MANILA, Philippines --- The creative director of Southeast Asian (SEA) Games' opening ceremony defended the use of the song "Manila" by the 70s band Hotdog for the Philippine team's walk-in music saying it was "not exclusionist" and they needed a song that everybody could sing. "There is nothing political or nothing exclusionist about it. The program, from the very beginning, if you look at it as a whole, strove for nothing but inclusion. We just really needed a song everyone could sing," SEA Games opening's creative director Floy Quintos said Tuesday in an interview over ANC. Presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte earlier questioned the cho...
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