A broken-hearted KC

"It was like a movie scene, the way I fell for you. Only you didn’t fall. Now it’s not like the movies at all,” KC Concepcion sang to prove two points via her single “Not Like The Movies.”

First, that she can make heartbreak believable.

Second, that a good original can still light up a troubled OPM industry where it’s almost impossible to predict which songs would hit.

The Megadaughter recently launched her sophomore CD “KC,” a follow-up to “a.k.a. Cassandra,” both from Sony Music. In the new all-original compilation, KC wrote three songs “Magandang Umaga,” “Takipsilim,” and “Worth the Wait.”

KC told Bulletin Entertainment how she felt the songs were like her babies.

“Parang mga baby ko ‘yon. I wrote three songs in six hours. Sabi ko, para talaga akong nanganganak ng triplets, yung after 20 minutes, ito na naman, parang meron pang lalabas,” said KC at Hard Rock Café in Makati City where the CD was launched.

Apart from “Not Like The Movies,” the chosen cuts include “Breathe You” and “Hulog.” “Very romantic ‘yong ‘Breathe You.’ Nung kinakanta ko siya, parang sobrang sarap lang kantahin. ‘Hulog’ is a song actually written for a girl. Ginawa namin, we changed one line to make it parang a girl singing it to a guy. So, pag nakita ninyo yung lyrics, actually merong glitch, dahil yung nakasulat talaga ‘malambing ngunit pumapalag.’ Yun ‘yong guy version, pero actually yung girl version na ni-record namin is ‘mahigpit ngunit pumapayag.’”

In the genes

KC is proud to have started a new breed of young artists coming from celebrity parents, like her interviewee, Andi Eigenmann, on The Buzz two Sundays ago.

KC shared, “Actually ngayon, I’ve come to terms with it. Ang naiisip ko lang, free for all. Kumbaga, if you have the heart for it then you have the right to be in it. I feel good that, you know, I guess kahit papaano, nauna ako sa movement na ‘yon and puwedeng ako yung maging ate nilang lahat dahil na-experience ko yung music, teleserye, pelikula. Pinasok ko rin yung pagbi-VJ, pinasok ko yung hosting, pinasok ko yung commercials. So, if they need any advice in the future, kung pareho yung pinagdadaanan nila, I can be there for them.”

She was also happy to be in touch not only with siblings by Sharon Cuneta and stepdad Kiko Pangilinan but also with her other siblings by her biological father Gabby Concepcion.

“Lahat kami in touch. To be in touch with my sisters and also to let Frankie and Miel know that I also have other sisters and to see that open sila doon and very generous naman sila na hindi sila nagta-tantrums about it or anything. Medyo mahirap kasi yun, e. Yung parang masabi sa kanila na, ‘Hey, this is what’s happening and I love you. I’m your ate for life, you’re my baby sisters for life. But I want you to know I also have sisters on my Papa’s side.”

KC then showed the pictures of her other sisters to which Frankie remarked after seeing one of them, “‘Ate, she really looks like you!”

Source: Manila Bulletin