'Torn Down' Prayuth Vows To ‘Fight’ In Latest Single

[webfact]

'Torn Down' Prayuth Vows To 'Fight' In Latest Single

By Jintamas Saksornchai

 

 

BANGKOK — The junta leader has dropped a new song that seeks to capitalize on a massive hit soap opera.

 

In “Fight for the Nation” released online Monday, junta chief and occasional songwriter Prayuth Chan-ocha promises to work hard for the nation despite how badly he is being “torn down.”

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/04/10/torn-down-prayuth-vows-to-fight-in-latest-single/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-04-10

[PatOngo]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Fight for the Nation”

"Fight for the Trough" would have been more appropriate.

[colinneil]

 He should have been torn down long ago

[Cadbury]

He could play his new song through boom boxes on the back of a ute while he tours the rurals handing out free populist Thai Niyom money. Receiving the money while listening to the lilting sounds of his voice should bring/send the crowds running. Particularly the destitute and ailing who have had their money stolen from them by civil servants.

[mahtin]

Are we still on Thailand Moves Forward 4.1, or is this a new release?

[JOC]

Wow what a busy man.......

Hope that doesn't mean, that he has stopped working on his new soap......"Road map to democracy"

[JAG]

John, 11, 35.

[JOC]

“Every day I’m tired, but I keep it all inside, because my heart tells me to work for the nation,” the male vocalist sings.

 

Seriously...

This man is supposed to be the leader of the country....

As for the lyrics....I will be very very polite and not comment....

[JOC]

The song is the sixth credited to him since he seized power in the 2014 coup d’etat. His previous appeals to the public in song form include “Returning Happiness to the People,” “Because You’re Thailand,” “Hope and Faith,” “Bridge,” and “Diamond Heart.”

 

Will someone please hand me the bucket....

[Cadbury]

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

"......despite how badly he is being “torn down.”

In reality he is doing much of his own tearing down by inflicting punishment on his people via his tedious songs. Someone on his own team should whisper in his shell like and give him some sound PR advice......albeit at their own peril.

[z42]

My heart is honest... hmm so when did he come clean on where his 600 million baht fortune came from again?

 

And the song talks about fighting the evil .. So all those crooked top cops and deputy PM's with unaccounted wealth and luxury possessions are in jail then. Fabulous.

 

Not even swiss cheese has as many holes as this nonsense song. The guy needs sectioning, and fast ?

[sammieuk1]

I could pen his hit record its not a few rotten apples its the entire ******g orchard.

[coulson]

Although the song drew about seven times as many dislikes as likes on YouTube, some comments credited Prayuth’s ballads for sounding “beautiful.”

 

Words from a beautiful mind more like it 

 

 

Edited April 10, 2018 by coulson
Typo

[DM07]

Okay...let's just make a mash- up of BS: have the PM write a song about Songkhran and how to safe lives by wearing period- costumes!

[Misterwhisper]

Now here's a suggestion for a song he should be working on next:

 

"Will this folly never end?"

 

 

[Cadbury]

Perhaps he could pen an "Ode to Bus Crash Victims" in solemn memory of those who have lost their lives and been injured due to the lack of strict government controls with bus road safety.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 hours ago, JOC said:

The song is the sixth credited to him since he seized power in the 2014 coup d’etat. His previous appeals to the public in song form include “Returning Happiness to the People,” “Because You’re Thailand,” “Hope and Faith,” “Bridge,” and “Diamond Heart.”

 

 

I prefer the Carly Simon song, Legend in Your Own Time:

 

Quote

 

But you're a legend in your own time
A hero in the footlights
Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
But a legend's only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone

Well a legend's only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone

 

 

[Ossy]

'Minor chord melancholy from a miniature-minded moron' . . . that's the opening line of my follow-up song to Prayut's sad effort. It's sounding better, already, so I'll make sure the TV folk play it on election day/night, as the 2P's are loading their things into the removals convoys. Will we be able to hold back the tears? . . . that's my big worry.

 

Edited April 10, 2018 by Ossy
correction

[wgdanson]

Didn't one PM get the boot a while back for going on a TV cookery show. Is this not similar thing?

[Get Real]

I guess we must give it to the man. He is an innovative politician. 

[Eric Loh]

I see big potential after he hang up his political ambition to form a duo with his close buddy Prawit. They can name themselves as the Two Ps doing song and dance. 

[tso310]

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

Didn't one PM get the boot a while back for going on a TV cookery show. Is this not similar thing?

You're thinking of Samak. He died of stomach cancer a few months after he resigned. People's Power Party aka Thai Rak Thai etc. It was his death and the fact that Thaksin did not support him in his renomination to lead the PPP that led Newin to split from supporting the PPP. Samak and Newin's father were big friends.

 

Back to the old crooner, if he turned into an Ozzie Osbourne clone and bit the the head off of a chicken I might just warm to him

[Misterwhisper]

18 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

I see big potential after he hang up his political ambition to form a duo with his close buddy Prawit. They can name themselves as the Two Ps doing song and dance. 

The Two P(ea)s?

 

On world tour, with stadiums in major cities around the globe festooned with Thai flags and filled to bursting with screaming fans fainting over the sheer poetry of the pair swooning ballads about nationalism, and sacrifice for the fatherland? And instead of baseball hats and other trinkets Prawit will be tossing luxury watches into the crowd before the duo go into an encore lasting four hours?

[owl sees all]

What I say about his vocal art doesn't matter. The words are meant for Thai ears. The point is; are the Thais bopping along? I asked the wife about his music. Her reply was "man sing way he talks." Can't argue with that.

Edited April 10, 2018 by owl sees all

[geriatrickid]

Although the auto tune is strong with this  song, I ask if anyone has genuinely listened to it or even understood the words?

It's poetry put to music and not that bad.  Is it so wrong to have an artistic side?

 

Perhaps it doesn't  meet some people's preferences, but different tastes for some, right? After all, we have those who think Deep Purple was music, or that the   Minstrel shows that polluted the airwaves of the UK in the 70's was fine entertainment, or that the nasty bigoted Heino of Germany was a great artist etc.  I know that there are many Thais who like this sort of thing.

[BuckBee]

typical high clas thai elite, full of shit and stolen , money .

They also so stupid they don't realise the whole planet knows the likely truths and can see through the childlike lies and manipulation like it crystal clear glass :-/

[webfact]

Prolific Prayut releases yet another single

By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

 

While a previous single “Jai Petch” or “Diamond Heart” hit a record number of 45,000 thumbs down dislikes on YouTube, PM Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday released yet another single called “Su Pheu Phan Din” or “Fight for the Land”.

 

The song made its debut at Government House, where Prayut presided over a merit-making ceremony for the upcoming Songkran Festival.

 

It is a sixth single so far by Prayut since he became premier in 2014.

 

Prayut is known to share his habit of writing songs and poetry with fellow Cabinet members, civil servants and the general public. His songs have been repeatedly played on junta-owned broadcasting programs.

 

His first song, “Khuen Kwam Suk Hai Pra Thed Thai” or “Returning Happiness to Thailand”, is considered the biggest hit so far and has been played throughout almost four years of the junta’s rule and has been popular in running gags mocking the junta.

 

For Su Pheu Phan Din, Prayut said that the song means a call for people to fight and do good deeds for the country, including himself.

 

“I’ve been here for almost four years I’ve seen some criticisms but I can bear it,” Prayut said at his weekly press briefing.

 

“I still don’t have all things finished yet. I wish politicians would adopt a mindset like mine,” he said. “My thoughts may be wrong as well but I wish they would propose some better, more rounded solutions.”

 

Much like Prayut’s explanation, the song’s lyrics mostly convey messages about attempts to do good deeds for the country with no criticisms to obstruct the deeds “carried on by honest hearts for better tomorrow”.

 

Unlike his previous songs, which mostly adopt 80s-style beat and rhythm, the latest song features Thai musical instruments, much like “BuppeSanNivas”, a soundtrack from the current hit TV series of the same name.

 

This came as no surprise to the song’s composer, Wichien Tantipimonphan, who also composed BuppeSanNivas.

 

Prayut also admitted that the song styling was intentional to catch the popularity of ancient Thai trends. “This is also in line with our Thai Niyom scheme,” Prayut said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30342934

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-11

[tso310]

His next single should be Don Nix's Going Down. Covered by such artists as Zep, Purple, The Who, JJ Cale, SRV, Pearl Jam, Bryan Ferry, Jeff Beck and many others.

 

I'm going down
I'm going, down, down, down
Down, down
Yes, I'm going down, yes
I'm going down, down, down
Down, down
Yes, I've got my feet in the window
Got my head on the ground

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

and has been popular in running gags mocking the junta.

love that, but of course they wouldn't get it

[lamyai3]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Unlike his previous songs, which mostly adopt 80s-style beat and rhythm, the latest song features Thai musical instruments... 

...although Emperor Nero is widely expected to be accompanying him on fiddle.