House Dangdut a.k.a. Housedut. Indonesian equivalent of Baile Funk.

Guys, I've just discovered a gem of a genre from my country. Actually this is popular here but in an infamous kind of way. It's terribly cheesy and being heard by poor uneducated people. But it's also terribly catchy and it's got an innocent quality to it. That's why I compare it to baile funk. OK, here's some sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3mQ_xzth4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ut-T8reWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f792TzPa64Q

What do you think?

I'm poor and uneducated, but I don't like this.

edit: being heard = being listened/enjoyed. not a big deal but it's the ocd of me.

I kind of like that last one. Is "dangdut" like a catch-all for pop music? I guess I still have a compilation with some dangdut on it around here somewhere.

There are a zillion Indonesian videos on youtube like that last one, with a web-came feed on the side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxxwHsAkPS8

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@Rudi: no, dangdut is not a catch-all for pop. it's a pop genre that's influenced by ethnic music from Malaya, India, and Arab. popular in lower class of people and scorned by the middle and upper class.

i can only pray there's some white american dj who can make this palatable to kids that listen to The xx

This reminds me more of Turbofolk than Baile Funk.

not baile funk, more like cheesy euro pop. but i dont hate it.

and cheesy asian pop.

I'm glad that we can appreciate all the unique indigenous genres of various cultures across the world, by describing them as equivalents of other indigenous genres from other cultures.

well how else do you describe something? i didnt say it was the same, or no different from those things.

referring to thread title duh

But did you read the original post (duh)?

It's terribly cheesy and being heard by poor uneducated people. But it's also terribly catchy and it's got an innocent quality to it. That's why I compare it to baile funk.

You can take issue with his characterization of baile funk, but he's not saying that house dangdut sounds like baile funk, or is equivalent to it. He also says house dangut is "from my country" and "it's a pop genre that's influenced by ethnic music from Malaya, India, and Arab" and sketches the social background of its listeners. He's not coming from the perspective of an outsider, he's not exotifying it, and he's not oversimplifying in the few words he used to describe it.

Plus, Whiney, you cynic, you need to spend a month in South Dakota or someplace as desolate. You got your scene id politics all over me.

dammit I don't care what the title says, the op justifies saying so

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