By fighting musical paralysis and getting out of the cage, we will be surprised to find that there is actually so much good music out there. Just like food, no matter how much we like the music that is to our taste, there will be a point when we feel bored with that music. It is at this time that we can take advantage of it by listening to new music.
Listen to loud music with earphones or headsets are fun. It's as if the world around us has disappeared, there is only us and the music we listen to. This habit can be the right place to escape to forget for a moment the problems that surround us. However, the habit of listening to music loudly—both at speakers, or earphones/headsets actually very dangerous. Why? Because this habit can trigger hearing loss.
Ramainya festival musik yang diselenggarakan di Indonesia adalah bubble yang baru. Begitu banyaknya festival musik yang diadakan EO amatir ini menjadikan festival musik di Indonesia masuk di tahap awal sebuah bubble ekonomi. Jika dibiarkan, jangan heran jika akan ada titik ketika bubble ini meletus, dan banyak pihak yang akan dirugikan. Mulai dari promotor atau EO yang profesional akan ikut terkena imbasnya, para musisi juga tentu dirugikan.
Kita bisa mengamini kredo mbeling yang Remy suarakan: nakal boleh, tapi dibarengi dengan pintar, bukan urakan. Remy Sylado akan selalu dikenang sebagai sosok yang istimewa. Sosok yang serba bisa dan eksentrik pula. Sosok yang ketika menulis benar-benar melakukan riset yang serius, lalu tanpa tedeng aling-aling menuangkan hasil risetnya tersebut dalam sebuah tulisan yang terkadang akan terbaca pedas.
Want your music to be famous? just make it viral on TikTok! Forget about artistic beauty for a moment, and make trendy music. Undoubtedly, fame will come to you.
That's the reason I often leave Spotify lately and prefer to listen to a collection of physical releases or FLAC format music on my laptop. The seventy million songs on Spotify is too big a universe for me to explore at all. So, I changed the way I listen to music in this contemporary era. Back to analog format, for the convenience of listening to better music.
Despite the regime change, Dialita's music may not be able to eradicate the stigma and eliminate the culture impunity. However, was not Dialita's original goal to target the younger generation? So, by listening to Dialita songs, we should be more historically literate and become more aware of our history. As founding president Soekarno once stated: “Never forget history”. We should never forget the 1965 humanitarian tragedy.
Looking at the case of torture with music at the Guantánamo prison in Cuba, I then concluded that without the awareness to listen to it at your own choice, music can turn into torture.
I thought about this for a long time: what is the use of music to humans and humanity? Is music just entertainment, a secondary matter that appears as an intermezzo in the midst of other life lines such as work, eat, sleep, make love? Or, music is a primary matter, an equally important part of life?
Regardless of the motives or intentions of musicians when composing religious songs, they deserve appreciation. Their songs can be a catharsis for Muslims in the country to cultivate faith and treat their spiritual longings.
Aris Setyawan 