вЂњWhat the lover needs,вЂќ writes Carson, вЂњis to be able to face the beloved and not be destroyed.вЂќ This is why we create things like music we need something to exist in our stead, to contain the feelings that would rip us in half if we housed them for too long. вЂњI talked for hours to your wallet photograph,вЂќ sang Rivers Cuomo, вЂњYou laughed, enchanted by my intellect, or maybe you didnвЂ™t.вЂќ Hugot is hardly self-conscious, though, and while вЂњThe World Has Turned and Left Me HereвЂќ remains a love song, Cuomo is too self-conscious to have achieved hugot heвЂ™s escaped the damage by disavowing it right away.ДЄnd yet the Filipino love songs counsels, вЂњHuwag mong ikatakot ang bulong ng damdamin mo.вЂќ And yet the Filipino love song asks, вЂњIlang awit pa ba ang aawitin, o giliw ko?вЂќ The Filipino love song doesnвЂ™t suppress, and the Filipino love song doesnвЂ™t tire. Western love songs in the вЂ90s adopted sardonicism, or awkwardness, as armor against the violence inherent in hugot. 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. ItвЂ™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.вЂќ 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 - itвЂ™s been around for a long, long time, and itвЂ™s here to stay.ДЄnne Carson in 1986, inadvertently describing hugot: вЂњSimultaneous 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.Д«ear with me.

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