Manny Villar Campaign Jingle in Japanese

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Have you heard the campaign jingle of Presidentiable Manny Villar… in Japanese? (UPDATE: “Villar no Uta” is just a parody.) Here it is…

I wonder who’s part of Villar’s internet marketing team. You’ll find Manny Villar in Google AdSense, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks.

You even have a bit of viral marketing in the case of this translated jingle. Whoa… Ibang klase.

Some of the lyrics adapted from InevitableFeelings and Stephanie Anne Flores in Facebook:

Gomi no umi de oyoi taka…
michi de kurisumasu pati shitaka
minna no shitsumo, hontou no nakama ka?
benkyou soshite kureru to shitemasuka?
minna shigoto mitsukete kureru
ie mo mitsukete kureru
biriar wa honto no masushii hito
biriar wa honto no yasashii hito
biriar wa jibun no chikara de jibun no chii o kisui ta
maanibiiriar hinkon o nakushite kureru

Does anyone know the official Nihongo lyrics?

Anyway, here’s the Filipino or Tagalog version:

And here’s a quick translation:

Have you ever bathed in a sea of garbage?
Have you spent Christmas in the middle of the street?
That is our question.
Are you truly one of us?

Did you know that he can send you to school?
He will help us, so that we can find a job.
And his plan is for us to have a house.

Villar is the one who is truly poor.
Villar is the one who is truly concerned.
Villar is the one who is truly capable.
And he made a name for himself.

Manny Villar is the one who will end our poverty.

(Yes, something is lost in the translation…)

UPDATE: Read Janette Toral’s Manny Villar Ad Campaign Goes Viral (Jan. 30, 2010) — “At the Viral Ideas webinar today, I tackled how presidential candidate Senator Manny Villar latest advertising campaign (Naging Mahirap) has gone viral.”


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First posted on Sunday, 24 Jan 2010

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12 Responses to “Manny Villar Campaign Jingle in Japanese”

  1. on 24 Jan 2010 at 12:53 am 1datk0m

    I had the lyrics here:
    http://datk0m.tumblr.com/

  2. on 24 Jan 2010 at 12:58 am 2Concerned Person

    This was done as a PARODY and the makers were just having fun. The song is a literal translation of the original.

    If you’d check the original download link, it is clearly stated there.
    The makers of this song is in NO way associated with Manny Villar.

  3. on 24 Jan 2010 at 1:00 am 3Viloria.net

    Thanks, datk0m! Here’s the permalink –

    http://datk0m.tumblr.com/post/349098126/whothehellisbogs-not-even-the-japanese-were

    What’s the writing shown in your webpage? Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji?

  4. on 24 Jan 2010 at 1:02 am 4Viloria.net

    Hi, CP. Where is the original download link?

  5. on 24 Jan 2010 at 1:10 am 5Concerned Person

    Here you go:

    http://www.4shared.com/file/200213600/9c83d371/Villar_no_Uta.html

  6. on 24 Jan 2010 at 1:13 am 6Lugiya

    IT’S JUST A PARODY.

    Read about it here: http://readthedescription.blogspot.com/

  7. on 24 Jan 2010 at 1:18 am 7Viloria.net

    Thanks, Lugiya, for
    http://readthedescription.blogspot.com/2010/01/parody_24.html

    Relax. :-)

    Anyway, it’s interesting to see how non-supporters of Manny Villar can unintentionally trigger a viral marketing campaign.

    Whether this becomes something positive or negative remains to be seen. What we can see at the moment, though, is that people are re-tweeting about this creative and nicely-performed translation.

  8. on 24 Jan 2010 at 1:29 am 8uman

    still, interesting touch.

  9. on 24 Jan 2010 at 1:34 am 9datk0m

    Haha. those writing are combinations of Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana.

    I used Katakana to spell out Manny Villar’s name. :) )

  10. on 24 Jan 2010 at 8:37 am 10Lisa

    oh no, Villar is going to get an idea out of this… translate it into English, French, Chinese, all the languages where there are OFWs… no, wait, he’ll also have it translated to all dialects in the Philippines… Cebuano, Ilonggo, Ilocano.. This is world domination! I’m still not voting for him, though.

  11. on 02 Feb 2010 at 6:42 pm 11Cris

    Does anyone have a link to lyrics of the Ilonggo version?

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