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“Back in the ’90s, if you wanted to see the wildest interpretation of ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine,’ you would be headed to Metallica bar,” says Peejo Pilar, Men’s Health managing editor. Metallica bar owners saw to it that the song would only be performed by the girl who was given the moniker “Wild Thing” by her patrons. “She really gave a very wild performance from start to finish.” Apart from her mind-blowing splits and distinct way of swaying her hips, Miss Wild Thing would use props to turn on the crowd. “She would use ice. She would swallow the ice then take it out of her mouth. She would then rub it on her neck down to her boobs, then finally, put it inside her underwear.” Miss Wild Thing made men’s hearts sing! 

8. "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Faster Than the Speed of Light (1983)
Bonnie Tyler
Curiously, Jim Steinman, the same guy who wrote Air Supply’s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,” is also responsible for this monster. Essentially a call-and-response song, where a ghostly man’s voice is telling Bonnie to “turn around,” and Bonnie tells him what exactly her problems are. Apparently she is asked to turn around because she has “bright eyes.” “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is a favorite among girlie bars in Cubao, says fellow Summit Media drone and parokyano Omar Belo. “Madalas talagang patugtugin yan sa Cubao at pare-pareho ang style ng intro ng girls.” According to Omar, the official intro moves used for this song are thus: “As the stage lights up, the girl will have her back to the audience. With blinding precision, the girl turns around to face her audience when the song asks her to ‘turn around.’” Interpretative dancing at its most lucid!

9. "To Love You More"
Popstar (2003)
Sarah Geronimo
We’ll never look at Sarah Geronimo the same way again after seeing a Heartbeat Girl dance to this song. While Sarah used her singing prowess to wow her audience, this Heartbeat girl employed flexibility and playfulness to astound the crowd. She started slow, but as the song braced for the chorus, she made a gigantic leap between “I’ll be” and “waiting” and really pounded her thighs hard on the floor in a split. Her impeccable timing—when she went airborne as Sarah braced for her birit—wowed the crowd to the end of her number. To top it all off, she made various moves at the edge of the stage, bending over, exposing a thong, and then—whoa!—none at all! FHM associate art director, Frantz Salvador, who witnessed it all, is a heavy metal fan, but his knees buckle every time he hears the song and remembers the girl.

10. "Ako Ay Pilipino"
Kuh Ledesma
We now turn you over to Buwayahman, fhm.com.ph’s resident blogger and the true expert on nightlife and the transactions between the sheets, who gives a surreal account of when he heard this song at a girlie joint: “To this day it brings a smile on my lips. It was memorable not because we went to a strip joint just shortly after the People Power revolution, but because the stripper had a long cord inside her vagina and she invited a guest to hold on to one end while she slowly stepped back. It then revealed several multi-colored flags on that cord, the kind one sees in fiestas, each one-by-one slipping out of her snatch. And, at the end of the cord revealed, just as Kuh Ledesma banged out the “Pilipino ay ako!” last line, the Philippine flag. Call it defamatory or derogatory, but it brought the house down!”

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