"Ligaya" | ||||
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Single by Eraserheads | ||||
from the album Ultraelectromagneticpop! | ||||
B-side | "Easy Ka Lang" | |||
Released | 1993 | |||
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Length | 4:29 | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Ely Buendia | |||
Producer(s) | Ed Formoso | |||
Eraserheads singles chronology | ||||
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Audio sample | ||||
"Ligaya" | ||||
Lyric video | ||||
"Ligaya" on YouTube |
"Ligaya" (English:"Joy") is a song by Filipino alternative rock band Eraserheads. It was released as their first promotional single from their debut album Ultraelectromagneticpop! (1993).
The song is described as "a quintessential anthem of youthful romance" [1] while "perfectly capturing all the ins and outs of campus courtship". [2] It features the lyric "Gagawin ko ang lahat pati ang thesis mo (I'll do anything,even your thesis)",which writer Ely Buendia later jokingly referenced in a tweet in 2016:"Eh sariling thesis ko nga di ko magawa-gawa sa’yo pa (I can't even do my own thesis,why should I do yours?)." [3]
The band performed the song during their first TV appearance in the noontime show Sa Linggo nAPO Sila . [4]
"Ligaya" was featured with the band in a TV commercial for the Chippy snack in 1996. [5]
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