Over two decades since it exploded in stereos and became a karaoke party staple, "Minsan," a fan-favorite Eraserheads song, apparently makes its former frontman Ely Buendia cringe.
The sentimental song from the 1994 album Circus—played over 9 million times on Spotify as of writing—reminds Buendia of how the song was taken against them upon their disbandment, he confessed in a podcast episode of "Wake Up With Jim & Saab."
Earlier, Buendia went viral after he revealed in the same pod guesting what "Spoliarium" really means, supposedly debunking a long-running conspiracy theory about it—if you believe what he says—almost two decades since he left Eraserheads as its frontman.
That wasn't the only heartbreaker he dealt then. He also tried to dispel this other "myth" about the band being as close as fans like to think they were, similar to contemporaries like Parokya ni Edgar and The Itchyworms.
"It's one of those songs, like I said, there are some songs na when you mature as a song writer, there are lyrics na medyo cringe-worthy," Buendia told hosts Jim Bacarro and Saab Magalona. At the very least, he added an "I'm sorry."
Buendia said the sentiment does not have anything to do with the song's composition, but rather the "sentimentality" of fans who supposedly used that one song to make the group feel bad about disbanding.
"It's not a specific line but the whole sentimentality of it [that is] cringey... I was kinda sick of fans saying na 'you're friends. You shouldn't have broken up.' They made us feel bad about it," he said, adding how "everything points to that song."
"That's what they reference all the time but what fans didn't know, what the public didn't know is that," Buendia said with a momentary cliffhanger, "I don't wanna break hearts again but we were never close. We were never friends. That's why we broke up," he said.
"We weren't Itchyworms. We weren't Parokya ni Edgar. But you know, it was good while it lasted. We had a very, very good working relationship. It's just that, I don't like it when people say that. It's just a wrong way to go in terms of how the dynamics [were] within the band," he added.
Need proof of what the band's relations were really like? Bacarro revealed how Buendia told him one time that Eraserheads never drank together for the sake of drinking.
"I remember nagulat ako when you said parang never kayo nag-inuman nang wala lang," Baccaro said.
But much like how he didn't expect fans to believe him even after demystifying "Spoliarium," Buendia said that the association of "Minsan" with the group's apparent bond is "another myth" he had long given up on correcting.
"That song is actually about my actual friends. The friends that were with me during my stay at Kalayaan," he said, referring to the student dormitory where University of the Philippines students would usually stay during freshman year, a.k.a. "Kalay." The intro does say "Minsan sa may Kalayaan tayo'y nagkatagpuan."
So bottomline: "['Minsan'] wasn't about the Eraserheads. It was about my friends." Whether or not this broke your heart, just remember that it still really is a good song and you can make it mean whatever you want. Go on and play it on repeat.
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