Special Episode – Rhian Ramos [Body Crashes MV Launch]

“Love can be a good thing and a bad thing, it can sometimes be a drug,” Rhian Ramos says about her new single ‘Body Crashes’. She knows many people will scoff at her newfound passion as an original musician, writing songs about love, but she’s unfazed. “For a long time I’ve been ashamed of my feelings… it takes a different set of guts to put something that you’ve written [out] because then everyone has the freedom to say, ‘You write bad’, or, ‘Your feelings are weird’.

Luckily, we’re all our [own] worst critics, so there’s nothing that anyone can say to me that will hurt my feelings anymore.” It seems that what’s driving her is a renewed sense of freedom. She has just returned from a half-year stay in America, where she made the music video for ‘Body Crashes’. “I was in a place where every person is free,” and she had imbibed this freedom so deeply that the ‘Body Crashes’ MV ended up being almost too passionate for Philippine TV. Rhian also brings up the same thing about the local music scene, noting how interesting it is that everyone has the freedom to mix genres, how inspiring it is that everyone is allowed to write their own music now.

In this special interview, Rhian talks about her motivations for pursuing a passion in music (“It’s nice to finally [sing], just to express”), her observations about the trajectory of the local music industry, and her source of ideas (and feelings) for the songs she writes—with bonus quips about ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Lost in Translation’.

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Rhian Ramos is one of the most sought-after actresses of Philippine cinema. Her recent film “Kung Paano Siya Nawala” added to her filmography where she proved her versatility. In “Kung Paano Siya Nawala”, she plays Shana, the love interest of a man suffering from face blindness. Some of her other memorable movie and TV performances include Sally in “Saving Sally” (2016), femme fatale Valerie in “Silong” (2015), and Althea in “The Rich Man’s Daughter” (2015).

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To see the video version of this episode, click here: Link

The official music video of Body Crashes is on Rhian Ramos’s YouTube channel

A writeup of the event over at Reverse Delay is available here: ‘Body Crashes’ and the freedom to self-express: an interview with Rhian Ramos

DJ’s live recording of Body Crashes: Link

DJ’s incomplete recording of Napagod: Link