The most admirable quality of hugot is that it is essentially avowal upon avowal, and the most admirable quality of a Filipino love song is its core of hugot: guileless in the confessional, sans irony, sans armor. While not all hugot becomes a Filipino love song, all Filipino love songs are hugot. It’s essentially a violent act to drag something out from within, to dredge up something that was meant to remain concealed.
Hugot, as a process and not yet the product, is violent. The beloved object is far from you, and so you pull the feeling from within yourself with even greater force. Lack is its animating, fundamental constituent.” Hugot, the quality of confession, is produced in that lack. So in defense of hugot - how painful it must be to be so constantly pained - it’s been around for a long, long time, and it’s here to stay.Īnne Carson in 1986, inadvertently describing hugot: “Simultaneous pleasure and pain are its symptom. Before the word was appropriated to mean watery slam poetry and Twitter tautology, hugot was the core of the Filipino love song.
Hugot: to yank out, to pull from deep within. Manila (CNN Philippines Life) - What makes a Filipino love song remarkable? Plenty - omnipresence, singability, quotability - but what makes a Filipino love song remarkable amongst all other love songs is hugot.īear with me.
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