Originally formed 47 years ago as a Koran recital group, the band now numbers a dozen performers, fusing Arabic and traditional Indonesian dangdut music, which was once thought tacky and dated in cosmopolitan circles.
Their songs are laden with similes and metaphors, comparing womanizers to “seditious bats” or describing how “monkeys like to carry rifles, humans like to show nipples.”“Why? Because all of the members are women who can play more than three musical instruments,” he said. That growing trend has made Nasida Ria more relevant than ever, according to music journalist Shindu Alpito.
“A lot of youths in… Jakarta are re-embracing local music. Now, these types of music are what they call a guilty pleasure,” Alpito said.
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