It's the funpack! Let's all sing and dance about it!

After so many years, the organisers of NDP finally clued in to the fact that people go to NDP for the funpacks. Or so they think. So they decided to come up with this ditty to celebrate the funpacks. The only problem? The ditty ain't theirs. And to make things worse, I don't think Lady Gaga would approve of this version.

Check out the lyrics.

Oh o o o o o o o o
Time for the fun pack song
Oh o o o o o o o o
We like the fun pack song

Let's start with the bag
That's right, grab your bag
It's the fun pack bag
Attack the fun pack

Hold up your flag, don't you forget
You can wave it if you feel like it
Let's wave the flag
Wave wave wave
Let's wave the flag

Take out your light stick, it's two of a kind
It's interactive, means you can join
Just pretend
Oh oh oh... It's a disco

(SPOKEN)

You know that I want you
And you know that I need you
I want a wet, wet tissue

I want Newater and I want a cold drink
You and me, let's share a bit
I want a biscuit and I want a sweet
You and me, let's share this treat

Kopi-O o o o o o o o o
Time for the fun pack song
Kopi-O o o o o o o o o
We like the fun pack song

Let's start with the bag
That's right, grab your bag
It's the fun pack bag
Attack the fun pack
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Did anyone catch the gay innuendos in there?

"Take out your light stick, it's two of a kind. It's interactive, means you can join."

Or this.

"You know that I want you. And you know that I need you. I want a wet, wet tissue."

You want a wet tissue? Really?

"I want a biscuit and I want a sweet. You and me, let's share this treat."

I'm not sharing your biscuits, or sweets, or tissues, or lightsticks or whatever you want to share in that funpack. Keep your funpack to yourself please!

I'm not bashing the NDP organisers for this song because I like doing it. I'm doing it because I can actually remember an era when we had great NDP songs, "We are Singapore", "Five stars arising", "Count on me Singapore", and a personal favourite "It's the little things." Even "Home" was good too, until they decided to destroy it last year with that awful remixed collaboration.

And now we're reduced to ripping off and making really bad copies of others' songs? Come on, the country deserves better.

We don't need such ill-conceived attempts to reach out to youth. If you really want to reach out to youth, compose a song that they can be proud of. Compose a song that ten years down, they can still say defined NDPs for them. The songs of the 90s, I'm thankful they were written, because through the memories they put into my childhood I can still remember why I was proud to be Singaporean.

And I knew it was a matter of time before someone came out with something like this, but its hilarious.