Soundtrack Day is an older 100b category that I had to bring back for this post, because this song is definitely a part of my personal soundtrack. Indonesia’s day of independance is celebrated on August 17th, but we will be celebrating the joyous freedom of my motherland this saturday. And by “celebrating”, I mean eat. I thought it’d be fun to introduce Indonesia’s flavours to my 100buddies with a grand feast … assuming I don’t burn the food and bring shame to my country. I always talk about how I would love to live in Spain for a year or some other exotic country, but never Indonesia. And yet when I haven’t been there for a while I get homesick for a country I’ve never even lived in. I miss absolutely everything about Indonesia; from the language, to the nature, to the heat, to the smells on the street. It even turns me all poetic and stuff. It’s been four years since I was there last and I miss it dearly. I may not live there or even consider it as a country of residence at the moment, but it’s never far from me.
This song, by the mega popular band Ada Band, was a huge hit four years ago. It is a bit of sentimental, pop rock, but it makes the memories of that vacation so vivid. The title literally means stupid person, it’s about a man who’s being played by the woman he loves. It’s not an especially remarkable song, it’s not a ground-breaking sound, you can’t dance to it, and most of you would probably forget it the moment it’s over, but it means the world to me. Oh yeah my people LOVE karaoke … if you wanna bypass all the amateurish introductory stuff, the song starts 44 seconds into it.
Filed under: Music, Soundtrack Day Tagged: | Ada Band, Indonesia
