Aside from the Philippine flag with the official 'Royal Blue' field being propagated by the National Centennial Commission, there is a move to return to the 'correct' way of singing the national Anthem. Filipinos are being encouraged to sing the anthem fast and with a martial spirit worthy of the revolution. However, in many gatherings we are still oppressed by taped music that wraps the anthem composed by Julian Felipe. In the attempt to make the anthem 'stately', some arrangers and composers have transformed the military cadence into something yawny as a royal or graduation march. Worse, choral groups show off by branching into different voices and counterpoints that discourage the public from singing along. Under a law forgotten by everyone except the National Historical Institute that is powerless to enforce it, the anthem should be played exactly as it is written by Julian Felipe in 1898 without any change in tempo or arrangement. If we stick to the letter rather than the spirit of the law, then we will have only two ways to do it: either through a solo piano or through a town band.