Thursday, January 10, 2013

Amalayer comes out in Philippine spoof of Gangnam Style! (Don't forget to click video below! Suggest you share your comments way way down below after the video....)

Humor is one of the great natural resources of the Philippines and for centuries a survival mechanism of the Filipino people against Spanish (also briefly Japanese) colonial oppression as well as against 20th century political shennanigans of local overlords.

Spoof of South Korea's Oppa Gangnam Style, watch and listen to this funny and fun Philippine parody called "Opo Pinoy Style".

Apart from highlighting various Philippine cultural and other features as well as idiosyncracies, my La Consolacion College Manila student Paula Jamie Salvosa well-known for the 2012 viral video "Amalayer" is also featured twice in this hilarious, entertaining and ingenious video by Filipino-Canadian Mikey Bustos.

Paging the Department of Tourism (DOT), this is better than any of your promotional videos or advertisements about the Philippines!

Read this report from Yahoo News:

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/-amalayer--girl-bounces-back-with-new-viral-video-082050336.html


'Amalayer' girl bounces back with new viral video


By  | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom – 1 hour 15 minutes ago

Once the object of online criticism for a video which showed her berating a security guard, "Amalayer Girl" Paula Jamie Salvosa is now back on netizens' radar.

Salvosa is now featured in another viral video, which rides on the global popularity of pop hit "Gangnam Style" to highlight Pinoy pride.

The video entitled "Opo Pinoy Style" was produced by HeadingUp Productions and Filipino-Canadian artist Mikey Bustos.

Viewed nearly 800,000 times as of writing since it was posted Jan. 4, the video underscores Pinoy tourist spots, food, traditions and even idiosyncracies.

"Opo", the Filipino way of saying yes respectfully or when addressing elders, replaces "Oppa" in the Psy's original video, which means "older brother" in Korean.

Salvosa, who now apparently has embraced online fame, appears in the video mouthing "Amalayer," a term coined when her video spread like wildfire online in November.




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