For a number of years now, ABS-CBN has dominated the weekend prime-time ratings with different crowd-pleasing talent competition shows.
Your Moment is their latest attempt. It’s another celebrity-anchored and -judged program with a sprinkling of reality-show elements that ABS-CBN dreams will equal or even surpass the juggernaut ratings of their past efforts which include The Voice (and its various editions), Pinoy Big Brother, Idol Philippines, Your Face Sounds Familiar, World of Dance and a lot more.
So what’s different this time? For one, it’s a two-in-one competition show. There are dance acts and then singing acts featured in one show. There’s no cattle call-type of auditions like in Idol, or competitors getting divvied up to judges to form their own teams like Pilipinas Got Talent or The Voice, and this is a good call as it won’t distract viewers much with bickering or their amusing but sometimes annoying banter. It’s just pure talent and that is what should matter.
The show also boasts of a revolving immersive set where the live audience and the judges witness performance from the singing to the dancing stage and vice-versa. Each performance starts in black-and-white, and bursts with light and color as it progresses, while the judges have to input their scores three times using an emotion-meter knob, ranging them from zero percent as the lowest to 100 percent, the highest. An emotion meter also appears onscreen reflecting the scores given by the judges every time a performance reaches the three time markers (20, 60, and 90 seconds), which indicate the time they can score.
But Your Moment being an ABS-CBN show, they also want viewers to get to know the contestants—a formulaic move but at least it introduces the competitors in an intimate way. Personal backstories help and while that means we might hear more about a person’s heartfelt journey to get to where he or she is now, or their devotion to an ailing Kapamilya, viewers will also get a lot of stories that will inspire.
Currently being aired now is Level 1 of the show, which is dubbed as “Your First Moment” wherein each episode features three dancing and singing acts. Standouts in singing so far are Lez2Men, and Juan Gapang who just dazzled. Showcasing their fabulous terpsichorean skills are Kenyo, Ruthless Comrades, Streecacy and the Fabulous Sisters, the latter I would like to audition for as they are indeed fabulous.
Anyway, to be aired soon in the succeeding weeks are the next levels of the competition. These are Level 2: “Your Moment of Choice” (the highest ranking acts from Level 1 will get to pick their opponents in a three-way showdown), Level 3: “Your Moment of Power” (Level 2 winners will be given a chance to be coached by prime local and international mentors) and finally, Level 4: “Your Grand Moment” (the top 3 acts per category will compete in a series of rounds that will determine one grand winner in each category).
Your Moment is hosted by Luis Manzano and Vhong Navarro with Boy Abunda, Nadine Lustre and Billy Crawford as judges. It is aired every Saturday and Sunday night. The grand prize is at P2,000,000.
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The unique and refreshing sound of Dan Tañedo’s “Mabagal” emerged as the Best Song in this year’s edition of ABS-CBN’S Himig Handog songwriting competition.
The slow but soothing duet, interpreted by Daniel Padilla and Moira de la Torre, bested over 4,000 entries and took home the much-desired P1 million cash prize.
“Mabagal” also swept the competition’s special awards by winning the MOR Philippines’s Choice award, the MYX Choice for Best Music Video plum, Star Music’s Choice for Best Produced Track and Listener’s Choice for Most Streamed Track. Daniel and Moira were also One Music PH’s Choice for Favorite Interpreters.
Meanwhile, Davey Langit, winner of Himig Handog 2016 for his song “Dalawang Letra,” won again this year for his entry “Simula ng Dulo.” The singer-songwriter cowrote the song with his girlfriend Therese Marie Villarante and bagged P500,000 cash prize.
From one past winner to another, “Please Lang,” a song by Aikee and interpreted by Alex Gonzaga, was named as the third Best Song, winning P200,000. Aikee also placed third in 2017’s Himig Handog for his song “Ekstensyon.”
Another pair of young composers, Rex Torremoro and Elmar Jann Bolaño, won fourth Best Song for their entry “Nung Tayo Pa,” brought to life by Janella Salvador. They took home a cash prize worth P150,000.
Seventeen-year-olds Jerome Arcangel and Cee Jay del Rosario took home P100,000 for bagging the fifth Best Song for their composition “Panandalian,” interpreted by TJ Monterde, about a romance cut short.
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Your Moment is fast-paced, the judges are not OA and do judge realistically based on the Emo Meter. The next levels will be more competitive, I hope.
I like the feature on Your Moment.