The so-called Filipino originals

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It seems like nowadays, Filipinos are running out of ideas in terms of music, TV shows, fashion and a lot of other things to a point that we rely heavily on the influence of other countries. In terms of music alone, I can think of many that have tried to copy artists from countries such as Korea and the US. I even remember disliking this particular singer that has no original songs at all but has instead a collection of songs which she has slowed and turned into jazzy types of music (Im not sure about this) including telephone, baby, teenage dream, single ladies and other songs that really became famous. Then let's now talk about the television, my GULAY! We've been seeing the same things over and over and over and over again. Filipinos out there know what I'm talking about. If we're not repeating it, we probably based it on some international movie or series (talk about Imortal). Is this all that us Filipinos can do? Be a copy cat? Sure it rakes in a whole lot of money but wouldn't we prefer to be known for things that are original to us. There are A LOT of TALENTED FILIPINOS in different fields. How can we not make original things? Is it not possible to do that?