national day songs
National Day is coming. After listening to this year's national day song, something in the suggested column of YouTube caught my attention: " The Problem with Singapore's National Day (NDP) Songs ". Curious as I was, I clicked on it. Here's what the maker of the video had to say. It's not often that Singaporeans set aside their differences to show solidarity. Even when we do, it's usually because we feel we've been represented poorly. We'll palm our faces at the garish costumes of Miss Universe Singapore. We'll laugh till we cry at cheesy, low-budget videos meant to show off our best attractions, but we reserve our loudest groans for our National Day theme songs. It's become customary to mock them that we probably won't know if we're listening to a good one. These once-a-year tunes are so divisive that rumour has it, acclaimed local composer, Dick Lee, will accept national songwriting duties whenever he feels su