A recent article on Esquire Philippines called out some supposedly iffy Filipino love songs and included Kamikazee’s “Narda” on the list for two reasons, one of which is the supposed “shades of incest” as indicated by the lines “Ang swerte nga naman ni Ding/Lagi ka niyang kapiling/Kung ako sa kanya/Niligawan na kita.” The writer asserted that everyone know’s Ding is Darna/Narda’s brother, but I realized during a videoke session a while back that the song is sung from the perspective of a person who lives in Darna/Narda’s universe, and in that universe, people are not aware that Darna/Narda are the same person. Therefore, the person in the song would not be aware that Ding is Darna’s brother; they just assume that Ding is someone who hangs out with Darna a lot.