PETALING JAYA: Wake up and stand up for democracy! This is the new message being spread by controversial singer, Namewee and his friends Ashtaka and 5Forty2, through their latest music video posted on YouTube.
The video, which runs for nearly five minutes, was posted on Friday by the singer himself. It is peppy rap composition sang in four languages; Chinese, Malay, Tamil and English.
The song starts with images of demonstrations worldwide before being focused on the happenings in Malaysia.
The message in the music video: the people should stand up against abuse of power and corruption.
“The time is now, regardless whether you are young or old. Let’s fight for our rights and freedom,” said Namewee via his composition.
The lyrics in Tamil reads, “All these years, have you not awakened? Do you want to continue sleeping like the rest?”
The music video has already drawn 118,132 views as of Sunday noon, with 4,958 likes and 50 dislikes.
One of its viewers called Omgunner said,” This is what I call a music video, better than MCA’s ‘Love Is in the Air’ 100 times.”
Another viewer, Siau Chein Yap said that the people should take heed of the message in the video and vote for change for the sake of the future generation.
The music video is produced by Poet Production, Pop Studio and Studio 21, directed by Kenneth Lam and Morn Liew.
Recently, MCA’s FT candidates appeared in a karaoke like music video titled “Love is in the Air” to garner support to their bid.
Tamil singer Dheepan Chakravarthy also penned a song titled “Beribu-ribu Tahniah”, praising the success of MIC and Barisan Nasional.
However, both the videos became the butt of jokes among viewers and the latter video was subsequently removed from YouTube.
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