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MANILA, Philippines – What’s in a President’s music playlist?
In the case of President Benigno Aquino III, it depends on his mood.
“It really depends on the mood, what I need… [if] I need to wake up, slow down, [if] I need to forget some problem that wasn’t [solved yet],” he told Rappler in an exclusive interview Wednesday, October 17.
PNoy added, “Or if I just want to remember some easier period in my life.”
In fact, he said he has around 50 playlists, with music ranging from classical to dance.
“When I was younger, I listened to classical music and parang ‘Wow, it’s so old’,” PNoy said, saying he first listened to it when his father, the late Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr., was imprisoned in the 1970s.
“He was playing the ballet Swan Lake amongst others. Now, there are times that I find it relaxing,” he said.
PNoy’s classical playlist includes the “usual list of suspects” like Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and Maurice Ravel’s Bolero.
“Last week was a lot of jazz — jazz from my days. I went to see the David Benoit concert, (also) Ramsey Luis, that type of standard.
“Sometimes, it’s vocalists’ standards. Sometimes, it’s parang soft rock, (like) MYMP,” he said.
In other cases, he listens to dance music, so he can “burn off a lot of energy.”
“Sometimes, like anybody else, I also get sentimental,” he mused. “I stay alone in (Bahay) Pangarap so it’s the companion whether I’m in the vehicle or alone in the house.”
When asked if he likes gadgets, PNoy quickly replied: “Not as much as when I was younger.” – Rappler.com
Listen to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture here:
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