Music talks

Hi, I'm back again. See that long title? I'm bad at making catchy titles, so I'll settle with that. And of course, this post is going to be about just that. I'm genuinely happy with how the music scene in Indonesia has turned out. The idea of chasing that "band dream" or carving yourself out as a music artist feels like a real, tangible thing now, doesn't it? Going to gigs, concerts, festivals, and things alike has become the go-to "healing method," as the younger demographic would call it, and honestly, I'm completely here for it. So now, you might ask: what's the indifference about? To put it simply, it's about the product that comes out of all this. What kind of music is actually dominating the airwaves these days? Well, from my own little research—which included asking some friends in what I'll generously call a survey—the answer is, overwhelmingly, melancholic music. The resurgence of "galau" pop; ballads soaked in ...

This is the debut post for this blog, I suppose. I'll be taking a more casual approach here, less narrating, more conversing --- you feel me? Anyway, this "Music Talk" entries is basically just me yapping around, pouring out whatever's on my mind, all centered around music of course. Reviews, scene talk, revisiting older records, opinions on certain things, news, events, all that. See, different periods of my life marked different discoveries of taste. An ever-shifting preference that now feels, for the most part, solidified. My first real dive into music was, admittedly, performative. Back in elementary school ---  I forget what grade exactly --- most kids were jamming to whatever was charting on Billboard, that whole mainstream pop world. I wouldn't really call it a scene, no. But as the little kid I was, I wanted to fit in. There wasn't a single day without me glued to the radio. FM radio was it back then. Do kids even still listen to radio these days? Any...