Bulaklak Sa Buwan
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| "Bulaklak Sa Buwan" | ||||
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| Single by Ely Buendia | ||||
| from the album Method Adaptor | ||||
| Released | August 16, 2024 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:56 | |||
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| Songwriter | Ely Buendia | |||
| Producer | Jerome Velasco | |||
| Ely Buendia singles chronology | ||||
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"Bulaklak Sa Buwan" (lit. 'Flower on the Moon') is a song by Filipino musician Ely Buendia from his second solo album, Method Adaptor. It was released as a single on August 16, 2024, with an accompanying music video.
Written by Buendia, the song is about misinformation and propaganda. "I've been watching documentaries a lot, and I tried to distill everything in one song," Buendia explained.[1] He also stated that the song is open to interpretation. “I made sure it doesn’t sound like ‘this is what I feel should be what the world is.’ It's not fact," he continued. "I wanted to make people kind of also think about the song they’re listening to… [that] there’s participation on their part.”[2]
The title came from a book on misinformation that Buendia had read, which contained a passage on “stuff being as rare as a flower from Mars”. He changed Mars to the moon (“buwan”) “because it sounded nicer to the ears,” he explained.[2]
Produced by Buendia's longtime collaborator Jerome Velasco, the song's sound has been described as a "pristine pop gem" balanced by "sharp melodies and ferocious guitar work".[1] It has also been compared to the Eraserheads album Sticker Happy (1997) and Buendia's other band Pupil.[3] The song's melody took five years to write.[4] Buendia wanted the song to sound as “tight” and “current” as possible so people can “be focused on what the song is saying” and not be “thrown off by the sonics of it”.[2]
The song was remixed by DJ Love, best known for popularizing the budots genre, for Method Adaptor Remixed (2025).[5]