Though some enjoyed and appreciated EZ Mil's original composition "Panalo," there are those who didn't like it that he changed history in it.
A line on the song goes, "Pinugutan si Lapu sa Mactan..."
Realizing he might offended some, EZ went on to explain himself in a video uploaded on Hbom Segovia's Youtube channel.
"Why I chose the term, 'pinugutan si Lapu sa Mactan.' Because in terms of the rhyming pattern, I always go to this dilemma or doubt in my head in closing out a song. Am I gonna close it out with absolute truth or am I gonna make people talk about it? It's like me weighing the options," he said.
"It's inaccurate but he still died. He's dead right now. It's not overall factual in a way but still like... the thing that is factual is that when he did die, people were still saddened," he related.
“That's just a way of me twisting how things were. And I'm sorry to anybody who was offended with the fact that me being putting inaccurate sources in our history as Filipinos.”
The son of the ‘90s band Rockstar lead guitarist and vocalist Paul Sapiera maintained it was something he did mainly for attention.
“That's why the song is what it is right now... The way I wrote that got people talking, got people agreeing to it, got people disagreeing, got people in the in-betweens... The way it is right now, people are talking about it. I got to be smart about it,” he said.
Note that as of writing, his performance of the song has already garnered more than 20 million views since it premiered last Jan. 29.
WATCH IT HERE: https://youtu.be/EPhzLGBGzY0