We Can Be Anything

What’s good about being famous is that you get a lot of following from all strata in the society. More than fame and fortune, influence is the issue.

What you say, however insane or weird or relatively insignificant that may be, could be of great importance to people who know you.

That is real power.

Spider said, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

Indeed. Influence is everything. That is why everybody talks about Kris Aquino’s anti-ageing cream, or people don’t mind if Anne Curtis really sings but they buy her album anyway.

The nice part however is when they use this rare kind of influence to good cause, and not otherwise.

A few celebrities have their own fair share of advocacies, which of course, attracts much attention primarily because they are supported by the stars.

Last Tuesday, while I was engrossed in my afternoon dose of tearjerkers, they happened to play this new (maybe-not-so) advocacy campaign of no less than Filipino Black Eyed Peas, Apl.De.Ap aka Allan Pineda Lindo Jr.

In partnership with the Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation (NCAF), the campaign is a fund-raiser aimed at sending less fortunate Filipino children to school.

It comes in a music video format and shows, besides Apl.De.Ap singing the song, a handful of kids, including aetas who express their dreams through a kariton (probably inspired by CNN Hero Efren Penaflorida who also appears in the video) which carries plywood planks painted with headless caricatures of different occupations from which kids had selected and posed for the camera. Yellow balloons also served as a significant motif.

Because it was sung in English and it sounds rappy, I found it a bit hard to understand part of the song. So, I opted to search for the lyrics and here’s what I got:

We Can Be Anything

Apl.De.Ap

You can be a doctor,

You can be a governor,

You can be a professor,

You can be a leader

All you got to do is dream

You can be anything

Get your education

Change you situation

[Refrain]

'cause if I can do a thing, then you can do it

And together we can push it up the mountain

Do it!

So if I can get a thing, then you can get it

And together we can live it,

'cause there is no limit

YEAH !

You can be a hero,

Don't be a zero

You can live the big things

You can do the big things

Get your graduation

Earn your occupation

[Refrain]

Mga kababayan ko

Magsamahn tayo

Mga kababayan ko

Magsamahn tayo

Apl.De.Ap (rap)

I know I can,

I know you can

Let's get together and make a plan

You'll get better like cannon head

Help each other out understand

All of us together inside this land

Working together that's our mater plan

If you believe say YES I CAN !!

If you believe say YES I CAN !!

You can be a leader

You can be a hero

You can be a leader

You can be a hero

[Refrain]

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