‘Creepy Filipino folk song’: American singer wows with cover of Ilonggo lullaby

‘Creepy Filipino folk song’: American singer wows with cover of Ilonggo lullaby
(Interaksyon PhilStar) An American singer sent goosebumps to her Filipino followers after she performed a cover of a Philippine folk song.

Singer Lauren Paley, known as the “Stairwell Siren” online, released a video of her version of the lullaby on her social media accounts on March 11. She currently has 936,000 subscribers on YouTube.

“Filipino*** (my bad) but this is for all of my amazing followers from the Philippines! This song is actually so beautiful. Hope I did it justice,” Lauren captioned her post.

As of writing, Lauren’s video on Facebook earned over 1.4 million views.

Her post also garnered 74,000 reactions and 1,600 comments.

The cover was requested by one of Lauren’s followers on TikTok.

“Sing ‘ili ili.’ It was the scariest song in the Philippines,” the online user requested on the video-sharing service.

The TikTok user was referring to a lullaby titled “Ili Ili Tulog Anay” from the Panay Island. According to a report by Nolisoli, the lyrics of the song translate to something along the lines “Sleep, little one. Your mother isn’t here because she is out buying bread.”

Lauren also added the text “Scaring my neighbors with a creepy Filipino folk song” before her cover of the song… Read More