It turned into around 3 years in the past while everybody started accepting the truth that September 1 now not only intended the begin of the countdown to the World’s longest Christmas birthday party, but it also ordained its legit track bearer, the grandfather of xmas cheer, the constantly-smiling, and absolutely everyone’s wealthy-searching uncle, Jose Mari Chan.
When I first noticed a meme about the smooth-spoken crooner on Facebook, it got here out inside the identical week as those lousy memes on Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends.”
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“I’m coming,” the meme examine as a smiling, stock picture of Jose Mari Chan beamed through the photograph.
I grew up listening to his tune in the ‘90s. Back then, my lolo could constantly play a cassette tape of his now iconic album, “Christmas In Our Hearts” again and again once more in our house.
Mind you, that’s generally in August. I do remember that department shops, eating places, and nearly all Filipino establishments with get right of entry to to a sound machine could go to the album with the aid of default while the Christmas season starts. For me, whenever I pay attention girls and boys humming to JMC’s songs I simply get transported to those mornings with my lolo. It simply appears like domestic.
But JMC’s recent upward thrust to reputation on social media is a pleasing marvel to me. He’s all of sudden cool once more. Wait, scratch that. Was he ever cool first of all?
When my lolo would plug the cassette tape, he’d turn the quantity up so loud, it’s as though he wants the whole block to concentrate. As a child, I’d like it. He’d fill the entire residence with such Christmas spirit the odor of noche buena turned into thick in the air. The wind is barely chillier too, I notion, but possibly that’s because JMC has the sort of soothing voice.
My lolo become an avid fan of OPM. He added me to Celeste Legazpi, Basil Valdez, Freddie Aguilar, Sampaguita, and APO Hiking Society. And as ordinary, he’d flip the quantity up so loud on the radio.
“Let the associates sing with us,” he’d say.
But as the years long past through, permit’s simply say my taste in track changed. Boybands, woman bands, a surprising but brief turn to emo and Jose Mari Chan became unceremoniously relegated to the antique facts bin at my lolo’s residence within the early aughts. The “baduy bin” as I’d name it, subsequent to the Jessa Zaragoza, Sexbomb (“Unang Putok”), and Salbakuta tapes. And boy, became I relieved when those tapes finally were given eaten via the radio.
So consider my chagrin whilst the shops started out gambling his songs every September. This turned into Jose Mari Chan’s first resurrection. Just as SM could begin building their giant and garishly styled Christmas trees towering up in the air, JMC become there, “singing about the higher matters. The buddies we’ve got, the pleasure they dream.” Why must his songs be so rattling catchy?
Sometime in 2009, my lolo succumbed to most cancers. When he died, he left us his huge cassette tape collection that span numerous decades. It changed into too painful to play them, so we kept them of their bins, by no means to be opened once more.
Eventually, like any matters forgotten, they genuinely were given lost in the house, someplace. The tune stopped gambling in September as far as I knew.
But Facebook has resurrected Jose Mari Chan, back to my lifestyles all way to the 90s youngsters who in the end grew up, found that life lower back then wasn’t all that awful, and decided to show the nostalgia machine back on. Now, anyone’s idea of a perfect Christmas is not just a party or dinner for 2.
“Anywhere will do,” so says JMC.
But Jose Mari Chan wasn’t the primary person who has been taken out of the “baduy bin” by means of social media and placed in a neo-cool shelf curious about the millennials to “find out”. Before him, there has been Rick Astley (of the “Rickrolling” meme), and George Takei (“Ohmyy”), who are thriving on YouTube and Facebook.
I haven’t begun to find out the secret components to how those 3 have been able to reclaim their “coolness” lower back. But time and some little bit of distance makes us observe the past with rose-coloured glasses. For now, I now not handiest thank social media for making Jose Mari Chan cool once more but extra importantly, for reminding me of Christmases spent with my lolo and his cassette tapes at domestic.
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