Regine: "..maganda talaga yung ASAP..mga production numbers, talagang pinag-iisipan!"

In an interview with pep.ph, Regine shared what she thinks about SOP and what we should expect for Party Pilipinas. Here are some of her statements:

On SOP:

"Actually nung time na nag-ano sila (Fully Charged), hindi ako pumapasok nun, e. Kasi yun yung time na nagkakasakit ako nun, e. I don't really know what happened. But when I started to do SOP again, I just heard that they're gonna finish it na. So, sabi ko, 'A, okay, that's sad.' I don't know the whole story behind it. I've been hearing stories but..."

"May konting stress ng konti (on SOP), hindi sa akin pero dun sa mga kasama ko, yung staff. Nararamdaman ko yung stress nila. Unlike before na it was just really fun, medyo nawala 'yon. So I guess okay na rin na mag-e-end siya for us to be able to start...bago na ulit. Para mawala na rin yung... May bad vibes na, e.

"'Tsaka yung para din sa staff. Kawawa sila kasi sobra na silang pressured. At least, pag nag-umpisa kami ng bagong show, huwag muna natin lakihan yung expectations sa atin. Ano lang muna, mag-enjoy muna tayo. When SOP started, it was just like that. Let's just do our thing. Let's not expect anything. Huwag muna tayong mag-expect na mataas na rating. Just do concert on TV. That was the theme of SOP."


On ASAP:

"I have to say maganda talaga yung ASAP. Mga production numbers, talagang pinag-iisipan... Not that hindi pinag-iisipan yung sa SOP kasi they work so hard just be able to create one production number. Katakot-takot na bloodshed ito! Katakot-takot na hirap talaga ang dinadanas ng production para lang makabuo ng isang production number. Minsan lang, meron yung hit and miss. Minsan naghi-hit, minsan nagmi-miss.

"You also have to admit that there was a time na it was us on top and they were... Di ba? Kami naman yung maraming hits. Ngayon, sila naman yung mas madaming hits, sila yung nasa taas. Okay lang yun. Kasi na-experience din naman namin yung sila yung No. 1, kami parang wala lang. Okay lang yun.

"You know, the one thing I think that we lost...hindi naman lost, but we forgot is to just have fun. Masyado kaming na-stress sa ratings kasi the network... Of course, hindi naman namin ma-blame, they were expecting so much from the program. But the program was getting tired! It was just really getting tired from too much pressure, from too much intrigues, and from too much whatever."

On Party Pilipinas:

"Yun ang gusto naming ibalik sa Party Pilipinas: it's a concert TV. Dun naman kami pinapanood, e. Live yung kantahan, live band. Di ba? Feeling ko, yun talaga ang strength ng SOP."

"They'd probably see me more in the new show kasi talagang ito parang kina-career talaga namin, e."

"May ibang look. Yung production people siguro maraming mababago. Maraming mababago sa show, pero alam kong napakalaki ng expectations ng sangkatauhan sa show na ito. Pero sa akin, mas gusto ko lang mag-enjoy kasi yun lang dapat yun, e. Kaya kami pinapanood dahil they see us enjoying and it came to a point na parang minsan hindi na masyadong enjoyable.

"So I hope that this new show, yun lang, have fun, let's just do our thing, not expect anything big yet, you know. I hope the viewers, the fans, the loyal fans—'cause we still have more loyal fans, you know, meron pa ring gano'n. We hope that our viewers will help us also... Kasi, siyempre, we're starting again, sana tulungan kami na makapag-umpisa ulit, mapasaya sila, maging proud sila ulit na nanood sila ng...well, now it's called Party Pilipinas."

Hmm. We love the idea of live singing! Hope ASAP people will get the idea and decrease their annoying lip synching numbers. If the stars can't sing, why not just let them dance instead of making them look like fools pretending to be singing?

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