Irony of being Anne-KAPAL!
It started as a joke.
Fellow cast members in a GMA-7 reality gag show pressed to a dare as part of an on-air challenge. She obliged and went further. She then began to scream a note and the rest is history.
The song escapes me, but to my recollection it was something like what we always hear today—from her top-rating noontime show on ABS-CBN to two sold-out “concerts” at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, no less.
OPM banner artist?
From classic Streisand tunes to timeless Songbird anthems, even the Oscar-winning “Let It Go” was not spared. She really dared perform them and quite surprisingly came out of it, not only unscathed. She mesmerized the audience and laughed her way to the bank.
Anne Curtis, the new OPM banner artist?
Who couldn’t help but state this after her self-descriptive Big Dome spectacle, The Forbidden Concert Anne-KAPAL! With the decimating volume of shows of OPM artists, let alone major productions, giving Anne her Big Dome moment twice is really something, especially for someone who admittedly says: “Alam nyo naman pangit ang boses ko kaya dinadaanan ko na lang sa gown.”
To top it all, Yahoo Celebrity Awards 2014’s Social Media Star of the Year nominee featured the country’s real top music artists as her guests or one can say, mere supporting cast: Concert King Martin Nievera, quintessential OPM Songwriter and top balladeer Ogie Alcasid, musical theater great Robert Sena, and the Songbird herself, Regine Velasquez. Anne-KAPAL talaga, one troll could not help but yelp in online message boards!
Turning OPM upside down
But what could make Anne pull this off? Certainly not the creative musical geniuses, most definitely not the Maestro, Mr. C, who was conspicuously absent in the credits, or even names like Louie Ocampo or Gerard Salonga. Yes, someone who has a cruel sense of humor to turn the OPM scene upside down. The producers, organizers, the businessmen? Well, it’s all in the package.
Where in the world can you see such musical rave for a non-singer? Not in the US. Well, almost. William Hung was on the verge of stepping in Hot 100 pop before he was stopped dead in his tracks when sensible audiences felt the joke had to end. Will this happen to Anne too?
Unlikely. She will always have the clout and the reach to always prevail in the industry, and may have dozens of sequels to her show. But will this mean producers will turn a blind eye to aspiring singers equally deserving to take that stage? How ironic, given our reputation as a nation of exceptional singers.
