aliensamba | The Time With You The Time Is Stirred, A Princess and I Fanmix

| The Time With You The Time Is Stirred | - A Princess and Jao Fanmix

10 songs + 3 bonus tracks to express my feelings about Princess and I (or Princess and Jao, to be exact). Contains tracks from international and Filipino artists. Click on the link below for the fanmix, song titles, lyrics, and catharsis.

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TRACKS:

A New Tattoo - Urbandub
Ako Na Lang - Zia Quizon
Time Stands Still - All American Rejects
Princess of China - Coldplay featuring Rihanna
I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick Of Time - Bon Iver
Endless, A Silent Whisper - Urbandub
Hiling - Paramita
Signal Fire - Snow Patrol
Maalala Mo Sana - Silent Sanctuary
Nag-iisang Bituin - Angeline Quinto

BONUS TRACKS:

Tayong Dalawa - Kiss Jane [ x ]
Jeepney - Sponge Cola [ x ]
Anong Nangyari Sa Ating Dalawa - Aiza Seguerra (composer: Jovinor Tan) [ x ]

NOTES:

I've selected certain relevant lyrics which I think relate to Jao and Areeyah's relationship. Although, I will admit that it is more from the perspective of Jao. Catharsis under the cut.

At first, I wanted it to be a reflection on Jao and Areeyah's path at the end of the TV series, specifically, the last two episodes where Areeyah decides to accept Jao's request to marry him and lead as King and Queen over Yangdon. The scene where they talk, although you wouldn't call it a conversation because one participant (Areeyah) was not really listening to the other (Jao). I just thought that she was not acting as a Princess when they talked to each other. She shot down everything he said and not even bothered to view it from his perspective. If she had just opened her eyes, she'd know that he was doing it more for the Kingdom than for his apparent selfish need to be bound to her.

Yes, I know that he wants her to marry him (even going so far as to 'blackmail' her to it in exchange for her father's life and Gino's freedom). He even said that it is time for his wants to come true. But I could see him hesitate. And there were times when you could see the old Jao shining through. The Jao who cares about others that he puts their interests above his own. Jao may seem to act vengeful towards Areeyah, but I believe it was all an act to ensure that his mother would not be suspicious of him and to make sure that Areeyah was safe. There was a scene where his mother, 'Queen' Behati said that she would not rest until Princess Areeyah's head was presented to her, and the camera cuts to Jao's face and you could see the worry and terror clear for all the world to see.

Anyway, this turned out to apply to their relationship in general but with emphasis on the later happenings.

Jao has loved Areeyah since he spent time with her in Yangdon when she had a school trip to the country as a prize in a competition. At first, they bantered with each other. With Areeyah (then still Mikay Maghirang) calling him "masungit" (irritable) and saying that it's a waste because he is "guapo" (handsome). Then Jao surprised her by saying that he understood the word "guapo".

He reluctantly becomes her tour guide after he tells the king that she has been bothering him.

They go around the scenic spots in Yangdon, Jao being put in his place by Mikay. Unexpectedly, they have fun and their developing friendship is cut short because Mikay has to return to the Philippines. But not before she leaves her camera which Jao finds and vows to return to her, knowing how happy she was to take pictures on her trip.

Fast forward a couple of months worth of episodes, Mikay has been reinstated as Princess Areeyah, Ashi Behati (Jao's mother) plots to take the throne from her by uncovering an old law stating that a Princess had to marry at her 18th birthday (she wants Areeyah to marry Jao), the Drukpa (royal council) authorize a competition for the Princess' hand in marriage, and Mikay is confused because Gino, a reformed bad-boy classmate who is interested in her has made an appearance at Yangdon and was found to be the 'half-brother' of Jao.

Jao doesn't want to force Areeyah to marry him and makes a promise to her that he would win the competition so that they could both go and present their plea to the Drukpa. Areeyah slowly starts to see him in a different light. She sees that he really cares about the Kingdom and their people, that he is thoughtful and kind. She realizes that her feelings for him have changed and near the end of the competition, where it is just down to Jao and Gino, she finds herself worried for Jao.

Jao manages to win the competition and presents the royal medallion to Areeyah whereby she promptly announces that she freely chooses Jao to be her betrothed.

It would have been the best to end the series at that and save me a lot of pain. But no, the "so-called majority" wanted another ending. They wanted Areeyah to end up with Gino, so two months worth of episodes were added. Two months of pain and heartache.

The fact that Ashi Behati ordered the assassination of Areeyah's mother comes to light. Her and Jao's heritage is discovered. They are the last remaining descendants of the ruler of a rival Kingdom which was assimilated into the current Yangdon after Ashi Behati's father (the King) was killed.

Areeyah pleads with her father for leniency but her father is adamant in meting out his punishments. Jao and Ashi Behati are banished to the gulag for the rest of their lives. Areeyah goes to Jao and tells him to meet her at a certain place before he is sent off to the gulag.

She waits for him at the appointed place but he doesn't arrive. Jao and Behati have been caught by armed men and Jao hears his mother's cries for help as she is being dragged away from him.

When he comes to after being beaten almost to death, he sees a newly-dug grave and figures that it must be of his mother's. He passes out before he can dig it up and when he wakes up he is in Barangay Masantol (a sort-of mini Yangdon-Silangan community in the Philippines).

Areeyah is distraught. She dreams of Jao toiling in the gulag. She is becoming despondent day-by-day so the King tasks Gino with making her forget Jao. Gino takes her on trips around Yangdon but Areeyah continues to be sad until Gino yells at her to stop feeling sad all the time. Areeyah responds that she can't stop feeling sad because she remembers Jao in everything she sees in Yangdon, so Gino devises a plan to take her back home to the Philippines to visit her adoptive parents.

Her parents live in the province, a few towns away from, you guessed it, Barangay Masantol. Gino knows that a way for Areeyah to forget Jao is to propose to her (naturally, since he was the runner-up in the competition). Areeyah smilingly accepts but she doesn't know that they have an audience to their little lovefest. Jao has seen everything. He was delivering sacks of rice (for that was what he was doing to earn a living) and he happened to look through a window and see Areeyah and Gino. He sees her smiling and accepting Gino's proposal. She's happy and it's like being stabbed in the chest.

Here she was. So close, yet so far.

Happy with another man.

Forgetting him already.

He can't do anything because he wants her to be happy. That's what he always wanted for her.

And deep inside he has doubts. Shivaje had asked him why he was in the woods when he was attacked and he had reluctantly said that Areeyah told him to meet her there.

He walks away from the house containing the happy couple. He begins to do things which are self-destructive because for the life of him, he's got nothing to live for. He acts like a zombie. He wants to be numb because everything hurts at the moment.

He knows that he can't go to her. He's supposed to be banished, if the King knew where he was, maybe he'd even get killed, or worse, his people (the people of Masantol) would be punished.

He vows to live his life for the people and for the children of Barangay Masantol, teaching them football and such.

He's trying to quietly live his life when it all goes to hell with the appearance of Areeyah and Gino on a charity/aid mission in Barangay Masantol.

**I could go on but I don't think I'd be able to articulate my feelings clearly. You'd best watch the show and see for yourself. Not for the downward spiral of the plot, but for Enrique Gil's acting skills. Kudos to Enrique for making me sympathize with his character ~~and for making me cry alot~~. ;_;

RELEVANT LYRICS:

1.) A New Tattoo - Urbandub

I’ll bleed for you

Like a new tattoo

in my heart

You’ll stay permanent

Am I too late now?

Will I find a way to get you somehow

She’s breaking me down again

She’s breaking me down

2.) Ako Na Lang - Zia Quizon

Nandito lang ako

How I wish you’d let me know

Ako na lang sana

Tayo na lang dal’wa

Sana nalaman mo pala

Ako na lang sana

3.) Time Stands Still - All American Rejects

He walks her home

Now he walks alone

The days they turn into years

The eyes they drown in tears

The way we are the way we were

(It’s just a shadow of what’s wrong)

The time with you the time is stirred

(I love you for, so long)

4.) Princess of China - Coldplay featuring Rihanna

Once upon a time, we burned bright

Now all we ever seem to do is fight

On and on…

And on and on and on…

Once upon a time on the same side.

Once upon a time on the same side, in the same game

And why’d you have to go, have to go and throw water on my flame

Cause you really hurt me

5.) I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick Of Time - Bon Iver

‘Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t

You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t

Here in the dark in these final hours

I will lay down my heart if I feel the power

But you don’t,

No, you don’t

I’ll close my eyes then I won’t see

The love you don’t feel when you’re holding me

Morning will come and I’ll do what’s right

Just give me ‘till then to give up this fight

And I will give up this fight

I found love darling, darling, darling

Love in the nick of time

6) Endless, A Silent Whisper - Urbandub

Is it in vain? Is it too late?

Is this the beginning of our last dance?

Once around the floor, can we do it again?

Heaven sheds tears for the wounded hearts

Our forever has been torn apart

Our vast religions

Won’t help us answer

What was pre-destined for us to have

Since long ago.

It’s hopeless.

7.) Hiling - Paramita

Nanlalamig na ba ang pag-ibig mo sa ‘kin…

Nalilito ako, nais kong sagipin ang atin

Nalulunod na pag-ibig

Nguni’t handa akong palayain ka

Kung ito ang ‘yong hiling

Gaano man kasakit sa akin

Ibibigay sa yo

Ang tanging pakiusap lang

Wag mo akong kalimutan..

Kakayanin pa kayang mabawi pa

Ang mga nasabi nang masasakit na salita…

8.) Signal Fire - Snow Patrol

All I wanted just sped right past me,

While I was rooted fast to the earth,

I could be stuck here for a thousand years,

Without your arms to drag me out.

In the confusion and the aftermath,

You are my signal fire.

The only resolution and the only joy,

Is the faint spark of forgiveness in your eyes.

9.) Maalala Mo Sana - Silent Sanctuary

Ibubulong ko na lamang sa alapaap ang sigaw ng damdamin ko

Sulyapan mo lang sana ang langit

Baka sakaling marinig ng puso mo ang tinig ko

Maalala mo sana ako dahil noon pa man

Sa’yo lang nakalaan ang pag-ibig ko

Bawat sandali na ikaw ay kasama

Para bang di na tayo muling magkikita

10.) Nag-iisang Bituin - Angeline Quinto

Malayo man, maihahatid din ng hangin

Ang mga hangarin na puno ng pag-ibig

Ang pangarap ko’y para sa ‘yo, nag-iisang bituin

Laman ng puso at damdamin ko, nag-iisang bituin

Kahit san ka man dalhin ng tadhana’y dama pa rin

Dahil tayo’y nakatitig, sa iisang bituin.

BONUS:

+ | Tayong Dalawa - Kiss Jane

Ako ba ay,

Iyong nakikita hawak kong larawan ng nakaraan

Naglaho sa isang kisap mata

Asam ko lamang ay makapiling ka

Sana’y marinig mo

Ang bulong ng damdamin ko

Malaman na tanging ikaw lamang..

Ikaw lamang ang…

Sana ay mapabigyan na

Tayong dalawa

+ | Jeepney - Sponge Cola

Subalit ngayo’y wala na (wala na)

Ikay ay lumayo na (lumayo na)

Naaalala ko ang mga gabing nakahiga sa ilalim ng kalawakan

Naaalala ko ang mga gabing magkatabi sa ulan

+ | Anong Nangyari Sa Ating Dalawa - Aiza Seguerra (composer: Jovinor Tan)

Anong nangyari sa ating dalawa

Akala ko noon tayo ay iisa

Ako ba ang siyang nagkulang

O ikaw ang di lumaban

Sa pagsubok sa ating pagmamahalan