As Olympic theme songs go, Forever Friends a.k.a the Beijing Olympic theme song is alright. It has all the right words to appeal to our desire for brotherhood/sisterhood, universal friendship, peace and unity, achieving the common dreams of humankind, etc. etc.

Simon Cowell might call it “sappy”, “kinda old fashioned”, and “weddingy” but that’s Simon Cowell. There ain’t no pleasing that man. Us? We are kinda okay with it. It’s “aiight” as Randy Jackson would say. It passes the grade. And we very much like the embedded Chinese sound too.

Still, we’re hoping that the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games (BOCOG) will ditch their theme song for Renaldo Lapuz’s We’re Brothers Forever. Why, you ask? Well, if you haven’t seen this video already, here’s the answer to your “Why”.

Awesome isn’t it? In fact some people (i.e. some Pinoys who have very little else to be proud of) would say that the song is beyond awesome.

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