Where are the HDB blocks in NDP 2000’s Shine On Me music video? Singaporeans think they’ve found them

As Singapore's National Day approaches, a netizen's quest to identify the Housing Development Board (HDB) flats featured in the 2000 National Day Parade (NDP) theme song music video, "Shine On Me," has sparked a wave of nostalgic detective work online. A user on Reddit shared screenshots from the music video, which featured versions by Jai Wahab and Mavis Hee, asking for help identifying the HDB blocks seen in the background. The user believed the flats were built in the late 1990s and were keen to know if they still existed.

Initial guesses pointed towards Pasir Ris, but many Reddit users were convinced the location was Serangoon North. Several users claimed to have pinpointed the exact area, with one suggesting Serangoon North Avenue 3, noting the flats' size and accessibility issues. Another user proposed Block 550+ on the same avenue.

Further investigation by the original poster, armed with these clues, led to a theory that the music video was likely filmed from the rooftop of Block 550A's multi-storey carpark (MSCP), facing east. The identified blocks, from left to right, were suggested as 548, 549, 550, and 554. The poster speculated that Mavis Hee might have been standing on the MSCP's rooftop, or that the MSCP might not have been constructed at the time of filming.

The mystery had apparently been on the minds of several Singaporeans, with one commenter expressing a preference for the "era of flats" from the 90s over the "flat and boring blocks of the 80s." The discussion highlights a shared appreciation for the architectural style of HDB flats from that period.