The problem of the Pinoy Music Summit was clear to me from the moment I received the program and found that there was no independent artist tasked to speak about the independent music industry. The problem is not merely of representation, as it is of acknowledging difference and diversity, of speaking of contradictions because these do exist, and making solutions as complex as these need to be. Without the independent’s voice, the Pinoy Music Summit was like a record we’ve heard before: the enemies are colonial mentality and piracy/illegal downloads/the Internet. The solution is to champion the Pinoy.

Yeah, too simplistic for comfort.