own humble opinion.
Yeah, that writer is a complete idiot! F-ck him!
oh, you people are such pubic lice brains! uh, uh, i mean “crab mentalities”!
why don’t all the pinoylife writers & readers get together and make love, not war, ’til erotic city comes alive? we could invite charice and the fly brown blacc azns!
(lightbulb) and, and… we can call the gathering PINOYFEST!
Why don’t you recommend yourself to sing that song? If you think you’re too great compared to Charise, you should be the one getting standing ovations instead of her right? Critics like you just stay at the background.. you’ll never be shown on tv and nobody would applaud you. And pessimists never get to the top… they just stay behind anybody else since all they do is pull everybody downwards. You could be a green card holder already but that doesn’t make you ALL american. Nobody gets to where they have to go if they don’t know to embrace who they really are. Blood is thicker than a green card!
Why not just think that she has a good voice than most of her age and that she has more feelings in singing that song compared to a pure American her age? I’ve met her so many times when she was not yet this popular and when she already is popular, she hasn’t changed a bit. She is still the little girl with both feet on the ground no matter what. And that makes her the most appropriate singer to sing any song she is asked to sing. She’s an angel. And may ALL racists go to HELL!
hey! you have some points,whoever you are,you may think you are american but in the eyes of a caucasian or black you still identified as ” boat people “,you may have a fake american accent but in the long run you belong to your island country of the P.I.,what a hypocrite!!Celine Dion sang God Bless America after 911 thing,she is Canadian,so what is the problem,if there is a holocaust in the USA your people will be a part of the population that for sure be put in the stockade,you belong to your island even you are in the USA to me you are a Philipino permanently living in the slum of the USA, leave Charice alone ,she is a rare talent,okay!!!!!
To some of the folks missing the point, how would a Philippine citizen feel if American teen country-pop star Taylor Swift sang Ako Ay Pilipino at the next Philippine presidential pre-inaugural ball?
Just throwing it out there.
Charice was asked to sing GBA at the pre-inaugural ball, she didn’t ask for it in the 1st place. You need to ask the whys from Oprah (her manager, I think) who from reports I read lobbied for it. Part of promoting her ward, maybe. As to a Filipina, singing in an all American affair, I don’t think it’s inappropriate. The Obama team approved of it, and were the ones who suggested that she sings GBA. They didn’t complain, so why should you?
Are you kidding? Filipinos would go crazy nuts ga-ga if Taylor Swift sang at a Philippine pre-inaugural event. Even if she sang in real bad Tagalog. They think it’s cute. Look at all the love that Pootey white dude chef on YouTube gets from the native-speaking Filipinos.
But a Fil-Am who isn’t fluent in Tagalog? Why that’s downright unacceptable.
Plus, it’s only the PRE-inaugural ball. Since she’s a PRE-US Citizen anyway, it makes sense.
Now if she sang in the place of Aretha Franklin at the actual ceremony, yeah, I’d totally see your point.
much ado about nothin’, it already happened,question Oprah ,Obama,and the rest,you are just jealous ’cause you’ve been in our big USA and have no talent like your country girl Charice,and that will never happen to you ’cause you are big whiney little brown man ha!ha!ha!,just listen to Nat King Cole,Eartha Kitt and the Lettermen sings Tagalog songs.
I must whole heatedly disagree with your mis-assesment. I can’t believe you would cite Charice as being a Cylon. I mean, what got into you to say such a thing.
Being an expert on these things I can assure you sir that-that cute little singing diva is no Cylon and I find your assertion quite repulsive.
She is obviously Zentradi.
if she’s zentradi then, i fear, oprah has acquired micronizaton technology. not good. if invid, even worse…
and if she’s a cylon, are we talking lorne greene-era or el pachuco-era? she doesn’t seem to have that KITT-knocked-off horizontal-darting red eye thing!
this pubic lice mentality leads to nothing but more itchiness!
increase the peace!
Oooh Dr. Phil. You just opened up Pandora’s box.
Charice cannot be Zentradi as the first Space war doesn’t begin until February 7, 2009. That’s when the Macross (or the SDF-1 for you Robotech folks) fires the main weapon on South Ataria Island (Macross Island for the Robotech inclined). It was only then that we first engaged the Zentradi in battle and it was even later that the Zentradi shrunk down three agents to infiltrate human society. So Charice is DEFINITELY NOT ZENTRADI as her existence precedes these events.
Charice can either be a Cylon or a Terminator. Considering her cheery nature, I rule out the fact that she is a cyborg that was sent from the future by Skynet as a Terminator to screw up John Connor and the future resistance.
However, based on the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, Charice and everyone currently on this planet (you and me included) are decendents of the 13th colony of Caprica that settled on the planet Earth. This final colony was comprised of Cylons… thus WE ARE ALL CYLONS. Charice included.
Oh wait, we are all Cylons except for fromdee. That person is a lab accident from Pinehearst Industries.
if only i can crack your head right now (”gago ka!!!”) i’d be happy to see your blood gushing out from your head with tiny crabs that makes you an idiot barking dog!!! Why not tell your sentiments to Obama?!!!
fuckin aye moonie.
*speachless*
“if only i can crack your head right now (”gago ka!!!”) i’d be happy to see your blood gushing out from your head with tiny crabs that makes you an idiot barking dog!!! Why not tell your sentiments to Obama?!!!”
-magulo
Hey why don’t you shut you’re mouth. If anyone is part Cylon here, it would most definately be Obama.
Obama is most likely a Black Lectroid from Planet 10. (See Buckaroo Banzai for that really obscure reference.)
Ooohh, it drives me bananas when people spell it Philippino. Get some edumakation, people.
well… i just found these black shades in a dumpster, and everytime i put them on, everybody in washington looks like… one of THEM! THEY LIVE!
Barackaroo Banzai?
Wait, David Letterman sang a Taglog song?
Now THIS I gotta hear!
Are you ruling out that Charice could possibly be a D.A.R.Y.L? I’m not ruling out that she’s a V.I.C.I. since she is a small wonder.
Because she is a citizen of the world and America is a free country–they can invite anyone they deem worthy to sing ” God Bless America”. And because she has a freaking great voice any one from any country of culture would die for and because they invited her, she didn’t put a gun on anybody’s head. Tha’ts why!
Unfortunately, there are people out there who hates seeing someone else’s going up the ladder and having great achievements. That’s what you call crab mentality. What’s even worse is it comes from someone who claims to be a kababayan. Sad, really sad.
“I am an American of Filipino ancestry. I have roots and IDEALS that were shaped by the culture of my native land…”
YA, RIGHT.
people could take my thoughts and stuff’em into footlong wheatbread with subway toppings… coz i got an IMITATION CRAB mentality
thank you! thank you! far too kind!
and, amidst the speculations of charice’s origins… i remind everyone that there’ve been rumors she walks around off-camera with a small robot named doctor theopolis around her torso while singing
“BEEDEE BEDEE BEDEE BEDEE HI BUCK!”
celine dion sang “god bless america” and she’s canadian. or have you forgotten because she’s white? this is hypocritical. you said you liked charice but there are a lot of not-so-veiled insults here.
aside from that, you said, “Then again, it was because of American exposure that Charice rose in popularity…So maybe it was appropriate for her to sing “God Bless America” ’cause she’s about to get paid some serious Benjamins and not Benignos.”
but then there’s this thing that you wrote: “I have roots and ideals that were shaped by the culture of my native land but I consider the United States to be my home and my chosen national identity. Say what you will but I’ve bought into the red, white and blue.”
look in the mirror honey. and im telling you it’s not pretty.
You say you are now more American than Filipino , likewise don’t agree Charice should have sang that song .
If you are an American now as you say you are , why would you still write in English like a Filipino. ? It ’s quite obvious .
TH , ika ng mga taga maynila.
And its none of your business if they want her up on the stage . You live in a free country , if you notice.
darleene,honey, that’s how we spell philippino in my beloved ENGLAND,you spell it American,that tells me ,you have never been outside of your community since you were transplanted in rhe USA, and if you have been in Europe,Australia,the Middleast they have different spelling too,my dear moron,don’t you read foreign newspaper,educate your pea-sized gray matter in your peanut brain so you can be a productive member of the so called humanity,and for those philippinos who critized talents coming out of the Philippines ,DON”T EAT YOUR OWN SHIT!!!!!!
yah! darleene ‘that Enlgish dude is right,there are other languages outside USA,and they have different spelling of words at least it is not spelled as “PHILIPPINIGGAS” or say INDIO as in 18th or 19th century by the Spaniards,if you read history books,so,EDUCATE YOURSELF !!!!!!
“hey dad!” hehehe.. idiot barking dog, dont waste your time here. You belong to aw aw aw civilization. People who behave like dogs..People who just bark without thinking. If you want my silence, (gago ka!!!) then be quiet too.
Hey everyone, just remember…
DON’T EAT YOUR OWN SHIT!!!
Oh man that’s just GOLD!
“that’s how we spell philippino in my beloved ENGLAND,you spell it American,that tells meyou have never been outside of your community since you were transplanted in rhe USA, and if you have been in Europe,Australia,the Middleast they have different spelling too,my dear moron,don’t you read foreign newspaper”
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_call_the_people_who_live_in_the_Philippines
http://www.pilipino-express.com/history-a-culture/in-other-words/127-the-basics-of-philippino-filipino.html
“educate your pea-sized gray matter in your peanut brain so you can be a productive member of the so called humanity,and for those philippinos who critized talents coming out of the Philippines ,DON”T EAT YOUR OWN SHIT!!!!!!”
You really didn’t need to insult anyone. Plus, Darleene is one of the people linked on the homepage. If you really want to educate yourself on your so-called opponents, then click on her link.
“PHILIPPINIGGAS” ?!?!
For 400 years, that word has kept us down.
It took a whole lot of trying, just to get up that hill, now… we’re in the big leagues, getting our turn to bat, as long as we live, It’s you and me baby, there ain’t nothin’ wrong with that.
Hey, just ’cause its a theme song don’t make it not true.
as a scholar on fecalology (for my thesis i had to drop sh*t, rock sh*t, give a sh*t, and take a sh*t but never TAKE sh*t), i advise you all not to only refrain from eating your own sh*t…
…but don’t eat OTHER PEOPLE’s sh*t either. not your mother’s sh*t. not your father’s sh*t. not even your SPOUSE’S sh*t. NO ONE’S!
as for animal sh*t, abstain or partake at your discretion.
***for info on sh*t and other related sh*t, see eddie muphy’s “raw” where he espouses his take on sh*t by way of richard pryor impersonation***
p.s.
i respect and semi-platonically love you all, even though i’m not ph/p/filip/pino/a/@, but a FLY BROWN BLACC AZN!
hmmm…
are philippinos filipinos who love fish & chips and have especially bad teeth?
and is mary poppins a philippina? i mean, she’s english AND she’s a nanny. i dunno…
but i know i’m da flyest, brownest, blaccest, aznest there izzle!
thank you, london ! i’ll be opening up for don rickles at the wembley! special guest malcolm “caligula” mcdowell!
p.s.
i am not a phlip, and neither is don rickles. nor caligula.
I don’t have crab mentality.
I just have a case of the crabs.
Heheheh.
Stay classy, you “Philippinos in England”!
Woah…I heard about the hubbub, but, wow! Did the people who wrote the ignorant comments about this article actually READ this article or just the headline? LOL
tcpet, oi, you bloody tosser, “that’s how we spell philippino(sic) in my beloved ENGLAND.” Are you havin’ a laugh? Don’t know what you’re going on about there mate but, your notion is all UTTER BOLLOCKS, you tit ferret! I’m born and raised in the UK, 100% Pinoy Brit and 200% proud and me mum, dad, nan and gran all raised me to know how to spell me own ethnicity properly. Any suggestion otherwise proves you’re a right prat for not even knowing how. You’re probably a ManU fan, aintcha? Shag-off. If you’re gonna claim to be English, at least bloody learn the wankin’ language, Pare, gets mo?
I disagree. Moonie is NOT a “whiney little brown man.” He’s quite the opposite.
hmm…that come out right?
Anyone who is not a Filipino posting comments here is an asshole. Hahahahaha! Anyone having problem with me..”gago ka!!!”… kiss my ass!!!! Blehhhhhh…
…and, by that reckoning, any “philippino” who posts here is an arsehole calamansi-ee (instead of your standad “limey”).
fifty-plus posts. wow. LET’S GO TO DISNEYLAND! i hear charice is opening for pretty poison at videopolis!
thank you, that’s my time, and now, ladies and gentlemen, DOLPHY and PANCHITO!
Richard barks again hahahaha!!!! Because of your jealousy, here i give you “lick my ass” …You’ll love it I assure you “gago”.
hi gays! ayyy!guys pala,before y’all kill each other,Charice already got paid for her 2 songs,so let it rest,does anybody know where i can buy cheap ticket to Manila? am just excited to go home after 20 yrs in Boston,thanks
dapat si POKWANG na lang ang pinakanta,’di no more arguments,excuse me!
just watch my full-spread on FHM magazine,Charice is happy and laughing at all of you,we are all pinoy no matter what ,appreciate our kababayan who makes it abroad,okay mga Badings!!!!!
I’ll check out your full spread.
I really Manny Pacqaio got to sing it instead…!!! that would’ve been epic laughs for centuries…!!!!!
goooooood bliss ameRRRicassssss home naaaaa akoooooo….!!!! hahaha
hi! ate charice!:)
msta ..!
i’am 1 of ur million fans!
can u help me to be a singer lke u?!..!
ate pls answer my question @ joycecervantes47 dian mu isend
tnx tu u!:) GOD bless us ALWAYS! wer evr u r! hpe na mbasa mo to @ sgutin mo! i’ll w8t!
Why I hate Charice?
1. Copycats are an embarrassment for all Filipinos.
2. Yelling every song is ANNOYING!!
3. She can’t write a song!
4. She can’t read music!
5. She is too arrogant!
6. Her dresses are for 12 year old girls!!
7. Short and Flat Faced
8. It’s a joke when she thinks David Foster will make her popular(mainstream)
9. Can’t speak english well!!
10. Thinks she is an International Star!! hahaha
It is really tasteless and ghetto to think that it is ok for a COPYCAT to represent the Philippines! Have some class people! Stop thinking third-world. People already look down on our country, do you want to give them more excuses!!! I say NO MORE CHARICE in the USA!!!
Why I like Charice
1. Doing covers is a way of affirming one’s singing skills vis-a-vis the greatest singers in the world. Who has never sung a cover early in their career anyway?
2. She Belts. Yelling = shouting, screaming. Belting is not any of these. Belting is like an awaited rockin’guitar solo.
3. Oh yes she writes songs.
4. A lot of famous musicians never learned how to read or write music. Even then she’s learning how to read music.
5. She’s not afraid to share her thoughts, feelings, and successes (sometimes misconstrued as being arrogant)
6. She can project versatile looks through a variety of wardrobe styles.
7. She’s petite and her face is really cute.
8. If not for David Foster, I wouldn’t have known about her.
9. Just as I like the way the French and Italians speak English, I like her Filipino way of speaking English. And she’s quite fluent too.
10. She IS an international star.
Reply to the last person who commented.
You tasteless idiotic numbnut!! You really think this midget is going to amount to anything in the US?! Please!! Wake up and smell your shit because all your doing is bullshitting!! How could you call someone an international star when she hasn’t accomplished anything outside the Philippines?!! She hasn’t even been on any shows in the US or have any hit records to boast about!! So shut your mouth!!
I wouldn’t make to much of a big deal about Charice! She is just a sideshow, nothing more. I doubt that the American audience will really relate to her as a pop star. Don’t wast your time on this girl!!
Charice is still David Foster’s sideshow freak! She can’t even get a show by herself on broadway! hahaha lol
Go back to the Philippines you Flat Faced Yelling Midget!!!
I hope Charice sees this commet!!!
Charice this is for you!!! Go to hell!!
Charice = Third World Singer!! Disappointing!
filipinos=2nd class niggers (nowadays).
Stay in the Philippines and be Asians not like Americans and trying to be black. Use Asian Filipino Accents and don’t speak English. Let outsiders learn it. If you don’t want to be categorized as 2nd class niggers, be Asians and not azns they’re fake.
David Foster and Friends= Boring!!
Charice Pekpekmo= Failure!!
Cant wait for Charice’s International Album.
Rawwr!
Nearly forgot..
“That beautiful and powerful rendition, which came from this small package, is capable to shatter the biggest apathy in this world,” — Maya Soetoro-Ng (Obama’s sister)
Source: http://www.labeez.org/2009/02/charice-rocks-pre-inaugural-balls.php
Addios!
Pacquiao is the only Filipino to be proud of! He is the only Filipino who has achieved worldwide recognition that no other filipino will ever achieve again!!
Long live the future president of the Philippines!! –> Manny Pacquiao!!!
I am so happy that Charice is such a failure!!!
Hahahah Charice’s album failed again!! hahahahaha
i hate all fil-americans. .haha.you’re a loser. not taking pride of your own heritage. so what if you are in US? you’re still a filipino. you can’t do anything about it. ang tanga mo naman. hindi ka marunong mag salita ng Tagalog. nakakahiya ka alam mo ba yun? sa tingin mo ba gusto ng mga maerikano ang mga kagaya mo? kung oo ang sagot, mga wala pala sila kwenta eh.
Charice is so low-class it’s not even funny anymore!! She brings shame to filipinos all around the world!!
It’s confirmed, Charice will bring more shame to herself by being in Glee!! She will be the laughing stock of the whole show!!! LOL
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