Seeing The Viral 'New Badut' From The Dubatlayar: Melodi Indah In A Sad Story

DUtlayar personnel, Dave and Joy (doc. Keina Creative)

JAKARTA - Many musicians cannot answer when asked how the song went viral on social media. For them, everything just goes, when their songs are used by many people to create content.

The same thing seems to happen to a group from Jakarta, the dbatlayar. The latest single duo brother-brother Dave (guitar) and Joy (keyboard) entitled Badut Baru went viral on TikTok, even before the song was officially released.

It was surprising to see that the song DUtlayar went viral before it was officially released, even though many musicians hoped for the same thing but did not get it.

But that wonder can be answered if we understand the song itself. The 'New Badut' of the DUtlayar displays a beautiful melody in a painful story.

Like the famous Bob Marley quote, even in a different context, 'One good thing about music, when it comes to you, you don't feel pain.'

So it makes sense when you see many people who are naturally embarrassed when they become badut', they actually tell them through social media.

Badut is synonymous with a person who can entertain but only in one direction. In this song, we position badut as the point of view of listeners of this song, especially from the point of view of people who feel their love gets a reply from their loved ones, even though they don't, because the person they love already has a lover, said Dave who wrote the lyrics of the song.

In addition, the composition of the 'New Badut' feels different from the other four singles that have been released by the dbatlayar. The keyboard background is more dominating, different from 'Strengthened', 'accept', 'Delayed', and 'Redwar' which are dominant with the guitar.

Kibor gives more options for the variation of the chords that make the song's melody feel deeper. This feels clear in the first verse to the first chorus.

As a comparison, the 'New Badut' feels like the composition of Kahitna's hits that rely on the game Yovie Widianto.

With the keyboard game at the beginning, the dynamics of the song also became more interesting, with a climax that was felt after the bridge part of the song.

In addition, the displacement of the basic notes (moduration) from theverse to the chorus is also interesting to see. Theverse part with the base tone C, drops to A when entering the chorus.

In this modulation, Dave and Joy cleverly distinguish how theverse song talks about what is expected and the chorus of the song talks about reality that contradicts expectations.

Summarizing what can be seen from the viral New Badut from the dbatlayar, it is difficult to imagine that this song is widely used on social media if the composition is bad.

Behind the painful and embarrassing story of this song, appreciation came from Indonesian music lovers. This can be seen from the many positive comments on Instagram social media and new record records for their number of streams on Spotify.

For information, the dbatlayar is under the auspices of the Keina Creative formed by the HIVI music group!.

In the recording process, Dave and Joy were assisted by Febrian Nindyo as producers, Isaiah Christov (bass), Jessi Mates (drums), Rayendra Sunito (mixing), Dimas Pradipta (mastering), and Irvnat (vocal director).