YMMV / Parokya ni Edgar

• Covered Up: "Harana" ("Serenade") is most often associated with the band, but the song predates them by several years. It was originally composed in the 80s by a college student named Eric Yaptangco from the Ateneo de Manila university, and he and his amateur musician friends literally serenaded girls with it, and the lyrics were inspired by their prior experiences doing such. It spread to later batches through word of mouth, and the first recording of the song to be released commercially (by Tony Lambino, then a young musician and future government official) was in 1992, five years before the band's version. Though the band has always credited the original composer and got his permission, Chito Miranda was nevertheless thrilled to learn about a "missing final verse" when in 2021 a news show had him and Yaptangco meet in person for the first time.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Related to the Tear Jerker entry below — it's been revealed that "Buloy" was an actual friend of the band, who was still alive back when the song was written (even making a cameo on the song's music video), but eventually did commit suicide sometime later.
• Tear Jerker: "Buloy" tells the story of a friend of the singer who's optimistic and always eager to give out advice to cheer his friends up, but it then turns out that he's been dealing with several issues of his own, as evidenced in the verse where he called the singer on the phone while crying. Near the end of the song it's revealed that Buloy has commited suicide, and the singer spends the last minutes of the song lamenting the loss of a friend and how he seemed to have forgotten the things he said when he was still alive.
• Values Dissonance: A few of their songs are colorist as hell, reflecting a prejudice against darker skin that's widespread among Asians. The lyrics to "This Guy's In Love With You, Pare" also come off as — casually, yet still uncomfortably — homophobic, sung from the POV of a straight guy alarmed by his gay best friend's apparent attraction to him. It does redeem itself by the end, though, with the narrator singing that his best friend is "the same old friend I had yesterday" and is happy with his sexuality. Especially for the Philippines in 2002, the song was quite Fair for Its Day.

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