TikTok is a social media platform, where users can upload short videos of themselves singing, dancing, doing comedy skits, or whatever you can shoot as in naglalaba, naliligo, etc,. TikTok is heaven sent to this world of ours, that is mostly populated by frustrated entertainers. Who needs a director or a producer or a cameraman, etc., when all you need is a mobile phone and the TikTok app. Upload a video and hurray! You are a star.
Now how does Andrew E figure in the realm of TikTok? TikTokkers, who like to dance, need music and Andrew E has a lot of those. Not just music to dance to, but hit songs with a great beat and naughty, naughty lyrics. Nobody knows who did it first, but somebody remembered his old hits and used the track on a TikTok video. It came out good. Others followed and the resurgence of Andrew E was on its way.
I do not think that even Andrew E himself ever imagined that more than 30 years later, he would still be riding high as a hitmaker. Way back in 1990, Andrew made No. 1 in the charts with a rap tune titled Humanap Ka ng Pangit. The tune was such a big seller that Viva Films turned it into a movie that also launched Andrew E as an actor.
More hit songs and blockbuster comedies followed over the years. Then, like everybody in the entertainment business, Andrew E matured into a respected artist who could rest on his laurels and record and perform only when he felt like it. He did not count though on the arrival of TikTok.
Riding high at the moment as the go-to dancing and lip-synching tune on TikTok is Andrew Ford Medina. Think almost a million hits and over two million likes just for one video. And there are a lot of other videos with Andrew Ford Medina as the soundtrack that I decided to stop counting. It is no wonder then that Andrew Ford Medina became hot and trending again after 30 years.
By the way, Andrew E’s real name is Andrew Ford Valentino Espiritu. He became Andrew E when he became a club DJ. It was while he was manning the boards at Euphoria that he was discovered by music icon Ramon Jacinto and brought to Viva. And the rest is history. As the numbers on TikTok show, this is all fact. Not tsismis. He turned 55 years old on the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle last July 30.
Other TikTok favorites by Andrew E are Shoot Shoot, Sinab-marine, Aussie Aussie, Banyo Queen, Bini B. Rocha, Alabang Girls and predicted to be the next hot trending tune, Pink Palaka.
Here now is the Spotify Viral Hits Trending Pinoy Playlist of TikTok hits where Andrew’s Andrew Ford Medina is comfortably roosting in the second slot.
Thick Fine Woman by Chalie Boy, Lil Ronny Motha F and Fat Pimp; Andrew Ford Medina by Andrew E; The Shade by Rex Orange County; Left and Right by Charlie Puth and Jung Kook of BTS; Ptrp Studio; Betty (Get Money) by Yung Gravy; Imitate by Jeremih and Ty Dolla $ign; NVMD by the sensational Ariana Grande sound alike, Denise Julia; POP! by NAYEON; Ma Boy by SISTAR 19; Kiss It Betta by Rihanna; 1,2,3, by Sofia Reyes, Jason Derulo and De La Ghetto; About Damn Time by Lizzo.
Feel Your Touch by Auburn, Chevy Boy and Dookie; All Type a Drugs by Young Thug and Blood Jay; Jiggle Jiggle by Duke & Jones and Louis Theroux; Quer Ferder Com es Sem Amor Vs Beat Rising by Lgzin es Cabelinho and Mc Gringo; Armadilha by Guelcio Smith; I Love You by Kwixou; Toca Toca by the Fly Project; Na Na Na by BINI; You’re Welcome by Dwayne Johnson; Kahit Bata Pa Ako by Aikee; Shake Señora by Pitbull ft. T-Pain and Sean Paul; and One Kiss by Calvin Harris with Dua Lipa.